A non obvious topic, but which amusement parks do you recommend rather than Disneyland?
A non obvious topic, but which amusement parks do you recommend rather than Disneyland?
A non obvious topic, but which amusement parks do you recommend rather than Disneyland?
France: Parc Astérix, Walibi
Belgium: Walibi
Germany: Europapark, Phantasialand, Legoland
Denmark: Legoland
Netherlands: Efteling
Poland: Energylandia
Spain: Port Aventura
Italy: Gardaland
Denmark: Legoland
These are amusement parks with shops, not malls with some rides like Disneyland.
Conserning the Netherlands: the Efteling is great, it's themed on European fairy tales! It's a very nice park for all ages.
Another nice, yet smaller park for the Netherlands is Toverland.
These are amusement parks with shops, not malls with some rides like Disneyland.
Ouch
Legoland. Obviously 😎
Fuck Lego (the company). Their bricks are on the lower end of the quality spectrum, way too many stickers, shit and cheaped out designs and bricks and all that for 50 to 400% more cash. There is nothing that makes Lego any better than competitors, except the little "Lego" imprint. And, in fact, if you call identical bricks, that are simply not made/sold by Lego, "Lego", the will sue you (if you have any public influence). Also, they sabotage competitors by claiming IP on basic parts that are hard to realize differently, even though they did not invent the concept of clamping bricks at all.
I get the point of "Lego was good when I was a kid, I want to give my kid the same experience" - but instead of beautiful, complex and interesting 300€ Unimog they'll get an ugly-ass, very simple and cheaply made 400€ set with much less design and parts value.
If you are already boycotting stuff, try eg. BlueBrixx, Pantasy, CaDa, Cobi, Mould King and dozens of smaller ones. Some are produced in the EU, like Cobi (Poland).
Europapark in Rust
That one is awesome - one of Europes best parks
I heard good things about this park, but didn't have time to visit when I was close by :(
Was it super crowded? I heard that it is really popular but someone said it's quite big so crowds are not a problem?
I’ve not been myself but I know two people who have and swear it was great at Efterling
Absolutely! Something very different, well designed, and huge. Highly recommend.
Parc Astérix, especially if you like rollercoasters. There are fast pass bundle options for a lot of the main rides as well. Halloween is also a great time to go, they have a bunch of great haunted houses and the park is open after hours.
I've been to Phantasialand once, it was quite nice, very good vibe and decorations
Is this the park somewhat close to Cologne (Köln)? I ended up there once by accident while backpacking and took basically a random Flixbus. Looked nice indeed!
(I don't recommend taking random Flixbuses for amusement)
Yes, I think so! This one: https://www.phantasialand.de/en/
Liseberg (Sweden)
Liseberg is pretty good. Grönalund in Stockholm is also good. The two parks have a very different vibe. Liseberg is a big park with the rides more spaced out while grönalund is a small space with the rides literally overlapping with each other.
Italy has Gardaland on lake Garda. Quite fun and you can visit the beautiful area afterwards.
I've only ever been to Heidepark, lol
Is it still good? Last time I heard about it was a bit dated
Personal favourite: Prater Amusement park in Vienna, Austria.
Well, I've worked back of house for both Disney and Knots, so Six Flags.
ETA: just saw where i am. Am stoopid American. Ignore me.
i mean.. any of the other ones?
Did you notice the community we're in?
Not until after I posted. 🤦♂️