Second day at Europa Park or tourism/Rulantica?
My partner and I will be spending three days at Phantasialand next month (quite an excessively long trip!). We just decided that wasn’t enough theme park for us, and booked one day at Europa-Park afterwards, staying in a resort hotel the night before. We have one day between Phantasialand and Europa-Park, and we are wondering should we:
— spend that day making a slow trip down through towns on the Rhine, maybe see a castle, maybe get to Rust in the early evening and get evening tickets to Rulantica, or
— get tickets for Europa-Park that day too, and just try to make it there as early as we can in the day, possibly even leave Phantasialand a bit early to stay nearer to Rust the evening before.
We can’t add an extra day at the end of the trip to do both, alas.
We haven’t spent more than two days at a theme park before, and thought we might need a “rest day” to pace ourselves; equally, we want to leave enough margin for train delays. On the other hand, this would be our first time visiting Europa-Park and it sounds like it really warrants at least two days; we will also be going on a day (or days) when the park will be very crowded.
For people with experience of Europa-Park or of multi-park roller coaster tours, what sounds like a better plan to you?