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Duck debacle: colossal canard creates controversy in Voorhout
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Duck debacle: colossal canard creates controversy in Voorhout

Dutch News  

What’s roughly three metres tall, wouldn’t look out of place in the Sprookjesbos in the Efteling, and has created plenty of headaches for officials in one small local council? It’s Le Canard Fabuleux, a bronze duck statue scheduled for installation in Voorhout’s Park Molentocht later this year. We are not going to interfere with the choice of this statue.” In …

Park Duck Local Council Le Canard Fabuleux Voorhout Keizer
Duck debacle: colossal canard creates controversy in Voorhout
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Duck debacle: colossal canard creates controversy in Voorhout

Dutch News  

What’s roughly three metres tall, wouldn’t look out of place in the Sprookjesbos in the Efteling, and has created plenty of headaches for officials in one small local council? It’s Le Canard Fabuleux, a bronze duck statue scheduled for installation in Voorhout’s Park Molentocht later this year. We are not going to interfere with the choice of this statue.” In …

Park Duck Local Council Le Canard Fabuleux Voorhout Keizer
Daytime attractions receive more visitors again due to sunny weather
1 year, 4 months ago

Daytime attractions receive more visitors again due to sunny weather

NL Times  

Daytime attractions in the Netherlands have become much busier now that the weather is sunny again. It's finally not raining, and we're noticing that," said a spokeswoman for the amusement park De Efteling. Efteling also expects high visitor numbers in the coming week if the nice weather continues. Furthermore, beach bars will probably also get busier again after a dramatic …

Dutch amusement park going viral on TikTok
1 year, 5 months ago

Dutch amusement park going viral on TikTok

NL Times  

Amusement Park Hellendoorn has significantly increased its visibility on TikTok. The park's videos regularly reach 50,000 views, and often approach one million, with some reaching up to 3 million views. With a total of 25 million views, this small park in the middle of the province of Overijssel is outshining other parks, such as the Efteling and even Disneyland Paris. …

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Efteling to check disabled access cards more strictly due to abuse
1 year, 7 months ago

Efteling to check disabled access cards more strictly due to abuse

NL Times  

Amusement park Efteling will scrutinize the use of special access cards for people with disabilities more strictly after reported abuse. The pass can be downloaded from the Efteling site, and young people are abusing it to skip the lines for rides, one mother told Omroep Brabant on Saturday. Sandra’s daughter Kyara has Down Syndrome and uses the special access card …

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Tourist attractions and nature sites are getting ready for Easter weekend
1 year, 9 months ago

Tourist attractions and nature sites are getting ready for Easter weekend

NL Times  

Amusement parks are preparing for the Easter weekend, the traditional opening weekend of their high season. Dutch infrastructure agency Rijkswaterstaat also expects more traffic on the road throughout the Easter weekend, especially on Easter Monday. The major causes of traffic jams during the Easter weekend will likely be the Keukenhof and the Designer Outlet shopping center in Roermond. The Easter …

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Summer sightseeing in the Netherlands: our favourite tips for tourists
2 years, 4 months ago

Summer sightseeing in the Netherlands: our favourite tips for tourists

Dutch News  

The Netherlands is a great place for a summer holiday, and you get to avoid the crowds at Schiphol as well. I spent a substantial chunk of my childhood summers in the theme parks that populate Southern California, so I actually get wistfully nostalgic for standing in long lines in the hot sun just to get zipped around while surrounded …

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Summer sightseeing in the Netherlands: our favourite tips for tourists
2 years, 4 months ago

Summer sightseeing in the Netherlands: our favourite tips for tourists

Dutch News  

The Netherlands is a great place for a summer holiday, and you get to avoid the crowds at Schiphol as well. I spent a substantial chunk of my childhood summers in the theme parks that populate Southern California, so I actually get wistfully nostalgic for standing in long lines in the hot sun just to get zipped around while surrounded …

Netherlands
Efteling, Beekse Bergen to keep using time slot bookings
3 years, 3 months ago

Efteling, Beekse Bergen to keep using time slot bookings

NL Times  

Theme park Efteling and safari park Beekse Bergen will scrap most coronavirus restrictions when the rules relax on Saturday. "Because as an industry we are a hundred years behind," Kees Klesman of Club van Elf said to AD. Efteling will use the time slots to limit the maximum number of visitors in the park. "We are keeping the time slot …

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Controversial Cannibal-themed Efteling statue should be in Rijksmuseum: Heritage group
3 years, 4 months ago

Controversial Cannibal-themed Efteling statue should be in Rijksmuseum: Heritage group

NL Times  

Heritage association Bond Heemschut wants the statue of the Efteling attraction Monsieur Cannibale to be given a place in the Rijksmuseum. The heritage association stated that the statue is of value for future generations because Monsieur Cannibale and the discussion about it illustrate "how quickly the discussion about racism and colonial thinking is changing in the Netherlands today." Director Karel …

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Residents missing visits to Efteling, Rijksmuseum most during social distancing
4 years, 9 months ago

Residents missing visits to Efteling, Rijksmuseum most during social distancing

NL Times  

Easter weekend is traditionally the start of the tourist attraction season in the Netherlands. But due to the coronavirus and measures in place to curb its spread, Netherlands residents can now only think about the attraction they would have been visiting under normal circumstances. And the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is the most missed educational attraction, according to a survey among …

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Dutch destinations: I thought I’d hate the Efteling. I was wrong
5 years, 2 months ago

Dutch destinations: I thought I’d hate the Efteling. I was wrong

Dutch News  

With the autumn half term upon us, your thoughts may be turning to taking the kids to an amusement park. To a background of piped fairytale music, streams of visitors come from all directions, making their way towards the spikey thatched peaks of Efteling’s eerie entrance gate, like worshippers drawn to a shrine. Picnics The pot noodle incident the day …

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Dutch destinations: I thought I’d hate the Efteling. I was wrong
5 years, 2 months ago

Dutch destinations: I thought I’d hate the Efteling. I was wrong

Dutch News  

With the autumn half term upon us, your thoughts may be turning to taking the kids to an amusement park. To a background of piped fairytale music, streams of visitors come from all directions, making their way towards the spikey thatched peaks of Efteling’s eerie entrance gate, like worshippers drawn to a shrine. Picnics The pot noodle incident the day …

Children Ride Hotel Husband Park My Husband Efteling
Efteling tries tackling racism with Carnival Festival ride renovation
5 years, 7 months ago

Efteling tries tackling racism with Carnival Festival ride renovation

NL Times  

Originally unveiled in the mid-eighties, the Carnaval Festival ride at Efteling has undergone a renovation meant to tackle the racial stereotypes on display. The Dutch theme park spent three million euros to also install new lighting and give the 35-year-old attraction a fresh coat of paint. “A number of dolls from the Africa and Asia scene also got a new …

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Efteling amusement park to update characters criticised for racist stereotyping
5 years, 11 months ago

Efteling amusement park to update characters criticised for racist stereotyping

Dutch News  

The Netherlands’ most popular amusement park said on Wednesday it is to overhaul the appearance of some of its controversial African and Asian characters to ‘to better fit in with today’s standards.’ The Efteling’s Carnaval Festival fairground ride is to close for a three month period for a technical update and will take the opportunity to revamp animatronics criticised for …

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Efteling amusement park to update characters criticised for racist stereotyping
5 years, 11 months ago

Efteling amusement park to update characters criticised for racist stereotyping

Dutch News  

The Netherlands’ most popular amusement park said on Wednesday it is to overhaul the appearance of some of its controversial African and Asian characters to ‘to better fit in with today’s standards.’ The Efteling’s Carnaval Festival fairground ride is to close for a three month period for a technical update and will take the opportunity to revamp animatronics criticised for …

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Efteling adjusts Carnaval Festival attraction after racism accusations
5 years, 11 months ago

Efteling adjusts Carnaval Festival attraction after racism accusations

NL Times  

Efteling is adjusting a number of Asian and African dolls in its 35 years old Carnaval Festival attraction, the amusement park announced on Wednesday. "The attraction shows how celebrations are held around the world, but in these countries that is not really the case", a spokesperson said, according to NU.nl. In the past the park received criticism about two of …

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