Acid on the road in Boudewijn Seapark, an amusement park in decline. What if the bosses at the time had said yes to Gert Verhulst and Plopsa? | Bruges

Gilbert Bécaud once performed there and even Arnold Schwarzenegger came to the amusement park that was named after the late King Baudouin 60 years ago. Today the fountain is dry, a father would rather not see his child jumping into the unsanitary ball pool and there is a musty smell. “We were so disappointed that we asked for our money back. And the best part: we still got it,” a reader summarizes the decline. How did it ever get to this point? How profitable is Boudewijn Seapark still? And could things have turned out differently when a certain Gert Verhulst and his group showed interest at the end of the last century? We went to a park, where the handyman is busy working even on Sundays.