A non obvious topic, but which amusement parks do you recommend rather than Disneyland?

France: Parc Astérix, Walibi
Belgium: Walibi
Germany: Europapark, Phantasialand, Legoland
Denmark: Legoland
Netherlands: Efteling
Poland: Energylandia
Spain: Port Aventura
Italy: Gardaland
Denmark: Legoland

These are amusement parks with shops, not malls with some rides like Disneyland.

Conserning the Netherlands: the Efteling is great, it's themed on European fairy tales! It's a very nice park for all ages.

Another nice, yet smaller park for the Netherlands is Toverland.
These are amusement parks with shops, not malls with some rides like Disneyland.

Ouch

Parc Astérix, especially if you like rollercoasters. There are fast pass bundle options for a lot of the main rides as well. Halloween is also a great time to go, they have a bunch of great haunted houses and the park is open after hours.

Legoland. Obviously 😎

Europapark in Rust

That one is awesome - one of Europes best parks
I heard good things about this park, but didn't have time to visit when I was close by :(

Was it super crowded? I heard that it is really popular but someone said it's quite big so crowds are not a problem?
- You can expect to wait an hour for a coaster on full days... But it helps to go early in the morning. And ride less popular coasters. Also in the evening, I remember riding silver star with 10 minutes queue time.

Liseberg (Sweden)

Liseberg is pretty good. Grönalund in Stockholm is also good. The two parks have a very different vibe. Liseberg is a big park with the rides more spaced out while grönalund is a small space with the rides literally overlapping with each other.

I’ve not been myself but I know two people who have and swear it was great at Efterling

Absolutely! Something very different, well designed, and huge. Highly recommend.

Italy has Gardaland on lake Garda. Quite fun and you can visit the beautiful area afterwards.

I've only ever been to Heidepark, lol

Well, I've worked back of house for both Disney and Knots, so Six Flags.

ETA: just saw where i am. Am stoopid American. Ignore me.

I've been to Phantasialand once, it was quite nice, very good vibe and decorations

Is this the park somewhat close to Cologne (Köln)? I ended up there once by accident while backpacking and took basically a random Flixbus. Looked nice indeed!

(I don't recommend taking random Flixbuses for amusement)
- Yes, I think so! This one: https://www.phantasialand.de/en/