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Amsterdam dungeon

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I know it's not strictly a coaster question, but I was hoping someone here would have the answer anyway...

Does any one know what language the 'tour' itself is, in the dungeon?
 
The tour is primarily in Dutch, naturally. But they ask at the beginning of the experience where everyone's from, and improvise accordingly.


In our group of 7, there was 2 Englishmen, 2 Americans and 3 Hollanders. So aside from it sounding like a bizarre punchline waiting to happen, it was pretty much half in English, half in Dutch.

It's not bad either on the whole, but don't expect it to be the same standard as the London one - they really do CLUTCH at generic historical things just to pad it out. It's still good wholesome family fun though!

Hope you find this information useful.
 
Thanks, very useful! :)

Makes a lot of sense really, I expected it to be in Dutch, but I did wonder as I'd heard a lot of English speakers going (who would not know any Dutch) so wondered.

I think it would kind of lose something if I couldn't understand what was being said, though the in door coaster they have there does sound interesting.
 
I'm heading here in May too. Yeah, from what I have heard from the Brand Manager, if they know there are English in the audience, they will try and pursue at getting the story across to everyone. You find this in a lot of European Scare Attractions, if they know you're English, they WILL say certain words in English to you, just so you know what's going on. It's just a shame that we don't do the same over here for our visitors.
 
When me and a few mates went there in Feb last year (which included free entry, photo and guide books thanks to meeting the Merlin Dungeon's manager bloke on the plane over :wink:), the entire tour was conducted in English, with the odd foriegn words thrown in.

I enjoyed it. Don't bother with the waxowrks though, that was dire.
 
It's in Dam Square (the Dungeon is on Rokin, a road heading off Dam Square). I found it to eb pretty crap tbh. The London one is better. I think a lot of it is down to who you recognise though. I'm not that clued up on Dutch celebs.
 
when I went a few years ago, it was a mixture of dutch and english, and a great tour! even though the coaster was out of action!
 
Ian said:
It's in Dam Square (the Dungeon is on Rokin, a road heading off Dam Square). I found it to eb pretty crap tbh. The London one is better. I think a lot of it is down to who you recognise though. I'm not that clued up on Dutch celebs.
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Tbh I'm not well up on any celebrities. We walked past the Dungeon twice last time we were there, but were only there for two days and on a tight budget and the Mrs refused to go in at the time.
 
If it's worth anything, I think the Amsterdam Dungeon is a lot better than the London ones! The London one bores me, but, I've done the Dutch one twice now and thoroughly enjoyed it! It's much smaller groups, and quieter, so it's a lot more personal and less stressful, and as a result, more enjoyable!

(plus, you can do the Amsterdam one high as a kite, not that I have or would recommend this at all)
 
I went this summer and thought the experience was brilliantly done. The tour we had was about half dutch and half english but the best thing was the dutch made the crazy characters come across as that little bit more insane. As if they were babbling to themselves. :P
 
^Yep it was... Though we were EXTREMELY disappointed with it (I think 'extremely' is possibly an understatement :D)

I thought the tour itself was rather fun, I got picked on plenty of times due to my englishness :)
 
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