PRACTICAL:
Duration:
± 1h to 1.5h
Where:
Get your search booklet at the Alden Biesen Tourist Information Office (open daily from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM)
Price:
5 euros per booklet
Age:
4 to 10 years
Every year in November and December, Alden Biesen is transformed into the one and only Sinterklaas Palace.
Sinterklaas takes up residence there, along with his Zwarte Pieten (Black Petes) and palace residents. Visitors are taken on a magical journey through the castle, past Sinterklaas's rooms, the post office, the Plaza del Pakjes (Plaza of the Packages), and the Sinterklaas Hall.
You meet characters like Wanda, who hopes to earn her Piet feather, and Kyano, who dreams of having her own room in the palace.
The performance tells a warm story, based on the legend of the three gold coins, and ends with a dance show and the departure of Sinterklaas on his Packets' Walk.
The Sinterklaas Palace is a place where fantasy comes to life, where children can put out their shoes and where every visit becomes a memory for life.