The big carroussel is inside, because it is over 100 yrs old. And the Efteling people are not "thrill ride builders", they're story tellers. And it shows. Nice to see you enjoy our Dutch park so much.

It's so refreshing to see this park from an "outsider". Most Dutch people just grow up with a regularly visit to the park so they see it as normal/the standard. But seeing it from a different perspective you really get to appreciate what kind of a special thing we have. Thanks for the extended video!

Glad you liked it. This park is really a national treasure and its almost like a theme park museum. Like 95% of all the Dutch visited at least once for generations. They dont like to replace rides here unless they really have too, but rather try to keep it as is and take good care of them to preserve everyones favorite childhood memories.

I could recommend any foreigner who goes to the Efteling to invite a Dutch person who knows a bit about the park. There is such a long history to the park and the rides, so many details you can easily miss on your first trip, many back stories to the rides that are only in Dutch, little Dutch delicacies to try out. (Why yes, i WOULD recommend myself, haha)

It sounds to me that Efteling is your favorite park in the world. Which I can totally agree with.

When Baron 1898 opened, some of my friends and I went to Efteling to do shrooms and go absolutely out of our minds on the new dive coaster. We ended up spending half the day in the fairy tale forest before going on an actual ride even came to mind. ;) I've been to many theme/amusement parks around the globe, but the unique weirdness, the fact about every ride has its own, unique story and a lot even have their own soundtrack, the amount of care they put in their operations, maintenance and creating a magickal atmosphere, the landscaping, design, the authenticity, history, natural elements and the location make it my number one theme park in the world to which I returned many times.

You know what, here's another fun fact; the entrance of the Efteling is named: The house of the 5 Senses. As you probably noticed it also has 5 spikes fitting with the name but the name mainly refers to the fact all your senses will get sparked Visiting the Efteling.

About the Fata Morgana: a lot of visitors say in there Vlog that they don't understand the Dutch languist from the animatronics. But they speak no Dutch but Arabic. I like your vlog. The first time i came in the Efteling was in 1955.

Like you said about the park being different with the seasons, You just absolutely have to try the winter Efteling, it makes the whole park even more magical than it already is. Every inch is winterthemed decorated, people singing carols, you can ice skate in the park and even more traditional dutch winter foods to complete the whole experience. Last year was my first time winter efteling and i felt the same magic from my first efteling visit when i was 5.

Efteling, it’s like a beautiful dream . Beautiful 🤩 Thank you for posting this 🙏

Oh man, I am so happy you truly enjoyed this park. It's made to enjoy and experience at a slower pace. Thrillseekers often seem to have a hard time, simply don't understanding and just being freaked out by the "weirdness". It's a different mindset I guess. Taking in the sights, having a picknick (you can bring your own food and drink from home, don't need to buy it in the park - although it's relatively cheap), getting lost. I can't imagine my childhood without wandering, and discovering. Peeking through all the toadstool windows and enjoying all the moments. So glad you also took time to do this, and not be as rushed as in the previous vids. Don't know if you've been to, or are going to Phantasialand. It's amazing as well, on the other end of the scale. High thrills and such. Either way thanks for these vlogs, they are very welcome in current times.

The place with the Snail Ride has its own little story attached that is hard to 'get' when you're not Dutch. It's more aimed for children as well, the entire area. It is the Land of the Laaf, the Laaf being a race of people who had been on the run from terrible oppressors and dug their way into Kaatsheuvel where they ended up at the Efteling. They met the children at the park and were immediately enamoured and decided to found a new village. The snail ride used to be a self-pedaling ride way back at the beginning. But people ended up stopping in the middle of the track and blocking the ride for others so they automated it.

Bob and a covid 19 free Efteling. Nostalgia 😍😍😍😍❤️

The thing I love about the efteling is how it really is a fun time for all ages... like if you're small you'll enjoy the fairytail forest a lot and if you're older all the rides are more fun...

Since you said you might like Villa Volta more knowing the backstory: It's based on the bokkerijders, or buckriders. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckriders Robbers who rode through the sky on goats. In the Villa Volta story they robbed a monastary and they were cursed to never feel at ease in their own home again.

Fun Fact about the boat rides 'Gondaletta' and 'Fata Morgana'. Fata was actually planned on the central lake in a different form. You would float around the lake and on the island you now go around there would have been the palace which you entered with the boat. After the dark ride part the boat would leave the palace again and return to the station. Tho the ride system was still kinda in development and the island was/is kinda protected for wild life. So they made 'Gondaletta' as a bit of a prototype and due to it's success it stayed as was. The continued developing the design (different boats etc) and used this for Morgana in a show building.

The story of villa volta: in the 18th century there was a group of criminals that called themself bokkenrijders (goat riders), they lived in that part of The Netherlands. In the first room you hear some people tell about how bad they are and an introduction of who they are. In the second room you see the leader of the bokkenrijders that tells this story: one day he and his group were in Belgium, it was getting late so they were looking for a place to stay that night. They saw the abby of Postel and went there. When they arrived there was no-one so they went in and started to rob the place. Suddenly a white ghostly woman was behind them and was very angry and warned about God and that they will get a lot of problems if they rob the place. Hugo (the leader) didn't care and kept going. When Hugo came home (Villa volta is his home) the woman was on the roof (the statue on the roof is her) and cursed the house. Zo everything starts turning etc. Only when someone with a clean conscience enter the house the cursee will dissapear. So Hugo asks the visitors to help him and enter the house.

I always have lunch in the boat. Half hour is about the perfect time for lunch ;-P

The Efteling is beautiful especially for people with eye for detail. It is a relaxpark, with lots of nature. So, The Efteling is in your top 5 of the world. Can you call your top 5 theme parks in the world on this moment?

Additional fun. The steam-engine caroussel was a thing the original owner/creators of the park wanted in because they were enormous fans of the things. When the park finally changed hands, one of the contract points was that it would always remain a maintained part of the park. And so it is one of the oldest, original and well-maintained steampowered caroussels around. The same building also houses a water-fountain musical show and a whole train diorama.

so i've been to the efteling atleast once a year since I was 3. and when I was about 5 years old, my dad forced me to go into spookslot (the haunted castle) and those few seconds of footage really brought me back to me, crying for the rest of the day, ruining the trip note: i've never been inside spookslot since. i'm 22

I love this vlog! I love it when people go to the Efteling for the first time. It is lovely to see their first reactions!

I can make my brother happy by just humming music from the Efteling. We love the music from Villa Volta and Droomvlucht so much.

Efteling is the pinnacle of Dutch theme parks. It's just amazing.

I see I need to go back there. It's been a couple of years and there is so much I haven't seen. Great to hear that you liked it so much.

Glad you enjoyed the park, especially glad you enjoyed the Fairytale forest, where some of my fondest childhood memories are. One of those coins pooped by the donkey was my dearest treasure. That was in the early 70ies . Last year went back with the next generation, great fun. That fast swing carousel is where one of the boys lost his lunch, after the third round ;-)

Did you know The Efteling is actually one of the oldest themeparks in the world? It opened in may 1952. That is three years before Disneyland had it's opening!

Doing Piraña at night time what a legend. Happy to see you enjoyed our park :D

Maybe not the most extreme rides, but then again.. It is not a thrillcoaster park, but a family orientated theme park. Glad you took more than one day for visit this park. One day is just too short on a busy day.

The sloaks you went one used to be self powered, you could ram into people😂

I know this park for more than 50 years now and I’ve seen it grow immensely. I’m very lucky, I live about 8 miles away from the park. Great you liked it very much.

Seeing people say they can’t understand the dutch in fata morgana😂 they don’t talk dutch in there it’s a multitude of different. Languages that no one really understands because they mingle together

Glad you enjoyed the park! Efteling allows visitors to bring their own food and drinks, so the Gondoletta boats are a perfect place to have lunch if you are with big groups, each boat a picknick basket and for twenty minutes you are (almost) sure no kids get lost. Great for schools! And usually they calm down during the ride and get manageable again.

The grudge against Bobbejaanland though 😆🤣

Had lots of fun watching you react to this park! Hope you will come back one day and do another video (or maybe two ;))!

Another interresting bit of info. The pre show on Baron is actualy spoken by a dutch actor called Paul van Gorcum. One of his roles he played was "de baron" in the dutch kid tv show of Bassie & adriaan. Rather the efteling chose Paul because of it or not it stays a funny fact!!

The boat ride is a great place to have lunch. You're allowed to bring your own food and drinks at the Efteling. You could eat it there, or on the picnic field.

I doubt I'll ever visit The Netherlands but if I did, I'd visit this park along with Toverland, Walibi Holland and Attractiepark Slagharen.

villa volta was also a prototype for all the other madhouses vekoma build like python i mentioned in part one but this madhouse is the brightest of them al

As you might have noticed from the comments... Dutch people are pretty damn proud of The Efteling. Here's another little fun fact about it. It's actually located in a nature reserve too. Hence why it's so green and why there's so many plants around.

7:31 I kinda disagree, if not for nostalgia then because the technique behind them is very interesting. Most of the animatronics do not contain any motors (the only exception being the larger aniamtronics). Instead the different moveable parts are connected to wires, which are pulled by a machine below the animatronic. The machine consists of a series of code wheels with rollers on them (similar to what you would find inside a music box). The entire stack of wheels is rotated, which causes the rollers to move up and down. These rollers in turn pull on the cables to move the animatronic. the movement of the animatronic is programmed in the shape of the wheels ^^

About the antique carroussel `that was neat` About a high five from Pardoes `THAT WAS AWSOME!!`

Nice vlog! Madhouse Villa Volta was the prototype. Nowadays Efteling doesn't do long Dutch preshows in new attractions, cause of the international public.

The Fata Morgana 4:47 and the DroomVlucht 12:27 are my favorite rides!

@23:40 in the left under corner you can see a seagull, basicly walking on a treadmill :). I always like seeing birds do that on those moving platforms.

So pre shows villa volta: 1st preshow: some towns people talk about a bandit group called bokkenrijders which terrorize the town. The narrator gives backstory about the bandits. 2nd preshow: the leader of the bokkenrijders, Hugo van den loonse duinen, tells how his gang robbed a chapel and he got cursed. The house that spins, is his curse.

Something that I appreciate is that some rides are based of off local legends and myths (even ones that are somewhat creepy). Despite it being a family park Efteling is not afraid to use those scary stories.

45:22 Although the steam carrousel was permanently installed at Efteling in 1956, it was actually built sometime around 1900 as a travelling fair carrousel.

Really great video of the park! I've visited it many times when I was younger and after seeing this I think I'm going to visit again whenever the new section of the park opens up in 2024. I think it replaces Spookslot (Haunted Castle) with Danse Macabre which is basically the new spooky themed section of the park, the stuff they showed looked really great tbh. Anyway, I hope you visit this place again!

Another fun fact, the singing of the Waling woman you hear at tunnel while walking by it actually is in sinc with the show before the lifthill. (Side fact) when you're watching the pre lift show your actually standing still on the transfer track.

I was here with a few friends a couple of years ago, but this video really makes me want to go back. It just looks soooooo good!

Efteling is amazing! I went to Disney for the first time in my life in fabruari and was a bit disappointed. I just love Efteling more. The music, the design, and allll the greenery and flowers. Also with kids, it’s really great they they have little playgrounds everywhere and places to just sit while kids are playing, because they can get tired of standing in lines all the time and just need to run around and swing for a bit or go on a carousel or something or run through the small houses in sprookjesbos without waiting in a line. I love that it makes it more relaxt

Best theme park in the world Efteling!!

Droomvlucht is not build by Translift, Translift only made the vehicles. The ride itself is made by BHS München Oh and the monorail is a Vekoma

I'm really sad that you didn't watch their show raveleijn, it's amazing and i saw it in it's first year when the decorations weren't even there yet. There's a robot dragon and people on horses that fight it. You can also buy the book of the story in the souvenir shop and there's a mini serie on KZfaq

The boatride on the lake was a test of the ridesystem for fatamorgana

Maybe someone told you already, but just in case they haven't: Story of Villa Volta. In the middle ages, in an area on the Belgium-Netherlands border called 'De Kempen', there once was a satanic band of thieves called the Buckriders. These guys would rob as they pleased, kill if they desired, and disappeared without a trace leaving only a goat's leg as a souvenir. Because of this, people believed they had made a pact with the devil and that they could ride across the sky on giant goats. Now the attraction tells the story of Hugo, the leader of his faction of the band. He tells that one night him and his men rode out across the moorlands, only for a single church to suddenly appear in the distance. They rode up, broke in, and were immediately bewitched by the piles and piles of gold and offerings on the altar. They were about to grab it when a white woman (another Dutch mythological being) suddenly appeared before him, warning him not to steal from God. Hugo, did not heed it. So as he returned back to his villa, he saw the lady standing on his roof, waving her arms as she cried: "Never again shall you find peace in your own home. Only if a man with the innocence of a newborn enters, shall your curse be broken." And that's where the people come in, invited by Hugo himself in the hopes someone can bring back peace to his house. (So far, no success.)

20:11 LOL I love how you get distracted

My most fave attraction is the Fata Morgana. I was 7 years old when I went to the Efteling for the first time and that was in 1992. It was the most beautiful attraction in that time and I never forget the feeling I had as a child when I was on that ride. I think the music of that attraction is still amazing! I also love the music of Villa Volta.

@37:45 Aha, with Hoegaarden Rosée! That is really good beer! 9/10 Definately not too sweet, you can still taste the main white beer that Hoegaarden normally is. I'd love to drink one again someday.

Ahh man you gotta come back one day for Max & Moritz i'm sure you'll absolutely love it! It really gives the Bob area an identity and the theming is incredible.

The octopus restaurant is in the place where there used to be an early 3d ("4d" movie) about wildlife, hence the overkill theming for a pretty standard restaurant.

24:45 I recommend eating your lunch on the gondoletta ^^

I have great memories of the bobsled in Efteling. Sadly it’s replaced, although it’s very unlikely that I will ever visit the park again. I always thought that the ticket price was high, until I visited parks in the USA… Efteling has a lot to offer for a fraction of the price.

I hope you get to come back and also visit the park show 'Ravelijn' with somebody who can fill you in on the story. The show is great and full of technique (dragon, fires, Ravens, horses..)

About Villa Volta. I guess not being able to understand Dutch makes it hard to follow the story. It's about Hugo from the Loonsche Duinen (an area of natural beauty nearby) who was part of a goatrider gang that plagued the nearby towns many years ago. One day he and his gang stole all the gold from a church. An angel tried to stop him, but he laughed the angel away. When he came back to his estate, he saw the angel again. The angel had cursed his house. "Nowhere here, nor in the entire world, will you find peace until one with the pure conscience of a newborn baby enters this house." The pre-show is basically Hugo begging the visitors to enter the house to see if they are pure enough so the curse can be lifted. And of course, the curse hasn't been lifted and we get to experience all of it. ;-)

1:40 Hate to say, but Bob is gone ;-; From 20th of June and on, this will be a powered coaster (or actually 2): Max and Moritz

So some of the heat against the teacup ride (monsieur cannibale): The ride features a large caricature african canibal with a bone through its nose, cooking the guests for dinner. Besides that caricature representation of african tribal life it is also in French which only emphasizes the colonial views of africa. There are actually also some dubious implications in Carnival Festival, Fata Morgana and Piraña with complete misrepresentations of cultures, but who the hell goes to the efteling for that anyways, besides there are a lot of european caricatures as well. Hope this info is interesting to someone :)

There is also a winter efteling. So freaking awesome.

's-Hertogenbosch my lovely city

Fun fact. I assume it's been said before, but just to be sure: The Spookslot relies on pneumatics (cilinders by Martonair Pneumatics). I personally love the uses of Pepper's Ghost.

Great video’s you make! (:

Did you know that there are 3 ride storys in symbolica? And did you see in the flying dutchman the leftover of the fire in the secret hallway...and you also smell the fire?

i dont like how the hover preview is the ticket being swallowed by the large sailor man

Well they gave Fata Morgana a big maintenance back in 2018. Where they gave alot of the Animatronics new cloths and update the lightning to led and renewed alot. They said with doing all that it doesn't need another big maintenance in 6 years from then.

I think you missed one really nice dark ride named 'Droomvlucht' (translated: Dream-flight), I think you would've loved it. (it was on the same square as 'Villa Volta' and 'Ravelijn' (pronounced: Rah-vuh-line).

The Crazy Mouse at the end lol :P

32:58 This is 'Polka Marina', and it is actually a Vekoma tracked endless tirepowered coaster, doesn't this count as a coaster credit?

34:36 So cute. Romantic .

Please come back and make a new video. I love your efteling vlog.🐉🌳🍄🧙🏼‍♂️

Efteling is amazing. Even us Belgians like it much more than the Belgian theme parks. It's also even better if you speak Dutch :)

Walt Disney was inspired by the Efreling to create Disneyland.

Great vlogs!

1:32 Haha, een Bobbejaan-ticket in Ollebolle Gijs :)

I absolutely love the Efteling, even though I haven't been there for 20 years now, I will go back some day. But your equipment needs an update. It's too dark on the inside footage and the sound is very quickly distorted when there's a bit of volume

Probably someone already mentioned this, the backstory of the madhouse villa volta is based on a dutch/belgian folk etymology of the buckriders and it's focussing on the leader of the raiders which tarded faith and will never get rest in his house en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckriders

Didn't you see the Indian waterlily, girl with the matchsticks, black and white swans, little bird and Chinese emperor, Cinderella? Feels you only seen half of the fairytale forrest.

If you ever want to know anything about this park i know everything there is to know and i would really like to help you 😁

Psst dude you missed the show called raveleijn. Although dutch spoken even a foreigner as you self would have got the gist of it

7:39 the language spoke is actually Arabic not dutch because Fata morgana is arabian themed. I can't understand the language either. However I wonce whent to efte with arabisch speaking people and they translated some for me.

Actually, the talking in Fata Morgana isnt in dutch, but in arabic i think

Dude!., Villa Volta was the WORLDS first MADHOUSE! Check out your theme park history! Sadly you didn't even realise you had another awesome "theme park" credit!? Now that I'm ranting. (apologies). Pagoda works on a counterweight, NOT A CRANE ARM! oh!, by the way, the Halve Maan is the largest swinging boat ride in the world, also a super credit.🌼 Here in the Netherlands, we love Efteling.....We don't have a storybook forest. Instead, we have the worlds oldest fairy tale forest, based on the fables from Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson. Disney was inspired by Efteling. xxx So next time you see sleeping beauty...remember the prince didn't just kiss the sleeping beauty, he totally ...... ? Toto you are not in Disneyland. You are in Efteling 😎🧡

I wonder if Phantasialand or Europa Park were on your bucket list. Did you put this into a Playlist?

Last time i checked the swing is the largest in the world

villa volla is about robbers. They rob a church when the leader feels a slim hand on his shoulder. The woman told him to leave everything and go home. They went home, but took the stuff with them. When the leader came home, the woman was stanf i ng outside on his toof. Saying only a person with a pure heart could lift it. Thats the spinning you do in the main room. Thats the curse.

Fun tip. Eat some shrooms before visiting Efteling.

Swish bob is gone. Sadly. Its being replaced by a family coaster.

Villa volta's story is about a leader of a bandit gang during the 18th century, and he robbed an abbey, a woman showed up and spoke to him to put everything back and leave, he didn't he and his men left with gold chalices and silver candlesticks, one day later he returned home and the eoman stood ontop of his house, she cursed his house and himself due to violating gods house, so he and is house won't be at peace untill a person without sin enters his house willingly, then his curse shall be lifted.

Can anybody tell me what song is being played at 22:50? Thnx!

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