{"id":2143,"date":"2016-08-26T10:37:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T10:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2016-08-26T10:37:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T10:37:10","slug":"europes-first-ferris-wheel-over-sea-opened-on-the-pier-in-scheveningen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/europes-first-ferris-wheel-over-sea-opened-on-the-pier-in-scheveningen\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#8217;s first Ferris wheel over sea opened on The Pier in Scheveningen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ferris wheel on The Pier has started turning. With this, <span class=\"xn-location\">The Hague<\/span> gains a tourist attraction: <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span>&#8216;s first Ferris wheel constructed over sea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-Pier.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2144\" src=\"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-Pier.jpg\" alt=\"The Pier\" width=\"622\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-Pier.jpg 622w, http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-Pier-300x208.jpg 300w, http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-Pier-50x35.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Ferris wheel is over forty meters high and has 36 closed\u00a0gondolas with air conditioning, including one VIP gondola with a glass bottom. All gondolas have luxury seats and each gondola offers room for up to six people. From the Ferris wheel visitors have a panoramic view of the sea, the beach and <span class=\"xn-location\">The Hague<\/span>&#8216;s skyline.<\/p>\n<p>Skyview Attractions is responsible for the realization of the so-called &#8216;Dinner Wheel,\u00b4 which was developed by the company Dutch Wheels (part of Vekoma) from Limburg. The calculation of the construction by Royal HaskoningDHV has taken the most extreme weather conditions into account.<\/p>\n<p>Adults pay \u20ac9.00 and children under twelve pay \u20ac7.00 for this special experience. On average, a ride on the Ferris wheel lasts 20 minutes. Lunch, dinner or high tea at a high altitude over the sea will soon also be possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ferris wheel on The Pier has started turning. With this, The Hague gains a tourist attraction: Europe&#8217;s first Ferris wheel constructed over sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[950,1224,1223,110],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-destinations","category-travel","tag-destination","tag-europe","tag-the-hague","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}