Pirates of the Caribbean (At all Disney Parks)
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TYPE OF RIDE: Experience ride/themed tour
Personal score: 10/10
This classic Disney ride is sure to please all!
Adult score: 8/10
The theme is enjoyable because it is a little bit more mature than the theme of Haunted Mansion. Others will enjoy it because it is a classic ride.
Young children (2-7): 7/10
Young boys particularly will enjoy this ride because of the pirates, while some will dislike it because of the two small drops.
Children (8-12): 9/10
Most older children will enjoy the ride because they will understand most of the concepts and enjoy the sights and smells of being “in a boat”. Some won’t enjoy the drops.
Teens (13-18): 8/10
Teens will enjoy it for the same reason children 8-12 enjoy it.
Theme: 10/10
This ride tells more of a story than it is a tour, and the theme of swashbuckling, fighting, drinking pirates is consistent throughout the ride. The music is almost in a drunken but cheerful style.
Thrill: N/A
Overall Average: Approx. 8.6/10
Description:
Pirates of the Caribbean is a classic Disneyland ride. It is, like most of Disney’s all-ages-popular rides, like the Haunted Mansion in that it is very experience-based. The ride is supposed to be a look at a pirate’s life – you even board small boats that travel on tracks at the bottom of a relatively wide but shallow channel. Anywhere from about 15-20 people fit in a boat, making the line move quicker than many other rides’ lines. The boats are rowboat-style with about 5 rows of benches. A novelty that is not available in the Disney World version of this ride is the Blue Bayou. It is a restaurant that is actually inside the ride. The entrance is in one of the alleyways in New Orleans Square, but once you get past the waiting room, you have become part of the Pirates ride! It is right by the water from the ride, and you see boats of people going by over the wooden rail. The whole room is dark, and there are tiny pinpricks of light on the ceiling that make it look like a starry night. There are pretty lanterns strung from the tops of old-fashioned “buildings”, and the atmosphere is very lovely. The room that it is placed in is part of the first section of the ride. You go through a small marsh-like area with a few houses on stilts (One of which has Old Man Jenkins rocking away endlessly in his rocking chair on the porch) and even alligator heads on the top of the water. The only noise you can hear is crickets chirping. There are two very small drops in the ride, but they are not very steep or long. There are many memorable, Disney-style themed rooms: A skeleton steering a crashed ship in a storm, a small treasure room with skeletons with swords through them and birds on their shoulders, a bed with a skeleton in it looking in a mirror, a newly added “waterfall” (Which is really fog) with Davy Jones’s image projected on it, a fight scene with Captain Barbosa’s ship against Jack Sparrow’s along with castle turrets (This scene might be frightening for young children, because every once in a while there are loud splashes of “cannonballs” very close to the boat with red lights), pirates plundering and burning a town, and, one of my favorite rooms, the jail cell – a dog holds the key while the pirates inside beg for it. There are many other surprises, many of which include vast treasure rooms and laughing pirates. This ride is sure to please!
Pic from about.com
TYPE OF RIDE: Experience ride/themed tour
Personal score: 10/10
This classic Disney ride is sure to please all!
Adult score: 8/10
The theme is enjoyable because it is a little bit more mature than the theme of Haunted Mansion. Others will enjoy it because it is a classic ride.
Young children (2-7): 7/10
Young boys particularly will enjoy this ride because of the pirates, while some will dislike it because of the two small drops.
Children (8-12): 9/10
Most older children will enjoy the ride because they will understand most of the concepts and enjoy the sights and smells of being “in a boat”. Some won’t enjoy the drops.
Teens (13-18): 8/10
Teens will enjoy it for the same reason children 8-12 enjoy it.
Theme: 10/10
This ride tells more of a story than it is a tour, and the theme of swashbuckling, fighting, drinking pirates is consistent throughout the ride. The music is almost in a drunken but cheerful style.
Thrill: N/A
Overall Average: Approx. 8.6/10
Description:
Pirates of the Caribbean is a classic Disneyland ride. It is, like most of Disney’s all-ages-popular rides, like the Haunted Mansion in that it is very experience-based. The ride is supposed to be a look at a pirate’s life – you even board small boats that travel on tracks at the bottom of a relatively wide but shallow channel. Anywhere from about 15-20 people fit in a boat, making the line move quicker than many other rides’ lines. The boats are rowboat-style with about 5 rows of benches. A novelty that is not available in the Disney World version of this ride is the Blue Bayou. It is a restaurant that is actually inside the ride. The entrance is in one of the alleyways in New Orleans Square, but once you get past the waiting room, you have become part of the Pirates ride! It is right by the water from the ride, and you see boats of people going by over the wooden rail. The whole room is dark, and there are tiny pinpricks of light on the ceiling that make it look like a starry night. There are pretty lanterns strung from the tops of old-fashioned “buildings”, and the atmosphere is very lovely. The room that it is placed in is part of the first section of the ride. You go through a small marsh-like area with a few houses on stilts (One of which has Old Man Jenkins rocking away endlessly in his rocking chair on the porch) and even alligator heads on the top of the water. The only noise you can hear is crickets chirping. There are two very small drops in the ride, but they are not very steep or long. There are many memorable, Disney-style themed rooms: A skeleton steering a crashed ship in a storm, a small treasure room with skeletons with swords through them and birds on their shoulders, a bed with a skeleton in it looking in a mirror, a newly added “waterfall” (Which is really fog) with Davy Jones’s image projected on it, a fight scene with Captain Barbosa’s ship against Jack Sparrow’s along with castle turrets (This scene might be frightening for young children, because every once in a while there are loud splashes of “cannonballs” very close to the boat with red lights), pirates plundering and burning a town, and, one of my favorite rooms, the jail cell – a dog holds the key while the pirates inside beg for it. There are many other surprises, many of which include vast treasure rooms and laughing pirates. This ride is sure to please!
~ The Ghost Host ~
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