What’s it like to visit the Irrland Adventure Park in the city of Kevelaer with its new attractions in 2024?
We’ve been to this park the two years before already, and my son always enjoyed it tremendously at Irrland Park in Kevelaer. We went sliding down from the high silver tower, hid in the corn labyrinth, crawled onto haystacks, swam in the pools with the water slides, and and and…
This year, we detected two new attractions: The Viaduct and the termite hill for climbing. Especially the latter was awesome!!!
This is the newly-built Viaduct. It has a hamster wheel, and the kids can raise and lower a lift when running in it.
This is the termite hill. You can climb it from the outside, too, but the inside with its ropes is even more fun. From the top, one has a great view of the splash pad below and of the plane that looks like a macaw (into which one can climb, too). There’s a waterfall with a small pool in the front. The children inside the termite mound can look outside through tiny windows (the eyes of the monsters) 😉
Mommy and grandma liked the splash pad around the termite hill best. Water came gushing down containers that filled up in regular intervals, drenching the people standing below them. Water canons provided great fun and relief from the heat:
Last year, it had rained so much that we couldn’t splash in the water as much as this time. There’s a little lake around a tower, with slides going into the water and water fountains and basketball hoops, which is lots of fun:
Lyons Cub jumped on the trampolines, built huge LEGO block houses, played ball, and watched the plastic guy in the toilet spraying the kids standing in front of him and teasing him until the loo door opened all of a sudden:
Of course, as the two years before, we ventured into the Colosseum, where it’s raining down on you while you walk through a disco atmosphere between wild plastic beasts. Once you climb upstairs and leave the lions and tigers behind, there’s a blue trampoline on top:
The haystacks are an all-time favorite:
We also knew the train already, where the children can climb from one wagon to the next inside:
Lyons Cub climbed the nets on the great, yellow hill and joined the kids standing on top of it:
This time, we also tried out the splash pad with the fountains rising and falling to different tunes:
The sandhill with the pipes to fill with water was known to us from our previous visits already. There are two plastic eagles sitting in the trees on the left and the right, spraying water on the kids below:
We tried something new this time: The floats on the little lake. The water was so shallow that the children could actually walk to the island in the middle of the lake. It took a long time to wait in line at the banks until a float became available, so Lyons Cub shared one with some other kids. In the end, they left him stranded on the island, but he simply walked back 😉 Mommy got drenched from a hose while driving threw it on our float and had to dry off in the sun for a bit 😉
Like last year, we enjoyed the styrofoam ball canons and the big, blue water mat in the “shooting range” again:
My son enjoyed the swings, as usual:
Riding the tractors, especially with a water tank as a hanger, seems to have been enjoyable, albeit strenuous, too:
We also stopped at the bouncy castle again:
And of course, we fed the goats with food pellets you could buy for 50 cents from vending machines:
We also fed the sheep:
The wooden castle with the long water slides was cool, too. Alas, my son didn’t get very far when sliding down; he lost momentum at about half the way and had to push himself and then walk to reach the end to exit the slide. Some other kids who slid on their knees instead of on their bum got all the way until the finish line!
Here is yet another water slide Lyons Cub had to try out:
What we didn’t notice in the years before was this big stone marble run. You could buy a wooden ball at the kiosk that sells the entrance tickets and let it run all around and through this artificial stone:
My son loves the man who climbs up a palm tree, because he is afraid of a crocodile snapping at him:
There were several storks sitting on their nests and flying high over our heads.
And then, of course, there’s the fisherman who pulls out strange things on his fishing rod, like a shoe:
Right behind the parking lot at the airport is this humongous tower one can slide down. Alas, it had rained the day before, and the mats one has to sit on were so drenched that one slid down slower than anticipated.
Finally, here’s my favorite search image. Lyons Cub has disappeared in the ball bath 😉
