I don’t think Walibi Belgium gets talked about enough to be completely honest. It’s not quite on the same level as Europa Park or Efteling, but it’s definitely in the big leagues in my opinion!
It has 2 excellent dark rides, a great line up of coasters and a varied selection of flat rides that mean it appeals to everyone, from the top thrill seekers down to younger kids starting out their theme park journey.
The Rides
The biggest, headline attraction of Walibi Belgium is undoubtedly Kondaa, and Intamin Mega Coaster that is all about airtime and has a completely unique non-inverting cobra roll. For the families, the newest coaster, Mecalodon is perfect as It offers some airtime, decent twists and turns as well as 3 different launches too! It is well themed up in the Dock World area and looks and rides brilliantly.
For the younger kids, you’ll find Fun Pilot, car rides, a mini magic carpet rides as well as various other more tame attractions! There are small train rides, and roundabouts, as well as chair swings and a decent carousel too.
Then there’s everything in between. Starting with Pulsar, which is a Mack Rides Power Splash and was the fastest coaster in the Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg) region. Tiki Waka is a brilliant Gerstlauer Bobsled that is as comfortable as it is thrilling, dipping and diving over paths and water ways. A very photogenic coaster and a great time rolled into one.
It’s not all coaster though, there’s Buzzsaw, a Top Spin for the thrill seeking guests, Spinning Vibe, a break dance that doesn’t push it too far and a brilliant themed Technical Park Swing Around ride called Silverton too.
Finally there’s the 2 dark rides, Popcorn Revenge and Challenge of Tutankhamen. Both of these are excellent in their own way, they’re interactive and very reridable. You don’t want miss out on either of these in my opinion!
There’s plenty more to see, besides what I’ve talked about here, including a rapids ride and a log flume too, and a whole water park as well. It’s definitely worth visiting just for the rides alone, however, there is also the food too!
The Food
Food is varied and plentiful. You’ll find your staple park fare such as burgers, chicken and chips, but there’s also some very tasty pizza, gourmet BBQ burgers, steaks and pasta.
I can particularly recommend the French Tacos the park does as these are more like a burrito without the rice and they are so tasty! There are a few sit in restaurants too, much like McDonald’s, but we didn’t use them on either of our visits as we like to pack as much into our visits as we can.
Everything we’ve tried during the 3 days we’ve spent at Walibi Belgium has been tasty and not too expensive. We’ve had pizza and pasta, chicken strips, french tacos, Frikandel (which is a type of sausage) and nachos during our visits and the only real let down was the nachos as we felt they weren’t good value for the portion sizes.
They sell a good range of soft drinks as well as alcohol for the adults. These come in reusable themed cups which is great for the collector and staff are happy if you ask for specific cups too. You pay 1€ more for your drink with a reusable cup but you can return it for your 1€ back, or keep it as a souvenir. Speaking of souvenirs….
Merchandise
Merchandise is some of the best outside the larger parks as they cater for a lot of their rides as well as the overall park too. I came away this time with 2 new t-shirts, and a couple of pins (as well as the reusable cups mentioned before).
You’ll find t-shirts, lanyards and cups for Kondaa and Mecalodon, Pulsar, Loup Garou, a little for Vampire as well as Dalton Terror, the parks drop tower. It’s not often that a park will even acknowledge one of their flat rides in merchandise but you do get some here!
In our experience, there were only afew things that you might call expensive but everything else was reasonably priced. T-shirts were costing around the 20-25€ mark depending on which season they came out, cups were around the 10€ mark and the pins we bought were about 6€ each. The only real complaint that we have is that there weren’t enough pins as there were only generic Walibi pins. Nothing for the rides which is a shame but it didn’t spoil our visit or stop us from buying other things! I would love to see ride themed pins like Walibi Holland does….
Final Thoughts
One of may favourite things about Walibi Belgium is it’s accessible layout. It is set around a lake and if you pick a direction and keep going, you’ll eventually reach back where you started. It’s dead easy to navigate and there aren’t many dead ends or branching paths which means you’re unlikely to miss anything.
The park has a couple of excellent dark rides that are perfect when the weather turns a bit and there are a few covered rides as well such as the carousel, 4D cinema and car rides. It is predominantly outdoors though, so wet weather might spoil things a little but there’s enough covered if it gets truly awful out there.
Food is good and varied, merchandise is plentiful and the ride line up keeps getting better and more varied with each new addition. I really hope this park does well and I will certainly be following its progress as the years go on. Maybe now it’s time for Loup Garou to be converted to an RMC (Rocky Mountain Construction) hybrid coaster so Walibi Holland has to step up their game! Or maybe it should be left alone as there aren’t that many Vekoma wooden coasters left, what would you do?
Overall though, Walibi Belgium, highly recommended!
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