The gentleman who designed and was director of Wildwood Grove was actually an Imagineer for 32 years, Patrick Brennan. Such an incredible job on that area, I hope they bring him back for future development. So cool you were able to capture this park even if it was a little soggy that day haha Awesome review guys!
I live in East Tennessee and I absolutely love this park. It's high class but still has that unique southern charm. I have a gold pass and have been 5 times since I have moved down here from NY that's how much I love the place
We absolutely loved Dollywood. Coming from the UK, it isn’t on the radar for people from this side of the pond, but we were on a road trip and it was on our route. The rides, theming and layout wrapped by the beautiful location makes this a must-do theme park. But what really stands out is the atmosphere and feeling this park holds that makes it really special. This feels like the theme park that Walt Disney himself would absolutely fall in love with.
My home park!!!! So happy to see people from all over the world coming to enjoy it. It’s definitely getting up there with the Disney/universal crowd and I love it.
Looks pretty good. Feels a bit like the atmosphere in efteling, just with different theming obviously. But the nature and easy going and relaxing atmosphere and people. And endless oppertunity to explore and find new things, without everything constantly fighting for your attention and being in your face. A relaxing trip instead of the planning nightmares out there nowdays. Looks amazing indeed.
I visited Dollywood for the first time this year, and my overall thought was "this is my favorite non Disney/Universal theme park." Crazy to hear you say it at the start of the video!
OH I hate that you weren't able to visit the Chasing Rainbows Museum. I used to perform in the next door Pines Theatre, and I spent many a dinner break just walking around and enjoying the museum. One of my FAVORITE experiences on property. As for shows, Dollywood is pretty much the last remaining "Show Park" in America. In the summer season, I highly recommend seeing Dreamland Drive-In (winner of IAPPA's Heartbeat award). Not even a show I was in, just a GREAT show! Enjoyed your video, thanks for visiting and sharing one of my favorite places. #HotCinnamonBread
Nothing makes me prouder than being able to say that Dollywood is in my home state. I love this place more than anywhere in the world. The way it always feels like home when I visit there. I keep a smile on my face from the moment we enter the park till we leave, which is always weeks long visits when we do go, it's heavenly.
I'm glad you had fun at Dollywood! Its such a beautiful park, and I absolutely love it. I've went about 4 times in all, and the atmosphere, plus seeing Klondike Katie and Cinderella smoke it up along Dollywood's absolutely incredible train ride, has me begging for more. (In fact, last visit I took, I just filmed the train all day and had a blast!) I'd still highly recommend going to visit my friends over at Tweetsie Railroad if you ever get a chance, because if it wasn't for Tweetsie, Dollywood as we know it today might not exist.
I live in Western North Carolina, a little less than two hours from Dollywood. I've been to Dollywood and WDW several times (I also did the DCP in 2018), and I would choose Dollywood again and again. Now that I'm at the ripe age of 25 (LOL) I really seek more beauty and ease in my free time. Dollywood is designed to roam around, relax, and just take peace in your surroundings. The horticulture and ambiance are unmatched. WDW, increasingly so, is designed for a hustle from building to building to look at screens or robots. Attractions-wise, Disney obviously wins out. But at what cost? If I'm looking to experience maybe 90 cumulative minutes of high-intensity magic sprinkled alongside hours of concrete and exhaustion, I'll head to Orlando. If I'm looking to have a day of leisure in a beautiful theme park, I'm headed to Dollywood.
Very true, Disney really is pushing their cost/reward balance nowdays. Not just the expense, although the constant nickle and diming becomes anoying as quickly, the obligated constant phone use, everything becomming timeslot based turns a visit a major management operation. And the endless crowds and endless waits don't help either. To put up with all that the payoff needs to be miles ahead of everything else, and some particular atractions are the top of the game anywhere, but as an experience as a whole i am not so sure unless you really are into disney which most people aren't more then other similar things. This seems to be more like what a couple of days out to a themepark should be. Wander around, join a que that just moves quickly where you want without apps and reservations and whatever and just enjoy your day from moment to moment. Pick up a show here and there etc. It might not have the newest high tech flashy technology, but i am not sure that is really needed to give an enjoyable experience.
I think Dollywood is likely the closest park to being what Walt Disney really would have liked. While there are some steel coasters, even Walt added Matterhorn to DL. Dollywood just seems to more heart than today’s Disney parks
I would love to go to Dollywood one day. My friend and I went to Nashville pre-pandemic, and we couldn’t find a way to fit in a visit. I really hope I get to experience it for myself. The park looks so fun and the vibe is just southern perfection
For the last 6 years I have taken my kids to Disneyworld for a week, stay at the contemporary, spend $8000-$10,000 each trip...its our one big event for the year Last year we skipped Disney and went to Dolly wood near Christmas time and dollywood out disney'd disney.....100% wholesome family fun Your kiss can meet Santa and the story is Santa comes to a cabin in Dolly wood to get his naughty and nice list together...elves bring you in 6 at a time into a room for your kids to fill out a letter to Santa that includes their name....then the elves bring you into a giant building filled with hundreds of Christmas trees making a Forest and you walk up to Santa's cabin in the snow and he has a large window and your kids look inside and watch him stoke the fire, decorate the tree..then he sits down and gets a scroll from his desk and unrolls it so the kids can see the scroll and your kids names will be on the scroll....when my kids saw that they grabbed each other in pure amazement like "this might be real" Awesome place at a fraction of the cost....plus they house and rehab bald eagles
And for 2022, it's gonna be an even better value considering just how crazy Disney has become, post pandemic. Not only had Disney gotten crazy expensive. But now you have to make reservations in advance to get into the parks. You just can't walk-in anymore. It's waaaaaay over crowded, even at off-peek times. And you have to use that stupid Genie plus app on your phone to schedule rides and that makes you spent more time on your phone then actually enjoying the parks.
Growing more and more tired of the way Disney parks are treating the public in the past few years, I must admit this park has been on my list of places I would like to visit. Thanks for the great review
Every single score an exact 8 or 9 out of 10?!? Thats gotta be a ReviewTyme first 😂😂 definitely a good coincidence though. Cannot wait to view this beauty of a park, esp the cinnamon bread 😍
I am a roller coaster fanatic, yet that cinnamon bread is my favorite thing at the park. If you visit you MUST get some! It melts in your mouth. I am gluten intolerant and still eat it.
The genius of Dollywood is the Hokey Dokey Theming. They can get by with less exacting maintenance and touch-ups while chalking it up to down home aesthetics. In these stomping grounds, rust is considered a finish material!
Dollywood is a lot of fun! I love going to Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, and the Cherokee Tribal lands barely an hour away into North Carolina. Sadly, my most beloved park - Ghost Town in the Sky - has been defunct for years now. I did get to take my daughter when she was 7 in 2007, but that was the only time I got to take her to the place where her grandparents took me dozens of times. Edit: they had a dark ride, a mine-themed roller coaster that spent a good part of the time in the dark. Is it now gone?
Do you remember what the park hours were the day you visited. I am going for the first time in September and the hours are 9am to 10pm. I'm debating whether to buy just a one day ticket or a 2 day one
I can't remember the exact hours, but they were shorter than that. Around 10am-7pm sort of thing. We definitely could have done another day though even with how quiet it was, it's just a great park to be in! - Luke
@@ReviewTyme I might try to talk my family into doing a 2nd day so I don't feel rushed. Also, I wanted to tell you how fantastic your RUclips Channel is. I just discovered your channel a couple of weeks ago and started binge watching all of your videos. You cover great topics and your content is so well made.
I'd love to see a B&M Hyper at the park and a Mack Extreme Spinner or something like Copperhead Strike...Otherwise, I was really impressed with the coasters
Dollywood is cleaner, less expensive, better maintained, better decorated, less busy, more enjoyable, and has friendlier staff than Disney. Unless you *really* care about Disney or Universal IP, Dollywood is a far better experience. The only thing I disagree with this review on is the food, I thought the quality wasn't as good as Disney's for about the same price. Overall, a minor thing. If you're planning a theme park family trip, skip Orlando or LA, head to the Smokies. You'll have far better experience and it'll probably be cheaper.
When I was at Dollywood, nonexistent was Wildwood Grove. The park was so fun! It should be TN's best park of any kind to visit in the much racist Smokies valley!🎻
If Dollywood were to receive ten out of ten for every criterion, it would be the best theme park on earth under the average score of a hundred. Let U.S. News & World Reports make the declaration! NOT A HYPERBOLE.
Or is it just a good park that has been under rated before? No idea, but things generally are popular for a reason. Maybe it is because dollywood seems to be a lot less high tech and extremely flashy then some of it's competition. I have the idea that the enthausiasm for all the "high tech sensory overload" stuff has had it's peak after several decades of constantly raising the bar and people are looking for less intensive things again, and not just with themeparks, but everything in life. Just an observation, could also be just a short term trend, who knows.
The gentleman who designed and was director of Wildwood Grove was actually an Imagineer for 32 years, Patrick Brennan. Such an incredible job on that area, I hope they bring him back for future development. So cool you were able to capture this park even if it was a little soggy that day haha Awesome review guys!
cool piece of info, thanks bro
I live in East Tennessee and I absolutely love this park. It's high class but still has that unique southern charm. I have a gold pass and have been 5 times since I have moved down here from NY that's how much I love the place
So glad you got to finally visit! We love our park and we're so happy you do too!
We absolutely loved Dollywood. Coming from the UK, it isn’t on the radar for people from this side of the pond, but we were on a road trip and it was on our route. The rides, theming and layout wrapped by the beautiful location makes this a must-do theme park. But what really stands out is the atmosphere and feeling this park holds that makes it really special. This feels like the theme park that Walt Disney himself would absolutely fall in love with.
My home park!!!! So happy to see people from all over the world coming to enjoy it. It’s definitely getting up there with the Disney/universal crowd and I love it.
Looks pretty good. Feels a bit like the atmosphere in efteling, just with different theming obviously.
But the nature and easy going and relaxing atmosphere and people. And endless oppertunity to explore and find new things, without everything constantly fighting for your attention and being in your face.
A relaxing trip instead of the planning nightmares out there nowdays.
Looks amazing indeed.
I love this park. It's beautiful, everyone is friendly and helpful, and the rides are awesome. It's a great value for the quality.
I strongly disagree about Blazing Fury not being a "true dark ride" but otherwise, great review and I'm glad you had a good time!
I love that u covered Dollywood. It’s on my bucket list
You'll love it hope you get it done
I visited Dollywood for the first time this year, and my overall thought was "this is my favorite non Disney/Universal theme park." Crazy to hear you say it at the start of the video!
OH I hate that you weren't able to visit the Chasing Rainbows Museum. I used to perform in the next door Pines Theatre, and I spent many a dinner break just walking around and enjoying the museum. One of my FAVORITE experiences on property. As for shows, Dollywood is pretty much the last remaining "Show Park" in America. In the summer season, I highly recommend seeing Dreamland Drive-In (winner of IAPPA's Heartbeat award). Not even a show I was in, just a GREAT show! Enjoyed your video, thanks for visiting and sharing one of my favorite places. #HotCinnamonBread
Nothing makes me prouder than being able to say that Dollywood is in my home state. I love this place more than anywhere in the world. The way it always feels like home when I visit there. I keep a smile on my face from the moment we enter the park till we leave, which is always weeks long visits when we do go, it's heavenly.
I went there last summer. That park is amazing! One of the best parks I’ve ever visited. And much bigger than I expected.
I'm glad you had fun at Dollywood! Its such a beautiful park, and I absolutely love it. I've went about 4 times in all, and the atmosphere, plus seeing Klondike Katie and Cinderella smoke it up along Dollywood's absolutely incredible train ride, has me begging for more. (In fact, last visit I took, I just filmed the train all day and had a blast!) I'd still highly recommend going to visit my friends over at Tweetsie Railroad if you ever get a chance, because if it wasn't for Tweetsie, Dollywood as we know it today might not exist.
Dollywood looks amazing and a definite must visit for theme park fans. Thanks for the thorough review!
I live in Western North Carolina, a little less than two hours from Dollywood. I've been to Dollywood and WDW several times (I also did the DCP in 2018), and I would choose Dollywood again and again. Now that I'm at the ripe age of 25 (LOL) I really seek more beauty and ease in my free time. Dollywood is designed to roam around, relax, and just take peace in your surroundings. The horticulture and ambiance are unmatched. WDW, increasingly so, is designed for a hustle from building to building to look at screens or robots. Attractions-wise, Disney obviously wins out. But at what cost? If I'm looking to experience maybe 90 cumulative minutes of high-intensity magic sprinkled alongside hours of concrete and exhaustion, I'll head to Orlando. If I'm looking to have a day of leisure in a beautiful theme park, I'm headed to Dollywood.
Very true, Disney really is pushing their cost/reward balance nowdays.
Not just the expense, although the constant nickle and diming becomes anoying as quickly, the obligated constant phone use, everything becomming timeslot based turns a visit a major management operation. And the endless crowds and endless waits don't help either.
To put up with all that the payoff needs to be miles ahead of everything else, and some particular atractions are the top of the game anywhere, but as an experience as a whole i am not so sure unless you really are into disney which most people aren't more then other similar things.
This seems to be more like what a couple of days out to a themepark should be. Wander around, join a que that just moves quickly where you want without apps and reservations and whatever and just enjoy your day from moment to moment. Pick up a show here and there etc.
It might not have the newest high tech flashy technology, but i am not sure that is really needed to give an enjoyable experience.
Ya ever need a local to stay with, I live about 2 hours away and you guys are always welcome.
I think Dollywood is likely the closest park to being what Walt Disney really would have liked.
While there are some steel coasters, even Walt added Matterhorn to DL.
Dollywood just seems to more heart than today’s Disney parks
Great video 👍! I’m so excited to go to DollyWood this summer, it’s going to be my first time and I can’t wait!
I would love to go to Dollywood one day. My friend and I went to Nashville pre-pandemic, and we couldn’t find a way to fit in a visit. I really hope I get to experience it for myself. The park looks so fun and the vibe is just southern perfection
Such an amazing park, thanks for sharing this.
For the last 6 years I have taken my kids to Disneyworld for a week, stay at the contemporary, spend $8000-$10,000 each trip...its our one big event for the year
Last year we skipped Disney and went to Dolly wood near Christmas time and dollywood out disney'd disney.....100% wholesome family fun
Your kiss can meet Santa and the story is Santa comes to a cabin in Dolly wood to get his naughty and nice list together...elves bring you in 6 at a time into a room for your kids to fill out a letter to Santa that includes their name....then the elves bring you into a giant building filled with hundreds of Christmas trees making a Forest and you walk up to Santa's cabin in the snow and he has a large window and your kids look inside and watch him stoke the fire, decorate the tree..then he sits down and gets a scroll from his desk and unrolls it so the kids can see the scroll and your kids names will be on the scroll....when my kids saw that they grabbed each other in pure amazement like "this might be real"
Awesome place at a fraction of the cost....plus they house and rehab bald eagles
And for 2022, it's gonna be an even better value considering just how crazy Disney has become, post pandemic. Not only had Disney gotten crazy expensive. But now you have to make reservations in advance to get into the parks. You just can't walk-in anymore. It's waaaaaay over crowded, even at off-peek times. And you have to use that stupid Genie plus app on your phone to schedule rides and that makes you spent more time on your phone then actually enjoying the parks.
Growing more and more tired of the way Disney parks are treating the public in the past few years, I must admit this park has been on my list of places I would like to visit. Thanks for the great review
Speaking of the Imagination Library (her book club for kids), don’t forget that all employees are now eligible for free college tuition.
Nice video!
I see you also got all of Tennessee's weather. It rained, snowed, and was sunny in the different clips lol
wow, amazing review as always👍
Fair review. I love this park. Hoping to go I September. 77 percent chance 🤞🏻.
Every single score an exact 8 or 9 out of 10?!? Thats gotta be a ReviewTyme first 😂😂 definitely a good coincidence though. Cannot wait to view this beauty of a park, esp the cinnamon bread 😍
I wanted to go there last summer but my parents wanted to do a trip to Turks and Caicos instead so we're going there this summer instead. So excited.
Great thank you for this video
When I went in November there were only small waits on Mystery Mine and Lightning Rod
I've been to Dollywood. 'Twas dope! My oldest brother lives close to the park. HOME OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE SMOKIES.
Maybe you can make a video on the Efteling in the Netherlands? Its Europe’s second most visited theme park, behind DL Paris.
Looks like an amazing place to check out
Can wait to go in October from Wollongong aus.
I live in NC. I’m wanting to go some time this summer. I really want to stay at the Dreammore resort.
I am a roller coaster fanatic, yet that cinnamon bread is my favorite thing at the park. If you visit you MUST get some! It melts in your mouth. I am gluten intolerant and still eat it.
Do the rides (specifically roller coasters) have an area to put your stuff like a bookbag off to the side? Or ...is it mandatory to rent a locker?
The genius of Dollywood is the Hokey Dokey Theming. They can get by with less exacting maintenance and touch-ups while chalking it up to down home aesthetics. In these stomping grounds, rust is considered a finish material!
Looks very chill
The bear coaster reminds me of Steeplechase at Blackpool pleasure beach uk but that one uses horses
Dollywood is a lot of fun! I love going to Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, and the Cherokee Tribal lands barely an hour away into North Carolina. Sadly, my most beloved park - Ghost Town in the Sky - has been defunct for years now. I did get to take my daughter when she was 7 in 2007, but that was the only time I got to take her to the place where her grandparents took me dozens of times.
Edit: they had a dark ride, a mine-themed roller coaster that spent a good part of the time in the dark. Is it now gone?
It's a really really really nice park.
Do you remember what the park hours were the day you visited. I am going for the first time in September and the hours are 9am to 10pm. I'm debating whether to buy just a one day ticket or a 2 day one
I can't remember the exact hours, but they were shorter than that. Around 10am-7pm sort of thing. We definitely could have done another day though even with how quiet it was, it's just a great park to be in! - Luke
@@ReviewTyme I might try to talk my family into doing a 2nd day so I don't feel rushed. Also, I wanted to tell you how fantastic your RUclips Channel is. I just discovered your channel a couple of weeks ago and started binge watching all of your videos. You cover great topics and your content is so well made.
What is the park like at Christmas time? In December you should talk about Christmas time at the different theme parks.
I'd love to see a B&M Hyper at the park and a Mack Extreme Spinner or something like Copperhead Strike...Otherwise, I was really impressed with the coasters
Are you aloud to ask for a row on their coasters
So proud of my Home Park!
Silver Dollar City has entered the chat.
We love Dollywood, good wholesome fun.
Dollywood is cleaner, less expensive, better maintained, better decorated, less busy, more enjoyable, and has friendlier staff than Disney.
Unless you *really* care about Disney or Universal IP, Dollywood is a far better experience.
The only thing I disagree with this review on is the food, I thought the quality wasn't as good as Disney's for about the same price. Overall, a minor thing.
If you're planning a theme park family trip, skip Orlando or LA, head to the Smokies. You'll have far better experience and it'll probably be cheaper.
Or visit Branson and Silver Dollar City. The chains marquee park
Love to go there.
Is Dollywood crowded most of the time?? Going this summer!!
The cinnamon bread😮💨
Had some today it was unbelievable
This almost makes me homesick
When I was at Dollywood, nonexistent was Wildwood Grove. The park was so fun! It should be TN's best park of any kind to visit in the much racist Smokies valley!🎻
Dollywood is the gem in the Silver Dollar City chain of parks.
Dollywood isn't as good as Silver Dollar City
Oh hell yeah
What do I think best value mean? Not the cheapest but the most popular.
Wow, some disrespectful comments on here. I'll go there when I can. Dolly's a national treasure and I would love to see the park at some point.
Firerod is much better with the steel, the wood made it sooo bumpy lol
If Dollywood were to receive ten out of ten for every criterion, it would be the best theme park on earth under the average score of a hundred. Let U.S. News & World Reports make the declaration! NOT A HYPERBOLE.
If Cedar Fair gets their grubby hands on this park, it will become a Knott’s Berry Farm East.
Never heard anyone say anything bad about Dollywood, until all the bad things said about Disney World.
I’m more of a dark ride person than a roller coaster person, so I don’t think i’ll ever go to Dollywood
An exact copy of silver dollar city
Silver Dollar City is the best regional theme park in the US actually.
That's Dollywood's sister park. Or should that be Dollywood's brother's park?
@@MadWritter Silver Dollar City came first
I really enjoy the content on this channel, but my god the narration is so over the top at times.
i'm not a country music guy?! BOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I’d skip if I was in Tenn. and head straight for the Titanic Museum.
Silver dollar City is better
In todays news: "a USian once again repeatedly mistakes USA for the whole world"
Obscene Prices. Dolly greedy AF
As mush as I do admire Dolly Parton, I never spend my vacation dollars in Red States.
Dork.
Grow up. Also she's never owned the park
This park is quickly becoming very overrated
Or is it just a good park that has been under rated before?
No idea, but things generally are popular for a reason.
Maybe it is because dollywood seems to be a lot less high tech and extremely flashy then some of it's competition. I have the idea that the enthausiasm for all the "high tech sensory overload" stuff has had it's peak after several decades of constantly raising the bar and people are looking for less intensive things again, and not just with themeparks, but everything in life.
Just an observation, could also be just a short term trend, who knows.
I think Dollywood is severely underrated tbh
Bro probably only goes to theme parks to ride rides.