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Holiday
History Located outside the small town of Hassloch in the southwestern state of
Rheinland-Pflaz, Holiday Park started life in 1971 as one of Germany’s ubiquitous Märchenwald
(fairytale forest) attractions. Its founder was circus proprietor Erich Schneider, who two years later would rename the venue Holiday Park. Early attractions included a wooden Wild Mouse coaster, motorboats, a monorail and dolphin show.
In 1979, the park opened what for many years was its signature attraction – the country’s first looping rollercoaster, Super Wirbel (Vekoma Corkscrew). Added during the 1980s were such features as an Intamin Rapids ride, the Burg Falkenstein dark ride, Anno Tobak boat ride and the first of the famous water stunt shows. Erich’s son, Wolfgang Schneider took over as manager of the park in 1986. New attractions followed throughout the ‘90s including a large Mack Log Flume (Teufelfässer), Dancing Pavilion (Gerstlauer Krinoline), Sturmschiff (Huss Pirate), Spinning Barrels (Huss Breakdance) and Freefall Tower (Intamin Giant Drop).
Holiday Park celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2001 in fine style with the addition of Expedition GeForce. Standing 62-metres-tall – and well over 1km-long – this Intamin attraction became the subject of two Guinness World Records set by American rollercoaster endurance rider Richard Rodriguez. Following the introduction in 2006 of the 80-metre Lighthouse Tower (Funtime Star Flyer), Holly’s Wild Autofahrt (Maurer Söhne Wild Mouse) in 2010 became the last major attraction added by the Schneider family. By the time Plopsa
Parks/Studio 100 took over in November of 2010, Holiday Park enjoyed a reputation as one of Germany’s busiest amusement parks. Its history in now celebrated inside a new museum inside Fontänenplatz.
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ABOVE: Maja’s Blütensplash RIGHT, FROM TOP: Blümenturn, Flip der Grashüpfer, Schmetterlingsflug, Verrückter Baum
AUGUST 2012 New themed food areas in Fontänenplatz
Next season we will build a large themed restaurant within Maja Land, it will be a real eye- catcher. At around 400 sq m it will be about the same size as the Pfalzgraf, our biggest restaurant at the moment. The year after that we will change a lot of the park’s infrastructure and add also something for new for the teenagers; exactly what I cannot yet reveal.
The total investment through until 2014 will be
€25 million. Last year I think we spent between two and three million, this year around nine million, next year we will have two again …you can figure out how much we have left for 2014. It’s great to be making all these investments because I think in the last few years park did not evolve, it did not develop. Last season, with only the small investments, attendance went up over 25%. The weather has held us back a bit so far this year, but it will not stop us. The target is to reach 1.2
million visitors in the next five years. Then we will have the same attendance as Plopsaland in De Panne!
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Bernd Beitz was talking to Owen Ralph
Water fun with the leaking bucket
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