Theme Park

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.

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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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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.

 
 
 

Highlights of the Theme Park

 



 

Big Loop

The classic looping coaster

 


 

Bobbahn

The longest of its kind

 


 

Colossos – Kampf der Giganten

The giant wooden coaster

 


 

Desert Race

Some people call it the Desert Rita

 


 

Drachenzähmen – Die Insel

A nice family area

 


 

Flug der Dämonen

A fantastic wing coaster

 



 

Krake

A great dive coaster

 


 

Scream

One of the best drop towers

 


 

Toxic Garden

A suspended looping coaster

 


 
 

Past Highlight of the Theme Park

 




 

Krake lebt!

A maze which later became Krake lebt! Kids

 



Heide Park

Trampolino Andernach

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Small Park:Trampolino Andernach (since 2001)
Address:Stadionstraße 89
56626 Andernach
http://www.trampolinoandernach.de
Operated by:Fam. Wingender

Trampolino Andernach  in Andernach, Rhineland-Palatinate is a small family amusement park, which had its origin as a children’s indoor playground. The park offers a small selection of family-friendly rides and roller coasters.

 
 
 

Highlight of the Theme Park

 



 

Ring Renner

The small family roller coaster

 

Trampolino Andernach