Funfact! Not the whole forest is taken by the park, when you walk around you will see squirrles and bunnies everywhere! The bigger animals reside in the part of the woods that are untouched
@@ItsCharlieVest And the National Park 'Loonse en Drunense Duinen' is across the road in front of the Efteling Hotel. A big area with sand dunes shaped by the wind, trees, heath and still wild! And well preserved. Fun fact: the Efteling thanks its name to the village that was once here but 'disappeared' under the sand. (Well, the farmers left after they lost the struggle against the moving sand that covered their lands.)
@@ItsCharlieVest If you are interested: You can find four completely different landscapes over a short distance of only twenty to thirty miles. - Big rivers, wide, slowly flowing through endless lowlands. Farms with long stretching lands towards the river. - Sand dunes with forest of oak and pine, dry heath, and a very different flora and fauna. - Wet lands, where the water can only infiltrate into the sandy soil of the dunes, again with other kind of farming. - Old forest landscape on the high grounds of Brabant with National Park 'Het Groene Woud' in development.
I am an expat living in the USA. I moved to the USA in 1979 at the age of 20. As I am getting older the nostalgia grows. Thank you so much for your videos about the Netherlands. It brings to me a genuine warm feeling and at times tears to my eyes. Thank you soooo much!
The happiness on this guys face is priceless. And I can confirm that the Efteling brings happiness to people of all ages. I've been to the Efteling countless times and I will always go on full-child-mode there (especially when I try to find a mushroom to sit on). No place on earth has that efffect on me except for the Efteling. I hope you are able to go to the Efteling very soon :)
@@toaojjc yeah right! And there's accually a whole collection of pictures in the small efteling museum (which is free to enter on the park btw) of people sitting on those shrooms even going back to the time of colorless pictures. Everytime i've been there I can watch a whole week of youtube content talking about the history and developement of the park!
As an old Dutch man who lived his whole life pretty close to the "Efteling", i have seen it grow from a children playground to the park it is now. It started out (as i know it, because i'm not THAT old lol) as a kids playground with all kind of swings and slides, a huge pond where we could swim and get to row in a rowboat, a fairy tale area "sprookjesbos" where fairy tales came to life and a square called "Anton Piek plein". When i was a child we were there often because it really was a place for kids to have the time of their life (and in those day's there wasn't much money). It began to expand because more and more people would go there and they could make huge amounts of money out of it. In my experience, it WAS a cheap way of having a great family day when i was a little boy. Now the park has expanded to a pretty big themepark and prizes are as big as the park is ( i probably shouldn't say this, but it's almost criminal ). But i have to admit that it is still a magical and fun place to go to where you can have a great time, just bring all your savings with you lol. As for the expansion of the park, Yes, all this used to be forest and dunes. Still there is a lot of forest around the park and the wildlife moved more or less to the "Loonse en Drunese duinen". It's located in the vicinity of the Efteling and is a wildlife reserve, so not to much worry about that. City's expand, nothing you can do about it. We live in a tiny little country with over 17 million people. As i look at the "Efteling" now, it has grown into an huge moneymaking park where a lot of people have found a job and so it's good for the economy. I still wish it could have stayed the way i remember it, but that's an old mans memory lol. If you want to have a great time and have money to spare, you really need to come to the "Efteling".
The Efteling still wears the title "nature park" they lose this title if they more than 11% is used for something that's not nature related (so rules/laws about having the nature park title state ar least 89% needs to stay trees and bushes) also for every tree cut down an other one (or more) is planted and of course things need to stay safe if you get millions of visitors
10:32 the sound you hear is a safety mechanism that is working as intended, the clicking noisce can be heard by almost evry roller coaster, the mechanism prevents the train rolling backwards may the train stop at the lift hillm every click is proof that the little pins under the train are in the little slots on the lifthill
The efteling cares about nature,they can't build a coaster higher than the cannopy of the forrest due to "poluting the horizon" and there are tons of squirels,bats and other animals in the park
Fun fact about the show you’ve seen at the last part of the video, Raveleijn: my cousin works in that show. Every one (except him) speaks french and my cousin learned horsebackriding for the show on a horse simulator!
The python was indeed the first rollercoaster coming in the park. But they renewed it, because it was clanky . Now the ride is more smoother and better. Yeah I know you're learning dutch and you're getting better.
You're absolutely right. The second coaster was a wooden one called Pegasus which I really liked. Now they have "Joris en de draak" which is also nice.
There are video's about the Efteling Fairytale Forest alone on youtube. You should check them out. You get to see a lot of the old fairytales in there. I haven't been to The Efteling in years but the Fairytale Forest was always my favourite part of the whole park. The details, the little fun things hidden in all the scenes. So much fun.
Efteling has always been my favorite park even when i was a kid im now 20 years old and when im going there i feel like 12 again the magic the music that feeling of being child again, every ride has hes own music and all the fairtale characters are made and designed by ton van de ven, this park is by far the most magical park ever it has 4 or 5 relms you have anderrijk marenrijk ruigrijk and reizenrijk, and ruigrijk is where python is the flying dutchman george and the dragon, the half mean, baron 1898, piranna, its so awsome you never get enough of it
here some facts about the python When the Python opened in 1981, it was not only the first roller coaster in the Efteling, but also the largest and most spectacular roller coaster on the European mainland. The steel roller coaster is now 36 years old and the Python has covered a total distance of 309,435 km in all those years.
Don't tell anyone but this cheery woman and her very child-like open experience of that park made me cry with nostalgia ... I never posted that as a reaction to her video
Charlie your pronounce those dutch words well. Nice to see someone who is interested in speaking dutch. Love your clips and your interest in our country and culture. Hope you will visite our country soon you will love it. But remember sometimes things look more special than they are you are watching the better parts. every country has his less better parts But even with those less pretty parts you will love Holland. So much more than what you see and much more to learn of its history. Hope to meet you here.
Apparently Walt Disney visited De Efteling in the 1950's when he was developing the first Disney Land Theme Park. It used to be mostly a green park with like fairytales in there... inspired and I believe also designed by Dutchman Anton Pieck (look up his artwork) ... then from the early 80's it also got like rollercoasters etc... The Python was then introduced.
My beautiful, wonderful home park. Great theming. The experience starts when you park your car. The feeling of walking up to the house of the five senses with the music in the background is amazing, yet just a taste of what the day will have to offer. Good coasters for most of the family to enjoy, with great theming and storytelling. Masterclass darkrides (except for Carnaval Festival [not my cup of tea]). Lush and green forests. Fairy tale forest is fun for young and old and is the park's core (I spent nearly two hours there on my last visit). There are also other awesome scenic attractions like Villa Volta. I love the park's scale and I love walking from one attraction to the next. As the showbuildings look phenomenal and the coasters are enjoyable to watch offride (especially Baron). As an experience and total package, Efteling is basically heaven.
There are already comments about the Python being the first coaster so I don't need to tell you that. But I jave another fun facr which almost nobody knows, learned it from my mothers nephew who was the ceo of the Efteling for years. Yeah free admission ;). The Efteling hasn't just a hotel but also 2 different bungalow parcs and a special house where people with terminal sick or disabled children can stay to visit the parc. They only got building permissions for the bungalow parcs, which are build near and in the nature reserve next to the Efteling, if they agreed to maintain large parts of the nature reserve. The Efteling now maintains, at their own costs, about 75%of the forest, heath and moorlands in Kaatsheuvel.
I love your vids on the Efteling. It's the best park ever. Sadly they are taking down Spookslot this year:( it is my favourite attraction together with Sprookjesbos. A video reaction of a walk through the Sprookjesbos (fairy tale forest) would be nice too!:)
my mom grew up less then a mile from the Efteling, we went there alot when i was younger, the house my grandparents used to live in was visable from the pagode. sadly the house was bought by the local Albert Heijn and is now demolished.
5:00 so, they actually went out of their way to go to the main entrance. The hotel is all the way on the other side of the park and has it's own small entrance where you can enter the park half an hour earlier than regular guests. I have to say though, that entrance is not cool at all, while the main entrance is amazing. 8:00 actually the Efteling itself started as a 12 ha big sports park. The area around Efteling is still a nature reserve. The pagoda is the highest thing they're allowed to have because of this (skyline pollution) and they can't just keep expanding the park either. The park itself is very green for an amusement park as well, a large portion being the fairy tale forest, which makes it a much nicer place to be than other amusement parks. 9:00 Fata Morgana is one of the older attractions, opened in 1986. All the "animatronics" are done with tensioned wires of which the amount of pull is regulated by wheels which have the desired movement depth cut out of their circumference. No robotics. 10:00 Python was the first non-fairy tale forest attraction build in 1981. By todays standards the two loops and a corkscrew is a small roller coaster, but at the time of opening it was the largest in Europe. And yes, the wooden coasters came much later than Python. 12:15 dude, you actually pronounced stroopwafels correctly. Never heard an English speaker manage that before. Well done! 13:00 there was actually a TV series produced by Efteling to build up a story behind Raveleijn, with a bunch of kids going through a portal that sends them back in time and transforms them into full grown knights who have to save the village from dark magic. I felt the show itself was rather bland really, but when I watched it they hadn't done it very long yet and the choreography wasn't very well done. I hear they've updated the show since then. What I do love however is how Efteling always theme's everything to death. Look at the background of the Ravelijn area. That's actually the office space of the Efteling, but themed on the outside to look like a medieval village.
The music you hear at 09:16 is not from Fata Morgana or Efteling even, but from some Chinese guy. 😆 I loved how you corrected the "Stroohpwafel" into "Stropewafel". 😁
The clicking sound of the rollercoaster going up is your safety. If you hear that sound you know that the train will stay put when the lifthill chain will break. It happend in the past, that is why they made this roll back safety mechanism
The Efteling exists 70 years, and moreover it's nature with the theme park in it. The,Efteling finds it really important to keep very much green, loads of big trees, bushes, flowers etc. You see lots of animals, squirrels, birds, ducks, fish etc etc. Believe me, if you want to enjoy nature, the Efteling is the place to be. I love your video's, gonna check out your video's on your Dutch Classes soon. Keep it up, loving it👍❤️ Forgot to tell you, I have a subscription to the Efteling, and I try to go there twice a month, to get a good walk in and to enjoy nature, and some of the funrides. I always love walking through the Fairytale Forrest, and have a few stops and enjoy the way kids react to the features, especially the dragon, love how the little ones react 😱🤣😂. I live in a city named Tilburg, if I take the bus just outside my street, it takes me 10 minute busride and I'm there. Lucky me
The wooden rollercoasters are not built because there was a lack of material, they were built because it fit more with the theme of the park. You seemed to assume they're wooden because they're old. I can assur you, they are safe and well maintained.
It might have been already said so, but it started off as a ferry tale park, the bigger stuff like the Pagoda and the python came way later. I have fond memories as a child about this first part and I actually hope they are going to show some of the good stuff of it. It is true that the wooden rollercoasters came in later, but the Python was the first big attraction after the ferry tale woods. It is actually not that old
The safety regulations in the Netherlands for amusement parks with mechanical devices are very strict for their safety and are checked every year. greetings from South Holland
europa park has won the best theme park in the world for the last 6-7 years in a row maybe worth checking out 😊 but overall there are no bad theme parks or amusement parks in Europe at all you will have a great time at anyone of them
Interesting that you mention the sound the roller coaster makes when going up is worrying you, because that is actually what makes it safe. The coaster is being pulled up by a chain, and the rattling sound is sort of a hook that pushes down on a cogged rail, which you hear dropping after every cog, and that is meant to prevent the coaster from rolling backward if the chain would break. So it would be better to worry if you don't hear it.
Fun fact the driver/park employer whoes on the Pagode when up high look over the forest to see if there are any smoke signs and then call the fire department several fires were spotted this way
We’re going every year to the efteling, but never did symbolica, because you have to wait very long and we don’t wanna wait 1/2 houres. Droomvlucht is also very busy, but this we do sometimes ☺️
The candy at the hotels arrival we call those 'Tum tum' here in the Netherlands. And i love going to the Efteling. I am going several times each year. Python was the first rollercoaster of Efteling. They renewed the whole track a couple of years back, because the track began to wear out.
11:45 she is correct but its logical, vekoma is the most regional wooden coaster builder...that is to say they only ever build 2 and both were shit and after this era.... they were however the european distributor of arrow coaster parts and through that got a deal to also install their own versions of basicly arrow coasters...hence the steel one was easy to get the wooden not so much, else it would have taken a bit longer before coasters were really much a thing here
Hey Charlie, love your channel mate! I'm from the UK in England, and you should def come as know you haven't been here-You think Efteling is great for Dark Rides-I know you know of Europa Park in Germany-now that park has already 12/13 Dark Rides already and not long been announced that they will be making yet another Dark Ride 😁 Dark Rides are my favs at Theme Parks, or when we get some in Museums as well. I'm from county of Kent, sure you heard of it as many famous people come rom that county like for example: Mick Jagger/Keith Richards cam from Dartford, Billy Idol-Bromley, Kate Bush-Welling, Gemma Arterton-Gravesend....etc
@2:10 ah don't sweat it Karel...it's a made up word anyway ;) in dutch the word makes somewhat sense because the suffix -ling .. means "in being of" so for example you could be a leer-ling (student/learner) or someone who is in the being of study, Efte-ling , the eft comes from the earlier farms name Erste-ling changed up, the original name meaning "in being of being first" with eft possibly a slight reference to the salamander (A male smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris)) named "eft" in older english and who has a bit of a dragonian appearance, but take that last bit with a good grain of salt because it might be just mere coincidence
Don't worrie about the parc, mate. Efteling is bound by very strict contracts, which dictates that ( I think it is 80%) of all ground must remain "parc" .. So even tho it's an amusment parc, they can not fill it all up with coasters and rides. ( if they wanted to) This is why the parc remains "green" all around.
@10:30 ... 1 i love that sound...then again i am an engineer... 2 ... they retracked it since, its buttersmooth now , its nothing special but i like it when a park takes good care of an old coaster
There's also tons of animals in the park...It has very diverse flora and a lot of water. Also maybe read up on how rollercoasters work. You're having some real irrational takes on them. That "sound" you keep attributing to failure, is a safety device to stop rollbacks when the pulling mechanism fails.
Did you know that the Pagoda, also in the US in operation was? In 1991 I visited Cypress Gardens in Florida (now Lego world). Back then there were 2 identical structures in the world, that one and the Pagode at the Efteling! If been both! So great! When you come to Holland we’ll like to show you all the best in the Efteling! Also the best snacks and food in the Efteling!
Omg I saw raveleijn the very first year and back then it was just sand. All the green and buildings wasn't built yet. It looks so good right now I have to go see it again! Btw there's a write that worked together with efteling to write a children's book that goes with the show (the show is the last battle in de book)
The Efteling might seem nice on the outside but it's a hell for the people that work there. I've worked there for 3 months and boy oh boy was i happy to leave. It's underpaid, has a bad work environment and you're literally treated like s**t. It's not only me that feels this way, it was all of my colleagues that had the same experience.
Meanwhile I work there for 5 years already, and it is one big happy family on vacation.. at least in my department.. who are always having a big laugh with each other and the guests. I get paid 20% above minimum loan and so much fun parties! Sorry to hear you had such a bad experience :o
10:44 honey believe me we dutch ppl have the best steel builders and biggest steel factory our rollercoasters are safer than those indian outland garbage or somewhere else i never heard a deadly accident with efteling with dead only wounded but the trains are checked every morning btw python had a whole new track 3 years ago
What are you saying? Efteling is like 3 times as big as plopsaland.. Plopsa also does feel very plastic and cheap.. (trust me, i worked there 2 months.)
@@bostieandres If it's so "plastic and cheap" then why has it won so many awards: Europe's Best Family Park, 6 diamond ThemePark Awards, Best European Coaster, etc... It's so famous it has parks all over Europe. I've worked there for over a year and i still love it!
Pleaae tell me you are going to the efteling and your gonna 'vlog' it. It doesn't have to be like this. But maybe make some kind of reaction video to your own footage and tell us what you thought. We, as a family, have the tradition to go to the efteling every year (which I've still continued with my girlfriend) and every year when driving up the parking lot watching 'de 5 zintuigen' (the entrance building) we still get overly excited!
Funfact! Not the whole forest is taken by the park, when you walk around you will see squirrles and bunnies everywhere! The bigger animals reside in the part of the woods that are untouched
@@ItsCharlieVest And the National Park 'Loonse en Drunense Duinen' is across the road in front of the Efteling Hotel.
A big area with sand dunes shaped by the wind, trees, heath and still wild! And well preserved.
Fun fact: the Efteling thanks its name to the village that was once here but 'disappeared' under the sand.
(Well, the farmers left after they lost the struggle against the moving sand that covered their lands.)
@@ItsCharlieVest If you are interested: You can find four completely different landscapes over a short distance of only twenty to thirty miles.
- Big rivers, wide, slowly flowing through endless lowlands. Farms with long stretching lands towards the river.
- Sand dunes with forest of oak and pine, dry heath, and a very different flora and fauna.
- Wet lands, where the water can only infiltrate into the sandy soil of the dunes, again with other kind of farming.
- Old forest landscape on the high grounds of Brabant with National Park 'Het Groene Woud' in development.
Well explained 👏 👌 👍
I am an expat living in the USA. I moved to the USA in 1979 at the age of 20. As I am getting older the nostalgia grows. Thank you so much for your videos about the Netherlands. It brings to me a genuine warm feeling and at times tears to my eyes. Thank you soooo much!
The happiness on this guys face is priceless. And I can confirm that the Efteling brings happiness to people of all ages. I've been to the Efteling countless times and I will always go on full-child-mode there (especially when I try to find a mushroom to sit on). No place on earth has that efffect on me except for the Efteling.
I hope you are able to go to the Efteling very soon :)
@@ItsCharlieVest do make a photo on one of the musical mushrooms. Almost everyone I know had that childhood picture. And my kids now as well.
@@toaojjc yeah right! And there's accually a whole collection of pictures in the small efteling museum (which is free to enter on the park btw) of people sitting on those shrooms even going back to the time of colorless pictures. Everytime i've been there I can watch a whole week of youtube content talking about the history and developement of the park!
As an old Dutch man who lived his whole life pretty close to the "Efteling", i have seen it grow from a children playground to the park it is now.
It started out (as i know it, because i'm not THAT old lol) as a kids playground with all kind of swings and slides, a huge pond where we could swim and get to row in a rowboat, a fairy tale area "sprookjesbos" where fairy tales came to life and a square called "Anton Piek plein".
When i was a child we were there often because it really was a place for kids to have the time of their life (and in those day's there wasn't much money). It began to expand because more and more people would go there and they could make huge amounts of money out of it.
In my experience, it WAS a cheap way of having a great family day when i was a little boy. Now the park has expanded to a pretty big themepark and prizes are as big as the park is ( i probably shouldn't say this, but it's almost criminal ). But i have to admit that it is still a magical and fun place to go to where you can have a great time, just bring all your savings with you lol.
As for the expansion of the park, Yes, all this used to be forest and dunes. Still there is a lot of forest around the park and the wildlife moved more or less to the "Loonse en Drunese duinen". It's located in the vicinity of the Efteling and is a wildlife reserve, so not to much worry about that. City's expand, nothing you can do about it. We live in a tiny little country with over 17 million people.
As i look at the "Efteling" now, it has grown into an huge moneymaking park where a lot of people have found a job and so it's good for the economy.
I still wish it could have stayed the way i remember it, but that's an old mans memory lol.
If you want to have a great time and have money to spare, you really need to come to the "Efteling".
The Efteling still wears the title "nature park" they lose this title if they more than 11% is used for something that's not nature related (so rules/laws about having the nature park title state ar least 89% needs to stay trees and bushes) also for every tree cut down an other one (or more) is planted and of course things need to stay safe if you get millions of visitors
10:32 the sound you hear is a safety mechanism that is working as intended, the clicking noisce can be heard by almost evry roller coaster, the mechanism prevents the train rolling backwards may the train stop at the lift hillm every click is proof that the little pins under the train are in the little slots on the lifthill
The efteling cares about nature,they can't build a coaster higher than the cannopy of the forrest due to "poluting the horizon" and there are tons of squirels,bats and other animals in the park
Fun fact about the show you’ve seen at the last part of the video, Raveleijn: my cousin works in that show. Every one (except him) speaks french and my cousin learned horsebackriding for the show on a horse simulator!
The python was indeed the first rollercoaster coming in the park. But they renewed it, because it was clanky . Now the ride is more smoother and better. Yeah I know you're learning dutch and you're getting better.
You're absolutely right. The second coaster was a wooden one called Pegasus which I really liked. Now they have "Joris en de draak" which is also nice.
I'm glad you like the Efteling
I hope when you go to the Efteling, that you also make a vlog or something to see your reaction......the best way to do the Efteling is in 2 days.
There are video's about the Efteling Fairytale Forest alone on youtube. You should check them out. You get to see a lot of the old fairytales in there. I haven't been to The Efteling in years but the Fairytale Forest was always my favourite part of the whole park. The details, the little fun things hidden in all the scenes. So much fun.
Efteling has always been my favorite park even when i was a kid im now 20 years old and when im going there i feel like 12 again the magic the music that feeling of being child again, every ride has hes own music and all the fairtale characters are made and designed by ton van de ven, this park is by far the most magical park ever it has 4 or 5 relms you have anderrijk marenrijk ruigrijk and reizenrijk, and ruigrijk is where python is the flying dutchman george and the dragon, the half mean, baron 1898, piranna, its so awsome you never get enough of it
the pagoda is not specifically representing an object or anything else. Its just an attraction that takes you like 20 meters up.
here some facts about the python
When the Python opened in 1981, it was not only the first roller coaster in the Efteling, but also the largest and most spectacular roller coaster on the European mainland. The steel roller coaster is now 36 years old and the Python has covered a total distance of 309,435 km in all those years.
Don't tell anyone but this cheery woman and her very child-like open experience of that park made me cry with nostalgia ... I never posted that as a reaction to her video
Charlie your pronounce those dutch words well. Nice to see someone who is interested in speaking dutch. Love your clips and your interest in our country and culture. Hope you will visite our country soon you will love it. But remember sometimes things look more special than they are you are watching the better parts. every country has his less better parts But even with those less pretty parts you will love Holland. So much more than what you see and much more to learn of its history. Hope to meet you here.
really happy that you looked at this , maddie knows how to express the feeling and ambience a lot. my 80s childhood was filled with efteling vibes.
I love The Efteling. I Go weekly to that themepark!
Apparently Walt Disney visited De Efteling in the 1950's when he was developing the first Disney Land Theme Park. It used to be mostly a green park with like fairytales in there... inspired and I believe also designed by Dutchman Anton Pieck (look up his artwork) ... then from the early 80's it also got like rollercoasters etc... The Python was then introduced.
You're right, Anton Pieck was involved from the start (1951)
The wooden roller coaster 🎢 isn’t actually made out of wood, it’s just put on the outside as decoration (Flying Dutchman Efteling).
I feel you with the rollercoaster 😂
I love your video's and I just love how much you want to learn about our little country
8:40 there are A LOT of wild animals living in the Efteling, you can see them everywhere. :)
4:02 yeah we have those, but not in every candy bag there is one
My beautiful, wonderful home park. Great theming. The experience starts when you park your car. The feeling of walking up to the house of the five senses with the music in the background is amazing, yet just a taste of what the day will have to offer. Good coasters for most of the family to enjoy, with great theming and storytelling. Masterclass darkrides (except for Carnaval Festival [not my cup of tea]). Lush and green forests. Fairy tale forest is fun for young and old and is the park's core (I spent nearly two hours there on my last visit). There are also other awesome scenic attractions like Villa Volta. I love the park's scale and I love walking from one attraction to the next. As the showbuildings look phenomenal and the coasters are enjoyable to watch offride (especially Baron). As an experience and total package, Efteling is basically heaven.
yes indeed, we drive on the right side, the UK on the incorrect side ;)
yes we have those white candies, and they are called: TumTum or TumTumetjes in multiply.... sorry for the bad English
Yes, an Effelthing upload😊🤘
There are already comments about the Python being the first coaster so I don't need to tell you that. But I jave another fun facr which almost nobody knows, learned it from my mothers nephew who was the ceo of the Efteling for years. Yeah free admission ;).
The Efteling hasn't just a hotel but also 2 different bungalow parcs and a special house where people with terminal sick or disabled children can stay to visit the parc. They only got building permissions for the bungalow parcs, which are build near and in the nature reserve next to the Efteling, if they agreed to maintain large parts of the nature reserve. The Efteling now maintains, at their own costs, about 75%of the forest, heath and moorlands in Kaatsheuvel.
Thanks for doing another series on this. this couple seems way more excited to visit the park. :) gotta have the right mindset when you go somewhere.
I love your vids on the Efteling. It's the best park ever. Sadly they are taking down Spookslot this year:( it is my favourite attraction together with Sprookjesbos. A video reaction of a walk through the Sprookjesbos (fairy tale forest) would be nice too!:)
My childhood, my mothers childhood, my "nieces' and nephwes childhoods.
4.02 we do have the white ones and they are the best as you said! Funfact: we call gumdrops tumtums in The netherlands
my mom grew up less then a mile from the Efteling, we went there alot when i was younger, the house my grandparents used to live in was visable from the pagode. sadly the house was bought by the local Albert Heijn and is now demolished.
5:00 so, they actually went out of their way to go to the main entrance. The hotel is all the way on the other side of the park and has it's own small entrance where you can enter the park half an hour earlier than regular guests. I have to say though, that entrance is not cool at all, while the main entrance is amazing.
8:00 actually the Efteling itself started as a 12 ha big sports park. The area around Efteling is still a nature reserve. The pagoda is the highest thing they're allowed to have because of this (skyline pollution) and they can't just keep expanding the park either. The park itself is very green for an amusement park as well, a large portion being the fairy tale forest, which makes it a much nicer place to be than other amusement parks.
9:00 Fata Morgana is one of the older attractions, opened in 1986. All the "animatronics" are done with tensioned wires of which the amount of pull is regulated by wheels which have the desired movement depth cut out of their circumference. No robotics.
10:00 Python was the first non-fairy tale forest attraction build in 1981. By todays standards the two loops and a corkscrew is a small roller coaster, but at the time of opening it was the largest in Europe. And yes, the wooden coasters came much later than Python.
12:15 dude, you actually pronounced stroopwafels correctly. Never heard an English speaker manage that before. Well done!
13:00 there was actually a TV series produced by Efteling to build up a story behind Raveleijn, with a bunch of kids going through a portal that sends them back in time and transforms them into full grown knights who have to save the village from dark magic. I felt the show itself was rather bland really, but when I watched it they hadn't done it very long yet and the choreography wasn't very well done. I hear they've updated the show since then. What I do love however is how Efteling always theme's everything to death. Look at the background of the Ravelijn area. That's actually the office space of the Efteling, but themed on the outside to look like a medieval village.
The music you hear at 09:16 is not from Fata Morgana or Efteling even, but from some Chinese guy. 😆
I loved how you corrected the "Stroohpwafel" into "Stropewafel". 😁
The clicking sound of the rollercoaster going up is your safety. If you hear that sound you know that the train will stay put when the lifthill chain will break. It happend in the past, that is why they made this roll back safety mechanism
The Efteling exists 70 years, and moreover it's nature with the theme park in it. The,Efteling finds it really important to keep very much green, loads of big trees, bushes, flowers etc. You see lots of animals, squirrels, birds, ducks, fish etc etc. Believe me, if you want to enjoy nature, the Efteling is the place to be. I love your video's, gonna check out your video's on your Dutch Classes soon. Keep it up, loving it👍❤️
Forgot to tell you, I have a subscription to the Efteling, and I try to go there twice a month, to get a good walk in and to enjoy nature, and some of the funrides. I always love walking through the Fairytale Forrest, and have a few stops and enjoy the way kids react to the features, especially the dragon, love how the little ones react 😱🤣😂. I live in a city named Tilburg, if I take the bus just outside my street, it takes me 10 minute busride and I'm there. Lucky me
fun fact. the pyton was the largest steel coaster in europe when it first opened.
fun fact, Raveleijn is also a tv series!
this park is my childhood. its so fantastic. hope you get to go one day
those candies you talked about are called tum tums in the netherlands. we do have white once as well i believe.
@@ItsCharlieVest ah nice.
The wooden rollercoasters are not built because there was a lack of material, they were built because it fit more with the theme of the park. You seemed to assume they're wooden because they're old. I can assur you, they are safe and well maintained.
It might have been already said so, but it started off as a ferry tale park, the bigger stuff like the Pagoda and the python came way later. I have fond memories as a child about this first part and I actually hope they are going to show some of the good stuff of it. It is true that the wooden rollercoasters came in later, but the Python was the first big attraction after the ferry tale woods. It is actually not that old
The safety regulations in the Netherlands for amusement parks with mechanical devices are very strict for their safety and are checked every year. greetings from South Holland
Toverland is another great themepark in the Netherlands, but on a smaller scale than the Efteling
Looking forward to their Winter Efteling video, it's the best one! 👌🏼✌🏼
We used to have a wooden coaster, it was called the Pegasus.
europa park has won the best theme park in the world for the last 6-7 years in a row maybe worth checking out 😊 but overall there are no bad theme parks or amusement parks in Europe at all you will have a great time at anyone of them
You should also listen to the soundtracks of the show and the attractions because those are sooo good!!!!!!!!
Interesting that you mention the sound the roller coaster makes when going up is worrying you, because that is actually what makes it safe. The coaster is being pulled up by a chain, and the rattling sound is sort of a hook that pushes down on a cogged rail, which you hear dropping after every cog, and that is meant to prevent the coaster from rolling backward if the chain would break. So it would be better to worry if you don't hear it.
Fun fact the driver/park employer whoes on the Pagode when up high look over the forest to see if there are any smoke signs and then call the fire department several fires were spotted this way
the rollercoasters made from wood are from wood on purpose because its the style of the ride
If you visit Raveleijn you can ask for a device that gives the dialogs of the show in English, Herman or French.
We’re going every year to the efteling, but never did symbolica, because you have to wait very long and we don’t wanna wait 1/2 houres. Droomvlucht is also very busy, but this we do sometimes ☺️
Great video
@7:50 lol they are mentioning they are going there right as you speak
Hey you make a lott Nice video's iam from the Netherlands and its funny to see what your reacts is and your awesome so new Subscriber for you👊🏻
i rode the python when i was 10 or so, i'm 45 now.
The candy at the hotels arrival we call those 'Tum tum' here in the Netherlands. And i love going to the Efteling. I am going several times each year. Python was the first rollercoaster of Efteling. They renewed the whole track a couple of years back, because the track began to wear out.
11:45 she is correct but its logical, vekoma is the most regional wooden coaster builder...that is to say they only ever build 2 and both were shit and after this era.... they were however the european distributor of arrow coaster parts and through that got a deal to also install their own versions of basicly arrow coasters...hence the steel one was easy to get the wooden not so much, else it would have taken a bit longer before coasters were really much a thing here
the raveleijn show also has a series on RUclips in Dutch
i live about 9 mies from there,....it's just around the corner.😁
Hey Charlie, love your channel mate!
I'm from the UK in England, and you should def come as know you haven't been here-You think Efteling is great for Dark Rides-I know you know of Europa Park in Germany-now that park has already 12/13 Dark Rides already and not long been announced that they will be making yet another Dark Ride 😁
Dark Rides are my favs at Theme Parks, or when we get some in Museums as well.
I'm from county of Kent, sure you heard of it as many famous people come rom that county like for example: Mick Jagger/Keith Richards cam from Dartford, Billy Idol-Bromley, Kate Bush-Welling, Gemma Arterton-Gravesend....etc
She is from england but its here first time driving in Europe haha
i stay there four 2 days with friendl, it was pure fun
@2:10 ah don't sweat it Karel...it's a made up word anyway ;) in dutch the word makes somewhat sense because the suffix -ling .. means "in being of" so for example you could be a leer-ling (student/learner) or someone who is in the being of study, Efte-ling , the eft comes from the earlier farms name Erste-ling changed up, the original name meaning "in being of being first" with eft possibly a slight reference to the salamander (A male smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris)) named "eft" in older english and who has a bit of a dragonian appearance, but take that last bit with a good grain of salt because it might be just mere coincidence
Don't worrie about the parc, mate.
Efteling is bound by very strict contracts, which dictates that ( I think it is 80%) of all ground must remain "parc" ..
So even tho it's an amusment parc, they can not fill it all up with coasters and rides. ( if they wanted to)
This is why the parc remains "green" all around.
@10:30 ... 1 i love that sound...then again i am an engineer... 2 ... they retracked it since, its buttersmooth now , its nothing special but i like it when a park takes good care of an old coaster
Lol they were literally talking about the pagoda.
There's also tons of animals in the park...It has very diverse flora and a lot of water. Also maybe read up on how rollercoasters work. You're having some real irrational takes on them. That "sound" you keep attributing to failure, is a safety device to stop rollbacks when the pulling mechanism fails.
Nice couple from England 😊
Did you know that the Pagoda, also in the US in operation was? In 1991 I visited Cypress Gardens in Florida (now Lego world). Back then there were 2 identical structures in the world, that one and the Pagode at the Efteling! If been both! So great! When you come to Holland we’ll like to show you all the best in the Efteling! Also the best snacks and food in the Efteling!
Omg I saw raveleijn the very first year and back then it was just sand. All the green and buildings wasn't built yet. It looks so good right now I have to go see it again! Btw there's a write that worked together with efteling to write a children's book that goes with the show (the show is the last battle in de book)
Uk is also Europe, but they feel to good to admit that.
I should go there again soon its been over 15 years for me and i live like less than 1 hour away from it
@@ItsCharlieVest yea funny how you show me whats happening around the corner here lol.
I was there last week haha
Thanks you did this one😊
You make very good video's greets from the Dutch
@@ItsCharlieVest sure i like all your video's, there are also 360° video onrides if you like.
You are a awsome guy.
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This is the Aquanura show from the Efteling
Enjoy the show Charlie.
Nice to see you read my comments.
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This is Raveleijn full show
Enjoy the show Charlie
The white ones from the candy are already eaten I think.
The Efteling might seem nice on the outside but it's a hell for the people that work there. I've worked there for 3 months and boy oh boy was i happy to leave. It's underpaid, has a bad work environment and you're literally treated like s**t. It's not only me that feels this way, it was all of my colleagues that had the same experience.
Than things must have changed a lot since my brother worked there. He worked several years there next to his study and loved it....
Meanwhile I work there for 5 years already, and it is one big happy family on vacation.. at least in my department.. who are always having a big laugh with each other and the guests. I get paid 20% above minimum loan and so much fun parties! Sorry to hear you had such a bad experience :o
Weet niet waar je werkte, maar het loon is gewoon prima en je krijgt en gratis abonnement, leuke feestje en presentjes.
Has changed a lot when i went there lol in the eighties with my son
Oh thought you were going to do the Winter Efteling by Maddie, but this is nice as well!! Thank you for doing this.
@@ItsCharlieVest Thanks :)
Luckily it was 't a nature reserve. It used to be a production dorst, used to make timber
Pagode its called that flying thing.
I like your videos! Maybe you can also take a look at another park in Europe like 'Walibi Holland' or 'Europa-Park'! :D
i've been in symbolica one of the most beautiful attractions I have I ever Done.
You should check out some vids of the hostage situation which happened yesterday in The Netherlands
When will you do a walibi review ;P
Also even better question when are you coming here to visit !
Johhny depp Oh no its Charlie
@4:00 everyone already took the white ones first...everyone knows those are the best.. the green ones are horrid
yeees when part 2?
Echt een leuke video
we also like the white ones! that's why there are no more left !
That is The pagoda
Dude, it's called Effelteen.
10:44 honey believe me we dutch ppl have the best steel builders and biggest steel factory our rollercoasters are safer than those indian outland garbage or somewhere else i never heard a deadly accident with efteling with dead only wounded but the trains are checked every morning btw python had a whole new track 3 years ago
We are going there this Saturday 😀😀 it's amazing there!
Can you react to toverland and walibi holland too?
You should react to Plopsaland, it's bigger, prettier and won the Best Coaster of Europe award
OMG YES, imo the best theme park of the Benelux
What are you saying? Efteling is like 3 times as big as plopsaland.. Plopsa also does feel very plastic and cheap.. (trust me, i worked there 2 months.)
@@bostieandres If it's so "plastic and cheap" then why has it won so many awards: Europe's Best Family Park, 6 diamond ThemePark Awards, Best European Coaster, etc... It's so famous it has parks all over Europe. I've worked there for over a year and i still love it!
@@lesliej.5612 That´s my opinion. It is a fact that Efteling is like 3x as big
I love Plopsaland, but it is definitely not bigger and prettier than the Efteling.
Pleaae tell me you are going to the efteling and your gonna 'vlog' it. It doesn't have to be like this. But maybe make some kind of reaction video to your own footage and tell us what you thought. We, as a family, have the tradition to go to the efteling every year (which I've still continued with my girlfriend) and every year when driving up the parking lot watching 'de 5 zintuigen' (the entrance building) we still get overly excited!