The phrase "actual thrill" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize a genuine or real sense of excitement or exhilaration in a particular context.
Example: "The roller coaster ride provided an actual thrill that I had never experienced before."
Alternatives: "genuine excitement" or "real exhilaration".
Even the mightiest of catastrophes and most clamorous of battles never reach the actual thrill of experience; they stand outside themselves and await the feedback of admiration, like the cinematic equivalent of a flashing applause sign.
I have more than a passing interest in animation techniques, special effects and the like, and celebrate Harryhausen's work as much for the actual achievement of the effects on the screen as the actual thrill from watching his movies.
In taking us behind the scenes of the most thrilling event in American sports, where he will slobber over a host of powerful white men, St. John has almost nothing to say about the scores of black men who supply most of the actual thrills.
Being the actual creator of something is a real thrill".
Completely unconnected, so there's no actual visceral thrill in it.
Having those gates unlocked and walking down the corridors and seeing the actual tomb was thrilling.
Not organized chaos (a term of forgiveness), but actual chaos: a thrilling unreliability perpetrated by a duo — notionally a hip-hop outfit but more interested in being provocateurs — who seemed to know exactly what the audience would tolerate.
The thrill of actual flight is catching on at other aviation museums.
To get a letter, to see the slant of an envelope crosshatching the inside of your mailbox, and to reach in and pull it out, not knowing who it is from or where--that is the irreplaceable thrill of actual, physical pieces of mail.
The foreplay (as usual) was far more thrilling than the actual meeting.
But, as Michael Bamberger writes on SI.com, everyone is thrilled that an actual golf tournament might break out among the Woods nonsense.
