04.11.2021
It’s raining awards for Europa-Park

Outstanding leisure fun at Germany’s largest theme park

The leisure experts agree: Europa-Park is ‘Europe's best theme park’, and has been awarded the European Star Award by the specialist magazine ‘Kirmes & Park Revue’ as part of the ‘Euro Attractions Show’, the largest European trade show for the leisure industry. In addition, the ride ‘ARTHUR’ was awarded ‘Europe's best family attraction’, with ’Poseidon’ achieving third place in the ‘Europe's best water attraction’ category. ‘WODAN - Timburcoaster’ took 5th place in the category ‘Europe's best wooden rollercoaster’ and the popular ‘Pirates in Batavia’ landed in the top ten as ‘Europe's best dark ride’. Since 2012, the European Star Award has been presented by an international jury of experts.

Germany's largest theme park also took first place in 5 of 15 categories of the Parkscout plus Award, and the editorial team confirmed Europa-Park as ‘Europe's best amusement park’, as well as the new Rulantica water world as ‘Europe's best water park’. The 'Pirates in Batavia' were also up on the podium as 'Europe's best dark ride', with 'WODAN - Timburcoaster' as 'Germany's best wooden rollercoaster' and 'Eurosat - CanCan Coaster' as 'Germany's best family rollercoaster'. The specialist magazine Parkscout plus appears quarterly and reports on leisure, animal and holiday parks as well as water parks.

In October, the internationally-recognised Parksmania Award also went to Rust. The online magazine Parksmania.it named Europa-Park as 'European Park of the Year' and the 'Pirates in Batavia' as 'European Top New Attraction'. In addition, the Rulantica water world received the internationally-recognised 'Parksmania Award' in the 'European Park of the Year' category. The jury named the innovative new products 'Snorri Snorkling VR', 'Snorri Strand' and 'Svalgurok' as the leading reasons. The Parksmania Award has been presented since 2001, confirming the excellent, first-class quality of what is on offer at Germany's largest amusement park.

On top of that…

The World Waterpark Association (WWA) awarded Rulantica the renowned 'Leading Edge Award' for the expanded outdoor area of ​​the Nordic outdoor world of slides. It particularly honoured the innovative and creative projects in the field of water parks. 'Svalgurok' was also recognised at the Blooloop Innovation Awards, where the outdoor slide world won the 'Splash' category. The Blooloop Awards honour new and innovative projects, products and services in the worldwide leisure industry

  • European Star Award, Parkscout plus Award and Parksmania Award: All three distinguish Europa-Park as Europe's best theme park in 2021

  • Rulantica convinces with new ideas

  • Rulantica's Julian Oszwald (left) with Thomas Mack, one of the Managing Partners of Europa-Park, with the Parksmania Award