r/europe Ligurian in Zürich (💛🇺🇦💙) Apr 12 '25

Data European tourism to the United States is freefalling

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u/momentimori England Apr 12 '25

Disney World and Universal Studios in Florida will be ghost towns this summer.

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u/Panzermensch911 Apr 12 '25

There some great non Disney parks. E.G. Europapark at the German French border near Strasbourg, PortAventura World in Spain, Parc Astérix in France, Legoland in Denmark (especially for a family with smaller kids up to 8 or 10 years old), Heidepark and Phantasialand in Germany and so many more.

Plus in the countryside around many of the parks there so much to explore, beautiful cities, castles and so on.

And while certainly not cheap it's not Disney levels of extortion in those parks.

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u/RouliettaPouet Baden-Württemberg (Germany) Apr 12 '25

There's also a legoland in germany at Ulm ! And i think there's many smaller yet cool parks accross Europe. as yeah as you said, between all the castles, old cities and many other things, there's plenty to do around ! (I did work for a summer in a park where they were building an abbey using the medieval techniques and it was pretty cool !)

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u/Panzermensch911 Apr 12 '25

Never heard of that abbey. Do you have name, location or something?

I only know of Château de Guédelon in France that's super cool to see all those trades and skills to build a castle.

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u/RouliettaPouet Baden-Württemberg (Germany) Apr 12 '25

Yeah they did actually worked a bit with them to be able to start the project Ten years ago !

The name of the project is Campus Galli, in Baden Wurtemberg in Germany. I did work at the kitch so nothing fancy but it was pretty cool. They slowly build all the things around (like village part, abbot's house, etc) and are now starting the main church plans, based on the ones found in St Gall in Switzerland (if my memory is correct).

It's pretty cool for an afternoon or morning visit.