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^ What a bummer about you hotel. We were there exactly two years ago and it was good (almost awesome comparing to other Super 8's!)

^ Awesome info, thanks! Makes planning a lot easier!

So, we might do a quick five-hour-trip to Walibi Holland this summer, as we've never been there before and we dare to see and conquer our first RMC hybrid. Is the whole park doable in one day? Even if we want to have rerides on Untamed, Goliath and other rides we will like? We will most surely go on a weekday and won't bother to buy Fast Lane if neccessary. In addition, do you have to be almost aut of the park at closing (as I remember our german parks) or are they closing the lines on park closing, as we experienced in the US?

Rumor has it that they only bought this place so they have the rights for the name "Sawmill" which will be the name of the 2020 Aquatrax coaster for their anniversary. The resort refused to allow them to use the name, so they played monopoly and bought the whole shithole just to show who has the bigger balls.

^ This. If there's something broken it will be fixed ASAP. That maybe some weeks, but I don't see them closing a ride for the season just because it had a mechanical failure that caused an oopsie.

Did you see if it's on their fast lane? On their website it isn't listed. But it may be that it's just not updatet yet.

^ I agree. We rode Taron first in spring 2017. Ti was purely amazing. In July we rode Maverick and it blasted Taron down. Again in autumn we got back to Taron and it was kind of.. "Boring". Of course it wasn't really boring, but after Maverick it has lost some of its awesomeness. We're in the Maverick bandwagon.

Me neither. But what would you do if you have checked Twitter and Facebook in the morning, took four guests with you and the entrance says "temporarily closed"? I don't think many people will turn around and drive one hour home again..

Photo Trip Report - Park Visit 05/20/2019 On Thursday, May 20th 2019 (a local holiday), we went to our second trip of the year. We invitied my brother with his daugther and our friend with her american fiancé to the park. Weather forecast was pretty bad, but we dicided to go anyway as showers would not last long. The first bummer was at the parking lot - no noise of Expedition GeForce testing. When we came to the entrance there were signs saying "GeForce maybe not running today". So we did all rides in Holiday Indoor first, as we didn't do it last time. It's a great addition and something the park was definitely in need of. After that we hit Maja Land for Flip, the frog hopper, the rocking tree and the jumping flowers before we went to the bigger rides. We took the clockwise turn and did Sky Scream, Lighthouse Tower, the pirate Ship before we went for lunch near GeForce. There we noticed for the first time, that GeForce was not only not even testing, there was nobody next to the ride. The app still said "closed temporarily" and on their facebook site was no mention at all about this case. So it was clear that it was down mechanical and will not open soon. Not good, but it's the way the cookie crumbles and nothing we did not expect from minute one his day. So we went on another circle through the park where we hit the free fall tower, again the frog hopper and Flip, Beach Rescue and Wickie Splash for our wet goodbye for that day. At the end, we had no rain an temparatures over 80° F the whole day - itcould have been perfect, if GeForce would have ran. We know that coasters, especially Intamins, may break down, that's nothing new to us. But the fact that there was nobody on site and the ride is closed until today shows, that they knew that it would not run on Thursday. As it is the only really major attraction in the park, so they could have communicated that better. Until today, there's no tweet, no post on facebook and on their website, you only have a small line on the very bottom of the GeForce-Page. We know, they are not forced to do more and it may be a money issue with people staying away if they know it's closed. But as an example: Our american friends were really unhappy and won't returs soon either. The rides: Paraglider: I love interactive rides. Here you can set your height. But four of twelve cars were broken and roped off and the ride broke down multiple times we've benn in the indoor world. Wooden carousel: Very slow carousel with wooden carved animals. Nice ride for the smallest ones. Tabalugabahn: The newest family coaster. The park was in desperate need of this. It's really nice, you get usually two laps in a row. They could have staffed it with more than one OP. She hat to check all restraints, cross the tracks, check the exit door, cross the tracks again, go to the front row, press a button and go back to the panel an the ent of the train to release it from the station alone. If some check failed, she had to do everything again. So the checking procedure lasted longer than the ride. Frog Hopper: Paul did his first ride alone (I sat on the saet behind him). Great first ride for kids! Flip: Funny themed powered ride. We loved it. Rocking Tree: I hate them. Sarah loves them. I watch Paul, she and the others ride. Good stuff! Jumping Blossoms: Very nice. You can choose if they rise or go down and so you can manage if you get (extra) wet or stay dry. Sky Scream: Just a good coaster, ran good as always. Funny crew who spayed water when the train ran through the station. Lighthouse Tower: I don't know why, but these Star Flyers scare the crap out of me.. But I have to ride them. It was a really long cycle. Pirate Ship: Also not my stuff, but Paul loves watching the others. I like it that the back rows go really 90 degrees (unlike the ship at Europa-Park) Free Fall Tower: We were at the top like forver - I love that ride. The drop came so unexpected. Great stuff. Beach Rescue: Never did that before. Awesome interactive water flat ride. You really have to hold tight. Wickie Splash: The crew was hauling, every boat was completely full. Such a funny flume. Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed our trip report. Here are some photos of our tour: Cloudy weather, but nice and warm. No sound of GeForce, though. Not my type of ride.. That's fun! Hop the frog - Paul at his first ride alone. So proud! This is really funny, but broke down immediately after we left. The new family coaster. Themeing The coaster Paul and Sarah on the wooden carousel Flip.. ..the hopping ride

Tabaluga Kiddie Coaster in Holiday Park! Great Kiddie Coaster and definitely something the park was in need of!

Sky Scream in Holiday Park yesterday!

So.. We'll be at the park tomorrow. Weather seems not to be too good, but perhaps crowds will be not too much because of that! If anyone is there from the forums who wants to meet up, just give us a message!

I was there about a month ago, it wasn't crowded at all. The park barely gets any visitors these days even though it's quite large. The park has 4 coasters, of which two are of the bigger sort. Monster is the main reason to go there, the other rides are nothing special. Anaconda is less rough then a few years back since they retracked large parts of it. It's still a bit on the boring side though. The park show is long (45 minutes) and quite fun to watch even if you don't speak french. Other than that there is not much to say. All basic rides are there, they are trying to make it all look good, but it looks like they simply don't have the visitor numbers to really do much. Thanks, sounds alright and exactly what we expect. Seriously, if the flats are doing their job and I have the oppourtunity to have numerous rerides in the front left seat of Raptor-Monster and show my brother and my neice the awesomeness of a 90's stlye B&M invert, I'm fine. I just hope it runs and it runs fine.

Crazy.. No post here since almost four years! We'll go to the park in late July as we will be in the nearby zoo. We surely wouldn't do the park alone, but ride Raptor without having to fly 18 hours? Yes, please! Any useful tips for our visit? Not too many good words here except of Monster..

Holiday Park this week (if the weather is good to us) and Walygator Parc on the end of July!

He means "The Worlds Longest Enclosed Coaster" or "The Worlds longest Dark Ride Coaster"

I would never recommend Europapark less than two days. If you do Holiday Park first, you'll need two hours for the park and additional two hours for the transfer to Europa (in the best case. With traffic jams around Karlsruhe, which are likely in the summer, you may have more). Europa closes between 6 pm and 9:30 pm. That depends on crowds and weather. If you only have one afternoon in the park and you don't know your ways, you'll be missing more than half of all important things to see. Honestly, less than two days aren't enough if you want to experience the park completely. There's no Skip-The-Line-System, so queues for the major attractions will be between 40 and 90 minutes all day - so for Silver Star, Wodan, Blur Fire, Voletarium, Eurosat and Euro-Mir (which is the miminum you should do) you'll be around several hours.

So the rattle, especially on the bottom of the first drop, disappeared? That would be great. Perhaps it was only a bad set of wheels six weeks ago.

Okay. In Holiday Park please make sure to ride Expedition GeForce at least one time on the front right seat to see the awesomeness of the first drop and once in the back left seat to feel the awesomeness of the first drop! We also have to insist that you do the drop tower and the flume at least once! For Tripsdrill, the back right seat on Karacho is my favourite as it's the best place to experience the dive loop. The drop (or bounce?) towers have an unique element in them. The Badewannenfahrt is another must do. Naked people are awaiting you. Many small rides in Tripsdrill are well worth riding them. Both parks have a Gerstlauer Sky Fly - the Tripsdrill one is the better one and has a revolution counter.

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^ Are you going to Holiday Park after Europa?

I'm truly fascinaed by this coaster. I'd love to ride that one day.

An old small Wildcat, yesterday at our home fair! Was pretty smooth, a lot smoother that I expected. A lot of fun.

They've been displaying a disjointed car near the exit for a number of years now, today it's complimented by a setup celebrating Phoenix's Golden Ticket win from last year. Great, the old memory is still working!

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