Europa-Park Hotels for Your Evenings in Rust

Staying Close After the Rides Close

An evening at Europa-Park is less about a show in your own hotel than about how easily you can stay late and still get back to bed. Krønasår keeps you inside the resort with a pool, a spa and an indoor play area, Hotel & Gästehaus Im Ziegelweg puts you 300 metres from the gates with a garden terrace, and Hotel Apollon Rust adds soundproofed rooms in a quiet side street. I would pick by how late you plan to stay out.

Krønasår, the 4-star superior hotel of the Europa-Park Erlebnis-Resort, is the choice if you want your evening inside the resort. It has an infinity pool, a spa and wellness centre with a sauna and a steam room, a fitness room and an indoor play area, so children can keep busy after the park closes while adults take the sauna. The family restaurant serves seafood and international dishes, and breakfast is provided in the room. Its rooms are air-conditioned family rooms. With an 8.9 average from 110 reviews, it is the hotel I would book for an evening that never needs a car.

Hotel & Gästehaus Im Ziegelweg is the closest independent stay on this page, 300 metres from Europa-Park in Rust, and it scores 9.0 from 391 reviews. Its modern rooms have Mediterranean décor, air conditioning and a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, and guests can have a drink in the lounge or on the garden terrace. Free Wi-Fi and private parking complete the picture. I like it for evenings that end late in the park, because the walk back is short, and for a quiet drink outside once the children are asleep. It has no pool or spa, so the evening stays simple.

Hotel Apollon Rust is the most reviewed stay here, with 2,851 guests giving it 8.7, and it sits in a quiet side street a 10-minute walk from Europa-Park. Its listing notes that evening entertainment is available a short walk away at the Europa-Park hotel resort, so you can enjoy the resort's evening and return to a calmer street to sleep. Rooms are soundproofed and air-conditioned, with a flat-screen TV, a safe and a refrigerator, and there is a breakfast buffet each morning plus free parking and Wi-Fi. For families who stay out late, the soundproofing is the detail I would value most.

Rust itself is a small village on the Upper Rhine plain, and outside the resort its evenings are quiet. That is why I would not book any of these three expecting nightlife of their own: the evening offer here is the resort, a few minutes away. If you want more than that, Strasbourg, across the border in Alsace, and Freiburg im Breisgau, at the edge of the Black Forest, are both within easy driving distance for a dinner in town. For most families, though, staying near the gates and walking home after a long day is the better evening.

Rust is a small village on the Upper Rhine plain in Baden-Württemberg, a few kilometres from the French border, and Europa-Park has made it one of Germany's best-known holiday destinations. Outside the resort, evenings in the village are calm, while Strasbourg in Alsace and Freiburg im Breisgau at the edge of the Black Forest are within easy reach for a day out or a dinner in town.