Krampus Expedition

New for 2021 is the exciting water rollercoaster by Mack Rides. The attraction is the parks biggest investment to date costing around 12 million euros! It’s theme is based around a mythical creature in the Swiss Alps named Krampus which features heavily within the ride. The detailed indoor queue line contains many artefacts from ‘expeditions’ including a skeleton of Krampus. The main themeing piece of the attraction is the large concrete Krampus head which the ride goes through the middle of at it’s final drop into the water splash. We really enjoyed the coaster, and whilst short it had some great forces, and the drop through the themeing structure and into the water was a great touch.

Nigloween

Nigloween, the parks annual Halloween event which transforms the park to make it even more spectacular than it usually is. They use lots of plants in their decorations including 800 heather, 1200 chrysanthemums and 1500 perennials & shrubs. The most noticeable additions is a huge section of the park has skeletons and other ghoulish creatures added in. This came out from the extended queueline of their ghost train styled ride (which was also an unexpected ride for us). Whilst no mazes or roaming scary actors, it perfectly works for family’s with all guests seeming to love the atmosphere. This added to the parks business with many rides over the 45 minute mark but, this still wasn’t hugely busy compared to your average theme park or its nearby competitors such as Parc Asterix or Disneyland Paris. 

Nigloween ends each night with a firework display over the headline attraction at the park, Alpina Blitz. The display lasted around 5 minutes and the area to view them was large enough so everybody had more than enough room. It was a great little display in our opinion and really added to our overall experience and first visit to Nigloland.