Recreation park and Marina Rhederlaagse Meren

For New year`s eve we booked a 4 day stay in a bungalow from a private host, who assured us there will be no fireworks in the park. Our host (who was very helpful really) called them twice, and I called as well to make sure it is true before confirming the booking. They promised it is fireworks free. This was the only reason we ever went to this park – because we have 2 dogs, and one of them has epilepsy, and they are terribly afraid of fireworks. ||We arrived on 28th of December, and the fireworks already had started. From the village and farmer`s houses near by and from the park itself! We called our host (she was a lovely woman) and she called the reception. They again said that fireworks are forbidden in the park. I went to the reception, and they personally repeated the same! So, the following days the fireworks were more and more with the biggest escalation starting on 31st of December around 6 pm and it did not stop until the morning around 4 a.m. ||In the meantime, in the night I went outside and saw a group of employees of the park also firing big rockets and fireworks, just outside our bungalow and just next to the poor reindeers who unfortunately are imprisoned in this park as well. When I approached them, they became aggressive, the women were swearing at me and to my surprise as I am a woman – the two men also pushed me. These people live there, work there, and were extremely arrogant and aggressive towards a woman- guest of the park (and I have videos and photos to prove it). They went inside and left me alone only after I started taking a video of them, and told them that if they keep pushing me, I am going to call the police! Just before they went inside while still calling me “bitch” the older man also showed me the middle finger…They did not stop with the fireworks though, just continued from the inside garden of their bungalow.||I did not expect all this when I paid hundreds of euros to stay at a holiday park with my family. I am totally speechless. ||Besides that, the park is not maintained well and there is no restaurant really. The 24/7 shop is in fact a vending machine by the reception where you could get a packet of chips, filter coffee or tampons. The people at the reception are not the friendliest too. The alleys are dark, there is no lightening except around the reception. And the most gruesome of all – two reindeers are imprisoned in the middle of the park in a fenced garden (in front of the park`s employee`s bungalow) which I find cruel and tasteless as well. I wouldn`t like my children to see these animals in such environment and don`t find this amusing at all. ||As a conclusion - obviously the selling strategy of this place is to lie about the fireworks – to the owners of the bungalows (part of the properties are owned by people who rent them out like in our case, and part of the bungalows are rented out through the reception and the park itself) and to the tourists as well. At the end our host told us that on 31st of December she got an email from the park`s manager that indeed the fireworks will be allowed!!! And this after asking them months earlier, and the day before as well and getting an opposite answer. ||Outrageous! Our bungalow was lovely, the host furnished it nicely and made it cozy and welcoming, there was everything what you could need in there, and she was also super sweet and understanding, but the park itself and the staff there left horrible impression on us and I do not recommend this park to anyone.

Rented a chalet through Airbnb. Nice chalet with all the amenities you need. If you are with multiple autos an inconvenient barrier facility. Nothing open at Christmas. Sad park. With much fallow land or under renovation. Many privately owned cottages.

Het huisje was modern, goed uitgerust en er was voldoende ruimte voor 6 personen. Ook de maaltijden die te verkrijgen waren, waren erg lekker!

Heerlijke haard en sauna. Ik heb zojuist zelfs verlengdn

Place, and the house is really great.

Het huisje met uitzicht op de rivier is prachtig!