Summer is officially here and with it comes water park season! What better way to spend a sunny day than running around trying to find the biggest and baddest water slide out there, or taking a leisurely ride down a lazy river for nostalgia’s sake? These water parks can offer you exactly that and then some, so take a look and let your inner-child’s imagination run wild with these badass water parks.
Siam Park – Tenerife, Spain
The Spanish island of Tenerife is home to one of Europe’s best water parks. Siam Park is entirely Thai themed and filled with lush greenery and structures that are reminiscent of those that have long been abandoned. The park offers surfing lessons and multiple lazy rivers to get you chill on, but their most popular attraction seems to be the massive water slide known as the “Tower of Power.” It’s over 90 feet tall and consists of a vertical drop that ushers riders through an aquarium filled with sharks and stingrays.
Aquaventure – Dubai, UAE
Dubai has quickly become one of the world’s wealthiest and most excessive cities, so it makes perfect sense that it is also home to one of the world’s most luxurious water parks, Aquaventure. It has everything you would expect for a water park in Dubai, aquariums filled with sharks and stingrays, massive water slides for the adrenaline junkies out there and even fine dining within the park. They also offer a unique shark safari for those who want to get real up close and personal with a shark.
Disney’s Blizzard Beach – Orlando, USA
Only Disney can harness the creative power necessary to make tourists forget they’re sweating away their vacation time in Orlando’s insane humidity and make them believe they’re frolicking on an arctic mountain. The park is covered in artificial snow to drive home the imaginary point that you’re visiting a ski resorts that is quickly melting away, which makes for a very unique take on a traditional water park. Blizzard Beach can also boast about the fact that it is home to Summit Plummet, one of the biggest, fastest water slides in the world.
Water Cube – Beijing, China
Also known as “Happy Magic Water Cube”, this water park is one that only China could bring us. The entire park is located inside of Beijing’s National Aquatics Centre, which was a massive cubical structure built for the 2008 summer olympics. Once the Olympics came and went, it was converted into a massive indoor park complete with colorful twisting slides and dramatic lighting throughout. The entire thing looks like some futuristic atlantis made for the 10 year old inside all of us, and we dig it.
Aquatica – Orlando, USA
Given that Orlando is the theme park capital of the United States, it only makes sense that it has some of the nation’s best water parks. Aquatica is definitely in that league. The park is themes after the south pacific and incorporates many of the regions animal life as mascots. Considering that sharks are a dime a dozen at many of the world’s major water parks, Aquatica chose to take a different route and create a slide that travels through a dolphin habitat along its twisting journey.
World Waterpark – Alberta, Canada
This isn’t your average water park. This is a sprawling indoor theme park located in none other than Alberta’s West Edmonton Mall. But don’t let it’s location throw you off, this is literally the world’s second largest indoor water park. It’s been open since the 1980s and has enough space to host not only 17 water slides, but the world’s largest pool wave pool, which holds over 12 million liters of water.
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