In the cabinet of the missing on the posters you actually see a few famous Dutch people who are portaying the people in the orchestra. The lady is a famous Opera singer over here and the Piano player is actually the guy who designed the ride. That guy also worked a lot as an actor in the park itself. He also played the the guy with the blue jacket in the Symbolica ride.
Nice explanation of Danse Macabre and good pronunciation of Spookslot. I believe Rob is his name he remembered Spookslot very well from such a long time ago. People new to Efteling would not notice the nod to Spookslot that Danse Macabre has but you did. Kate Bush did sing at Spookslot. I believe she did 6 songs in Efteling among which Wuthering Heights. It was to promote Spookslot and to promote her own debut album. When they announced Spookslot would close a big number of Kate Bush fans asked if they could get the tombstone of Kate Bush that was also in Spookslot. Kate Bush is known for her eerie singing in some songs so it fit something like Spookslot perfectly. For Danse Macabre they asked the famous symphonic band Epica to redo the Danse Macabre song and make a spooky videoclip inside and outside Danse Macabre. They named the song the Ghost In Me (Danse Macabre) Unfortunately a lot of Epica fans have no idea it is the already musical piece Danse Macabre and name the song only The Ghost In Me without the reference to Danse Macabre or Efteling. Symphonic metal in this case done for Dance Macabre is also eerie opera singing mixed with metal which works well together. There is videoclip of this on TH-cam. Efteling are storytellers and famous for their theming. It is not a park for people who are only interested in thrill rides altough they do have a couple. Efteling is an old themepark it opened 1952 but it is not the oldest. The oldest themepark is Bakken also known as Dreyrehavsbakken in Denmark. It opened 1583 (441 Years ago) I dont know if you went to Polles Keuken / Kitchen for pancakes or if you took hot snacks out of the hot snack vending machines in Efteling but if you want to eat pancakes outside of Efteling there are pancake restaurants and pancake boats all over The Netherlands. The pancake boats go on the lakes and canals while you eat pancakes. Dutch people go for dinner at night at these pancake restaurants and you can get sweet or savoury pancakes every restaurant with for example cheese and bacon baked into the pancake or just choose pancakes with sweet toppings. Dutch pancakes are huge so we usually eat only 2 of them. I know of 3 pancake boats they are in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Nijmegen. Rotterdam is closest to Efteling. If you went went with the ferry from the UK to Rotterdam you are already going in the right direction and could be a nice last meal before going back seeing the skyline of Rotterdam which has the biggest harbour in Europe and interesting new architecture because it had to be rebuild after the bombings in World War 2. We usually eat pancakes for dinner in a regular pancake restaurant but I think on a pancake boat they will go on the canals and lakes during lunch as well. The next website includes the 3 different pancake boats I know of. A pancake in Dutch is a pannenkoek so the website is called www.pannenkoekenboot.nl. The website is in Dutch but it says Tickets & Prijzen (Prices) and you can always call them to make a reservation as their phone number with country code is on top of their website. Even for Dutch people who go to regular pancake restaurants a pancake boat is something special. Eating and sight seeing at the same time. You pay in advance and you get unlimited pancakes on the boat. Children put M&M,s and marshmallows on the pancakes themselves. Oh and talking about the hot snack vending machine there is a snack in there that is called kroket. I believe in the UK you have potatoes inside a kroket but regular Dutch krokets have beef ragout inside them. People often confuse it with mashed potatoes. To make it more complicate we have lots of different krokets with different fillings also vegetarian ones. But the original most sold one has beef ragout. P.s. An 11 minute drive from Efteling there is a restaurant called Lucky Apple. It is one of the best and fancy all you can eat restaurants in The Netherlands. I have been to other all you can eats in The Netherlands but this one literally takes the cake. Their website is called luckyapple.nl and can partially translated in English well the headers with Prices, Special offers and Impression.
Thank you so much for taking the time comment we are glad you enjoyed the video as much as we enjoyed making it and remembering our wonderful experience with this ride
Haven't seen dance macabre yet. But I live on half hour travel distance from the park, so I decided to go there maybe next year, when the hype has passed and you don't have to stand in line for pretty much half the day.
Wow we are so jealous you are so close this would be our dream - now crowds have died down the wait time is about 35 mins most days which is well worth it for lots of re rides!
In the cabinet of the missing on the posters you actually see a few famous Dutch people who are portaying the people in the orchestra. The lady is a famous Opera singer over here and the Piano player is actually the guy who designed the ride. That guy also worked a lot as an actor in the park itself. He also played the the guy with the blue jacket in the Symbolica ride.
Oh that's great to know thank you! We were certainly intrigued by the cabinet of the missing and so glad we spent some time taking it all in!
Congrats you are officialy the First non-dutch person to pronounce spookslot correctly
Ahh thank you we do try - we definitely don’t get all the Dutch pronunciation correct! Such a beautiful language we would love to learn
Brilliant review, Would love to go here. Can see been there in the evening really adds to the experience. Love it ❤
Thank you! It is a really special place and worth making the trip if you can ❤️
Great review.
Thank you really glad you enjoyed it
Nice explanation of Danse Macabre and good pronunciation of Spookslot. I believe Rob is his name he remembered Spookslot very well from such a long time ago. People new to Efteling would not notice the nod to Spookslot that Danse Macabre has but you did. Kate Bush did sing at Spookslot. I believe she did 6 songs in Efteling among which Wuthering Heights. It was to promote Spookslot and to promote her own debut album. When they announced Spookslot would close a big number of Kate Bush fans asked if they could get the tombstone of Kate Bush that was also in Spookslot. Kate Bush is known for her eerie singing in some songs so it fit something like Spookslot perfectly.
For Danse Macabre they asked the famous symphonic band Epica to redo the Danse Macabre song and make a spooky videoclip inside and outside Danse Macabre. They named the song the Ghost In Me (Danse Macabre) Unfortunately a lot of Epica fans have no idea it is the already musical piece Danse Macabre and name the song only The Ghost In Me without the reference to Danse Macabre or Efteling. Symphonic metal in this case done for Dance Macabre is also eerie opera singing mixed with metal which works well together. There is videoclip of this on TH-cam.
Efteling are storytellers and famous for their theming. It is not a park for people who are only interested in thrill rides altough they do have a couple. Efteling is an old themepark it opened 1952 but it is not the oldest. The oldest themepark is Bakken also known as Dreyrehavsbakken in Denmark. It opened 1583 (441 Years ago) I dont know if you went to Polles Keuken / Kitchen for pancakes or if you took hot snacks out of the hot snack vending machines in Efteling but if you want to eat pancakes outside of Efteling there are pancake restaurants and pancake boats all over The Netherlands. The pancake boats go on the lakes and canals while you eat pancakes.
Dutch people go for dinner at night at these pancake restaurants and you can get sweet or savoury pancakes every restaurant with for example cheese and bacon baked into the pancake or just choose pancakes with sweet toppings. Dutch pancakes are huge so we usually eat only 2 of them. I know of 3 pancake boats they are in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Nijmegen. Rotterdam is closest to Efteling. If you went went with the ferry from the UK to Rotterdam you are already going in the right direction and could be a nice last meal before going back seeing the skyline of Rotterdam which has the biggest harbour in Europe and interesting new architecture because it had to be rebuild after the bombings in World War 2.
We usually eat pancakes for dinner in a regular pancake restaurant but I think on a pancake boat they will go on the canals and lakes during lunch as well. The next website includes the 3 different pancake boats I know of. A pancake in Dutch is a pannenkoek so the website is called www.pannenkoekenboot.nl. The website is in Dutch but it says Tickets & Prijzen (Prices) and you can always call them to make a reservation as their phone number with country code is on top of their website. Even for Dutch people who go to regular pancake restaurants a pancake boat is something special. Eating and sight seeing at the same time. You pay in advance and you get unlimited pancakes on the boat. Children put M&M,s and marshmallows on the pancakes themselves.
Oh and talking about the hot snack vending machine there is a snack in there that is called kroket. I believe in the UK you have potatoes inside a kroket but regular Dutch krokets have beef ragout inside them. People often confuse it with mashed potatoes. To make it more complicate we have lots of different krokets with different fillings also vegetarian ones. But the original most sold one has beef ragout. P.s. An 11 minute drive from Efteling there is a restaurant called Lucky Apple. It is one of the best and fancy all you can eat restaurants in The Netherlands. I have been to other all you can eats in The Netherlands but this one literally takes the cake. Their website is called luckyapple.nl and can partially translated in English well the headers with Prices, Special offers and Impression.
Thank you so much for taking the time comment we are glad you enjoyed the video as much as we enjoyed making it and remembering our wonderful experience with this ride
Haven't seen dance macabre yet. But I live on half hour travel distance from the park, so I decided to go there maybe next year, when the hype has passed and you don't have to stand in line for pretty much half the day.
Wow we are so jealous you are so close this would be our dream - now crowds have died down the wait time is about 35 mins most days which is well worth it for lots of re rides!