UP87
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Europa Park actually has a second entrance in Spain. All guests from Europa Park hotels enter there.Europa does fine with just one
Europa Park actually has a second entrance in Spain. All guests from Europa Park hotels enter there.Europa does fine with just one
Aha, so that's why the hotel booking site recommended me to fly to Bilbao for the Europa Park trip! I think I'll just save money and use an off-site hotel instead.Europa Park actually has a second entrance in Spain. All guests from Europa Park hotels enter there.
However any change with the ownership of car park land is almost impossible the way things currently are. After all why would they give up something that makes them so much money.How Fluorineer thinks is long-term and with the thought that the problem with the parking owners has been resolved, I guess.
If we think that Phantasialand gets hold of the car parks and connects mystery with China so that cars for the mystery parking can drive past the China parking lot then the traffic is separated from the possible new main entrance behind the Kaiserplatz.
The tunnel under the park can serve as a fast passage for the Shuttle buses. At the end of the tunnel next to new main entrance there is room for a roundabout where the buses can stop and return.
So, actually it's only the parking lot which is still in hands of the farmers, that blocks this idea from be realistic.
To make it easier to imagine, I made a small sketch:
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Green: possible new main entrance
Red: extension of the tunnel (under entrance building)
Blue: roundabout with the bus stop
Bit ridiculous to compare the two parks, don't you think? Different sizes, different landscape/location, very different parking situation... I could go on.Magic Mountain has one entrance. Also, there's really no transport system haha.
I'd say the point still stands. If a park as big as SFMM (which doesn't have a transport system to get people to remote corners of the park quickly, so everyone has to walk everywhere) can make do with one entrance, tiny little Phantasialand shouldn't strictly need to have multiple entrances.LOL comparing a 260+ acre park with a wide entrance to a 70 acre park with stupidly narrow pathways. Genius.
I wonder how feasible a Disney/Alton Towers style of "park far away and we'll bring you to the gate" car park and entrance is?
Looking from above, PHL is basically everything you don't look for in siting a theme park! No parking, limited expansion, proximity to civilisation, and hostile neighbours!
When you take into account the width of the entrance, the width of the main spill out area of the park and the layout, the point doesn't stand. Take the Berlin entrance for example - the two staircases either side entering the Main Street are around 3m wide (f*ck all) that then leads into one single street (tiny street at that) and so on - SFMM spreads quite soon after the entrance, they're both completely different designs.I'd say the point still stands. If a park as big as SFMM (which doesn't have a transport system to get people to remote corners of the park quickly, so everyone has to walk everywhere) can make do with one entrance, tiny little Phantasialand shouldn't strictly need to have multiple entrances.
To be honest, I could see the park getting rid of Wakabato and the lake and putting a car park that side. Multistory so it blocks sound, but also themed so it's not Merlin. They could move the entrance to round near :emoji_poop:ehawk, especially now they've made a new entrance for Fanstissima round there. Maybe the plan is to turn the Nighthawk building into an entrance complex with a sit down restaurant.
We have to bridge the silence with something.Every time I check this thread I get excited to see updates on the coaster but instead I have to read about imaginary car parks and entrances that don't exist yet...
IMO you can clearly tell how the China and Mystery entrances are not something I would call "well planned" but rather "the only locations facing the parking lot where you could poke a hole in the wall".
The main issue would be that pretty much the entire surrounding area of both the highway and Phantasialand is a natural reserve. Which makes it questionable how the highway has been built there in the first place,