In recent months, a lot of work has been done in the Sprookjeshof amusement park in Zuidlaren. Everything that was broken and dirty is now working and shining again. The park was taken over by new owners this spring and they have a completely new direction in mind.
A lot has changed lately, says manager Dennis Schuster, who started working at the amusement park just before the summer. “The owners joined in April, I in June.”
According to him, it has now made a world of difference. “The colleagues who have been working here for ten or twenty years no longer dared to ask the guests whether they had a good time. Because the answer was always: ‘No. It didn’t do this, it didn’t do that. This was dirty, that was dirty’. And now everything works again, everything is clean.”
But cleaning and repair is not the end of the metamorphosis. “This is the start of a new beginning,” Schuster said. “It will only get better in the coming years. Almost everything that is there will be replaced.” The new restaurant should open next spring. “That will really be a paradise for children. With pancakes, water fountains, arms coming out of the wall and a knight and princess room.”
Today the start of that new period has officially started with the commissioning of a new bouncy castle. “The largest in the Netherlands”, according to Schuster. Although the rain does spoil the atmosphere a little, it should not spoil the fun. “This is the first major device that we are opening and that only bodes well.”