Netherlands: Efteling Opens New Hotel & Redesigned Theme Area in 2024
The Dutch Efteling theme park is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year and is looking to the future with confidence despite the current pandemic-related closure of cultural and leisure facilities in the Netherlands. The plans are comprehensive: in 2024, Efteling wants to open a new, seven-storey hotel with two restaurants and a wellness area, which is to be built right next to the main entrance on the park grounds and will add further accommodation capacity to Efteling‘s existing two holiday parks and two hotels. In addition, construction work will soon begin to completely redesign a theme area of the park – a project, which is also scheduled for completion in 2024. The theme area is located between the “Pardoes Promenade“, the “Baron 1898“ dive coaster (by B&M) and the “Max & Moritz“ family roller coaster (Mack Rides). As part of this redesign, a new indoor attraction with an expected capacity of 1,250 pph will also be built, for which the existing “Haunted
Efteling’s CEO Fons Jurgens explains: “[…] The investments for the next two years fit in with our vision for 2030: our goal is to remain independent and ensure quality for future generations. We did not take the decision to make these investments lightly, because the pandemic makes many things uncertain. But it‘s important to look ahead even in these times and make sure that Efteling remains a wonderland for the young and the young-at-heart.“
Find out what new attractions the European leisure facilities already have in store for their visitors this year in our Park Report, which will be published in the upcoming March/April issue of your EAP magazine. (eap)
