Flossbolna
Sea days are just so relaxing!
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- Sep 8, 2006
I hope to have the next instalment up very soon!Looking forward to reading the rest of this trip report.
Generally we think the crowds are very manageable there. Some of our experience there has been in recent years when they were operating under capacity limits due to Covid, so I am trying to ignore these trips a bit. And then some trips were for their winter opening when the park operates a bit differently.What are queues like in europa? I'd really like to go (and stay in the wild West bit) but after visiting guardaland in September and hating it mainly due to crowds and long wait times I'm a bit scared of all non disney parks.
One thing about Europapark is that they operate the park also as a kind of showcase for Mack Rides (the company that manufactures rides and is owned by the same family). So they actually try to run everything at full capacity all the time to show how good the capacity of their rides is.
We have had a few visits on weekends, on public holidays and during school vacation time and none were unbearable. The park is fairly large and has loads of small attractions besides the big things. There is an app which offers a virtual queue where you can sign up for a window to visit one of the major attractions. It is similar to the old online Fastpass. This helps for the headliners. I would say that the only attraction that notoriuosly has long lines is Wodan, the wooden coaster. But we are not fans of it. Even on busy days it seems that wait times top out at 45 minutes. And after 430 pm wait times do go down quite a bit as for many people this is a day trip and they need to drive home.
Staying at an official hotel gives you some morning extra time which might be good for one or two attractions.
All in all, we think crowds at Europa Park are less of an issue than at DLP. In some ways Michael and I like Europa Park better than DLP. I would truly recommend to go!