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PortAventura opens
zero-emission hotel PortAventura World has opened its first “zero-emission” hotel. The four-star Hotel Colorado Creek, which opened on June 1, will become the Spanish resort’s flagship hotel and has been built in response to increased demand for short breaks. Its interior has been created using natural stone, wood and vegetation as part of a €25 million investment. The hotel increases the number of rooms at the park to 2,200.
portaventuraworld.com
Italy’s Gardaland adds 128-room Magic Hotel
Gardaland Resort in Italy has opened a €20 million castle- themed property called Gardaland Magic Hotel. Each of the four-star hotel’s 128 rooms are designed on the themes Enchanted Forest, Magic Ice Castle or Great Wizard. The hotel has a distinctive roof of 34,000 purple tiles and features a 14-metre-high wizard hat sculpture.
gardaland.it
SeaWorld Orlando plans ‘cool’ new ride SeaWorld Orlando is to build a new rollercoaster, its sixth, which it will introduce in 2020. Teasing the “cool” new ride, the park included the hashtag #BreakTheIce and promised the ride would “take guests to predatory heights to experience plunging thrills”.
seaworldparks.co.uk
Artist’s impression of the new Max & Moritz coaster
Efteling’s new ‘woodland houses’
Efteling to build €15m coaster and add 12 ‘woodland houses’
Juliet Dennis
Fairytale theme park Eſteling, in the Netherlands, is opening a new rollercoaster in 2020 and expanding its group accommodation with 12 ‘woodland houses’ later this year. Dual-tracked rollercoaster Max & Moritz will
replace the current bobsleigh ‘Bob’, which has been at the Dutch park for 34 years. Te €15 million atraction, based on a German
poem about two naughty boys called Max and Moritz, will be aimed at children aged four to 10 (and at least one metre tall) and is due to open next spring. Te new Woodland Houses, sleeping up to 12 people
each, are being developed at the park’s Holiday Village, Eſteling Bosrijk, to meet increased demand for group accommodation. Te new houses will create 144 beds. Te properties are being marketed as sustainable,
prefabricated accommodation with only LED lighting used. Tey will be bookable from August 2, costing
Efteling is working with the makers of Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep to create a 3D film for one of its attractions. The film, which will feature 4D effects such as water, smells and wind, will open alongside a new restaurant at 4D theatre attraction PandaDroom, which itself will be renamed Fabula, later this year as part of a €3.5 million investment.
€1,360 for two nights, including three days’ unlimited park access based on 12 sharing. Meanwhile, Eſteling’s Carnaval Festival indoor ride,
which takes visitors on ‘a journey round the globe and through different cultures’, has just reopened following a three-month renovation. Te park has already announced it will open a new
fairytale atraction in its Fairytale Forest this autumn. Te Six Swans, based on the Brothers Grimm tale, will be combined with a boat ride.
efteling.com/en
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