Hello, everyone. I visited Atlantis Water Park in April. It is the largest water park in the world, located on a palm island. Here is the entrance to the water park:
Atlantis has attractions for all tastes and ages. Despite the fact that there are many slides, each one is unique and different. You fly down a dark tube on a rubber ring and suddenly… the tube turns into an aquarium with transparent walls, and you are surrounded by all kinds of strange fish swimming around you. And you glide past them in a stream of spray… It’s very cool and unexpected.
There are slides where you can slide down alone or in pairs on a tube, and there are group slides where nine people sit in the centre of one huge tube with their legs in the middle. Accordingly, this group tube goes faster and spins and twists like a carousel. In short, it’s a thrill ride.
I liked the design of the water park — everything is done in an interesting and tasteful way. For example, you float down an artificial river on a tube, and the banks are decorated as Amazonian jungles or canyons with whirlpools and rapids. The current in the artificial river is good, so you don’t need to use your arms or legs — you can just relax and unwind. There are also lots of escalators, which you can use to climb up to the main slides of the water park without having to get off your rubber ring. The photo below shows one of these escalators and the artificial river.
Be sure to visit the Kamikaze attraction at Atlantis. It’s an indescribable feeling. You are lifted to the height of the sixth or seventh floor, enclosed in a cabin, and suddenly… the floor beneath you collapses, and you fall in free fall for a few seconds in a dark tube. Gradually, the tube levels out and you slowly slow down in the sharp bends of the tube.
There is also an open-air Kamikaze, where you slide down a very steep open slide from a height and land directly in a pool. I liked the ‘Kamikaze’ in the closed tube better because of its unpredictable trajectory with sharp turns.
If you don’t feel like walking between the slides, you can ride a free electric car around the water park:
There is also a beach in the water park:
I liked that the water in the water park was clean. There was no smell of chlorine, as in water parks and no dirt.
The only downside I can mention is the long queues. The queues for the slides were tolerable, we waited a maximum of 15 minutes, but the worst was at the ticket office at the entrance to the water park. There are a lot of people. There are no crowds directly on the water park grounds due to its huge size and many slides, but you will have to jostle at the ticket offices and in the changing rooms, where everyone gathers.
If you go to Dubai, be sure to visit this water park.
