From the continent's "biggest" Halloween event at Movie Park, through the uncompromising Traumatica, to the notorious Walibi Experiences — for which people voluntarily pay 20 to 25 euros extra to go through things they'd rather not talk about afterwards: the big — and, honestly, rather gleeful — overview of the 2026 Halloween season in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. Complete with the two top parks that pointedly sit the whole circus out, and the question of when it gets busiest.
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Guides
Halloween in Europe's Theme Parks 2026: Horror Nights, Mazes — and the Two Parks That Coolly Sit It Out
17 min readPatrick Arns
Behind the Scenes
The Art of Waiting: Why We (Gladly) Queue for Some Rides
Sixty minutes of waiting — and yet the time simply flies by? No coincidence: behind every good queue lie psychology, storytelling and hard-nosed capacity math. A deep dive from the pre-show to Little's Law — and, right in the middle, the reason park.fan exists.
24 min readPatrick Arns


