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Efteling+Bob


Mitchada04

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Although we were at Efteling for 2 days and the evening of Baron's opening I didn't take that many photos of the park. And of Bobbejaanland I took like 5 in total, so this report will have a Bob ending. Random fact, the name works because Efteling has a ride called Bob.

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We arrived at the village, checked in a walked to the park for one reason. It was 7pm, park closed at 8. Let's ride Baron I guess.

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First impressions, it is gorgeous. It's not a ride, it's a piece of architectural art! It looks great.

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Was kinda expecting it to look a bit bigger though, but I was open minded to the mini dive machine

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Unsurprisingly it had a queue of 60 minutes (as we waited for front too which was nice, they let everyone in that queue ride in that row although trains were going out with just one row being used towards the end)

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It was very slow moving. They hadn't quite grasped 3 train op on it so the next two days only ran 2.

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But it was pretty

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Nearly there! The whole queue is outside with inside all being preshows.

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Was alright. Story and experience great, ride just missed some punch.

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Detail was ridiculous

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Bird invading my photos.

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That night we went into Kaatshuvel, nothing was open bar one very nice kebab shop. After we went to the Efteling Hotel because their bar was still open. The guy in there was great and it looked like a nice hotel! We were in the village though, quite a walk but nothing bad.

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Next morning we went on the pagoda thing.

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Lovely area

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Coaster central

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I really liked this. Simple yet clever

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Vogel Rock entrance, great little indoor coaster with effects and fab music

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This show with a huge animatronic!

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Lunch at an amazing pancake place! Also had amazing profiteroles!

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More dragons

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Very rude to keep yawning though.

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This is the worlds largest pirate ship. Doesn't matter though, I've done Europes largest the day before so didn't see the need.

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Flying Dutchman <3 was really surprised by this ride!

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Sploosh

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More Baron

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Wood

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And a bigger fountain show!

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So much water

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Baron told us we were running late the following morning, especially after Peaj left Bucky in the room and we'd checked out.

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It's all I took photos of really

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This was the village entrance. Went back after our final day for dinner

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Josh loves napkins.

So that night we went to the last hotel place. Had a free breakfast in the morning which was a cheese, meat and bread platter. Better than nothing!

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Rode this not so good ride

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Was just dragged out after the first loop

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Looks a mess too

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And here is broken Kong who found Bucky. Wish I'd taken more photos at Bob now as it would have made such a good sarcastic report. Possibly the oddest park I've been too... Oh well, that concludes Belgerand for me. Next up I've no idea, Wales :P

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So Bob was a bit of Bob I guess?

Efteling though looks eftcellent, how was the pancake place btw (I hear it's fab)?

Did you check out the fairytale forest?

What did you think of the park's dark rides Droomvlucht, Fate Morgana and Villa Volta (does it beat Hex?)

I'm excited when I get out here in November (hopefully the start of my creaking in to Europe more). What tips would you give when visiting?

I think I'm a but more excited for the pancake shop over Baron, just a little bit.

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Bobbejaanland has lots of rides, they're just all a bit meh.

 

Efteling is alright. I wasn't a massive fan of the park, yes very good but not OMG AMAZING. Lots of great themed rides, but areas don't really exist. Pancake place was amazing! So nice, and the centrepiece is great too.

 

Fairytale Forest is huge, no joke. Took us nearly 2 hours to see it all. 

 

Dark rides were good, Droomvlucht very good, Fate very good, Villa Volta eh didn't leave too much of an impression on me. The omnimover themed around the clown was cool.

 

Tips, can't say really park was quiet the whole time we were there and because we had 2 full days we literally just wandered around doing stuff as we saw it.

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We got to do it twice although it was only open from 1-5:30. First time was full ride and the speiling in Dutch so we got the general jist of it. Second time there were us 4 and 2 French so the guy did it in English meaning we understood the story a lot more and got the humour! The ride is good, works brilliantly as Part of the whole experience. Really varies though depending on where you sit, too far forward you miss the edge effects to far back you miss the front screen effect. But very good ride overall!

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