Halloween at Plopsaland
Family-friendly Halloween season with themed decor, character shows and gently spooky walkthroughs.
Plopsaland De Panne
Theme park · Europe
🇧🇪 De Panne, Belgium
Belgium's coastal family park with grown-up coasters
Overall score7.4
Opened
2000
Size
59 acres (24 ha)
Rides
55 attractions
Avg. visit
6 hours
Ticket range
$44–$62 USD
Events & shows
Winterplopsaland
Winter edition with indoor attractions, an ice rink, Christmas shows and Studio 100 characters in festive costume.
Visual Archive
On the dunes at De Panne, Plopsaland grew out of the historic Meli Park into Studio 100's flagship. It is unapologetically family-first — Maya the Bee, Wickie and Bumba are everywhere — but The Ride to Happiness by Tomorrowland and Anubis The Ride give it thrill credibility rare in a park pitched this young.
Plan Your Visit
Hours & tickets
- Operating hours
- Typically 10am-5pm, extended to 6pm or later in high summer and during Halloween evenings
- Seasonal closures
- Closed on many weekdays outside Belgian school holidays and largely shut in January and early February
- Queue-skip pass
- Express Pass in three tiers: Single (one ride, EUR 7), Classic (nine rides) and Unlimited; availability is capped each day. From about $7.60 USD.
- How long to stay
- Full day
- Multi-day tickets
- A Plopsa Pass covers all Plopsa parks in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany for a year and pays back in about two visits.
- Season pass
- Annual or season pass from about $119 USD.
Getting there
- Nearest airport
- Ostend-Bruges (OST), ~30 km; Brussels (BRU), ~140 km
- Public transit
- Excellent: De Panne station on the Brussels line, then the Coast Tram to the Plopsaland stop right outside the gate
- Parking
- On-site parking available. Around $16.35 USD per day.
- Staying over
- Plopsa Hotel De Panne next to the park, with themed Studio 100 rooms and early entry.
Accessibility
- Accessibility
- Compact, flat and paved with wheelchair-friendly access to most areas; ride access depends on transfer ability and each attraction lists its own requirements.
Good to know
- Who it suits
- Built around Studio 100 children's characters - outstanding for under-10s, with The Ride to Happiness and Anubis as the two genuinely adult thrills
- Best time to visit
- May to June or early September weekdays; Belgian school holidays are very busy
- Dining
- Simple family catering - fries, pancakes and pizza - with picnic areas; Belgian waffles and frites are the local highlight
- Outside food
- You can bring your own food and drink.
- Weather cover
- Several major attractions including Anubis, Mayaland Indoor and the theatre halls are indoors, so a rainy North Sea day is still workable.
- Baby care
- Baby-care rooms with changing and feeding facilities; buggies are easy to move around the flat site.
- Rentals on site
- Stroller / pushchair hire and Lockers available on site.
- Currency & payment
- Euros; cards and contactless widely accepted and effectively expected.
- Official app
- Plopsa app (iOS/Android): wait times, park map, show times and tickets.
Archival records
World's first Tomorrowland-themed roller coaster