We absolutely love this beautiful theme park 😍 If you haven’t already, join us for our first day here 👉 th-cam.com/video/xNijBS86iB4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=xlu3ldMGOgE60ZSv
The view from that hihi ride, the trees, what a stunning park, wow, your hotel was awesome, the staff all speak English as all Dutch people do, rude we don't reciprocate, what a trip, impressed this place looks fabulous, what a treat they paid for it all, lucky , glad u clearly had a BLAST !! hugs for your back lovely xxx
Visited in September. What makes this park so wonderful is the priority of making people have a magical day, rather than making money. There’s no fast track and the food is not only the best food i’ve ever had in a theme park, it’s CHEAP. I paid £2 for an ice cream. I can’t buy an ice cream for £2 from a local van! Merch is reasonable too and not shoved in your face - most rides don’t even have a shop.
I don’t think Ive ever had a more conveniently timed video - I was just thinking when the day 2 was going to come out, and then look what came out a minute ago!
Hey Mr and Mrs Sandbrooke. Ty for the video. Sad its the last vlog. But loved every second of it. Ty for these videos. GREATLY appreciated. Hope your back gets better Charlotte.
everything about this park just seems to ooze quality! you can tell the people that work there both back and front of house actually care about the park! would love to go here! real bucket list park for me!
Glad to see you had a good stay 🍄✨ Spotted you around with some gift bags, hope you get them all home safely! Thanks for highlighting the Efteling again!
Actually there is a service for souvenirs. They bring it to the entrance for you (or to the hotel), so you don't have to carry it all day ! That service is free of charge @@ThemeParkWorldwide
Starts love the day 2 vlogs as they focus on everything else the park had to offer. I loved the music from piranha, and could easily lose myself in fairy tale forest. Excellent job filming the park, love watching all the vlogs this weekend!
It’s great to see you two got back to Efteling again! Very nice to see you still enjoy being there! It’s my home park, and I love it when I see it in your videos!
There's quite a few things i didn't get to see last time. The museum, shows and a couple of areas of the fairytale forest. Another fantastic vlog from my favourite place.
Thank you for sharing this amazing park. I am from the USA 🇺🇸 and have been to Disney World many times. However from what I have seen Efteling is so much better. I think originally this is what Disney had in mind but it’s been taken over by big business.
Absolutely brilliant and love the way you have left out Danse Macabre from your two main vlogs as I don't want spoilers until my visit a week on Friday! What a beautiful and stunning park 😊
Shawn and Charlotte... love you both! Thank you for this vlog series from Efteling! It was totally off of our radar, but it looks like it would be perfect for us! 😊
What a beautiful park. Love all the trees. All this park needs is a stand-out coaster, and it would be perfect. Hopefully, they can get a new coaster in the next couple of years.
Really enjoyed watching your video after coming home from Efteling! Vogel Rok is one of my favourite rides, with its amazing soundtrack. Piranha in the dark was a highlight too, along with a night ride on Joris. Too many excellent rides to pick a favourite!
Another fun fairytale forrest fact: The Emporers New Clothes (the one with the characters behind the hedge) is actually a test setup for Symbolica. All the figures are moving on trackless vehicles.
Great video Shawn and Charlotte from the second day at Efteling in The Netherlands! Keep the good videos coming on the channel, Charlotte and Shawn. I can't see the next video from some that were on the channel. Charlotte and Shawn. 😀😃👍👍👍👍
Thanks to u, I have never been, this is now my top spot place to go, I LOVE Netherlands been soooo many times, but where is it I need t research nearest trains etc. this is my 2025 trip, great posts of it u guys, love u loads ... Dance Macre looks, DIFFERENT ... like Hex on speed and moving and tilting love it, Matt South UK. (25 mins from Thorpe hope to meet u one day mate) x
If you're going by train, get a train to Breda, there's shuttle buses from there to the park in Kaatsheuvel. It's an easy station to get to from either Brussels or Amsterdam, both roughly 1,5 hours away. I'd recommend a three day visit and a stay on site in one of their hotels/holiday parks (I think Bosrijk is the nicest one), it really adds to the experience, and the park is way too big to take it all in in one day.
Ahh you just missed it @47:18 Just before you go into the second room of the museum, if you look through that window around the left corner, you see the animatronic of the count from Spookslot which was visible as a peppers ghost effect in the attraction itself.
20:36 Unfortunately you missed Sleeping Beauty, that fairy tale has had a major renovation and the landscape around it has completely changed including a new pond with waterfall and two new residents have been added to the fairy tale, a knight and an owl that guards the key to the castle.
Omg nice lovely dutch vlogs and the new dark ride . Wow i winder if you hadnt been invited you would wait 4 hours i hope charlotte is feeling better with the rides she got to do
Vogel Rok is my sons favourite ride too. It was quiet the day we visited so we went on about 10 times! Would love to buy all those models and build a full Efteling replica :)
It’s exactly like you said, nostalgia for me from when I was younger. Every time I see the dancing water lelies in real time or on a screen it remembers me of my mom, whom past away a few years ago, telling me about the story and it was a fairytale written by our Belgian queen at that moment queen Fabiola. My mom loved the fairytale forest, went there when she was young , took us when we were young, I kept going at least every few years an now I take my son to the wonderful world of the Efteling. For me with every new edition and every change or rebuild in the park, it is growing more and more into how it should be. What they do is always spot on who they are. Can’t wait for their next big project and to see them growing in big and smal places all over the park. It is absolutely my favourite park from since I was a toddler. So thanks for the vlogs the past few days and bringing up some great memories. You guys are really the greatest in what you do.
Very surprised to see you rate Vogel Rok above Baron and Vliegende Hollander by now! Vliegende Hollander gotta be my favorite coaster there! I am curious how high you rate Danse Macabre compared to other rides at the park?:))
Always great to see my park through your eyes. I am proud of it and i am glad you guys are proud of it as well. Some day soon you will bring your kids here and they will have those childhood memories like we all have..But be warned, they will keep on asking you to come here every year..Trust me.😉
Gutted that I didn't see you guys at the park on Thursday, but I had to get that opening day ride in at Danse Macabre (and go to work right after). I was one of many in that huge cue line. 'Only' waited about 2.5 hours though. Not bad at all. And totally worth it. I went to the sneak preview event on October 26th and they improved the ride a lot after that. Can't wait to have many more rides on it.
Its been a few years since i last went. Like literally the last day of spookslot i was there. Hope to go again soon with friends. Mainly for Danse Macabre
Shawn, I had to go to the Dr today for a check up on a lump that I've had on my stomach for 8 years, went to have an ultrasound done and next week have to see a radiologist, I'm a bit scared but your videos are keeping my mind off it.
Shawn - You need to do an old school water ride bonanza like you did at (i cant remember the place!) but you went on a water slide about 50 times and got completely drenched!
Hi theme park worldwide(Shaun and Charlotte) it was very fun seeing you two at drayton manor and taking the time to take a picture with me, I love your content, it's a shame I only took one pic and Charlotte was hiding, hopefully if we see you again we might sneak a nother pic, thank you so much, #Get out their and keep on riding 😀🚂
Watched all your vlogs from this trip (I commented on the hotel vid) and damn it was enjoyable, my point stands, you guys are the best themepark vloggers out there and Efteling is the best themepark. This videos manage to capture Eftelings beauty unlike other vids. (Btw didnt you say u were staying for two nights. May I ask why there aren’t three vlog days? Or did u arrive very late?)
Is it best to fly into Eindhoven, and then get a taxi to the park? We did last year (and absolutely loved it), but is there a better way ofgetti there from the UK?
Watching videos of European thrne parks makes you think Alton Towers has lost the magic. So many dark themes. What about magical, fun themes? At Alton Towers, I'd love to see a traditional fairground with the music, lighting and food associated with it open in the evenings too.
New homepark? 😁You missed out on the revamped (area) of Sleeping beauty castle. And maybe next time go inside all the buildings of 'The People of Laaf' including a new addition recently.
Yes, het Lurk en Limoen huys has a lovely new scene and animatronic. In my opinion the indoor scènes at Laaf are the most underrated and often missen gems of the park. Especially since the story of the people of Laaf was an original creation by then head designer Ton van der Ven. Also the new landscaping around sleeping beauty castle has really changed the vibe and refreshed the whole area.
@@ThemeParkWorldwide damn, do you have any idea on if itll come back? I really hope it does, out of all the hoodies that one is the one ive wanted and havent seen it
@@ThemeParkWorldwide It was awesome! Went into Danse Macabre twice! Btw, love how you call this park your home away from home, that is the best compliment you can give the efteling in my opinion!
We absolutely love this beautiful theme park 😍 If you haven’t already, join us for our first day here 👉 th-cam.com/video/xNijBS86iB4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=xlu3ldMGOgE60ZSv
The new ride and area look amazing. i think the ride system itself is going to change the theme park world.
@ThemeParkWorldwide I definitely, positively agree with you; Efteling is a beautiful theme park! Love this vlog! 😍😍😍😁😁🎢🎢🎢🎡🎠🎠🐲🧚🧚♀️🪄
@ThemeParkWorldwide As for my favorite coaster at Efteling, I have to go with Baron 1898.
hi Shaun and Charlotte what advice would you give to someone wanting to start their own Vlogs. as been thinking of doing my own
this is our home from home, is the biggest compliment you could give to us, as efteling fans. thank you!
We love it very much! Thank you for watching!
Genuinely my favourite theme park in Europe. The atmosphere and attention to detail is fantastic. Great Blog
It’s a beautiful park
The view from that hihi ride, the trees, what a stunning park, wow, your hotel was awesome, the staff all speak English as all Dutch people do, rude we don't reciprocate, what a trip, impressed this place looks fabulous, what a treat they paid for it all, lucky , glad u clearly had a BLAST !! hugs for your back lovely xxx
We had such a great time!
Visited in September. What makes this park so wonderful is the priority of making people have a magical day, rather than making money. There’s no fast track and the food is not only the best food i’ve ever had in a theme park, it’s CHEAP. I paid £2 for an ice cream. I can’t buy an ice cream for £2 from a local van! Merch is reasonable too and not shoved in your face - most rides don’t even have a shop.
Just home from our first ever visit.we stayed in the efteling hotel too,loved it! What a truly magical theme park,we cant wait to return
You just get better and better you two!! Best TH-cam channel of 2024 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you so much!
@@JamesVanDeRothschild fr
I don’t think Ive ever had a more conveniently timed video - I was just thinking when the day 2 was going to come out, and then look what came out a minute ago!
Enjoy! It was another wonderful day!
Hey Mr and Mrs Sandbrooke. Ty for the video. Sad its the last vlog. But loved every second of it. Ty for these videos. GREATLY appreciated. Hope your back gets better Charlotte.
Thank you!
The rocks on the top of the first waterfall on piranha look like faces...
This is such a wonderful park for videos!
Love how they allow on ride filming too!
everything about this park just seems to ooze quality! you can tell the people that work there both back and front of house actually care about the park! would love to go here! real bucket list park for me!
It’s such a wonderful park!
Woow! Nice to see you here! I also watched this video 😃🎃
@@mikey42325 haha small world!
Glad to see you had a good stay 🍄✨ Spotted you around with some gift bags, hope you get them all home safely!
Thanks for highlighting the Efteling again!
Thank you, we had a great time!
Actually there is a service for souvenirs. They bring it to the entrance for you (or to the hotel), so you don't have to carry it all day ! That service is free of charge @@ThemeParkWorldwide
Starts love the day 2 vlogs as they focus on everything else the park had to offer. I loved the music from piranha, and could easily lose myself in fairy tale forest. Excellent job filming the park, love watching all the vlogs this weekend!
Thank you!
Thank you for showing so much love for our home park, and I'm glad it feels like a home!
We love it!
It’s great to see you two got back to Efteling again! Very nice to see you still enjoy being there!
It’s my home park, and I love it when I see it in your videos!
We loved it!
There's quite a few things i didn't get to see last time. The museum, shows and a couple of areas of the fairytale forest. Another fantastic vlog from my favourite place.
There’s so much at this park to discover!
Thank you for sharing this amazing park. I am from the USA 🇺🇸 and have been to Disney World many times. However from what I have seen Efteling is so much better. I think originally this is what Disney had in mind but it’s been taken over by big business.
Thank you!
Thanks for these, Efteling is on my list of must visit parks along with Europa Park 😊
Efteling is such an amazing park!
Efteling can be perfectly combined with a visit to Toverland. Which is also a very nice park in the Netherlands
Congratulations on your 400,000+ subscribers!!! Well deserved...and on to the half a million target 🤩
Thank you so much!
Absolutely brilliant and love the way you have left out Danse Macabre from your two main vlogs as I don't want spoilers until my visit a week on Friday! What a beautiful and stunning park 😊
Have fun!
Just a beautiful park! That que line for danse macabre was insane!
It really is wonderful
Awesome vid! I'm visiting for the 1st time in 2 weeks. Park looks amazing, can't wait to get out there!
Awesome, welcome in the Netherlands and Efteling and enjoy your stay! Have a lot of fun!
Have a great time!
Shawn and Charlotte... love you both! Thank you for this vlog series from Efteling! It was totally off of our radar, but it looks like it would be perfect for us! 😊
Thank you!
Man, this park is definitely another bucket list trip for me! Gotta get out here one day!
It’s a wonderful park!
Love the fairytale feel of this park 🧚
Shawn & Charlotte on rapids is the funniest thing 🤣 can’t beat the time your glasses flew off Shawn! 😂😂😂
Thanks for watching!
Great Day Two Vlog from Efteling Shawn and Charlotte
Loving the lamps 18:51
What a beautiful park. Love all the trees. All this park needs is a stand-out coaster, and it would be perfect. Hopefully, they can get a new coaster in the next couple of years.
I hope they don’t it’s perfect
It was already on the planning, but then covid happened and the plans got scrapped. They will probably make a new concept the coming years.
As much as I love Efteling, I think that adding a stand-out coaster to the park would be awesome to experience.
We would love to see a major new coaster come to the park next!
Really enjoyed watching your video after coming home from Efteling! Vogel Rok is one of my favourite rides, with its amazing soundtrack. Piranha in the dark was a highlight too, along with a night ride on Joris. Too many excellent rides to pick a favourite!
It’s such a great park!
watching this in the hyperia queue for my last ride of the season! 150 minutes 😭. love your content it’s so good!
Thank you so much!
Another fun fairytale forrest fact: The Emporers New Clothes (the one with the characters behind the hedge) is actually a test setup for Symbolica. All the figures are moving on trackless vehicles.
Thanks for sharing!
It was great to see you back in Efteling, your first day here feels like yesterday
We had such a great time!
Amazing video ! It's magical🧚✨️🔮 I love it 💓
Thank you!
Great video Shawn and Charlotte from the second day at Efteling in The Netherlands! Keep the good videos coming on the channel, Charlotte and Shawn. I can't see the next video from some that were on the channel. Charlotte and Shawn. 😀😃👍👍👍👍
Thanks to u, I have never been, this is now my top spot place to go, I LOVE Netherlands been soooo many times, but where is it I need t research nearest trains etc. this is my 2025 trip, great posts of it u guys, love u loads ... Dance Macre looks, DIFFERENT ... like Hex on speed and moving and tilting love it, Matt South UK. (25 mins from Thorpe hope to meet u one day mate) x
It’s such a wonderful park!
If you're going by train, get a train to Breda, there's shuttle buses from there to the park in Kaatsheuvel. It's an easy station to get to from either Brussels or Amsterdam, both roughly 1,5 hours away. I'd recommend a three day visit and a stay on site in one of their hotels/holiday parks (I think Bosrijk is the nicest one), it really adds to the experience, and the park is way too big to take it all in in one day.
Glad you enjoyed your frontrow ride on Vogel! i was grouping and when i noticed you i thought. he has to get the front for the pov :)
It was awesome! Thank you very much!
It took me one whole week to watch all of them vlogs but it was so worth it! haha
Love it!
Carnival festival reminds me a bit of Bubble works which is sadly missed
Loved watching these videos. Hope you get better soon charlotte❤
Thank you!
Ahh you just missed it @47:18
Just before you go into the second room of the museum, if you look through that window around the left corner, you see the animatronic of the count from Spookslot which was visible as a peppers ghost effect in the attraction itself.
That’s awesome! Love the museum!
Always love your Efteling vlogs!❤
Thank you!
20:36 Unfortunately you missed Sleeping Beauty, that fairy tale has had a major renovation and the landscape around it has completely changed including a new pond with waterfall and two new residents have been added to the fairy tale, a knight and an owl that guards the key to the castle.
We’ll have to check it out next time!
Omg nice lovely dutch vlogs and the new dark ride . Wow i winder if you hadnt been invited you would wait 4 hours i hope charlotte is feeling better with the rides she got to do
My favourite thing to watch is Charlotte on a water ride. It is very entertaining. I hope her back gets better soon!
Thank you, hopefully so!
Vogel Rok is my sons favourite ride too. It was quiet the day we visited so we went on about 10 times!
Would love to buy all those models and build a full Efteling replica :)
It’s an amazing ride!
It’s exactly like you said, nostalgia for me from when I was younger. Every time I see the dancing water lelies in real time or on a screen it remembers me of my mom, whom past away a few years ago, telling me about the story and it was a fairytale written by our Belgian queen at that moment queen Fabiola. My mom loved the fairytale forest, went there when she was young , took us when we were young, I kept going at least every few years an now I take my son to the wonderful world of the Efteling. For me with every new edition and every change or rebuild in the park, it is growing more and more into how it should be. What they do is always spot on who they are. Can’t wait for their next big project and to see them growing in big and smal places all over the park. It is absolutely my favourite park from since I was a toddler. So thanks for the vlogs the past few days and bringing up some great memories. You guys are really the greatest in what you do.
Thank you did sharing! We really appreciate it!
I will always love your videos
Thank you!
Very surprised to see you rate Vogel Rok above Baron and Vliegende Hollander by now! Vliegende Hollander gotta be my favorite coaster there!
I am curious how high you rate Danse Macabre compared to other rides at the park?:))
It’s a fantastic ride, really enjoy it!
Great video and love the park. Was there last week and had a great time. There are a few videos on TH-cam of Vogel rock with the lights on.
Thank you, would love to ride it with the lights on!
My Mum's favourite area is the fairytale forest as some of it has unchanged since she visited in the 50's as a little girl!
It’s such a beautiful area of the park
Always great to see my park through your eyes. I am proud of it and i am glad you guys are proud of it as well. Some day soon you will bring your kids here and they will have those childhood memories like we all have..But be warned, they will keep on asking you to come here every year..Trust me.😉
We absolutely love it!
Gutted that I didn't see you guys at the park on Thursday, but I had to get that opening day ride in at Danse Macabre (and go to work right after). I was one of many in that huge cue line. 'Only' waited about 2.5 hours though. Not bad at all. And totally worth it. I went to the sneak preview event on October 26th and they improved the ride a lot after that. Can't wait to have many more rides on it.
Hope you had a great day!
Shawn another great vlog and quite a nice theme park to bro
Thank you!
Great vlog Shawn and Charlotte 👍👍😃😃
Amazing park amazing video from you guys 🎉
Thank you!
Hi Shaun I met u when you were at Efteling u commented on my Danse macabre earmuffs!
Its been a few years since i last went. Like literally the last day of spookslot i was there. Hope to go again soon with friends. Mainly for Danse Macabre
Shawn, I had to go to the Dr today for a check up on a lump that I've had on my stomach for 8 years, went to have an ultrasound done and next week have to see a radiologist, I'm a bit scared but your videos are keeping my mind off it.
Hope everything goes okay for you 😊
Get well soon!
Shawn - You need to do an old school water ride bonanza like you did at (i cant remember the place!) but you went on a water slide about 50 times and got completely drenched!
Great vlog, see you next year here in The Netherlands in Efteling 👍😊
Can’t wait!
great video 😀
Efteling is the keeper of the grail for high exclusive dark rides:))))
Love the dark rides here!
Hi theme park worldwide(Shaun and Charlotte) it was very fun seeing you two at drayton manor and taking the time to take a picture with me, I love your content, it's a shame I only took one pic and Charlotte was hiding, hopefully if we see you again we might sneak a nother pic, thank you so much, #Get out their and keep on riding 😀🚂
It was great to see you!
Going to switch to the sandbrooke adventures for closing season 😁😁❤
We’ve got so much coming up on both channels as we head into the festive period!
You've missed the update on Sleepy Beauty castle by entering "the wrong gate" of the fairy tale forrest, it's got two brand new animatronics.
Awesome! We’ll have to check them out next time!
Very entertaining, I hope you do visit and vlog it, I'd like to see you immerse yourself in the bike culture 😅
so close to 400k subs not long to go
We can’t believe it 😀
Danse Macabre is the best Alton Towers attraction never built since HEX!:)))
Great Video Shawn And Charlotte 😊.
Thanks!
Brilliant vlog
Watched all your vlogs from this trip (I commented on the hotel vid) and damn it was enjoyable, my point stands, you guys are the best themepark vloggers out there and Efteling is the best themepark.
This videos manage to capture Eftelings beauty unlike other vids.
(Btw didnt you say u were staying for two nights. May I ask why there aren’t three vlog days? Or did u arrive very late?)
Thank you for your kind words! We arrived later in the day on the first day!
hi can you give me some information on when park opens for the season and how much it is to get and hotels near the park please and thankyou
Check out our travel guide for details
Have you seen talking bins again 🤗😊
Which theme park has your best benches
That’s a tough one!
I’m sure Charlotte doesn’t mind missing those rapids today 😂😂
Definitely not 😂
Awesome Video Guys 😄😄😄😄😄😄
Remember for the flying dutchman: sit on the front row. The experience is so much better.
Is it best to fly into Eindhoven, and then get a taxi to the park? We did last year (and absolutely loved it), but is there a better way ofgetti there from the UK?
Yes!
19:37 This path will always remain closed from now on. This has now become a backstage area.
Loved the vlogs. Which airport did you fly into, please? We're thinking of going next year.
We flew into Amsterdam this time as it was an arranged trip, however I’d recommend Eindhoven normally!
@ThemeParkWorldwide thank you. Will look into it.
Nice vlog! How would you rate Danse Macabre? Would you say Symbolica is still your best ride here or has Danse Macabre taken the first spot? :)
Symbolica is still my favourite
Great vlog! Will you be visiting Europa Park next year?
We will be
Watching videos of European thrne parks makes you think Alton Towers has lost the magic. So many dark themes. What about magical, fun themes? At Alton Towers, I'd love to see a traditional fairground with the music, lighting and food associated with it open in the evenings too.
Would love to see more lighter themes at Alton Towers
Great videos , thanks for the insight. We are thinking of taking the kids next year. what hotel would you recomend ?
Thank you! We enjoyed all of them we’ve stayed at but especially the Bosrijk
That water looks freezing 13:58
Currently arranging the dates to visit for the first time next year. Would two days or three days be ideal to experience the park?
3 days is perfect in my opinion!
Thank you. 3 days with 2 nights it is
New homepark? 😁You missed out on the revamped (area) of Sleeping beauty castle. And maybe next time go inside all the buildings of 'The People of Laaf' including a new addition recently.
Yes, het Lurk en Limoen huys has a lovely new scene and animatronic. In my opinion the indoor scènes at Laaf are the most underrated and often missen gems of the park.
Especially since the story of the people of Laaf was an original creation by then head designer Ton van der Ven.
Also the new landscaping around sleeping beauty castle has really changed the vibe and refreshed the whole area.
Hello Shawn and Charlotte 👋☺️
Hey 👋
are u getting planet coster 2 when it get relases
Can’t wait!
Four hour wait? Geez. I hope they did timed entry.
Hi Shawn, great video and quick question will you be going to towers for the last day of scarefest?
We will be
@ I’m here today too! At wicker man first!
how do u get that nemesis hoodie in a bigger size? Im a small but out of the FOUR times we went there was only ever really small sizes???
I managed to get it on opening week!
@@ThemeParkWorldwide damn, do you have any idea on if itll come back? I really hope it does, out of all the hoodies that one is the one ive wanted and havent seen it
I’m sure Charlotte is absolutely gutted 12:00
Will u guys be back to stay at the Grand hotel when it opens?
We will be back in 2025 for the Grand Hotel as it looks amazing!
Whoo i'm on camera XD 20:04
Hope you had a great day!
@@ThemeParkWorldwide It was awesome! Went into Danse Macabre twice!
Btw, love how you call this park your home away from home, that is the best compliment you can give the efteling in my opinion!
My brother was sitting on the right of you on the flying dutchman( the one with the blond hair)
Awesome! Hope he had a great day 😃
The schip is the biggest in the world.
Where is the best airport to fly into and how to get there?
Eindhoven is a great option!
Were you able to get the tshirt from danse macabre?
I didn’t unfortunately as the queue for the shop was huge!
@ThemeParkWorldwide too bad :( but a good reason to visit again next year when the new hotel has opened!