You don't need to go all the way to Florida to find themepark heaven; Europe's most thrilling rollercoasters are just a short flightaway. PortAventura theme park in Salou, Spain, is a positive scream-fest of aplace, where you can blast off at high speed, loop the loop, get a good soakingand plummet hundreds of feet out of the sky (safely of course), all close tothe golden shores of the Mediterranean.
Here's our guide to the most adrenaline-fuelled rides at PortAventura theme park:
Furius Baco
Just inside the park entrance, Furius Baco will really get your visit toPortAventura off to a flying start. The fastest in Europe when it opened inJune 2007, this floorless coaster reaches 83.9 miles per hour in just 3.5seconds. Expect mad professors, naughty monkeys and stomach-lurching twists andturns on the fastest 55 seconds of your life.
Stampida
If you like your theme park rides to shake you about a bit, PortAventura?spopular wooden rollercoaster is for you. Stampida has plenty of tense climbsand scary drops to have you screaming your head off, with the added fun of 2parallel tracks racing against each other. Fasten your seatbelts because you?rein for a bumpy ride.
Dragon Khan
Dragon Khan's looping red track dominates the PortAventura skyline, and it just might dominate your day too.Starting from 148ft high, you'll plummet straight into the 8 loops, rolls andcorkscrews, a world record when it was built, for 1 minute and 45 seconds ofpure adrenaline.
Hurakan Condor
Hold on to your lunch as you drop from a height of 100m (or 330 feet -whichever way you look at it, it's pretty high). Many drop ride fans rateHurakan Condor one of the world's best thanks to the different ways it can beexperienced: depending on the side of the tower you board from, you can sit inregular seats, tilting seats or stand!
