Bangkok Dream World - Friso Go Explore! Bangkok With Children Day 2

This is the theme park included in our prize, Bangkok Dream World! The children are so excited as they liked theme parks, any theme park! Pick-up from hotel is arranged at 9am. Breakfast buffet at the Novotel Siam Square is included in our accomodation package. Our little boy loved his fried rice, fried egg, hashbrown, milk, waffles, cherry tomatoes, pastries, juices, fresh fruits and dried fruits. Our little girl is very pleased with the sausages, ham, omelette, pastries, waffles, cherry tomatoes, milk, juices, fresh fruits and dried fruits. There are other selections like the Asian corner which only 爸爸 is interested, there is hot food and also cook-to-order noodles. I didn't even have enough time to taste all I wanted as busy serving food to the children, well we still have time as we have another 2 more days to stay. No photos as too busy eating :)

It's about an hour's drive to Bangkok Dream World. We arrived around 10:30am, given until 3:30pm for the visit. As the theme park tickets we got does not incude Snow Town, we purchase our Snow Town tickets at the front desk. Seems like Snow Town is the only place in Bangkok to experience "snow", and the children say they must go to this attraction. Admission to Snow Town is 150B per person.

And let's see what Bangkok Dream World is all about.

At the ticket office of Bangkok Dream World

Playing at the water and Love Garden

We saw some couples that look like they are taking wedding photos at the Love Garden. Our first ride is Bicycle Boat, cruising around the lake. There's a mechanical level for turning right and left, and just pedal like a bicycle to move the boat.

Love Garden and Bicycle Boat

The kiddie ride Speedy Mouse is next. It's really speedy! After that, we take the Cable Car to go to Snow Town. The Cable Car takes us halfway across the theme park, and gives an aerial view of the park.

Speedy Mouse and Cable Car

Fighting dragon and Snow Town

Snow Town! We're given a pair of boots and jacket each. There is no "snow" falling but it's very cold inside, kind of like paying to be in a freezer :) The children only stayed for 15 minutes as they cannot stand the cold. It's 弟弟's first experience in such a "freezer" and 姐姐's second as she had been to Genting's Snow World (think it's closed for maintenance now).

Family photo at Snow Town, 299B.

Camera lens got fuzzy after coming out from Snow Town. It's at Monza that we realize some kiddie rides are meant for children under 120cm. So 姐姐 had to forgo Monza although she is just a little taller than the limit. Next up is Thunder Bird. Gosh, this is the ride I dislike most. It looks so tame but was so unkind to me :( It started spinning and going up and down, making me dizzy and screaming for it to stop. And it went on for a long time (at least to me). In the end I found out it's because 姐姐 and I were twisting the steering wheel, that's why we felt like almost going to fly off! 姐姐 complaint that I'm no fun as I don't allow her to press the "up" button. After all the screaming (from me), we got on a tamer ride called Antique Car. It's really like an old old car, the "gas pedal" is so hard to push and the steering is hard like it needed oiling, and it smelt like smoking diesel! It's still fun to be driven around by my dearest girl :) 弟弟 drove with 爸爸 in another antique car.


Monza, Thunder Bird and Antique Car

One of the downside of going to theme parks in the tropics (like Malaysia, Singapore and Bangkok) is the hot weather! Everything outdoors is sweltering hot most of the time, and we have to pray hard it didn't rain. Play Port is the bonus area for children as it's an indoor air-conditioned colourful playground.

Play Port is children's playground. Bonus is air-conditioned!

We took the Monorail which takes us on a leisurely ride to the second half of the theme park. We had to skip Flying Fish as it's for children below 120cm and 姐姐 didn't get to go. After that, another kiddie ride called Indian Boat. The children got to row a canoe around a small man-made stream.

Monorail and Indian Boat

Indian Boat

We saw Grand Canyon raft while on the Monorail and it looked exciting and just a little wet. How wrong we are! We should have taken the warning outside seriously :) Grand Canyon is for children over 110cm and 弟弟 just meeting the limit. There weren't many people on the day we went, so we had this Grand Canyon raft all to ourselves. In the hurry to sit down and buckle up, we all sat on one side making the raft loop-sided (blame 爸爸 for his weight :P). Even though it's not scary, it's very wet! I think the children had it worst as they were drenched from head to toe, and 姐姐 complaint that she swallowed some water that went into her mouth :D We had to change the children's clothes right there, luckily we brought a small towel and spare clothes for them. However the poor parents have to bear with wet clothes and now we appreciate the strong sun to dry the clothes on our bodies naturally. So much for adventure!

The children after changing their wet clothes at Grand Canyon

After all the adventure, time for lunch! Buffet lunch is included at the Food Pavilion, and we weren't expecting anything fancy. True enough, it's steamed rice, yellow rice, stir-fry hor fun, stir-fry chicken, yellow curry chicken, veggies and sweet & sour meat balls. Desserts are green mung bean soup, coconut jelly (tasted like rose syrup and put off the children immediately), colourful jelly in syrup, fresh fruit slices. We were able to refill drinking water here as there aren't any water fountains around the park like in Singapore's Sentosa Island.

Pavillion Buffet and Uncle Tom's Farm

We spent some time walking around Uncle Tom's Farm after quick lunch. We went to Haunted Mansion and the children were so scared. It's air-conditioned but pitch-dark inside. The ang-moh group in front of us were even more scared and they really screamed and they ran back at first (we're not even sure what they saw). The youngsters behind us and 爸爸 just scream for the sake of screaming. I asked 姐姐 to look down at the glow-in-the-dark footsteps as it's very dark in there, and just make our way out quickly since both of us also scared. Poor 弟弟 was crouching and hanging onto 爸爸 like a koala. No photos as don't want to remind them of scary stuff :)

We wander around Fairy Tales Land to cool down. Lots of photo opportunity here :) 弟弟 was scared of the castle as he's afraid there are monsters coming out like Haunted Mansion. But we assured him this is just decoration. He was back to himself after a short while.

Sleeping Beauty Castle and Giant in the ground

The Well of the Frog Prince and the fortress around The Magic Sword

Gingerbread House and Boot House

7 Dwarfs' House and pumpkin carriage, Giant House

Next stop, we look for the Giant House. This is the replica of Jack And The Beanstalk story and air-conditioned inside :)

Inside Giant House

Trying to climb the beanstalk outside Giant House

One more kiddie ride called Racing Car, for children below 120cm only.

Mr Bean figurine and Racing Car

We manage to get on Sightseeing Train as we thought it's not operating. Turns out the minder have to drive the train thus there wasn't anyone at the station when we went earlier. Sightseeing Train takes us on a ride to see the sights around the lake. The children get to sit right in front and enjoyed the ride.

Sightseeing Train and Crazy Zone

After that, it's off looking for the 7 Wonders of The World (miniature la). More photos at Crazy Zone, this time the children asked for taking photos.

We thought we could take the Cable Car from the second station after checking out Bump Boat and Bump Car. Turns out only one way ride and we're not able to get from the second station to the front. Also Bump Boat is on maintenance and we decided to skip Bump Car so ended up just walking to-and-fro.

We had to miss the Hollywood Action show and Animal Show as the children wanted to take an elephant ride. Just 50B per person for a short ride. Followed by 20B (or was it 40B) feeding the elephant. The children say the elephant's trunk is very wet when it takes the bananas from their hands. They loved this activity!

Elephant ride

Feeding elephant

Rides/activities we missed:
- Crazy Bus (on maintenance)
- Spider (on maintenance)
- Bump Boat (on maintenance)
- Bump Car (didn't check out)
- Space Mountain (just had lunch and the children didn't want to try)
- 4D cinema (theme is Adventure and the children decided to skip it as they don't want to see monsters in the brochure)
- All the adult (scary) rides like Hurricane, Sky Coaster, Viking, Rapter, Super Splash, Go Kart.

It would be useful to have information of height limits on the brochure/map instead of walking to the ride and find out it's not suitable. That would have saved us time and helped us plan our trip better. Fortunately Bangkok Dream World is not overcrowded like Singapore Universal Studios. The children even say they prefer Bangkok Dream World (in their opinion) as it's just a short wait for the rides compared to their previous experience of 30-60 minutes wait for each ride at Singapore Universal Studios. Not able to compare Singapore Universal Studios with Bangkok Dream World, Singapore Universal Studios is "brand name" cartoon rides but Bangkok Dream World is just "normal" fun for kids. As with "brand name", expect "brand name" prices too but of course the safety features are outstanding and it's new. Oh, and not forgetting about Malaysia' very own Genting Theme Park. In fact Genting Theme Park is quite nice for its Outdoor Theme Park with the cool weather at Genting Highlands (only the crowd is crazy there too especially for school holidays). Anyway each has its own unique features.

When we rush to the main entrance, we're already being paged even though you won't be able to hear inside the theme park. We only got on the rides once, and skipped the shows. Still, the children were super happy and having loads of fun.

Bangkok Dreamworld map

Back to hotel and jam as usual at the city center. We were so hungry by this time and it rained! We got some pastries from the hotel and waited for the rain to stop. Then it's off to dinner at Sizzlers Siam Center. Oops, totally forgot photos as too busy eating.  Tomorrow's arrangement is early start to Safari World.

Check out our holiday here:
Friso Go Explore! Contest - We are so lucky!
Day 1: Siam Ocean World
Day 2: Bangkok Dream World (this post)
Day 3: Bangkok Safari World
Day 4: Chatuchak Weekend Market and Chao Phraya boat ride

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