I'm so torn here because this park has POSSIBILITY! But, my experience was not so great. We came…read moreto Fasanolandia for the amusement park side versus the "zoo" side. The zoo side is the type where you drive your car through to look at the animals, but we didn't do that so cannot report or review on that.
We did go into the amusement park side and it was on a Tuesday in late September. We arrived about 10:30am and noticed that the parking lot was pretty empty. Hm. We then purchased our ticket to enter. So, the plan was we were just going to be here for a couple of hours and then head out. Thus, we purchased the €6 ticket that gives you 6 attractions as well as entry (this is a €9 ticket, but they have a coupon on their website so no one should every pay the €9!) and headed in.
Walking in, it looks like any amusement park and they have a great miniature display of local monuments, etc. Loved that. Then we realized that pretty much nothing was open yet. We're thinking, well, maybe we're early lets wander around and scope it all out. They actually have plenty of attractions from kiddie rides to some good looking coasters and we were particularly excited for the Euro Fighter coaster! But as we wandered, we realized that literally almost NOTHING was open, so I finally went to a info/ticket booth and asked when the big rides would be opening. They said oh, they'll be open about 11. Okay, whew. But 11 came and went and it was not looking good... only a few kiddie rides and bumper boats seemed to be open. Then we saw a small coaster was running and we hustled over there. The people working there said yeah, it's open but they have to have five people to go on it. Ohhhkay... we then found a little theater that did 4D movies so we went and used one of our attraction tickets for that and watched a short 4D movie about a haunted house. Meh. Then we came out and saw some people at the coaster! We rushed over and were able to use a ticket for that! Hooray! A Ride! Then that was over. We did another circuit of the rides and wandered up to a little food place and grabbed some beers. I realized that hte free marionette show was about to start so we hustled down to the marionette theater just in time to watch a pretty great Pinocchio show with fantastic marionettes. Very cute to watch even though I don't speak Italian. When we were done, I went to another booth where I asked about the Euro Fighter. I was told it should open in about 45 minutes, so we wandered up to a restaurant near the ride and had lunch.
Oh, so the cafeteria is completely unlike eating at Disneyland or Six Flags, that's for darn sure. Its cafeteria style, but they have full on meals for €10 with salad, pasta, meat, side dish, dessert and drink. I couldn't even eat it all! I kept saying, NOT SO MUCH, but my platter was piled high, so I guess that is a positive. On the negative, while I didn't try them, you probably don't want a burger and fries... they look so sad and wilty! But, great value for the money compared to $10 burgers at US theme parks!
Anyway, an hour later, still no Euro Fighter, so we were wandering around and the husband suggested we go in the "haunted house", we did. It was BAD. Worse than what you would find at the LA County Fair, so just skip that if you're here. We next hit up the Ferris Wheel and that was GREAT because we could see for miles from the top and the Adriatic was nearby. We could see the whole park as well and what, the log ride was open! YEA! After we got off the Ferris Wheel, we asked the ride operator about the Euro Fighter and he said, oh, it won't open until Saturday. Okay then. Log Ride it was. LOVED the log ride. It was fun and we got a little damp but not WET, so all good. From there we headed to a small spinny coaster that was also fun... actually, it was really good. After that we decided it was time to go... we'd been there like FOUR hours! We stopped and looked at some monkey type animal and some turtles and then we were out.
So, the story is, this park could be ROCKING if it was open completely, but our experience? Not so much. It kind of put a damper on the day because I had planned that stop for the husband as a respite from all the culture and food stops I was torturing him with on our vacation. But, it is what it is!
