✨ Visiting EFTELING for the FIRST time! | The most MAGICAL theme park!! | PART 2

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We are visiting Efteling for the first time! Welcome back for part 2 visiting the most magical theme park! We absolutely ADORE this park and got season passes so we can go back and visit regularly over the next year. While we weren't able to get to every ride or see every experience on our first trip, we will share future vlogs as we go back and visit this beautiful park in the Netherlands! Today we check out Droomvlucht, Vogel Rok, Joris en de Draak, the Sprookjebos fairytale forest, and Aquanura! Enjoy!

In case you missed part one, you can watch it first here:

Feel free to let us know all about your experiences at Efteling, your favorite hidden gems in the park, etc. We love hearing about it in the comments.
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[romy]

I’ve been binging video’s of people from different countries going to de Efteling. As a dutch person who’s been there so many times and grew up with de efteling, its SO fun to watch people’s first impressions 💜

[SuperDutchjohn]

You SHOULD come back, since you already missed the in my eyes best attraction De Vliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman), the theming is on another level in that one and the station is maybe the most beautiful I have ever seen, thumbs up from the Netherlands and I subscribed!

[quixoticsounddesign]

De Efteling was created based on the work of Anton Pieck, a popular artist and illustrator at the time, who has a distinct romantic/nostalgic style with a special eye for the old and time-worn. He designed the fairytale forest, and his work continues to guide the designs of the newer rides as they all have to roughly conform to the same style. Walking in de Efteling in supposed to feel like you are walking into one of his illustrations; a cobwebbed and candle-lit pastoral world where folk history and fantasy meet. The beauty of de Efteling is the degree to which they have always stayed committed to this vision down to the smallest detail.

[RichardRenes]

Efteling in the dark is always something special. From about late October, it will be dark around 6 p.m., so you can see the water show in it's full splendor. Also, the fairy tale forest is nicely lit after dark. The park is open every day of the year so make the best use of that. Just try to stay outside weekends and holidays.

[hellen__]

Yust discover you both today. And great you did go to the Efteling. I have been there many times. And for sure you have to go back . Because there is alot more to see that you have missed . Greetings from the Netherlands

[henkfranken]

Great vlog of a great park!!

I love the way that the park is set up. It's not all alone about the rides, but they create a complete fantasy world all around. Wherever you go, you always see amazing or surprising stuff. And it's all in the details as well... 😊😊🙂

[sannie]

Another awesome video guys thankyou!❤

Droomvlucht means dreamflight indeed😁

[Swinsify]

i can relate to Romy, watching this as a Dutch person, enjoying people finding and/or discovering the efteling is amazing.
Enjoyed your discover videos and im actually quite impressed you managed to find something transelations to English, even tho Efteling actually is one of the few parcs (besides disney) that also uses english transelations normally.

Unfortunatly your visit is pretty much right in the "maintenace season" of the parc, unfortunatly!
I absolutely enjoyed it here and hope you visit other parks in our country...altough they are not anywhere near what the efteling is!

Also; Spookybos? - Hilarious lmao! actually transelates to Fairy-tale forest

Some intresting facts;
The dustbins are called "Holle bolle Gijs " which roughly transelates to Big ol fast Gijs (bit akward really)... but its a great invention on which Gijs repeatedly says "papier hier" which means "paper here". teaches childern to dispose their waste at Gijs rather then throwing it in the parc, making it clean. Its a big invention made by the parc to remain as green as what the efteling is trying to be. Lots of greenery, and A LOT of regulations on what the parc is allowed to do. They have to maintain a percentage of the parc nature and is not allowed to decrease. For rough example; lets say the parc has 40% of nature and 60% of buildings. Efteling is not allowed to build more than 60% if that means the 40% of nature is taken away. If they are to build above the limit they will have to remove pieces of the parc and transform it to a nature part. Pretty interesting really.. Netherlands also has a building height ban which means they have to request a lot of permits if they were to build alot of stuff up. Pretty sure parc like phantasialand also have these restrictions.

[thaqueenofchaos]

When I do the boat ride I usually buy a meal at the Toko (where you also bought lunch) and then eat it in the boats. Perfect and seating guaranteed which is also dry during the rain :D

[fried]

You really need to do the flying dutchman. Imo the best ride of the park. That indoor darkride section is incredible.

[aka]

Never heard of Efteling before, but looks like a great funpark. Cute and funny and lots of rollercoasters. A park much to explore and based on fairytales. Great! Something different than Disneyland. By the way, that thing your husbad ate is called a Nougathörnchen in Germany. I wish you more a great time and lots of amazing explores here in Germany and in Europe, wehre ever you go!

[DickvanderVelde]

Not just the cake scent, a lot of the rides are scented to enhance the experience.

[TTHBLOX_]

Another great video of non dutchies exploring the Efteling! Glad you loved it

[Nickery]

atractive video ... thnx for that, and ofcourse ..both of You always welcome again here in the Netherlands 🙂

[ilsekuiper]

You should come back and see aquanura when it is dark. More magical in the dark. You went into sprookjesbos, also fairytailforest. All of the fairytails are known by everyone i think. At back of Pinoccio you can see Gepetto. Loved your vlog again 😊

[KeiHard]

Very great video! Growing up close to Efteling meant going each year once or twice at least, and now that I'm older and visit more parks most feel underwhelming compared to Efteling 😅 Almost all attractions have such beautiful fairytales behind them. Even the rollercoasters like Joris en de Draak, for which the tale goes that there was a big dragon close to a village that ate a sheep everyday. On some day, the sheeps were all eaten and the dragon started eating young girls from the village. The king of the village did a lottery every night to decide which girl should be eaten, until the day the lottery picked the name of his own daughter. That's when he decided to ask people in the village to conquer the dragon. One tried it with fire, one with water. In the end, Joris managed to kill the dragon with wisdom.

[chubbymoth]

It was nice that you found the "Sprookjesbos"at the end of the day. Next time try to go for the older parts of the park that to my idea are still the best. When it was build in the 1950's, labour was relatively cheap, so the amount of detail is insane. It is the only theme park, I never have gotten bored with and enjoy returning to.

[peterdonecker]

Really love your videos😊 You don't waste time and try to discover as much as possible in a very short period of time

[sannie]

"De vliegende Hollander" / "The Flying Dutchman" is really cool

[Solar.Goddess]

You would have loved the Flying Dutchman. Also the watershow is best when its dark.