De Efteling BV Reviews

Big beautifully organised and well-maintained theme park. The park is overloaded with nice gardens, plants and trees and attractions are real experiences. Highlights for me were the show "Raveleijn", cool fantastic attraction "Symbolica" and rollercoaster "Joris en de draak".

Great fun and value for all the family. Well worth another visit.

If you are not from the Netherlands and visiting, the Efteling is a must see! It's definitely my favourite amusement park. The whole park is filled with the same calm fairy tale atmosphere. Everything (even the bins) is in a fairy tale theme.

Large, lots of space and attractions are good. Park is clean and lots of small things to look at. Download the app to see waiting times for the bigger attractions!

Amazing place! Great roller coaster and perfect atmosphere of fairy tail. Be ready: You would need at least 2 days to try all attractions.

This is quite a unique park. For starters, it s very big! The story forest is amazing, rides are themed all over and everything is very clean. Staff is incredibly friendly and well-trained.

Efteling offers various meal options, even on quiet days. I do recommend to check the calendar on their website before visiting because it gives you an estimate of the level of busyness they re expecting. On busy days, wait times of 1h are not uncommon, especially for the popular attractions.

Lastly, the summer nights they re organising are a lot of fun. The atmosphere is very cheerful and happy, but usually these days are the busiest, so plan well!

A great amusement park that could seriously use an update. It has the same decorations and attractions as it did 20 years ago. It's only fun for one visit. There's not a large variety in food either. A little more catering towards adults would be better too.

Nice and good amusement park, but very crowded and Corona measures they prepared aren't taken serious by the visitors.

An amazing dutch theme park that is full of history and recommended for any tourist who wants to get to know an authentic piece of Holland

Always a great day visiting De Efteling. I will go year after year. It never stops to amaze me.

The park is soooooooooo beautiful!!!I've been over 7 times and i enjoyed it as much as the first time!the food is horrible but i love this park!!!

Little message for Efteling managers:

So cool, continue like this!!!!!!!!!

Love Efteling !!!

A great park and keeps improving the existing, plus building new rides. Clean it is, and fun it is for every generation. It could be very busy but the park is spacious and never gives a cramped feeling apart from the queues.
For weekends: go on a cloudy but mild day in March before Easter. There might be some maintenance (which is good!) but then you can do everything you want in a single day, plus the cold-prone coasters are open on mild days.

Best place for children! and if there are very into the fairy tail this the place that you must come! Great ride and very detailed lead in prior to the ride. Best!

Fairy tail land theme park, with some great thrill rides for the brave, and lots of rides and shows for everyone else. Really clean with very friendly and helpful staff. Well worth a visit.

Nice park with attractions for both adults and children.
Even though my aim was to only go onto the more adult attractions I ended up quite enjoying the ones which were children-oriented!
Something I really enjoyed was the single rider option. Look for that line of your plan is to ride solo on that attraction. You might end up standing less time in line!
Very broad range of food choices and friendly staff.

One of the best fairy tale theme parks I have ever visited. It's traditional aging back to 1900s and you definitely feel it. We thoroughly enjoyed the day eventhough our visit was in November and it was freezing cold. Few attractions were closed but that never bothered us. This attraction is very difficult to cover in a day.
We avoided car and took the bus from Tilburg and was quite happy with the decision. Many buses ply in this direction.

A 2 or a multiday ticket would be a great improvement point to be considered. We almost stood an hour before each ride with 2 kids. Nevertheless it was worth the wait!!

I would definitely add it to my regular attraction list.

One of the strangest places in the world. Legendary place includes lots of games. It is located in the jungle.

Magical as always Only complaint is the drinking water fountains could be better labled and marked on the app to make them easier to find.

Loved this place so much.

I think kids and adults can enjoy it. It's very beautiful because of the different fairy tails they explain.
I don't think it's a place to go for the rollercoasters, it's a place to go to see how they mounted all the different stories.

The haunted forest was my favorite, I would recommend to visit it in the daylight, even though some of them are also nice at night.

Winter Efteling was so wonderful, the decoration is amazing.

Better than expected. The attractions are suitable for adults as well as children, you won't get bored.

Wonderful place, came with 2.5 and a 4.5 and ahad a great day. Small kids need a stroler

The park is very invested and beautiful, adapted for children. Accessible to disabled people

Especially during these difficult period, the Efteling pulls it together to life by the rules set and keep everyone save, but still let the people have a wonderful day!!!

Loved it! Was an amazing experience! Best memories <3

A great day out. A mixture of high thrill rides and nice shows to suit all the family

One of the best theme parks in the world if you'd ask me. The staff members have done a great job adjusting to COVID-19 while still keeping the magic and fun untouched. I will definitely visit them again!

Awesome park with various attractions for all tastes and ages. A lot to see and try. Most importantly a wonderland atmosphere is present all the time you walk around.

As tourist information I would definitely advice going here if you happen to stay in the Netherlands. This is such a dream come true theme Parc. Just embrace the warm fairytale world and enjoy this perfect ambiance with every fairytale you ever dreamed of.

Long lines and sooo many people. I didnt feel safe from covid.
Plus so many food places closed. Huge complaint was trying to find seats under shelter. It was such a hot day and hard to escape the heat.
But beautifully maintained and looked after.

Amazing theme park, really underrated with very high level of effort put into the design and overall feel of the park.

Great. Highly recommended, much better than other famous parks in Europe. Just loved it.

Quicker ques than disneyland, rides were awesome and so much to see, need at least 2 days

Efteling is an amazing theme park, certainly for its theme, quality and ride diversity. Thee best theme park in the Netherlands, and certainly one of the best in Europe.

We loved it. Great theme park, good fun rides. Lots of the rides have height restrictions on them.

Very beautiful themed park. It is a very big park. Waiting line during the weekend could take up to 45 minutes. The park is very well kept, very colourful flowers, buildings ans rides with different themes and lively music. My favourite ride is Baron 1898.

This was surprisingly well done! We went as three adult women with hearts of children and a love of fairy tales and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. It has something for everyone; old and young.

We have been to the efteling before, but never the winter efteling. It is very special and the decoration is so beautiful.

Everything you need is available there. Even our 2 year old enjoyed everything very much!

Great themepark with amazing rides and special effects.

Wheelchair friendly
Fun for kids
1 Hotel
Watershow
Special effects

Wheelchair accessibility:
Most places are accessible for wheelchairs. And if you re not sure, you can always use the app to make sure.

Fun for kids:
There are more than enough rides that are suitable for kids.

1 Hotel:
If you want to visit every attraction and want to stay at an hotel for the night, you don t have much choice. But the Efteling hotel is great.

Watershow:
Normally there s a show at 9pm every day called Aquanura and if it s really busy in the park, it ll be shown twice. It s a fountain/water show with literally hundreds of fountains and lamps. With those numbers, it s the biggest fountain/water show of Europe.

Special effects:
If you look carefully, you ll be able to find a lot of smoke, lighting, sound or even water effects around the entire park.

Great system with the <18y lines even though they werent always functional

Best themepark in the Netherlands. This park has the best and probably most thrilled rides from NL (mostly rollercoasters). Best part is that not only the rides but also the queues and stations are very nicely themed. A couple attractions have a told story and special effects in the queu, gets you a bit hyped. We found a very good deal for cappuccino and apple pastry for 5.
Only the baron and the 'new' symbolica have a english written/told version of the stories told in the queu which is a downside if you are from abroad. You're forced to listen to something you don't understand missing the story of the attraction.
Still worth 5 stars.

Can't believe the arrogance of people who thinks it's still ok to just light one up right next to your kids in queues and spreokjesbos. No enforcement anywhere. Won't be recommending.

Great park! There are a lot of rides and other activities for kids, there's a little less for older kids/adults, but there's still about 7 really cool ones that are a bit more exciting. The park is very well designed, everything looks like it's from a fairytale. If you're visiting for the first time be sure to check out the "sprookjesbos" (fairytale forest).

I haven't been there in 11 years. So it was so amazing to go there, being an adult, to both recognize and discover areas I went. Plus the new things built that I never visited. I wanted to go back the same week. The music, the animated shows, rides and sceneries..all, topped off by a watershow called Aquanura to end the day. So amazing.

Wondrous fairy-tale land. If you haven't visited here before, you should. If you are a tourist, it is recommended not to do this under substance influence. There is a lot of stimuli.

Dutch classic. Going here is historic and melancholic for those times where fairy tales were told as life s stories, about good and bad, to children and adults. Yes there are exciting rides, but fairy tale forest and other displays of far countries and further countries add to the magic of the experience.

I ve been there when I was 8 with my parents for the fairy tales and rides, in my 20s I went for the rides, and now, I brought my kids to experience it.

I've always had good experiences in the park, but with the current covid measures there are some things that are just bad. For example, I got a warning that I walked in the wrong spot and would be kicked out of the park if I did so a second time, but I was following the arrows they stuck on the floor... Besides that the employees make sure to check what visitors are doing and whether they keep to the regulations, but they dont keep to the regulations themselves at all.

Beautiful place adjusted well for the winter time with widely available food and drinks

a dream come true for kids and parents. beautiful park smartly planned. we spent 3 days here and will be coming back for sure!

Lesson 1: always prepare yourself before a visit to any park. Its important to know what activities each of the kids can do (based on their height).
Lesson 2: come as early as possible, to start your visit before the long lines begin.
All in all - we loved it, but the kids said that Walibi is much better...

Too much People.
People who work there are half brains..

Didn't meet my expectations. I found it too expensive for what it actually offers but still, nicely decorated and well maintained. Lines were too long even on low season.

Great theme park for all ages, but it can be very expensive for big families. There are many rollercoasters and lighter attractions.
If you have time and money this is the go-to theme park.

Soo much fun, for all ages... It's better of course when there is a beautiful weather. We we're lucky with a really perfect weather and spent all day there. The stuff is also really friendly and helpful. I'd go there again for sure :-)

It is very nice place for recreation where you can enjoy full day of enjoyment. Full of rides and some good food around there. Must watch is for musical fountain in the evening which are really awesome in night.

Very nice park. Good balance of roller coasters, drive through rides and slow one for kids and families. Definitely not as crowded as Disneyland. Food in the park ok, coffee 2.75, some Chinese take away 5e. You can leave your bag at clothes room by the entrance for 1.5e (foto bellow) . Staff friendly and professional. Everyone speaks English.

Such a lovely place to visit! Cant wait to come back again

Liked the rides! However,waiting times were quite long

Favourite place ever!
Cheaper than most UK theme parks and so so much better. The staff are so attentive and the rides are great for the whole family

Tons of activities for children and adults and great vegan options to eat, just expect long waiting times of 1 hour or more, for the most popular activities

The best theme park of the Netherlands, if you're here for the theme anyways. Nice clean park

several attractions do not work, the lines of people were too long,

Best Park in the Netherlands! For every age! Must see.

Just fabulous. Went for a day but could easily fill several here.

Enchanting, beautiful. The Dragon roller coaster best wooden coaster I have ever experienced. This park has everything from amazing speed rides to calm train and boat rides to fairly land parks that make you feel like a child once again. A must see location.

Well organized
Some attractions were closed which was very disappointing

Finally I'm not an Efteling virgin anymore!! One of my fave amusement park!! The staff was really nice, the place was wonderful as well. My favorite was enchanted Forest!! And the Fantasia, I think, I don't know what was called but you get the magical detour!! I went there for 2 days,, was magic!! The food was great and toilets were everywhere (that's important!!) And the rides were fantastic.. thank you Efteling..

Always a great experience. Have been coming to this park for almost 40 years now and I still love it.

Trippy fairy tale land designed in classic fairytale style. There are games for young and old, although the queues are quite long depending on what day you go. Take comfortable shoes and clothes that dry quickly. The fairytale forest is the trippiest part of the park, but there are plenty of surprises around every corner! Definitely a place to visit in a group of with the whole family

Great place for kids, especially if they know the fairytales.

Beautiful park theme, fantastic rides. Few rides are rather short, yet it's still fun. Very good for youngster. Baron 1898 is the scariest ride in the park.

I love fairy tales. This park is everything that makes fairy tales what they are: joyful, sad, beautiful, and kinda creepy. There is a story behind every aspect of this park, so if you like stories, please visit! Enough attractions to entertain people of most ages; would not recommend for children under 2 years.

Amazing 4 day break in Holland. If you have kids go. If not still go. Its such a magical place. We went in Winter Efteling and its absolutely gorgeous but sure it will be all year round. Fantastic trip.

WOW, what a park, the place was amazing for young and old alike. The place had an atmosphere which I have never experienced anywhere else before, the place looked and SMELT beautiful. We were lucky enough to have a day where the park closed at 11pm so had plenty of time to walk around and do most of the rides including the bobsleigh. Price for getting tickets were good and food and drink prices were as expected for the location. At lunch like we had sandwiches at one of the food halls the quality and prices were outstanding. Evening food we had food in the pasta restaurant, this was good quality and price for dessert we tried the pancakes in the pancake restaurant by the castle which were of great quality but did feel they were slight over priced. Overall great experience and will be returning, travelled from Cardiff S.Wales, drove to dover to dunkirk, and drove rest of the way up

Gorgeous place nice to have fun and share time with family and friends. Amazing experience

One of the best theme parks I've been to. My young children loved it definitely best for young families

The Efteling is not cheap to enter, but you do get what you pay for. The park is immaculate and the children's forest was a big hit with the two children we had with us (7 and 5). Considering we were there in the school holidays queues were short and we used the Efteling app to keep track of queues for the big attractions. One of my favourite things about the Efteling is that the food and drink prices at the many coffee, snack bars and cafes are comparable to prices outside the park and that there are no restrictions as far as bringing your own picnic, unlike some other parks.

Great experience! Recommend to download the efteling app - you have there all needed information.