I was at Sophie’s new apartment where she reminiscing our last year joy at Phantasialand Winter Wonderland, wondering if we could redo it? Eventhough I’m more a fan of going to places I have never been before, I had an idea, let’s close the circle.
Last year they took me there as my surprise birthday celebration Ihr seid verrückt! – Part 2 This year I haven’t nachholen from Chantal’s birthday so I’d pay half of ticket’s price for her and next year I’ll pay half for Sophie’s. In this way, we three guaranteed each three times together at Phantasialand 🙂 Fair and Fun, let’s begin!
We learnt from last year, have to prepare 5 Euro cash for direct bus shuttle. It took us half an hour longer, pffffff another waiting in line stolen 🙁 arrived at 11:45. Did we redo our attractions? planned yes to Mystery Castle + Carousel, unfortunately had to only be satisfied with one. Nevertheless, we’ve done new rides 😉
Die 3 Mausketiere ~ with VR Helm, very creative! had to be honest, at some point I felt a bit übel.
Winja’s Fear.
Lunch at Uhrwerk ~ they have a cool seating place yet paid by one hour of waiting for food, resulting me not satisfied.
Show der goldene Faden ~ glad we managed to watched a show, it was rather an acrobatics one, me likey.
Mystery Castle ~ still afraid although knew exactly what will happen.
We couldn’t get in to the Arctaris show, took us forever to find the place, once we managed, there was no seats left. There are still some roller coaster I had never gotten the experience to do such as FLY! We must do it when its Sophie’s turn 😉
Next year Phantasialand’s resolution:
Take the 07:45 train which leads us to arrive before Phantasialand is open #Aus Schaden wird man klug.
More Roller Coaster!
It’s really a good togetherness to close year 2025, who knows what or where we will be next year.
See you in 2026! #Less than 24 Hours!
Great things, unravel it to me, I’m more than ready 🙂
October 22nd, Chantal messaged me that she and Sophie were planning to celebrate my nachträglicher Geburtstag. She asked if I will be free on 28.12. My initial reaction was “Hä? Dezember? it still far… however knowing I don’t have holiday no more which means I’ll be in Dortmund, I said yes.
I received this message on Christmas. What?!?! was in shocked! #Never see that coming!
Sophie told I need a DE Ticket, maximal I can think is I’m going to their Heimat. This birthday gift was so above & beyond from both of them, voll ins Schwarze getroffen, can’t thank them enough!
Took the train from Dortmund Hbf to Köln at 08:45, mind you they were not from Dortmund ~ both started their journey one hour earlier. Heading to Brühl then took a shuttle bus cost 5 Euro on top pfffff on Lego Land they didn’t charge you more money, I only have 6 Euro on cash #Knapp!
Phantasialand opened at 11:00 we arrived around 11:40 ish. First attraction is Berlin area. We went to Das verrückte Hotel Tartüff, it’s like a fun house where they put furniture upside down, crazy elevator, moving carpet etc. In the end we can slide down only had to took off our shoes, oh yeah, saw it “Sophie, it’s quiet deep” she responded “Ach Marlyn, egal” #Fun 😀
Chantal want take Wellenflug carousel in front of fake ice-ice skating, let’s gooooo. It’s very relaxing to see the view from the top.
Walked passed Mexico, what do they have here? Wasserbahn mehhhh don’t want to get wet; the free fall towers auch mehhh; Talocan 13 x award winning top spin oh neeeee; Colorado Adventure it is! the descriptions were multi award winning family mine roller coaster. I’d say it fits for adults too, the track was outside + inside the dark tunnel, most thrilling was when we were in the dark tunnel, I thought it will go up only it goes down.
Moving on to Deep in Africa, Sophie recommended we must ride Black Mamba ~ the 18 x award winning suspended roller coaster in the heart of the jungle. Bring it on! I like the way we waited for Black Mamba, we do not go to a maze like normal, we “were” in the jungle vibe area, feels like I made a circle to it’s track. Right after, while we casually walking, I said “let’s go here, waiting time is only 5 minutes” it was an Adventure Trail which was easy, yet at the end there is a slide, boy oh boy my Ass hurt! the Slide is not like in das verrückte Hotel Tartüff, it’s made out of round steels like the type where you put your bag into an X-Ray #Poor my bones.
China Town is the area where we sit down in warm inside Restaurant Madschu for refilling our energy. We had a meet & greet with Dragon Wang, went to Europe’s longest underground ghost train Geister Rikscha. It was just sitting, chilling & seeing, we need it for Verdauung.
Reality kicks in, we are still missing 2 areas, Mystery and Fantasy. Los geht’s! Mystery Castle is next, we saw a seat that for me was familiar, reminded me of a screen illusion where they take us to a journey somewhere as if we were flying or tauchen, at least that’s what I expected in mind. We were seated, it was pitch dark, any moment the screen will appears. Holy guacamole! it was a free fall tower to which has awarded 16 times! None of us expected it! My feet clinged onto Chantal’s feet, shocking wasn’t do the justice. Turned on the dim light, we were somewhere on the top, going down, middle back to the top finally back to ground. I thought they will rocketed us again, thank’s God that wasn’t the case. I was gobsmacked “what the hell just happened?!” laughing as it was so much entertainment! The Mystery castle indeed a mystery.
At 17:00 they illuminate whole places, it was wonderful, Christmas spirit’s everywhere, walked around, took some beautiful pictures, absorbing these keepsakes <3
There are still some roller coasters left alas we couldn’t do it, only went in to Fantasy area then gift shop then ab nach Bushaltestelle. Unfortunately we didn’t see any shows, there was a fireworks at the end at 19:50 but since we took public transport, the connection wasn’t in our favor, we need to leave earlier. I think for next time I would stay in one of their theme park hotel and really take the paper Landkarte other than downloading the app. We did have the physical map in the end, only didn’t realized every ride has a descriptions, well! had we read it, we would miss the element of surprise from mystery castle 😉
Really appreciate both of you Chantal & Sophie for thinking to gift me this. What a brilliant way for us ~ me especially to mark the end of the year with Wintertraum.
Wondering what would the three of us would do next year? #alle guten Dinge sind drei.
