Visit on Halloween (31. October) Here a detailed review:

-Arrival: The park is easy accessible from the main highway. The parking fee though is 8 euros, which is not cheap.

-Ticketing: I bought the park admission, car park ticket and the halloween attractions online. I decided to buy the hotel + park admission ticket, which was around 110 euros. Note that the park has no hotel, so I stayed at the Elaya hotel in Oberhausen (30min drive). If you plan on doing the popular halloween attractions, buy them at least 1 week prior, also mind that they can get expensive (paid 15 euros for Hell House).

The park: So as an adult visitor the park has a bit more than a handfull of interesting rides. The park is not that big and feels like a smaller Universal-like movie themed park at a smaller budget. The park lacks some kind of large scale signature coaster in my opinion. There is stuff to do for people of all ages, but the halloween festival is clearly only for adults. Some parts and rides feel outdated and some look great and new. Also some of the restrooms were really disgusting with penetrating odors. Despite the many non smoking signs I also smelled a lot of tobacco everywhere, especially at night.

Attractions: I arrived at 11:30 in the park and had enough time with no stress to ride all major thrill rides. All rides had a 10-45min wait, and waits increased towards the evening. Still the crowds were not too bad for ot being Halloween night. Here a brief review of all major rides and the Halloween attractions I did: -Iron Claw: This is a standard SLC coaster. I actually enjoyed the ride, even though at some moments there is headbanging. Its not as bad as many say. At night it was even more fun. -Bandit: This ride is way worse than Iron Claw. It is very rough and the layout it pretty weak. Its cool if you like the out of control feeling though. Surprisingly people really liked it and it had longer waits -Van Helsings Factory: This ride really surprised me. Its very well themed, it has storytelling and cool effects. -Studio Tour: Its a bit short but also very well themed and immersive. -Jimmy Neutron's Atomic Flyer: Short but fun little family coaster, which is very smooth -Star Trek: The queue line has good theming but during the ride the is none. The ride is fun, especially with the swing launch but very short. -High Fall (freefall tower): Cool idea with the bicycle-like seats. Also pretty intense for its shorter size. Its cool at night -Area 51: Surprisingly well themed dark ride with 2 (rather tame) drops. My boat sadly had 2cm water standing inside.

Halloween: They really did a good job with the lighting, fog machines, actors, projectors, theming and even a DJ for the night. They had lots of cocktail and beer stands, which was great. Sadly I also witnessed someone getting delivered to the hospital. The idea with the time slots for the horror mazes is great but it also forces you to book far in advance and you cannot do all in 1 evening. I could do 4 if I wanted but ended up doing 3 to avoid stress. Here are the ones I made: -Hell House (horror maze): Very immersive experience with good storytelling, great theming and cool actors. Loved that they added some parts that needed crawling or sliding. Sadly the most expensive maze. -Circus freaks (horror maze): This one has no storyline but therefore has a more exciting/fun ambience with great music as well, it also includes a little spinning ride at the end. -Slaughterhouse (horror maze): Also has storytelling and very nice theming. I really enjoyed it. Sadly there was one mishap: my ticket was faulty and the scanner said it was already used. I later went to customer service and they were really nice and gave me a replacement ticket to the attraction.

Verdict:

• quality halloween attractions and ambience
• nice themed indoor coasters
• nice customer service ~ waits were not long during the day but increased at the evening

• doing a lot of halloween mazes can be pricey
• has very rough rides and lacks a tall signature coaster