Cheetah Hunt

My entire family LOVED this coaster! I felt like a cheetah on this ride. We did have about an hour wait but it was definitely worth it. I read some reviews of complaints that the ride was boring; I feel like I’m pretty hard to impress with roller coasters so I’m not sure what they’re talking about. This is the first coaster I’ve ever been on that uses the magnets to speed up multiple times throughout the ride; all the other ones I’ve been on, IF they do use the magnets to speed back up, I’ve never felt it. This ride makes it a point for you to know you’re about to attack something like a cheetah!

My favorite roller coaster ever.
This is the most popular ride in Busch Gardens. The line frequently exceeds an hour! But its for good reason.
The ride starts out with a pretty fast and powerful launch, quickly followed by a faster one. You rise to the top of a tower. You have a few seconds to admire the view before you plunge into a pit!
The rest of the ride soars over the Serengeti Plain. If you aren’t screaming, you can admire the view of the park. I love the part where you zig zag over a river, dodging rocks and waterfalls.
That’s followed by a THIRD launch, pushing you over an awesome airtime hill before bringing you back to home.
This ride is just amazing. Be sure to either ride it super early or super late if you don’t want to wait in line. Awesome at night :)

Such an awesome ride !!! It’s smooth and easy going. If you have never looked up the ride, it takes you as a surprise because it’s better than how simple it looks by the outside. Definitely recommended to ride and experience.

The first time I rode Cheetah Hunt I learned what is means to die of anticipation. Waiting for 2 hours killed me. So much so that I hardly enjoyed the ride.
After coming back several times and experiencing shorter lines I began to change my mind.
As the ride begins you are slowly pushed towards the beginning of the track. The second car has to wait for a while before being launched, the first car is nonstop from the get go. Sometimes I forget what’s about to happen. It’s always a shock when they launch you.
After launching you swoop around a curve and then downward. This part of the track accelerates you to 60 mph and up a steep ascent. This is by far the best part of the ride. You then twirl around a bit unnecessarily and go down a pretty sweet drop.
The ride is very smooth. It includes some ‘heart line’ rolls, which adds to the smoothness. There are three total acceleration magnets. All of them are awesome.
Overall, it’s a fairly innovative coaster. It’s not like any other that I’ve been on. The line is frickin’ ridiculous though most of the time, seriously.

I love this ride!
While it may not be as thrilling as some other coasters, as it has very few inversions, I loved the initial speed at the start of the ride. Rather then the slow climb to the stop, this shoots you forward right away and there are about 3 more sections along the ride, where to get a speed boost.
For those that want a roller coaster experience without being upside down, this is a great ride!

I’m sorry but this ride has the most ridiculous wait time ever. It’s as if they make you wait in purpose. The clock outside is NEVER accurate. If it says 45 minutes expect an hour and a half. If it says 80 minutes expect 2+ hours. The ride is constantly malfunctioning too. Also, the attendants take leisurely strolls while checking that all seatbelt a are safe. It appears that they don’t care at all how quickly people get on and off.
Ugh

Love this ride!
As Busch Gardens’ newest roller coaster, it has set the bar high! Simulating the run of a cheetah, this coaster has awesome acceleration! It gets off to a fast start, but keeps up the speed and excitement throughout the entire ride. I thought the ride was a great length too. I loved the quick turns and drops. One of my favorites at BG, for sure!

Best roller coaster at Busch Gardens! There was a time when Gwazi was my number one coaster, but Cheetah Hunt stole my heart. Had a chance to ride this recently thanks to a Unilocal Event in Tampa.
So this coaster, it’s fast, it’s slow, it’s like a cat ready to pounce. If you are afraid of coasters, just try this one and you will be pleasantly surprised at how thrilling it is, but not terrifying or scary. This is pure fun. Also, this is a long ride, so it’s nice to stay on the ride for a while and enjoy yourself. The ride is so smooth, there is barely any bumping along, it feels like you are gliding. The line is a bit long, but so worth the wait.

This has to be my new favorite coaster in the state. The seating is comfortable, the ride isn’t too jarring, the line is tolerable, and totally worth it. The speed is puzzling, and keeps you guessing without making you want to puke. I’m an old lady but this ride has me asking if we can do it again!

Could this be my new favorite roller coaster at Busch Gardens? It might be. I mean I have some long standing favorites (spoiler alert: Gwazi is not one of them!) but this new coaster is smooth, fast and pretty awesome.
So I quickly learned that 60 miles per hour is pretty freakin’ fast. Apparently it feels especially fast if you are doing front row! Yep, me and 2 of my buddies (and one random dude) all rode front row — you know, YOLO. We got launched off the platform (awesome!) and whizzed through the track for what felt like forever. I read that the ride lasts 3 and a half minutes. I promise it feels extremely long… and every second is worth it. The ride climbs to about 130 feet (then drops you down) and there’s one inversion.
This is a great addition to Busch Gardens and if you haven’t been in a few years they have a couple cool rides that you might want to come check out — this being one of them.
While I didn’t see it, I read there is also a cheetah exhibit near the ride to tie in with the theme of it. You get to watch as the cheetahs sprint after toys, showcasing their insane speed.

Oddly, this may be one of my least favorite coasters at BG. While the speed and twisty track are fun — the ride is just so short that it’s over right about when I start enjoying it. Fun idea and I do appreciate BG’s fun themes/​animal tie-​ins for their rides.

This is my favorite roller coaster. I love everything about it. I did not at all feel dizzy. It felt like it lasted a while, and it was just so much fun. It’s the first time I’ve been on a coaster that when it’s over you can literally hear everyone saying the same thing «THIS WAS AWESOME!». Everyone sitting in front and behind me had the same reaction. And it really was awesome. The way it shoots you out. The smoothness. The length. I really can’t wait to ride this again!

This coaster is awesome… and well named. Fast, sleek and smooth. I enjoyed every bit of this ride, love the feeling of hitting the turbos as we hunt our pray and run across the park. This baby is a long ride for a coaster and feels like you have slipped Into a Cheetahs skin. I’m ready for the next hunt…
Bravo Busch Gardens for a perfectly executed theme!

One of my favorite rides! I love launch coasters, and this one has several launches along the track. Cheetah Hunt is really a beautiful ride of technical splendor. I especially enjoy riding in the dark, as it adds a bit more excitement with all the banking around curves without being able to see. I used to dislike what I have named the slowest inversion ever, but it’s grown on me. Totally worth the wait if you have the time.

Love it!!! You really feel like cheetah with whooshes of acceleration in flats and even up slopes. Zooming around and whirling too is fun.
Rooooooooaaaaaaar!!!

The second best roller coaster in Busch Garden, in my opinion. It is a long ride compared to others and takes off fast. Not only the takeoff, they give you accelerations a couple times during. They are some loops and twists also. Surprisingly, even with all the crazy motions, the ride is pretty smooth and I didn’t bang my head or anything.

One of my very favorite roller coasters across the country, Cheetah Hunt simulates the explosive speed of a cheetah on the run hunting for a meal. The ride starts with you strapping yourself into high-​tech seat with a pull-​down shoulder restraint that locks you in place into your seat. After a quick thumbs up from the ride attendants you burst ahead with a blast of speed and then start the looping and twisting motions as the cheetah dodges and weaves around the park.
You soar up to look out over the entire park, and then suddenly blast down as if the animal is chasing it’s prey. Along the way coaster aficionados will get plenty of air time as you crest the heights and then chase after your stomach as the track drops away for a steep dive.
Be sure to stop and watch the Park’s cheetahs at the exhibit near the entrance to this ride, and pay attention to how they seem to zoom back and forth as they run. That’s what this ride will feel like!

This ride is longer than most roller coasters and that’s a big plus. It’s fast and the twists and turns are filled with fun and excitement. Just when you think it’s over, it surprises you with a few more twists. For me, not as good as Sheikra but still a Top 5 roller coaster.

I really enjoy this ride because it offers slightly more comfort than some of the older roller coasters. BuschGardens has a wooden roller coaster that just makes you so nauseated by the time you’re done and then you get on this roller coaster and it’s like night and day difference.
The technology that went behind this roller coaster to make it launch and accelerate you like it does is very cool. There are two different types of motors that can be used for the launch process one is a linear induction and the second is linear synchronous motor. Now the motors can be powered either pneumatically or hydraulically I believe this ride is actually pneumatic just from listening to the pressure release when you’re launching.
I have ridden this ride enough to notice that if you sit in the front it seems to go a lot faster to sit in the back it doesn’t seem to go as fast but the big humps you go over deliver a lot of airtime.
The only complaint I have is there aren’t enough inversions I mean loops upside down the cool stuff! Besides that it’s a good ride and something you would jump back in line to ride again.

Awesome. This coaster is truly one of a kind as I’ve never been on anything like it. The only problem is they hold back pretty hardcore because its designed as a starter coaster, meaning its mainly for early aged teenies. It’s got three launches, and all of them are awesome. It’s also got some really cool elements that I’ve actually never seen on a coaster before simply by the nature of the ride being designed to simulate a cheetah running through the Forrest and stalking its prey.
The only problem that I have with the ride is that it’s about 13 mph too slow. Notch this bad boy up 13mph, and it would easily go from 4 out of 5 to a very easy 5 out of 5 stars
I give cheetah run a swift 4 out of 5 stars