Walygator Park — Attraction in Metz

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At first I didn't think it was worth giving this theme park a review because of the terrible day out we had there on saturday the 26th of July. Let me break it down for everyone:

My 13 year old sister and my cousin (both young girls) went on "The Dark Dog" drop tower. Like everyone that goes on these rides they left their bags in the basket which is made especially for leaving your belongings that you do not want to bring onto the ride. Once they were told to get off the ride because it had broken down my sister went to retrieve her bag, and to her shock it was no longer there. The two girls alerted my aunt and they immediately questioned the staff that worked a that specific ride, instead of them helping out they began to laugh and locked the booth they were in at the ride. It was then that it became evident that the staff had infact stolen the bag which contained a brand new ipod touch 5th gen, a samsung galaxy phone, and 65 euros cash. Right from the off their behavior was very strange so my aunt went over to the entrance of Walygator to ask the staff over there for security, after 2 minutes of being there the bag was mysteriously handed to a member of staff by "two girls". "Oh great" you must think-- NO! a) The bag no longer had the iPod in or the 65 euros! b) How is it even possible that within two minutes of informing security two anonymous girls hand it in(the park is enormous and this story is very unlikely) and for the icing on the cake instead of helping out, to everyones shock(I was a witness to this) the staff at the entrance started laughing. After getting no where with these useless intolerant staff members we decided to call the police, something not many people do I guess. Anyway to cut a long story short we never got the ipod or money back and to our knowledge, we got no refund even though we had spent hours there and to top it all off, the thieving staff members got away with it. I would urge anyone reading this not to go and if you do go I would recommend you give your bags to someone you know that is not going onto the ride.

The actual theme park is OK at best, the park is seriously dirty and not well kept! The staff...well you know what I think of them! There are some ok restaurants the hygiene of the toilets is terrible. I would recommend this park for younger people rather than older teens.

Had to edit as they got this fair...

I went in high season and it was pretty empty, might have been because of the heat (was around 39°C) The entry price was alright.

So the park entrance area looks good and is themed and it was pretty clean around (except the toilets). All attractions were open that day and had no waits. Sounds good so far, but sadly that was almost everything good I could say. Their main big coaster, The Monster, is by far the only great ride in this park. Its a solid B&M inverted coaster with nice intensity. The fact that it had no wait, gave me the opportunity to ride it many times. Though sometimes I had to wait for more people, since they didnt wanna start the train with only 1 person in it. Also the area around the coaster is unthemed and looks deserted, the walkway to the coaster is nicely done though. The wooden coaster Anaconda is a trainwreck, one of the worst coasters I've been on. It looks like its falling apart, the layout is terrible, as the train barely crawls over the hills, its uncomfortable. Also the queue line looked like it was deserted for 10 years. Their other big coaster, Comet, was ok. Its an old school Vekoma. I thought it wasnt too rough and rather enjoyable but it looked in bad shape. For the water rides, I went on the Dino Splash rafting, which look recently updated but was rather boring. The Terror House was very disappointing, looks cool outside but is very short and boring. For their flat rides, the G-Lock is cool, is still pretty cool and their drop tower was also worth riding.

The food was not the greatest. Was a bit under average. At the end when I wanted to leave I learned that the staff failed to give me a coin for the parking gate (already paid!), unfortunately I was alread standing in front of the gate with my car and had to return.

After all I had to admit that its a kinda sad park, it has some nice maintained areas but also many deserted and outdates ones. The rides are mostly very old or bad as well except the monster. As an adult you might end up marathoning the monster and comet maybe. Else I cannot...

Approximatif en tout point :

Arrivée au contrôle des sacs, des panneaux indiquent des files selon qu'on soit un groupe, visiteurs avec ou sans ticket. Les panneaux fléchés ne correspondent pas et les barrières sont en pagaille, tout ça pour que tous les passages aboutissent au même endroit.

Nous faisons 50m dans le parc, ma fille trébuche sur des pavés qui se soulèvent, non entretenus, genou écorché, bon ça arrive, mais des sols en mauvais état sont fréquents dans le parc.

Première attraction les tasses, un tiers des tasses condamnées, ça arrive, manège un peu défraîchi. Ma fille mesurée 92cm chez la pédiatre finit par passer après un peu d'insistance auprès de l'opérateur à cheval sur la sécurité.

Carrousel et 2 manèges suivant : RAS

Nous sommes samedi et beaucoup de restos fermés, en même temps il n'y a pas trop de monde. Nous mangeons au saloon, poke bowl au rapport qualité -prix acceptable pour 10€, menu enfant un peu cher. Nous avons pris plus tard 2 glaces à un autre endroit, celles-ci étaient à peine froides et complètement en train de fondre, la serveuse me les a échangées avec un air de déjà vu pour elle... J'espère que le mal de ventre que nous avons ma fille et moi à l'heure où j'écris ces mots passera vite ...

Petite bûche : ma fille de 92cm refoulée avec presque 5cm de moins que les 90cm de la mesure. Nous ne pouvons guère argumenter avec l'opératrice désolée, notre fille est manifestement sous le trait rouge, approximativement minimum 90cm donc ..

Après 20min de queue au rafting (plutôt correct par ailleurs), idem mais cette fois avec une toise qui indique 87-88cm. Nous nous rendons à l'accueil pour tenter de comprendre ce qu'il se passe, elle est cette fois mesurée à 89cm... Nous poursuivons résignés notre journée.

Le reste aura été un coup oui, un coup non. Très pénible lorsqu'on fait la queue avant de savoir et lorsqu'on avait choisi Walygator justement pour son nombre d'attractions accessibles à partir de 90cm ...

Dernière approximation en quittant le parking, pas de fléchage, on se retrouve (plus ou moins qui sait ?) à contresens, atteignons finalement la barrière où on nous demande un jeton de parking : ah désolé jamais entendu parler de jeton, je m'attendais à payer 5€ à la barrière. L'opérateur visiblement habitué nous laisse passer, au moins une approximation qui termine en notre faveur...

Bref, un parc mal organisé, avec des instructions pas claires, des risques de chute faute d'entretien des sols, des risques d'intoxication alimentaire manifestes, une volonté claire d'investir seulement si ça coûte pas cher (ok pour une petite baie des pirates neuves mais sans trop de décor, mais on ne va pas repeindre tout un roller coaster ni mettre une belle nouvelle attraction...).

Étant avec deux enfants en bas âge, nous n'avons pas fait de manège a sensations. Mais craignant que la sécurité des attractions soit traitée avec la même approximation que le reste, je ne m'y aventurerais pas.

Deux étoiles parce que peu d'attente et pas mal de manèges pour les petits, mais j'imagine que la faible affluence est la conséquence des problèmes cités plus hauts.

Au vu des commentaires passés sur Google et de l'inaction vis-à-vis de ceux-ci, je ne m'attends pas à ce que cela change, ce parc donne l'impression que ses gérants essayent juste d'engranger du cash sans investir, jusqu'à que mort s'en suive, nous ne reviendrons...