Efteling: General Discussion

[venny]

It has to be driven by the cap on visitor numbers.

If you have a limited number of visitors then you have to focus on the guests which bring most value. School groups are likely to be some of lowest per capita spenders of any visitor, whilst at the same time being possibly one of the more annoying demographics of visitors to other guests. They are probably the easiest of a particular demographic to exclude as well.

It just makes sense for them to adopt this policy. Very sensible.

 

[Bowser]

It has to be driven by the cap on visitor numbers.

If you have a limited number of visitors then you have to focus on the guests which bring most value. School groups are likely to be some of lowest per capita spenders of any visitor, whilst at the same time being possibly one of the more annoying demographics of visitors to other guests. They are probably the easiest of a particular demographic to exclude as well.

It just makes sense for them to adopt this policy. Very sensible.

I think there is also the anomaly of Efteling not being a traditional run for profit business hence customer experience trumps other things. The people running the park actually want it to be lovely.

 

[John]

They are actively working to mitigate the guest capacity in other ways too - a key reason for building the new hotel was that each hotel guest is apparently only counted once towards the cap regardless of length of stay. Cutting back on school trips, likely relatively low revenue guests, makes a fair bit of sense from this viewpoint.

 

[John_P]

Clever to do it now after the pre school holiday trip season so if next spring the numbers are low they can unban them.

If I was Toverland I'd certainly be getting hold of those schools that are no longer welcome at Efteling though.

 

[Bowser]

Danse Macabre has been closed indefinitely!

Currently it states till at least July 27 but this is subject to change as they don’t know what the problem is.

Will be very upset if it’s closed for our August visit

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[Benzin]

Classic Intamin.

A shame that since changing the program slightly it went from no downtime to lots.