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Just coming back to this thread now having booked the interrail passes for my group last night! I'm getting quite excited now! Does anyone have information on the shuttle bus that runs from Lyon to Walibi Rhone-Alpes? The walibi.fr website says that there is one that runs Tuesday-Thursday, but when I press on the booking section it says there are no tickets avaliable for whatever day I press. I've also found a tripadvisor page for the bus company that runs the shuttle but the link on their website takes me to the same booking one that the Walibi site takes me to (which looks like it hasn't been updated since the parks halloween event). Also, do any of you on here know anything about the GuestHouse Hotel in Kaatsheuvel for when we're going to Efteling. I've been looking at their BunkHouse Room 4 + Efteling Package Large deal (3 nights in a 4 person room as well as 2 days Efteling entry included) for the dates we're going to be there and it's cheaper than any other near by accomodation with the Guesthotel price of £69 a night per person also including the 2 theme park tickets per person with all the other local accomodation doesn't include. I'm always slightly sceptical of almost too good deals like this seems to be so was wondering if anyone has stayed there and can let me know if there is maybe some kind of catch that comes with all of it?

A quick google told me that it does, but then don't trust everything google says. I'll defo double check that now!

Hi all! After discussing the plans through again with my mates we have come up with a revised plan. We have tried to keep days with very little traveling to allow us to rest for the majority of the day and have also chosen to do multiple days at some theme parks. What does everyone here think of this new version of the plan? Day 1: Eurostar to Paris Day in Paris AirB&B/hostel in Paris Day 2: Paris AirB&B/Hostel to Park Astrix (1.15 hours by bus) Parc Astrix Park Astrix to Paris AirB&B/Hostel Same AirB&B/Hostel (leave bags there) Day 3: Paris to Lyon (2 hours) Afternoon/evening in Lyon AirB&B/hostel in Lyon Day 4: Lyon to Walibi Rhone-Alpes (shuttle bus service Tuesday-Thursday) Walibi Rhone-Alpes Walibi Rhone-Alpes to Lyon Same AirB&B/Hostel (leave bags there) Day 5: Lyon to Rust (6.5 hours) Evening in Rust AirB&B/hostel in Rust Day 6: Rust to Europa Park (walk) Europa Park day 1 Same AirB&B/hostel in Rust (leave bags there) Day 7: Europa Park day 2 Same AirB&B/hostel in Rust (leave bags there) Day 8: Rust to Cologne (5 hours) Afternoon/evening in Cologne AirB&B/hostel in Cologne Day 9: Cologne to Phantasialand (1 hour) Phantasialand Day 1 Same AirB&B/hostel in Cologne (leave bags there) Day 10: Phantasialand Day 2 Same AirB&B/hostel in Cologne (leave bags there) Day 11: Cologne to Essen (1 hour) Day in Essen AirB&B/hostel in Essen Day 12: Essen to Movie Park Germany (30 mins) Movie Park Germany Same AirB&B/hostel in Essen (leave bags there) Day 13: Essen to Amsterdam (3.5 hours) Afternoon/evening in Amersterdam AirB&B/hostel in Amsterdam Day 14: Amsterdam to Walibi Holland (2.5 hours) Walibi Holland Same AirB&B/hostel in Amsterdam (leave bags there) Day 15: Amsterdam to Tilburg (2 hours) Afternoon/evening in Tilburg (music scene????) AirB&B/hostel in Tilburg Day 16: Tilberg to Efterling (1 hour) Efterling Day 1 Same AirB&B/hostel in Tilberg (leave bags there) Day 17 Efterling Day 2 Same AirB&B/hostel in Tilberg (leave bags there) Day 18: Train Tilberg to Brussels (2.5 hours) Afternoon/evening in Brussels AirB&B/hostel in Brussels Day 19: Brussels to Walibi Belgium (1.5 hours) Walibi Belgium Same AirB&B/hostel in Brussles (leave bags there) Day 20: Brussles to Dunkirk (2.5 hours) Afternoon/evening in Dunkirk AirB&B/hostel in Dunkirk Day 21: Dunkirk to Plopsaland De Panne (1 hour) Plopsaland De Panne Same AirB&B/hostel in Dunkirk (leave bags there) Day 22: Dunkirk to Calais (1 hour) Eurostar to London

Cool, thanks for the tips! I'll make Poland and Spain and maybe like the Scandinavian parks (Liseberg etc.) all seperate trips in the future allowing for this summer to be more relaxed and managable. When doing multiple days at the same park what would the suggestion be for accomodation. I would assume the best idea would be to stay in a cheap AirB&B or something nearby rather than staying at the hotel at the theme park, but then at somewhere like Europa for example, would the hotel be part of the experience that I don't want to miss out on even if it costs a lot more?

Ok, that definitely looks like a fun plan! Thank you for the help. Is there one park there you would maybe suggest skipping so that we could potentially go to Energylandia for one or two days instead, as I really want to go there as well as I’ve been told that Krakow (and Auschwitz if we are up for it) are places that are 100% worth visiting. Do you think that would be a good idea to add on to this trip as a replacement for something else, or maybe make Poland another trip in the future?

Thank you everyone for the words of advice! Seems I have been a little optimistic with my plans then... I'm very much a person who once they get an idea in their head wants to do it all at once, thus why I tried to plan as many big parks as possible (it took my friends a while to convince me we wouldn't be able to do 6 differnt US parks in two weeks...). Would you guys then reccomend that we decided to do all the Northen France, German, Belgium and Dutch parks this trip then (and maybe throw in Energylandia too as I really want to ride Zadra) and save Portaventura and Parque Warner Madrid for another trip in the future? The maybe slighyly unreasonable thought here was to take a rucksack and a overhead locker size bag each with about a weeks worth of clothes in and then book an AirB&B with a washing machine and dryer once every week so we could clean our clothes. While out and about the plan was just to leave them in the place we were staying if we can and if not rent a locker while at a theme park or just carry them with us while on the train. We did consider driving, but as all 4 of us will be 18 and not wanting to do 3+ hours of driving in a row it would be very very expensive to either insure all of us on someones car or practically impossible to rent from somewhere so we could share the driving (also completely ignoreing the fact one of my mates decided to learn in an automatic for some silly reason). I'm also quite excited by the idea of interrailing after looking into it lots, the idea of exploring lots of places in Europe by train really interests me for some reason even though I'm not normally the type of person who enjoys travelling by train that much I have been using coast2coaster yeah, it's been a very useful tool! It has made me realise that Europe is a lot bigger and harder to get around than that website make it look however, it's quite amusing when the journey from a city to a park that look quite close on the map turns out to be 2-3 hours. I did not expect that I'll be honest, from looking at coaster details on RCDB Europa park looked like it would be a one day park for me as lots of the coasters are more family orientated, which don't overly interest me. Although I have heard the atmosphere there is very good, so maybe that's something I've overlooked when planning which parks to go to.

Not 100% sure if this is the right place to ask for advice on this so feel free to move if needed. Hi everyone, I'm currently in the stages of planning a theme park trip round Europe for the summer next year to celebrate finishing my A-levels with some of my friends. This is the first big theme park trip that I've planned so I'm not fully sure on how to do things and was thinking that people on here might have some advice for me! Currently we're thinking that the trip will be 3 weeks long, beginning after the last contingency day in the last week of June, and are planning to visit 9 parks (10 if you count Portaventura and Ferrari Land as seperate). I'm hoping that we will just about manage to miss some of the school holidays in Europe so that the parks aren't too busy; but then I have no idea when other schools across the continent finish for summer. The plan budget wise is to spend about £2000-2500 per person (there are 4 of us) and we are definitly happy to cheap out in some cases (e.g. going in hostels for cheap accomodation), because at the end of the day it's going to be money that stops us going. Below is the rough outline of what we are hoping to do, but I am absolutly open to any suggestions for changes of any size to make as like I said I've never done something like this before so I don't really know what I'm doing. (Just to specify on a few bits: We are planning to get 21 day youth interrail passes, any travel time below not specified with a mode of transport is by train) Day 1 Eurostar London → Paris Day in Paris AirB&B/Hostel outskirts of Paris Day 2 Paris AirB&B/Hostel → Parc Astrix (1.15 hours by bus) Parc Astrix → Paris AirB&B/Hostel Same AirB&B/Hostel (leave bags in AirB&B/Hostel) Day 3 Paris→ Madrid (4 hour flight) Day in Madrid AirB&B/Hostel in Madrid Day 4 AirB&B/Hostel in Madrid → Parque Warner (1.5 hours by bus) Parque Warner Madrid Parque Warner→ Same AirB&B/Hostel (leave bags in AirB&B/Hostel) Day 5 Madrid →Barcelona (4 hours) Evening in Barcelona AirB&B/Hostel in Barcelona Day 6 AirB&B/Hostel in Barcelona → Port Aventura (2 hours) Morning in PortAventura (10.30 -> 18.00) Evening in FerrariLand (18.00 → 22.00) Ferrariland → same AirB&B/Hostel in Barcelona (2 hours) Day 7 Barcelona → Lyon (5.5 hours train) Evening in Lyon AirB&B/Hostel in Lyon Day 8 Lyon → Walibi Rhones-Alpes (1.5 hours) Day in Walibi Rhones-Alpes Walibi Rhones Alpes → Lyon (1.5 hours) Same AirB&B/Hostel in Lyon Day 9 Lyon → Freiburg (6 hours) Afternoon/evening in Freiburg Day 10 Freiburg → Europa Park (30 mins bus) Day in Europa Park Europa Park → Freiburg AirB&B/Hostel Day 11 Freiburg → Brussels (7 hours) Some time in Brussels Brussels → Ghent (40 mins) Stay in Ghent Day 12 Ghent → Plopsaland De Panne (1.5 hours) Day in Plopsaland De Panne Plopsaland De Panne →Same AirB&B/Hostel in Ghent Day 13 Ghent →Amsterdam (2.5 hours) Day in Amsterdam AirB&B/Hostel in Amsterdam Day 14 Amsterdam → Wallabi Holland (3 hour) Day in Walabi Holland Wallabi Holland → Same Amsterdam AirB&B/Hostel Day 15 Amsterdam → Cologne (4.5 hours) Evening in Cologne AirB&B/Hostel in Colgone Day 16 Cologone → Phantasialand (1 hours) Day in Phantasialand Phantasialand → Cologne Phantasialand to same AirB&B/Hostel in cologne Day 17 Cologne → Berlin (5 hours) Evening in Berlin AirB&B/Hostel in Berlin Day 18 Berlin → Krakow (8 hours) AirB&B/Hostel in Krakow Day 19 Day in Krakow Day 20 Krakow AirB&B/Hostel → Energylandia (1 hour) Day in Energylandia Energylandia → Krakow AirB&B/Hostel Day 21 Krakow → London Flight Things to be booked in advance big time: AirB&Bs/accomodation Flights Interrail pass Train seat resevations (especially eurostar) Theme park tickets

Here on park today. It is very very busy. Got on the first train of the day for hyperia for it to break down when we were on the break run after our ride. The train in the station was then sent into the maintenance shed not to be seen again; still running one train now and boasting a 200 minute queue. Glad I got my ride early!

That seems to be the opposite of what I've been experiencing with Inferno recently (although I haven't been to the park in a while). Last 2 times I've ridden Inferno, the ride hosts have been great, giving countdowns until the train leaves making the operations brilliant. I remember going earlier this year and the trains not stacking at all, and having similar experiences last year with very little stacking too. I wonder what has changed since my visits that has slowed everything down so much?

Not sure what I think about the pricing, even with the passholders discount on the mazes (I'm assuming they're doing that this year, although I haven't looked yet) paying about £8 each for 4 mazes is quite a big asking price for me. Although, I don't think I'm going to be able to make it this year, which I'm really disappointed about, I always look forward to my yearly FN trip. But then I guess it's partly my own fault for making myself so busy over the October holidays...

Not quite sure this is the correct thread, but a bit of a thought related to some of the discussions above. Do we think that the closing of the Passholders group earlier this year was a kind of pre-empting of these budget cuts were starting to see now. Closing the group probably did very little in the money aspect, but would maybe still mean they have to employ one or two less staff members to moderate the group, In addition, maybe the park knew that these cuts were coming and closed the group in advance so they didn't have to respond to the backlash from these changes as much. Closing it longish before the cuts also makes it seem that the closing of the group wasn't to avoid people voicing their probably negatice opinnions. I'm 99% sure I'm reading into this too much, but oh well might as well see what you guys think.

I'm 6ft4" and have always been fine with the rides. Hardly ever stopped due to the fact that I'm tall and the one time I've been measured on the Swarm all was good. Have fun on your visit!

Probably due to staffing, IIRC I think the single rider queue needs an extra staff member for batching.

That’s a real shame, really enjoyed checking the group over closed season for the updates. What was the intended purpose for the group if anyone knows cause it seems a shame for it to go?

Hopefully they do something with that area over closed season. Although there is the massive possibility that since the viewing platform has been scrapped Thorpe think that there is no need tidying the lake area up as no one is really going to see it/pay too much attention to it due to the 7ft fence in the way…