Walibi Holland

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Theme Park:	Walibi Holland (since 2011)
	Walibi World (2005 - 2010)
	Six Flags Holland (2000 - 2004)
	Walibi Flevo (1994 - 1999)
	Flevohof (1971 - 1991)
	Part of the Resort Walibi Holland

Address:	Spijkweg 30
	8256 RJ Biddinghuizen
	https://www.walibi.nl/de

Operated by:	Compagnie des Alpes

Walibi Holland near Biddinghuizen in the beautiful Flevoland is one of the largest theme parks in the Netherlands. Founded in 1971, the amusement park can look back on an eventful past. When the park reopened in 1994 as Walibi Flevo under the leadership of the Belgian Walibi Group, nobody could have foreseen that a few years later the group would be taken over by Premier Parks, who would then operate the park as Six Flags Holland and expand it massively. With the takeover by the Compagnie des Alpes, the company returned to its original roots.

Walibi Holland offers a great mix of family-friendly rides and thrill rides. The focus of the amusement park is not on children, but rather on teenagers and young adults, which is further underlined by the current festival theme.

Fun Fact #1: Eddie de Clown is the icon of the Halloween season. Walibi Holland offers with the Halloween Fright Nights one of the most famous and elaborate Halloween events, which is also internationally known and therefore usually sells out quickly.

Fun Fact #2: As the train of the roller coaster La Via Volta was used on the roller coaster Wipeout in the English Pleasurewood Hills, the Boomerang stood around unused for several years. It wasn’t until the redesign to Speed of Sound in 2012 that the ride was put back into operation.

Fun Fact #3: The theme park can be played as a scenario in the computer game Roller Coaster Tycoon 2.

Highlights of the Theme Park

Blast

A very wet Top Spin

Crazy River

A large log flume

Condor

The first SLC

Drako

The family coaster

El Rio Grande

A scenic rapid river

Goliath

One of the best steel coaster

Lost Gravity

A weird ride with an awesome first drop

Merlin’s Magic Castle

A classic Mad House

Space Shot

3,2,1… launch

Speed of Sound

The Boomerang with the sound system

Untamed

One of Europe’s best coasters

Xpress: Platform 13

The spaghetti bowl coaster with the awesome queue

Past Highlight of the Theme Park

Robin Hood

An awesome wooden coaster

TKathke June 27, 2016 May 1, 2023 Walibi Holland

All-inclusive fun in Friesland

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Attractiepark Duinen Zathe

Attractiepark Duinen Zathe is a small theme park in the municipality of Appelscha in the picturesque province of Friesland. Originally started in 1958 as a catering business, it grew into a genuine amusement park, which moved to its present location in 2001. Families with small children have always been the main target group of the park, so that it can mostly be seen as a slightly larger playground with a few smaller rides. In the meantime the park has repositioned itself as an all-inclusive theme park and, like Kernie’s Wunderland or Drouwenerzand Attractiepark, offers included catering – but this is only available starting at noon.

Spur & The Big Apple and Spookhuis

Besides the children’s roller coaster Spur & The Big Apple, the park offers the very worth seeing ghost train Spookhuis – which is however neither very scary nor very dark -, a bumper car, a mat and dinghy slide, the Twister Flying Swing, a small oldtimer ride, as well as some children’s rides for the younger visitors.

Super Nova

Interestingly, however, Attractiepark Duinen Zathe is home to a Mondial Super Nova, a cult attraction of the late 1980s. A gondola swings back and forth up to an angle of 90° on both sides between two arms that operate separately. La Cólera de Akiles in the Spanish Iberia Park in Benidorm proves that this is a very fun ride, however, all potential is wasted by the automatic ride cycle. It is indeed quite suitable for the younger audience, but parents should be able to have fun as well in such a park; otherwise they will be bored and wait in the entrance area of the park for their children.

Pictures Attractiepark Duinen Zathe

Conclusion Attractiepark Duinen Zathe

All in all, Attractiepark Duinen Zathe is charming, nicely designed and, particularly due to its all-inclusive offer, can entertain families with small children without having to worry too much about the wallet. Even as a single amusement park fan, you can have fun in the park, after all, with the ghost train and the Super Nova, there are two truly great rides in the park; unfortunately, I was just a bit unlucky not to have found the Mondial ride in manual operation.

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TKathke June 27, 2016 May 1, 2023 Verkeers- en Attractiepark Duinen Zathe

Heide Park

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Theme Park:	Heide Park (since 1978)
	Part of the Resort Heide Park Resort

Address:	Heide Park 1
	29614 Soltau
	https://www.heide-park.de

Operated by:	Merlin Entertainments Group

Heide Park in the middle of the Lüneburg Heath near Soltau, Lower Saxony is the largest theme park in Northern Germany. Driven by the success of the Europa Park amusement park near Rust, the showman Hans-Jürgen Tiemann built the amusement park on the site of the former Heidenhof wildlife park in 1978. The park was already a great success in its first season. As time went on, more and more attractions came to the park and by the opening of Europe’s highest roller coaster, the Big Loop, in 1983 at the latest, the Heide Park was on everyone’s lips.

The time under the Tiemann family was always associated with superlatives. They always built the fastest, longest or highest attraction of its kind. The peak of this was the wooden roller coaster Colossos, Europe’s highest wooden roller coaster. At the same time the park was sold to the Tussauds Group, which later became Merlin Entertainments. Scream, the highest gyro drop tower in the world, followed, before the park focused on German premieres with Desert Race, Krake and the Flug der Dämonen. For some years now, the company has also been increasingly relying on well-known licenses, such as How to Train Your Dragon, Peppa Pig and the Ghostbusters.

Fun Fact #1: Heide Park is closely connected with the history of Europa Park. Originally, Hans-Jürgen Tiemann’s father Otto Tiemann was supposed to run the park in Rust. Even today you can discover many similarities between the two parks.

Fun Fact #2: For years Heide Park was world famous for its pile-dwelling competition in the Dutch part of the park. The Guinness World Record, which is still valid today, was also set in Heide Park in 2002.

Fun Fact #3: Germany’s biggest and most professional independent frightening group, the Boo Crew, have been shaping events such as the Hamburg Dom or the Zeit der Schattenwesen in Hansa Park as live frighteners for years, but they started in Heide Park, whose Halloween event they have been shaping since 2004.