While it’s a very useful thing to receive an email confirming your upcoming reservation to a theme or amusement park, it’s not quite so helpful if you never made plans to visit that attraction in the first place. Busch Gardens is now reassuring folks who accidentally got an email about an impending trip to one of its parks that the errant missives were due to a glitch, and not an information breach. [More]
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Busch Gardens Tampa Bay Shuts Down River Ride After Fatal Incident In Australia
By 10.26.16
After four people were killed on a river ride at an Australian amusement park on Tuesday, Busch Gardens Tampa Bay has shut down a similar attraction “out of an abundance of caution.” [More]
Famous Flamingo Dead After Busch Gardens Visitor Attacks Birds
By 8.3.16
A longtime animal resident of Busch Gardens in Tampa, FL died yesterday. Pinky the flamingo was 19 years old, and if you noticed her while visiting the theme park, it was because she would sometimes perform her own special dance, stomping her webbed feet and spinning in a circle. The tourist attacked two flamingoes, injuring Pinky badly enough that she was euthanized. [More]
Is A Kilt A Costume? Busch Gardens Says So, Denies Entry To Man Wearing Scottish Garb
By 10.20.15
UPDATE: Busch Gardens says kilts are now welcome at the park, whenever guests want to wear them. [More]
Busch Gardens Guests Find Severed Head Halloween Displays A Little Too Timely
By 9.18.14
The terrorist group ISIS (or ISIL) is in the headlines on a daily basis, and the group uses films and displays of their captives’ and opponents’ heads and bodies as a potent weapon. How potent? Complaints from guests led the theme park Busch Gardens to change a Halloween display that features (fake, rubber) severed heads. [More]
16 People Rescued From Roller Coaster Stuck 60 Feet In The Air During A Downpour
By 2.13.14
It’s one thing — albeit a potentially terrifying thing — to be stuck on a roller coaster at any height for any length of time in even the best of weather. But when you’re strapped in at 60 feet during a chilly downpour for more than an hour, well that just sounds like the suckiest of awfully bad experiences. [More]
