Kids will love the charming ‘anti-Disney’ Efteling theme park
Efteling, with its traditional grass-roofed houses, whizz-banging 21st-century rides, and magical Fairytale Forest, will have your little ones saying: 'Mickey who?'
IN NARNIA it was always winter but never Christmas.
Perfect for people like me, who love everything about snowy Decembers but get fed up with the festive season muscling in.
Rejoice, then, for Efteling, the best theme park you have probably never heard of, which celebrates the magic of winter until the end of January with no mention of the C-word.
Efteling, a world of fairytales, has been going strong in the southerly flatlands of the Netherlands since 1952.
It is a sort of anti-Disney — homespun, charming and traditional, but with some whizz-bang, white-knuckle rides fit for the 21st century.
We stayed in the park’s new holiday village, Loonsche Land, with its woods, grass-roofed eco-homes, houses on stilts and rickety bridges.
STAYING THERE: Two nights’ self-catering in a six-person holiday house in Loonsche Land costs from £455, including three-day Efteling tickets and early entry to the park, based on two adults and two children sharing. See .