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Interesting to see the biggest theme park in The Netherlands (Efteling) and Germany (Europa Park) are opening this month! Efteling on May 20th and Europa Park on May 29th. Of course you need to reserve your visit in advance.

I saw this show 5 times on our last trip and loved it! Lots of creative use of fireworks and while I always thought the middle part of Illuminations with the globe was a bit boring this show doesn't have any boring parts in it. I am kind of sad it's only running for so short, I would have liked...

I think with the cutting of Burudika, drink sales at the Dawa bar and drink and snack sales Tamu Tamu will go way down. You would expect the band would pay for itself just on drink sales.

Here you go: Link to Disney Parks Blog post

They didn’t mention an opening date, but at least it’s an official confirmation that it’s opening this year.

According to a new post on the Disney Parks Blog ROTR will open later this year at DHS and Disneyland.

I hope they don't cut the great band playing at the UK pavilion. That's one thing I really love about Epcot, the music bands and the UK band is one of the best.

I know, I have an annual pass to the Efteling. It's still a very regional park though, with most visitors coming from Holland. Universal would be a park which would pull visitors from all over Europe. Also I don't think a lot of people visiting Amsterdam would also visit the Efteling since it's...

Parc Asterix is an ok park, I have visited it multiple times. It gets around 2,5 million visitors a year. But I don't think it has the pull of Universal. Maybe Parc Asterix also gets visitors who visit Disneyland Paris and visa versa, I'm just saying multiple theme parks in the same area could...

Or another good spot for an European Universal park would be Amsterdam. It has one of the biggest airports in Europe, and Amsterdam is a very touristy city already. Also it's a very international city, so it wouldn't be a problem to have English be the main language in a Universal park there...

If Universal would build a park in Europe, why not in the Paris region? Then you might get the Orlando effect, where people would visit that region for a week and visit both Universal and Disney parks and the parks could benefit from each other, both pulling more visitors in the region.

DLP is always much busier on weekends then weekdays, so I would recommend the weekdays.

While at BB yesterday I was in line for Downhill Double Dipper and noticed some trucks with people looking at what looked like building plans. This was behind the wall right next to the lazy river. I couldn't take pics. Hopefully they are planning to do something during the refurbishment.

I also did EMH at Pandora just now. Took us about 50 minutes to get into Pandora from Africa and another 50 minutes to get on Flight of Passage which had a 90 minute posted wait. I did think Pandora is more beautiful during the daytime.

It doesn't sound like it will reopen soon then unfortunately. Amazing how they just let this rot away, especially with Volcano Bay opening.