Efteling is just amazing. When i visited, my jaw was on the floor walking round the park. I'd never seen anything like it. The rides are so immersive and everything is thought about. The staff are so friendly and even the operations are incredible. Baron 1898 is a level of theming i wouldn't even associate with a rollercoaster, absolutely amazing park.
we bought the annual pass at efteling because not only can you go to efteling when you like but you get free days and discounted days in MANY parks across Europe
Brilliant vlog! That's how I like a park enough people for atmosphere but not that busy that the wait time for the rides is ridiculous. Looking forward to tomorrow's xx
Thank you. And I completely agree, honestly had the best time. The next vlog after the day 2 one was Walibi Holland, that was a very different experience 🙈
Interesting video, we were there that Saturday too. The single rider queues, work well, but as they only fill single seats, can be a bit of a wait. On our day, most normal queues where 40-50min. We did get distracted by the two pancakes restaurants. The day went so quick, even with the late opening. Do love Efteling overall, fantastic park.
loved this park when I went early this year, never managed to get on fata morgana. loved the fairytale forest and my favorite rides was Baron, flying dutchman, symbolica and joris en de draak
It is a brilliant park. I went last year and thought it was ok. But on a second visit it really stood out. Such a beautiful park. And the day 2 vlog that’s out on Sunday focuses on the entertainment which I don’t normally do but again they just did an amazing job 😀
I just went to Efteling last week, and all three days there was only one train on the track at Python. All these days the lifthill was faster. My guess is that they rather have you 'wait' on the lifthill than in the braking section when there are two trains on the track. With two trains the boarding and unboarding of the train usually fits in the time the other train is going around the track.
Lovely, very interesting park that other parks should take a leaf out of. Put a couple of really modern coasters added to the line up and it would be a bucket list park for everyone rather than just a must visit for enthusiasts. They must be spending a pretty penny on adverts on the radio at the moment, jeez I've just got back from Skegness for a few days and it was on LOTS😆
im sure with the extention of the park a new coaster will be build, but it probably wont be a 'modern' coaster just for the sake of it. the efteling is about storytelling and any ride will be themed just like at disney, the quality is on par if not better. just visit it, im sure itll change your opinion.
Great Vlog. Love Eftling, such a stunning park. In terms of the on ride filming I believe you can film on all rides as long as your camera is on a chest mount. We had no problems filming on anything with the chest mounted 360 earlier in the year.
Your "Joris en de Draak" and "Vliegende Hollander" pronunciation are nearly flawless, I'm quite impressed with your dutch inflection especially your dutch G (IPA: ɣ). The vowels in Droomvlucht tends to get butchered on every english vlog of the Efteling, but you got pretty close. The dutch "oo" is like the english "oa" (as in roam) and the "u" is like the english "u" (as in under). So it's more like Droamvluhɣt. I found it really brave of you to try and pronounce "achtienachtennegentig" (1898) (eighteeneightandninety)
Love Efteling, + yeah should of at least have subtitles for: Villa Volta or have what they have at Fairytale Forest a board telling you what it is/what it is about in English..... But if you didn't know, i is based on the legend of the buckriders, a fierce and merciless gang of robbers that was active in the Kempen in the Dutch provinces of North Brabant (where The Efteling is located) and Limburg and the bordering Belgian provinces of Brabant and Limburg. It was told that they had made a pact with the devil and flew through the sky on the backs of goats. They would mark the doors of the farms and houses where they would come and rob the place to warn the inhabitants. Villa Volta is supposed to be the home of the leader of the goat riders, Hugo van den Loonsche Duynen, who inhabits the second waiting room as an animatronic. The house and Hugo were cursed by a mysterious woman after robbing the Abbey of Postel. She can be seen on top of the house swinging her arms on the wind. The woman tells Hugo: “Nowhere in your house, nor in any other place in the world, will you find peace. Only when a noble person with the clear conscience like that of a newborn child enters your house will you find peace in your home and in your heart.” Look forward to your next video 😎
Great park Efteling was there at New year and again Spring Bank week, currently sat in hotel car park 2 mins from Walibi Belgium doing one of your wordsearch books before setting off back for Eurotunnel
If you think you struggled, me and my family were there Monday to Friday, 9am-9pm and it was scorching most of the days 😭We all really loved it tho, glad to see you enjoyed too ❤
The lift hill for Python is so slow so they can run two trains. There is only one brake run, so the next train can only crest the hill once the previous train is in the station.
Interesting. I assumed the brake run and station were seperate block sections, so one could be in the station and one on the brake run. But I guess not 🙂
@@coaster_dadyou are both correct in some way but Efteling decided this solution doesn't give guests the feeling they have to wait in the break section for almost 1,5 minutes wasting time until the 2nd train leaves the station. You now waste that same amount of time on the lifthill to give you the illusion of constant movement. Fun fact: People get less impatient and irritated this way. That's why. 😉
And I love the slow lift hill, anticipation, looking around. Really a ready for every age. Great family coaster. You could say the pagoda should go up in 10 seconds, and it is very slow... but slow is good.
@pmvdmeulen I agree with you on the Pagode that makes sense because it’s all about taking in the views. And yeah you can do that on Python too. It’s just not something you normally go on a coaster for 😉
@@coaster_dad To the Efteling is the slow lifthill a great idea... For lots of kids, the Python is there first looping rollercoaster and they are already shaking in the when they stepping in... The lifthill was always this speed, because it´s the old one from 1981, they retrack the rollercoaster, but not the lifthill, breaking system and station. When you look well you see the old and new track.
I loved Efteling more when it was more a park with less coasters and less asphalt. I love the white gondola boats. Haven't been in a more lovely park, although I would like less (thrill) coasters.
Why do all the English speaking people so upset about the slow lift of the Python? Maybe they kept that in there, because that's part of the nostalgic ride..?? It never bothered me.
Literally never heard of this park until now but it looks incredible and definitely somewhere I’d want to visit! Will you be including other European parks ie terra mitica in Spain?
Not sure what’s next. I want to do a road trip round Germany next year and for Europa Park, Phantasialand and Movie Park. But I’m sure I’ll get to many more places 😀
At the risk of sounding like a little Englander are they maps/ride descriptions in English. Remember years ago at Tivoli world going on a ride called wonderland. Thinking oh this must be something like the Alice in wonderland at Blackpool. It wasn't it was a roller coaster. Still remember my dad screaming on it
they atleast used to. i worked there from 16 till 18 in the summer season and weekends. i still remember being sent home at 11pm when the park was open till midnight on saterdays in the early 2000s because i was 17 and therefor wasn't allowed to work till midnight.
Well I agree efteling is beautiful and I love efteling and I enjoy it going there and I cant wait take to my future wife there Disney did visit efteling Well also if you look at staff members badges they show flags to at what languages they speak You can film with a chest mount I have never ever had problems with that, wrist mounts or selfie sticks I know aren't allowed I love baron it has such great scenery Python chain is slow to build up the anticipation I know that keeps rider time down Joris is great just shame the dragon doesn't work anymore Flying Dutch man scenery is great and dreamflight aka droomvultch i love the music and scenery But enough of me rambling on efteling is my happy place
@coaster_dad it's just alot of walking but you do get your steps in for a full day there lol But I agree with ehat was said that uk parks need to up there game on scenery but we both know it won't happen
Honestly, you're pronounciation is teribble but gave me a chuckle so don't feel too bad ;) Villa Volta is supposed to be the home of the leader of the goat riders, Hugo van den Loonsche Duynen, who inhabits the second waiting room as an animatronic. The house and Hugo were cursed by a mysterious woman after robbing the Abbey of Postel. She can be seen on top of the house swinging her arms on the wind. The story is that her curse can only be lifted by a innocent soul and that's where you come in.
It's a nice park but if check trip advisor for reviews the disability access is shockingly bad . Went for two days first one not that busy queue for dark rides are long. Disabled are forced to wait less said about the second day . For Dutch parks try Toverland an Walbi
@@whoknew2273 I'm not sure what you're talking about, most rides have a disabled entrance, often by using the exit. And they even slow down or stop certain attractions during the ride in order to let disabled people get in and out. If it's not possible to attend a attraction physically they provide a VR experience at Villa Volta en Droomvlucht, I'd say they go pretty far out of their way to accommodate disabled people in comparison to other places. And the having to wait as a disabled person, I think that has to do with a pretty recent rule change so they can't ask for a medical disability authentication any more because of privacy, in my memory disabled people getting in via the exit line always got in pretty fast. What happened next, some people often teens abuse the system and try to skip lines that way, so if they make them wait like everyone else hopefully that stops the abuse. On the other hand one might ask how bad is it if disabled have to wait just like everyone else? I mean if it's so important to be treated no different being disabled than everybody else (which I agree with) why do you need only special treatment when it suits you? It's either one or the other imo.
Who pissed in your cornflakes? This take is ridiculous. I'm sure the disability access could be improved in many ways, but it is _not_ terrible, and the park oozes substance as well as style.
@@captainchaos3667 Calm down I for one have been to this park as so as many other Disabled families and have encountered the discrimination with access to the rides .
Efteling is just amazing. When i visited, my jaw was on the floor walking round the park. I'd never seen anything like it. The rides are so immersive and everything is thought about. The staff are so friendly and even the operations are incredible. Baron 1898 is a level of theming i wouldn't even associate with a rollercoaster, absolutely amazing park.
Completely agree!
A park on my bucket list! So many top tier rides and attractions!!
It’s a beautiful park
we bought the annual pass at efteling because not only can you go to efteling when you like but you get free days and discounted days in MANY parks across Europe
Awesome. I have a Blackpool Pleasure Beach annual pass and it’s the same. And my second day at Efteling was free because of that 😀
Lucky!! Me and my family loved Efteling but we live in the UK and it took 2 days (staying in France overnight) to get there
@DoodleJess06 Jeezo 🙈
Brilliant vlog!
That's how I like a park enough people for atmosphere but not that busy that the wait time for the rides is ridiculous.
Looking forward to tomorrow's xx
Thank you. And I completely agree, honestly had the best time. The next vlog after the day 2 one was Walibi Holland, that was a very different experience 🙈
Lovely vlog. You have such nice energy! Love it.
Thank you very much 🙏 I'm glad you enjoyed 😁
Interesting video, we were there that Saturday too.
The single rider queues, work well, but as they only fill single seats, can be a bit of a wait.
On our day, most normal queues where 40-50min.
We did get distracted by the two pancakes restaurants.
The day went so quick, even with the late opening.
Do love Efteling overall, fantastic park.
It sure is. 😀
loved this park when I went early this year, never managed to get on fata morgana. loved the fairytale forest and my favorite rides was Baron, flying dutchman, symbolica and joris en de draak
It is a brilliant park. I went last year and thought it was ok. But on a second visit it really stood out. Such a beautiful park. And the day 2 vlog that’s out on Sunday focuses on the entertainment which I don’t normally do but again they just did an amazing job 😀
I just went to Efteling last week, and all three days there was only one train on the track at Python. All these days the lifthill was faster. My guess is that they rather have you 'wait' on the lifthill than in the braking section when there are two trains on the track. With two trains the boarding and unboarding of the train usually fits in the time the other train is going around the track.
Yeah I believe you’re right. A few people said the same 😀 hope you had a good visit!
Nice place good vlog thanks look forward to part 2
Thank you. Part 2 just went live an hour ago 😀
@@coaster_dad 👍
Lovely, very interesting park that other parks should take a leaf out of. Put a couple of really modern coasters added to the line up and it would be a bucket list park for everyone rather than just a must visit for enthusiasts. They must be spending a pretty penny on adverts on the radio at the moment, jeez I've just got back from Skegness for a few days and it was on LOTS😆
Ha ha. It is a beautiful place! 😀
im sure with the extention of the park a new coaster will be build, but it probably wont be a 'modern' coaster just for the sake of it. the efteling is about storytelling and any ride will be themed just like at disney, the quality is on par if not better. just visit it, im sure itll change your opinion.
SO here for this ❤
It’s a lovely park huh 😀
The lifthill is like a Block section so they can have 3 trains when needed.
Oh do they have a third train? I assumed just two 🙂
Great Vlog. Love Eftling, such a stunning park. In terms of the on ride filming I believe you can film on all rides as long as your camera is on a chest mount. We had no problems filming on anything with the chest mounted 360 earlier in the year.
Aye they were totally fine with chest but not wrist mount. Hope you and the family are well buddy. 😀
@@coaster_dad we're all good mate, hope you and yours are too 🙏
Your "Joris en de Draak" and "Vliegende Hollander" pronunciation are nearly flawless, I'm quite impressed with your dutch inflection especially your dutch G (IPA: ɣ). The vowels in Droomvlucht tends to get butchered on every english vlog of the Efteling, but you got pretty close. The dutch "oo" is like the english "oa" (as in roam) and the "u" is like the english "u" (as in under). So it's more like Droamvluhɣt. I found it really brave of you to try and pronounce "achtienachtennegentig" (1898) (eighteeneightandninety)
Hey I’ll take that. Thank you 😀
You can use the music from the carnavalfestival as torture. Tadata tadata tatadaaa
😂😂 don’t. You’ll get it in my head.
Love Efteling, + yeah should of at least have subtitles for: Villa Volta or have what they have at Fairytale Forest a board telling you what it is/what it is about in English.....
But if you didn't know, i is based on the legend of the buckriders, a fierce and merciless gang of robbers that was active in the Kempen in the Dutch provinces of North Brabant (where The Efteling is located) and Limburg and the bordering Belgian provinces of Brabant and Limburg. It was told that they had made a pact with the devil and flew through the sky on the backs of goats. They would mark the doors of the farms and houses where they would come and rob the place to warn the inhabitants.
Villa Volta is supposed to be the home of the leader of the goat riders, Hugo van den Loonsche Duynen, who inhabits the second waiting room as an animatronic. The house and Hugo were cursed by a mysterious woman after robbing the Abbey of Postel. She can be seen on top of the house swinging her arms on the wind. The woman tells Hugo:
“Nowhere in your house, nor in any other place in the world, will you find peace. Only when a noble person with the clear conscience like that of a newborn child enters your house will you find peace in your home and in your heart.”
Look forward to your next video 😎
Ah thanks. Yeah I’d heard that story before but totally forgot it 😂
@@coaster_dad Well, it was a very good reminder then lol
When is part 2 of the Efteling video out??
@mikekaraoke part two on Sunday. Then Walibi next week.
if you understand dutch its a really really good story, it makes a fitting atmosphere.
Go back for danse macabre
Awesome transport links
Can get busy some great rides
I will go back 😀
Great park Efteling was there at New year and again Spring Bank week, currently sat in hotel car park 2 mins from Walibi Belgium doing one of your wordsearch books before setting off back for Eurotunnel
Aw thank you. Have a great trip!
If you think you struggled, me and my family were there Monday to Friday, 9am-9pm and it was scorching most of the days 😭We all really loved it tho, glad to see you enjoyed too ❤
Yeah it was the 3am start that killed me. Travelling always exhausts me. 🙈
The lift hill for Python is so slow so they can run two trains. There is only one brake run, so the next train can only crest the hill once the previous train is in the station.
Interesting. I assumed the brake run and station were seperate block sections, so one could be in the station and one on the brake run. But I guess not 🙂
@@coaster_dadyou are both correct in some way but Efteling decided this solution doesn't give guests the feeling they have to wait in the break section for almost 1,5 minutes wasting time until the 2nd train leaves the station. You now waste that same amount of time on the lifthill to give you the illusion of constant movement. Fun fact: People get less impatient and irritated this way. That's why. 😉
4:55 Well... the chain was actually speed up. Imagine how slow it was before 😅
Oh wow. How’s that possible. Did it go backwards before 😂😂
And I love the slow lift hill, anticipation, looking around. Really a ready for every age. Great family coaster. You could say the pagoda should go up in 10 seconds, and it is very slow... but slow is good.
@pmvdmeulen I agree with you on the Pagode that makes sense because it’s all about taking in the views. And yeah you can do that on Python too. It’s just not something you normally go on a coaster for 😉
@@coaster_dad To the Efteling is the slow lifthill a great idea... For lots of kids, the Python is there first looping rollercoaster and they are already shaking in the when they stepping in... The lifthill was always this speed, because it´s the old one from 1981, they retrack the rollercoaster, but not the lifthill, breaking system and station. When you look well you see the old and new track.
@Yochemm yeah I noticed the difference 🙂
I loved Efteling more when it was more a park with less coasters and less asphalt. I love the white gondola boats. Haven't been in a more lovely park, although I would like less (thrill) coasters.
Interesting. I thought it had just the right mix. Not too thrilling but not too kiddie either 😀
The lifthill is slow because there are 2 trains on the track
Yeah I just assumed they’d hold the second one in the brake run at the end 🤷♂️ apparnetly not 🙂
This gorgeous park is next on our list to book. Hopefully 2025.
You will have a blast. It’s so nice! 😀
Why always not thinking why lifthil is slow.., to allow 2 traines
I just assumed they’d use the brake run to hold a train 🙂
Why do all the English speaking people so upset about the slow lift of the Python? Maybe they kept that in there, because that's part of the nostalgic ride..?? It never bothered me.
It didn’t bother me. I just found it weird and a bit funny. 🙂
Literally never heard of this park until now but it looks incredible and definitely somewhere I’d want to visit! Will you be including other European parks ie terra mitica in Spain?
Not sure what’s next. I want to do a road trip round Germany next year and for Europa Park, Phantasialand and Movie Park. But I’m sure I’ll get to many more places 😀
@@coaster_dadfab… look forward to the videos if you decide to vlog them!
Villa volta has english outside
Ah I missed that 🙈
At the risk of sounding like a little Englander are they maps/ride descriptions in English. Remember years ago at Tivoli world going on a ride called wonderland. Thinking oh this must be something like the Alice in wonderland at Blackpool. It wasn't it was a roller coaster. Still remember my dad screaming on it
The website has most things translated, the fairytale forest has everything in multiple languages and some rides have subtitles in the preshow 🙂
@@coaster_dad thanks yeah googled it and found the website looks a lot there. Don’t mind coaster but hate ones that have inversions.
Do they employ kids like the UK theme parks to avoid paying minimum wage or do they have adult staff and pay a decent wage?
No idea what they pay but all adult staff from what I could see.
they atleast used to. i worked there from 16 till 18 in the summer season and weekends. i still remember being sent home at 11pm when the park was open till midnight on saterdays in the early 2000s because i was 17 and therefor wasn't allowed to work till midnight.
On your wife's hesitancy wrt rides, i take a travel/seasickness tablet & that helps me enormously, perhaps that would work?
It’s definitely worth a shot 🙂
Well I agree efteling is beautiful and I love efteling and I enjoy it going there and I cant wait take to my future wife there
Disney did visit efteling
Well also if you look at staff members badges they show flags to at what languages they speak
You can film with a chest mount I have never ever had problems with that, wrist mounts or selfie sticks I know aren't allowed
I love baron it has such great scenery
Python chain is slow to build up the anticipation I know that keeps rider time down
Joris is great just shame the dragon doesn't work anymore
Flying Dutch man scenery is great and dreamflight aka droomvultch i love the music and scenery
But enough of me rambling on efteling is my happy place
It’s a beautiful place for sure 😀
@coaster_dad it's just alot of walking but you do get your steps in for a full day there lol
But I agree with ehat was said that uk parks need to up there game on scenery but we both know it won't happen
Honestly, you're pronounciation is teribble but gave me a chuckle so don't feel too bad ;)
Villa Volta is supposed to be the home of the leader of the goat riders, Hugo van den Loonsche Duynen, who inhabits the second waiting room as an animatronic. The house and Hugo were cursed by a mysterious woman after robbing the Abbey of Postel. She can be seen on top of the house swinging her arms on the wind. The story is that her curse can only be lifted by a innocent soul and that's where you come in.
Glad I made you chuckle 😂
Family Theme all style and no substance , not forgetting the terrible Disability access for the rides
I can’t speak to the disabled access. But the park is beautiful with the perfect ride line up for the target audience 🙂
It's a nice park but if check trip advisor for reviews the disability access is shockingly bad . Went for two days first one not that busy queue for dark rides are long. Disabled are forced to wait less said about the second day . For Dutch parks try Toverland an Walbi
@@whoknew2273 I'm not sure what you're talking about, most rides have a disabled entrance, often by using the exit. And they even slow down or stop certain attractions during the ride in order to let disabled people get in and out. If it's not possible to attend a attraction physically they provide a VR experience at Villa Volta en Droomvlucht, I'd say they go pretty far out of their way to accommodate disabled people in comparison to other places.
And the having to wait as a disabled person, I think that has to do with a pretty recent rule change so they can't ask for a medical disability authentication any more because of privacy, in my memory disabled people getting in via the exit line always got in pretty fast.
What happened next, some people often teens abuse the system and try to skip lines that way, so if they make them wait like everyone else hopefully that stops the abuse.
On the other hand one might ask how bad is it if disabled have to wait just like everyone else? I mean if it's so important to be treated no different being disabled than everybody else (which I agree with) why do you need only special treatment when it suits you? It's either one or the other imo.
Who pissed in your cornflakes? This take is ridiculous. I'm sure the disability access could be improved in many ways, but it is _not_ terrible, and the park oozes substance as well as style.
@@captainchaos3667 Calm down I for one have been to this park as so as many other Disabled families and have encountered the discrimination with access to the rides .