Europa-Park celebrates new attendance record
Europa-Park is reporting that it welcomed seven million visitors last year. That's a record for the German theme park, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2025.
"[Two hundred and fifty thousand] visitors came to Europa-Park in its opening summer in 1975. Fifty years later, we set a new record with seven million guests, exceeding all our expectations for this special year," Roland Mack, whose family owns the park along with Mack Rides, said. "This is a vote of confidence from our loyal guests, who appreciate Europa-Park as a holiday destination with the Rulantica water world, Eatrenalin and our hotels, and who continue to rediscover it time and time again."
Europa-Park's Voltron Nevera roller coaster ranks among Theme Park Insider's top 10 coasters and top 25 theme park attractions in the world. Voltron Nevera also won our Theme Park Insider Award for Best New Attraction after its 2024 debut. Last year, Europa-Park introduced Grand Prix EDventure, an interactive family attraction themed to "Grand Prix of Europe," Mack's first feature film, themed to the park's mascot.
The TEA Global Experience Index last year reported that Europa-Park drew 6.2 million visitors in 2024, putting the park in first place among German theme parks and second in the European region, behind only Disneyland Park in Paris.
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I was thoroughly impressed with this park when we visited in summer 2024. While the overall design is a bit scattershot, the theming and attention to detail is to Disney/Universal standards. I was especially impressed with the Switzerland and Scandinavia areas of the park that were as authentic, if not more so, than what you find at EPCOT.
We spent almost 2 full days at Europa park and while we were able to hit all of the headliners, it felt like we just scratched the surface of this park. We were extremely aggressive with our itinerary, so we were able to see a majority of the park's attractions, but we were moving so fast that we probably missed a lot of nuance (though we didn't miss many rides). You could probably spend a week at Europa Park moving at a more leisurely pace and still not feel like you've explored everything. Aside from the Pirate dive show, the Voletarium, and a few street shows, we didn't have much time to see the park's live entertainment, which is pretty vast.
I think the one flaw with this park is that aside from Voltron, there are no singular rides worth traveling across an ocean to experience - this is a common criticism I've made of Hersheypark. There are plenty of good to great rides like Blue Fire, Wodan, and Silver Star, and a few unique experiences like Arthur and Pirates in Batavia, but much of this park's attraction lineup is filled with C/D ticket level rides - though some with some interesting/unique features. Sure, there are lots and lots of them, hence why it takes multiple days to fully experience this park, but few of the supporting attractions are iconic, unique, or worthy of multiple rides during a single visit. While the quality is high, there's just such a massive quantity of attractions that it's almost overwhelming, and perhaps the removal of Euro-Mir is a sign that the park understands the need to cull back their lineup and focus on having fewer overall attractions with a higher percentage of elite rides.
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As a lifelong theme park fan and particularly a Disneyland fan, I was blown away on our family visit (from West Coast, USA) to Europa-Park this past summer. Not only was it filled with fun rides, the quality of the theming and sheer size was stunning. What left a strong impression on us was that, like Disneyland, it is filled with quirky little details and discoveries. You have to go through every doorway, explore every nook and cranny, you never know what you'll find. For example:
-- We saw some people going into a small doorway in the Norway area and had no idea where they were going. We followed them down a staircase to...an underground dark ride! Wow.
--We saw a shop and went inside to discover behind the shop there was a magical hallway of elf houses to explore, absolutely enchanting.
--Again, we went into a fairly nondescript doorway in Greece and found ourselves in a truly mesmerizing and strange attraction we loved.
I encourage people to visit this park because they deserve all the success and I want the park to thrive!