The best park for Christmas

[saltedpeanuts09]

Having a look at a number of parks to visit over Christmas and was wondering what is everyone favourite park to visit over this festive period

 

[venny]

Europa.

Hands down the most extensive decorations and change out to park offering anywhere in Europe that I’ve visited.

 

[Llama]

Seconding Europa Park! This is "spoilers" I suppose, but if you want a sense of how much effort they put in, the round trip video of the monorail while the winter decorations are up should give you an idea:

Spoiler: Europa Park winter video

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xZvZBdJebg

 

[saltedpeanuts09]

I had a feeling Europa would win, Are most of the rides open as well?
I saw PA are doing an Xmas event now so that be interesting to see how that goes

 

[Llama]

I believe every ride is open except Atlantica Super Splash and Fjord Rafting, which are replaced with a Ferris Wheel and an ice skating area respectively. It's also possible that it gets too cold for rides to operate, last year at 0 degrees the big coasters were closed for most of the day, but other than that everything operates as normal. I think even Poseidon is running but I wasn't nearly brave enough to go on that at freezing temperatures

 

[LuizaFerrari]

Last Christmas I visited both and loved everything! Phantasialand as a winter event and the park is all decorated and lit up, very beautiful!
But Europa Park is even more beautiful and impressive, maybe because it is bigger I don't know... but loved both parks during Christmas time and will be at Europa again this year

 

[Aardvark]

Phantasialand and Europa are both amazing for Christmas, but Phantasialand is more general winter while Europa is very much Christmas giving it the edge - you can't beat the thousands of Christmas trees they lay out literally everywhere!

 

[Benzin]

Least one positive for Port Aventura is that you don't have to wrap up in 20 layers to keep warm.