We spent the day at Europa Park, a big amusement park on the border of France and Germany that divides itself into sections by European nations. We rode all but one of the roller coasters and a bunch of the other rides.
The highlights:
- A space-themed ride that was a copycat of Space Mountain and traveled inside of what looked like the Epcot dome. Unlike the American version, though, it had pumping techno music and tons of cool laser effects.
- A ride themed around the Mir space station (in the Russian section of the park), which was a lot like the Space Mountain ride at first, with crazy techno and lasers, then opened up into spinning cars around big mirrored pillars.
- A roller coaster that our German friends said was the tallest in Europe..or something like that. We couldn’t figure out if it was still the tallest, but it was pretty tall and impressively fast.
- Super elaborate boat rides for each region of the park, including an expansive pirate set-up and a Russian scene that looked like the “It’s a Small World” ride
- Prices that weren’t absolutely crazy – we got lunch for both of us for like 7 euros. This is no Six Flags.
-The lines too were impressively short – no wait longer than 40 minutes, and very efficient boarding/unboarding.
- Tasty deep-fried doughnuts and cotton candy…
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