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squidge (39)
Occitanie, France

96%

very good

[squidge, 26.05.2008] I can't really compare this aquatic park to others, as it is the only big aquatic park I've been to. It certainly occupies a day, and no one complained while we were there, which is a pretty good scale to measure on!

100/100

Accessibility
80/100

"Must See"-Factor
70/100

Budget Friendliness
Situated 3 kilometres south from Roses, the aquatic park was the local Rugby Clubs choice for a day out during a 4 day trip to Roses, in June 2005. Having courageously offered to accompany the coach full of singing rugby fans, amongst which there was my son, I'd prepared myself for a wet / busy / noisy day.

First impressions, once we'd managed to get everyone through the park gates, one by one, was that the crowd I'd expected, wasn't there. In fact, apart from our coach full, it was almost empty! Once in the gates, we were confronted with a souvenir shop in front of us, and changing rooms on the left. These were basic but efficient, and in no time at all, the lawn in front of the changing rooms accumulated a huge pile of every ones belongings and off they all went.

After deciding "who stays with the lawn pile" first, off I went to see who was up to what. I saw the first bunch of kids trying to climb up a climbing wall, the other side of a pool. Needless to say that with wet hands and feet, this didn't seem to be an easy task. I'd say they did more diving than climbing.

Further on, a round Jacuzzi with a couple in it looking very involved, and a giggling red faced kiddie spying on them from behind the bushes!Kids! Just behind, the landing pool of three swirling water slides. Between the two, a steep path leads up to the departure zone of a number of water slides, one of which is a closed black hole tunnel.

A woman gave me a huge inflated ring and off I was, zooming down a black tunnel full of screaming kids sitting in a fluorescent yellow rubber ring. A couple of bends were really hairy, and I was really happy that it was a closed tunnel, so that I couldn‘t fly off!

Once back up to the starting zone I saw what looked like a mellow gentle ride, which my mates daughter, and rugby woman, wanted to test out with me. We took a double hoop and off we went. Just behind me, a boy of 7 from our group followed. Unfortunately, he was too skinny and small for the ring and fell through it! Now the water was only about a metre deep, but I realised that with the current the boy was having difficulties swimming or standing, and that his rubber hoop had stopped off somewhere without him! Having managed to slow down our float, the boy caught us up, and we ended the ride as triplets! Not recommended for young bad swimmers!

My boy had, by that time, done most of the rides and decided to scare the shit out of me on a crazy looking vertical water slide. He only did the ride once then he was the one that was scared stiff! Not in a million years would I have even thought of going on that one. We then relaxed in the shallow end of the pretty big wave pool. I didnt fancy jumping waves but the kids had a great time in there, and there were plenty of life guards around to watch over our little crowd.

My last ride was on the 5 lane two bumps water slide, before going back near the changing rooms to look after the lawn pile, which by that time had gathered around it a few worn out looking boys sprawled out over the lawn.

Kids had eaten burgers and chips at noon in the snack bar, whereas the group of adults ate later at the restaurant terrace. Although the service was very slow, the food was OK. There were a number of other water canals and slides, but by four o'clock the weather had clouded over, and the wind had started to blow.

I think that the drive back to our hotel was the only coach journey during the 4 days in Spain where we listened to the sound of silence.

Prices are of 21€ / day or 17€ / half day for those over 1,20m, 12€ / day and 9€ / half day for those who measure less than 1,20m or are over 65 years old. Free for those under 0,80m.