Euromast - Rotterdam - TravBuddy

The Euromast is very, very good. And I'm giving it five stars, because I have a new ambition. Just nobody tell my mum. ;-)

The Euromast is a large tower, shaped similarly to the CN tower in Toronto, although admittedly much shorter. It costs about 8 euros, which I think is really good value, particularly as no-one tries to charge you extra to go up in the euroscoop at the top.

From the platform, you get a really amazing view of Rotterdam (it's a weird feeling to watch a helicopter swoop under you.) Whilst it isn't as high as its American equivalents, neither is Rotterdam; you can see a really long way with absolutely no competition on the skyline, and the views are stunning. We were really lucky with the sunshine too. The platform is totally open, and the fence comes to mid-chest height, so I was actually quite nervous about the height. Silly old me.

You can go up another few metres, to a height of 112m, and board the Euroscoop which is a glass fronted elevator thing that goes up almost to the full 180m height of the mast.At 96m there's a brasserie, which we ignored, but I'd imagine it'd be a pretty good place to take someone you wanted to impress!

So my new ambition? It turns out that you can abseil off the top in summer for about 45 Euros. I missed it this year, which might be a good thing. I'm not totally sure i could make myself step off the edge without so much as a wall to lean on. And how embarrassing would it be if I was actually stuck up there? But at the same time, how much of a story would that be? So somebody remind me next year, that this year, I said I'd abseil off the Euromast.

Euromast is a very tall tower (180m) in Rotterdam. From there, you can have a 180° panorama of the city.

We went there to late to go to the top, we could only access to the restaurant, around 100m high. To enter in the tower, we paid around 8€ each.

The restaurant is in the ambiance of Rotterdam: modern and design. All white, it looks quite posh and class. We only had a drink, and it was not expensive at all (well, we paid the entry before, so finally it was!): 2€ for a coke, considering the location it is fine!
The view is really nice and I really appreciated the moment we had there!


If I had more time (I will do it if I have the occasion to go back there!), I would have gone at the highest point, Euroscoop.
There are sometimes activities that look really fun as “abseiling” or “roping down”.