Top European theme park to close its on-site hotel next year for major revamp

A THEME parkland successful Europe, which is often dubbed the "Dutch Disneyland" by visitors, volition adjacent its on-site edifice adjacent twelvemonth for a large revamp.

Located successful Kaatsheuvel successful The Netherlands, Efteling features implicit 30 rides and attractions, including Danse Macabre, its latest ride.

The Efteling Hotel volition unopen its doors connected January 6, 2025, and volition stay closed until mid-April.

This is due to the fact that large renovation works volition beryllium taking spot connected the crushed floor.

When the taxable park's edifice reopens successful the spring, it volition beryllium renamed Efteling Wonder Hotel.

The news of its impermanent closure comes aft respective of its rooms were renovated successful 2021 and its exterior was fixed a makeover successful 2023.

Earlier this year, the Dutch taxable park caller themed suite astatine the edifice - its archetypal caller summation successful 8 years.

The Droomvlucht Suite was inspired by a thrust astatine the theme park.

It has capable abstraction to sleep up to 5 people, with a immense four-poster bed, bunk beds and a magical sleeping area.

The fairytale theme proceed wrong with flowers and trees built throughout, arsenic as good arsenic a "Swamper keyboard" kids tin play.

Also wrong is simply a backstage bathroom, java instrumentality and mini fridge.

The suite starts from £555 per night, moving retired to £111 per person.

Prices see meal and two-day passes for Efteling.

Nicole Scheffers, Director Park & Resorts commented: "With the opening of the Efteling Grand Hotel successful 2025 connected the horizon, we wanted to presumption our precise archetypal edifice adjacent much clearly.

"The Efteling Wonder Hotel stands retired from our different overnight enactment locations done beardown theming.

"The hotel, with its boundless wonder, is our precise ain floating castle of fairytales."

Last month, Efteling opened a new haunted Danse Macabre ride to coincide with Halloween.

The caller thrust was portion of a €35million (£29.2million) concern by Efteling.

Located successful Huyverwoud Forest - a caller themed country successful the parkland - the thrust is simply a ample turntable, which is topped with six smaller turntables that tin accommodate 108 visitors each time.

The ample turntable volition rise, fall, twist, crook and tilt similar a spinning coin, earlier falling level to people the extremity of the ride, with its thrust strategy thought to beryllium a world-first.

Day tickets for Efteling for anyone implicit the property of 4 scope from €38 (£31.80) to €51 (£42.60), depending connected the time of visit.

Kids nether 3 spell free, with discounts for schoolhouse trips and larger groups.

To get to the park, Brits tin hop connected a Eurostar service from London St Pancras, and past thrust an hr from Amsterdam.

Otherwise flights to Eindhoven are astir £14 with Ryanair, with the parkland astir 30 minutes by car.

The fairytale taxable parkland hopes to grow its offering adjacent much successful 2025 with the opening of a caller "royal gazebo".

We've recovered an affordable taxable park which you tin get to by bid from the UK, which precocious revealed it's caller dinosaur themed ride.

And here's the tiny taxable parkland successful the mediate of a city which was said to person inspired Disneyland.