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Trip Planning: Information, advice and questions!

Hotel Moxy was decent enough when I last visited in 2024. Short walk round to the park entrance, and pretty close to the hotels you can exit out of the park via.

Don't think I've ever seen discounted tickets so just buying via the park is the best option really. If you have a Blackpool Pleasure Beach season pass that does entitle you to one free visit a year, saved me €60 last time.
 
We're flying into Baden-Baden and staying roughly 40 mins away from Europa Park. This was the compromise I had to have with my other half, who prefers to tack a theme park onto a holiday, rather than making it the entire purpose of the trip. This served us well with Port Aventura, having fallen a bit in love with Tarragonna.

As our hotel and Europa Park are both within the Black Forest, we'll be able to make use of the complimentary KRONUS card, giving us free public transport throughout the region.

Guest-Cards & KONUS

In the Black Forest, we provide guests with a wide range of discounts and exclusive opportunities to make the most of their stay. Whether it’s access to attractions, guided tours, or special experiences, there are plenty of ways to enjoy the region even more conveniently and affordably.
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Baden Baden and the Black Forest region are both in Germany, although hardly much cheaper themselves these days.

I had a nice holiday at the tail-end of COVID with my partner in the region, tacking on a day each at Europa Park and Rulantica. Admittedly, I’ve since had a couple there without her that have involved less rural hiking and more coasters, but it’s undoubtedly a beautiful part of the world.

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Can you get a taxi from Basel? Do Uber operate? I've tried looking online and it seems they do but only on the French side? Presumably that's not an issue...Appreciate it will be costly.
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Uber definitely operate from the French side. €200-250 to the park seems typical.

(Double post, backwards second half of Euro-Mir for me).
 
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Baden Baden and the Black Forest region are both in Germany, although hardly much cheaper themselves these days.

I had a nice holiday at the tail-end of COVID with my partner in the region, tacking on a day each at Europa Park and Rulantica. Admittedly, I’ve since had a couple there without her that have involved less rural hiking and more coasters, but it’s undoubtedly a beautiful part of the world.
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I found them at least a bit cheaper than my time in Luzern.
 
Someone in another thread mentioned Basel is a particularly poor airport to fly into in terms of long immigration queues, is this the consensus?

Has anyone been recently since the new EU visa system was introduced?
 
Nope, never had any particularly bad experiences at Basel. Leaving is sometimes worse than arriving, but over 15+ years the longest we’ve waited is around 20-25 minutes.

The new EES system is obviously affecting everywhere in Europe, but we had a 5 minute queue in December.
 
I think i know the answer to this but to confirm, as we aren't staying on site we have to enter through the main entrance but after doing that once, we can exit through the hotels and re-enter that way too?

We're staying here (the pink ticked house) so our plan was to walk everywhere (Europa, Rulantica, Lidl) but wondering if the morning main entrance will be difficult?

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You can exit via the Resorts Gate, but you can't re-enter that way if you aren't a Resorts Guest.

It's quite a walk to the park entrance from there in the morning. Your best bet would be to take the Rust Bus, which has a stop from close to your apartment, leaving every thirty minutes. That'll get you there in eight minutes. For example, leaving at 0832AM, at the main gates of EP for 0840. The bus runs on a similar schedule until 1030PM, and is free.
 
Plastic Person said:
You can exit via the Resorts Gate, but you can't re-enter that way if you aren't a Resorts Guest.

It's quite a walk to the park entrance from there in the morning. Your best bet would be to take the Rust Bus, which has a stop from close to your apartment, leaving every thirty minutes. That'll get you there in eight minutes. For example, leaving at 0832AM, at the main gates of EP for 0840. The bus runs on a similar schedule until 1030PM, and is free.
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Oh that's extremely helpful, thank you!

So literally free at any point, you can just jump on and off as you like at the numbered stops? We can get it to Rulantica from the park if we wanted to as well?

Is the timetable accurate to fabled German efficiency?

Edit: Actually Google has the apartment to the park entrance bus stop (near Voletarium) at 17 minutes walking which isn't too bad if we miss the bus rather than standing around for 30 minutes.
 
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Yes, always free. And yes, you could take it to Rulantica, but you'd have to ride almost the entire loop, which I suspect would take longer than walking from where you'll be based.

I think I've only ever used it once, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't accurate. Incidentally, the EP Resort > Rulantica shuttle let me down over the Christmas period. We had a restaurant booking at Eatrenalin that we nearly missed entirely. Fortunately, I ran into Bell Rock, and they quickly organised a private resort shuttle as an alternative. :cool:
 
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You can exit via the Resorts Gate, but you can't re-enter that way if you aren't a Resorts Guest.
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This isn’t accurate. You can enter via the hotel entrance if you have already been in the park (via the main entrance) that day. They will take a picture of you as you exit.

The Rust Bus is not always on time to the minute, but it is usually (not always) within a couple of minutes of its schedule.
 
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