There is no good amusement park without Russian mountains and games that take the adventure to the limit, and in this park of Holland there is enough of that. In Baron 1898, one of the so -called Russian mountains of diving, a vehicle rushes in a free fall from 40 meters high to 50 kilometers per hour
It is also Python, a double round mountain that for a long time was the largest in Europe, or Joris in Draaka double lane wood mountain in which the reckless people face the fire of a dragon. On a visit made in October, The ranks of the main games They did not exceed 40 minutes of waiting, while the simple passenger lines averaged the 15 minutes of waiting.
Baron 1898 is one of the main attractions of Ephteling. The mechanical game is a roller diving mountain that includes a free fall of 40 meters to 90 kilometers per hour.REMY GIELING / UNSPLASH
An inspiration for Disney
It was the British newspaper The Sun the fact that He cataloged Ephteling Park as «the best in Europe»according to the responses of several people when talking about their visit. The appointment spread rapidly and consolidated comparisons with Disneyland and its different parks.
The legend says that Walt Disney himself visited the Dutch park on several occasions To seek inspiration for its first park, which opened in 1955, three years after the opening of Ephteling. The possibility of a Disney visit has also been fed by some of the trips that the creator of Mickey made to Copenhagen in search of creativity, as well as by some real castles that have inspired different parks of the company.
As if that were not enough, prior to the opening of Disneyland Paris, The American entertainment giant consulted with the Effteling team to develop attraction strategies of European audiences. With Walt Disney or without him, this Dutch park has created his own magic, which In 2020 he had more visitors than the Parisian version of Disneylandia. But if they share something, it is that the magic does not stop, because Effteling just opened a new terror attraction that attracted crowds and in 2025 will open a new hotel.