Germany Day 7: Kirsten and Kyle's Hansa Park Adventure

Today Kirsten and I woke up early and caught the train up to Lubeck where we transferred to a train to Sierksdorf to visit Hansa Park – yep, more roller coasters. Everyone else was going shopping so this seemed like a fun alternative.

The park is built on the shore of the Baltic Sea and is also very beautiful and well landscaped. We started off our day with a ride on their star attraction Fluch von Novgorod. The ride is heavily themed and there is some sort of story but it was all in German so we didn’t understand it but it was fun to see all the special effects and atmosphere. The ride itself was very cool with spook house sections going into roller coaster sections back into a spook house section, back into a roller coaster and so on. It may have been our favorite coaster of the trip which was a surprise. You also exited the ride via slide into a dark maze.

After that we went for a ride on their wild mouse which was themed to a mine and had an audio animatronic jug band entertaining the people in line, their starflyer which is a standard swing ride that you find at any park except it goes up a 200 some foot tower. We were very nervous waiting to ride this since I’m not a fan of spinning around and Kirsten isn’t a fan of high heights. It actually ended up being a lot of fun and really wasn’t too scary. We also jumped on their giant trampolines for a bit and rode their other two coasters Rasender Roland which is a mine train which was pretty good, and Nessie their old signature coaster which was showing its age a bit but was still a lot of fun and we got right back in line to ride it again, and their panoramic sky tower. After that we decided to go for one more ride on Fluch von Novgorod, check out their log flume and then head back to the train and try to spend a little time checking out Lubeck which looked very cool. Unfortunately the line for Fluch von Novgorod ended up being over an hour and the log flume took a little too long as well and we missed our train. The next train back was an hour later and by then it would be too late to see Lubeck. Oh well, something to do next time.

So we made another loop around the park but decided we were done and leisurely strolled back to the train station and made our way back to Hamburg where we had a nice barbecue out in Roland and Susi’s backyard.