Soltau-Therme
Thermal baths and saunas in the town centre, good after a ride day.
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Heide Park Resort
Score7.5
🇩🇪GermanyHybrid resortEurope
Soltau, Lower Saxony, Germany
Northern Germany's biggest thrill park, with several record-setting rides.
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Low Wait TimesOpened
1978
Size
210 acres (85 ha)
Rides
30 attractions
Avg. visit
7 hours
Ticket range
$43–$74 USD
Heide Park Resort overview
Heide Park Resort at a glance
Northern Germany's biggest thrill park, with several record-setting rides.
Heide Park sits in the Lüneburg Heath and holds an unusual density of superlatives: Colossos was the world's steepest wooden coaster at opening, Krake was Germany's first dive coaster, and Flug der Dämonen is one of Europe's longest wing coasters. Scream's 103-metre drop tower is visible from the car park.
The theming is lighter than Phantasialand's, but the ride roster and short queues make it the best pure-thrill day in northern Germany.
Our editor's recommendation
Yes, if you already have a reason to be in the region. It ranks #24 of the 50 parks we score, at 7.5/10 with 30 rides and attractions and a typical visit of about 7 hours. Tickets run $43–$74 a day. The strongest reasons to go are its big-ticket thrill rides and short queues. The honest catch: tickets are expensive for what you get. Best time to visit: Summer.
Heide Park Resort highlights
Rides & attractions at Heide Park Resort
These are the top attractions at Heide Park Resort — 10 rides and experiences hand-picked and verified by our editorial team, including 5 signature rides you shouldn't miss. Use the filter bar below to narrow the line-up by rider height, zone, category or thrill level.
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Plan your visit to Heide Park Resort
- Operating hours
- Typically 10am-6pm, extended in high summer
- Typical gate times
- Usually opens at 10:00.
- Operating calendar
- Season runs from late March to the end of October, with daily ride-closing times published in advance.
- Extended hours
- The park stays open for one hour after the rides close.
- Seasonal closures
- Closed roughly November to late March apart from Halloween event dates
- Queue-skip pass
- Express Pass available in several tiers on busy days. From about $25 USD.
- How long to stay
- Full day
- Multi-day tickets
- 2-day tickets available with on-site hotel and Holiday Camp packages.
- Season pass
- Annual or season pass from about $120 USD.
Heide Park Resort map
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Heide Park Halloween
Autumn Halloween season with scare zones, horror mazes and evening opening.
Heide Park Resort reviews & ratings
Amusement Park Ranker overall score
7.5
An aggregate of 3 public review platforms, each normalized to a 0–10 scale and weighted by review volume.
Heide Park Resort wait times
- Typical day
9
- Crowd & wait score
6.6
Heide Park Resort records & achievements
World's tallest wooden roller coaster at opening (Colossos)
2001Colossos opened in 2001 at about 60 metres tall, then the tallest wooden roller coaster in the world; it has since been surpassed.
Attractions near Heide Park Resort
Designer Outlet Soltau
Open-air outlet village beside the A7 motorway.
Lüneburg Heath Nature Reserve
Purple heather moorland with horse-cart routes and walking trails.
Serengeti-Park Hodenhagen
Drive-through safari park with 1,500 free-roaming animals.
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