Our kids love a good Pannenkoekenhuis when we are in The Netherlands. In fact, they have one favorite one in a cute village called Esch. It’s the Pancakes The Enchanted Forest or Pannenkoekenhuis ‘Het Betoverde Bos’t. It’s not far from Pake & Beppe’s house and it’s yummy and loads of fun for kids.
Inside is quite pretty – a small play area for kids, a trail inside where you find letters and butterflies hidden to decode a secrete message and the shop which you can buy cheap plastic made in China toys for your tokens which you earn based on what you buy. They tend to get 10 silver coins so end up with a frisbee, sword or skipping rope. Each time it differs and each time within 24 hours, the item is broken. But it’s all fun and they love it so why not.
Outside is a great open terrace and a play area with a giant bouncy pillow, swings, a tunnel and two in the ground trampolines so loads for the kids to do while us parents enjoy our beer in the sun – harassed by wasps in the summer.
On Soren’s last day of football camp, we took him here for pancakes to celebrate his hard week – football and 100% Dutch kids so language was tricky! Though he loved it!
While Maebh did cartwheels on the pillow, Soren did flips on the trampoline – giving me a near heart attack
The staff is friendly and helpful and enjoy the kids but the only one problem we have here is that they never take foreign credit cards and there is no bank machine nearby so remember bring cash!!
I have more photos from a past trip – will see what I can find and post here.
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