Plopsaland Belgium: General Discussion

[IDB]

The Plopsaland Black Friday deal is on till Monday, the prices are quite ridiculous.

Pretty good deal even if you’re only planning to go once. If I lived closer to the tunnel I’d be over there as much as I could.

 

[Bowser]

Pretty good deal even if you’re only planning to go once. If I lived closer to the tunnel I’d be over there as much as I could.

I think the regular annual pass is actually quite cheap outside of the sale too, I remember noticing it last time we were there.

Just had a look and it’s €120 so the Black Friday deal is a fairly modest saving with the main benefit being if you want to restrict yourself to a six month period (which i’m sure many happily would). It’s a good idea I think… don’t tell Merlin!

I’m going to see if we do a day trip and how brutal it is. We’ve done AT in a day and it’s perfectly doable but exhausting for the driver (me) and my sons on-ride companion (also me). But it’s great to know there’s a reachable park that fully operates when most of the UK parks don’t.

 

[Poisson]

I've done Plopsa as part of an incredibly silly long weekend trip. Tiring, but easily doable.

We went Folkestone hotel, tunnel, Bellewaerde, Menin Gate, Hotel overnight, Plopsa, tunnel, drive to Warwick, hotel there then a day at SVR Diesel Gala doing about 15 hours of trains. Plopsa is easily small enough to smash out in a day and leave early enough to be back in the UK at a reasonable time.

 

[djtruefitt]

There was one year when I had a plopsa annual pass because it was less than €100, it included discounts to loads of European parks that we were doing as part of a road trip so we saved money by buying the pass.

 

[Bowser]

Plopsaland have posted a video demonstrating the evacuation process from their Star Flyer.

Interesting but must say has put me off ever riding it!


From: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSJxHWuDmCx/

 

[Leigh]

Was at Plopsa a couple of days ago (alongside a @Poisson and @Alix), and I’m reminded once again why the place is so awful.

First off, RtH has got really bouncy - much more pronounced now than it was even a year or two ago. This was especially noticeable in the morning when it was running cold but still very much present in the afternoon. If it continues to age like this it’s going to become really quite rough soon.

Slight saving grace, Heidi was actually running well! It still needs a proper sized train and all but overall it was, dare I say it, fine? Rest of the park was as per - longest queue being K3 as usual.

And then we get to the food. Oh dear oh dear. Firstly, no vegan food options whatsoever available so Alix had to starve. But then - we order a soya milk latte from one of the Costa stands (on the touchscreen things so there’s no language confusion), and the guy just makes a normal milk one and presents it. Cue the following conversation:

“Has this got soya milk in?”
“Yes”
“But you’ve just made it in the machine”
“Yes”
“But you hit the latte button”
“Yes”
“So has this got soya milk in?”
“Yes, milk normal”
“So it’s got normal milk in?”
“Yes”
“But I can’t drink that. I’m allergic to milk”
“We have no other milk”
“Well I need a refund then”

Cue disgruntled employee getting 5 euros out the till and handing it over. Followed by us making a trip to guest services to report an attempted poisoning. Fair play - the F&B manager came round immediately and understood the severity of what happened, took us over to the stall and made the latte himself FOC (with the soya milk that WAS actually there in the back!), but the situation has left an incredibly sour taste.

I won’t be returning anytime soon.

 

[Poisson]

The park was properly miserable. Yes it was nippy, but Walibi Belgium the day before had similar weather and had much more life and atmosphere to it. The hardware isn't great, to the point where we'd done all the coasters plus the ART Swing and were looking at each other, questioning what was worth doing either in terms of quality and queue times outside of RtH, considering we'd have re-ridden Heidi but they were on one train so the queue didn't move.

After the above incident, we had a second ride on RtH and went to find food we could all eat in France. Even for me and @Leigh who will eat most things the options were burger or hotdog.

The festive bar had run out of everything too. Gluhwein? No. Pretzels? No.

Will echo Leigh above, RtH has gotten pretty bouncy. Not horrific, but noticeable. It's a good ride but feels like missed potential even more with every ride I have on it. Hopefully the Deutschland one will have a better layout.

 

[Shaggy_Dog_]

And then we get to the food. Oh dear oh dear. Firstly, no vegan food options whatsoever available so Alix had to starve.

I'm a vegan and when I went to Plopsaland a few years back I happily just got a cone of frites with a dollop of ketchup on them and very tasty they were too. Was the frites stand not available when you were there?

 

[Benzin]

I'm a vegan and when I went to Plopsaland a few years back I happily just got a cone of frites with a dollop of ketchup on them and very tasty they were too. Was the frites stand not available when you were there?

I mean, not a vegan here, but if I was and the only option to me was chips I would be very unimpressed.

The food options on my visit in December (an awfully busy day with RtH & Anubis both down) were terribly limited; and also busy because of the low number of open places. Bit like a Merlin park really.

 

[Electric Elly]

I'm a vegan and when I went to Plopsaland a few years back I happily just got a cone of frites with a dollop of ketchup on them and very tasty they were too. Was the frites stand not available when you were there?

I'd be careful in the future, as frites in Belgium are rarely vegan- they're cooked in beef fats.

Food was a problem when I visited earlier in the year as well- there were two stands open from memory and it was basic sandwich or hotdogs.

RtH didn't have a noticeably bad shake on my trip end of April, just what I chalked up to the usual Mack Rattle (also getting more noticeable on Helix), but again sunny warm day versus cold December morning, it's interesting how temperature and weather affects rides.

 

[Bowser]

That's a shame to hear these negative experiences We did RtH for the first time this summer so don't have a reference point for it changing but it was brilliant for us, albeit quite intense!

We're still planning on visiting over Xmas if there are a few consecutive dry days, though temperature looks like it's dropping next week so will be keeping an eye on ride availability. Now i'm wondering if Walibi is a better option, looks like they keep most rides open too....

 

[Leigh]

I'm a vegan and when I went to Plopsaland a few years back I happily just got a cone of frites with a dollop of ketchup on them and very tasty they were too. Was the frites stand not available when you were there?

It was shut sadly. But yeah as stated above it’s really difficult to determine if it’s vegan or not.

 

[Poisson]

Several Fries stands on park. All of them closed.

We're still planning on visiting over Xmas if there are a few consecutive dry days, though temperature looks like it's dropping next week so will be keeping an eye on ride availability. Now i'm wondering if Walibi is a better option, looks like they keep most rides open too....

Walibi Belgium is a much better park and does more for Christmas. Can recommend.