点评:We booked here for my daughter’s 12th birthday family activity and she invited a friend, six of us in total, three adults and three children 9-12.
We paid £23 a ticket for 2.5hrs which is not a day out, but equally was enough time to experience everything once and begin to ask questions of ‘is that it?’ Parking is free which was a bonus. Waterworld just up the road parking costs but is overall better value IMO.
So we were booked for the 11am session on a Sunday in March and it was jammed full. Arriving twenty minutes beforehand it took a good thirty minutes to queue to get through the two turnstiles (the first sign of poor design for the number of customers). There’s three but one’s strictly entry, one exit and one accessible. You’ll need a 20p for a locker which just added to the disorderly queue.
There’s not enough changing space, and arguably not enough lockers and even less that actually lock securely. The shower situation was even more ill thought out with no more than ten! This area generally felt clean and looked after by the staff which must be a huge challenge.
The waterpark area is relatively small. For ten years plus you’ve got two/three flumes that’ll give the adrenaline rush they crave everything else is probably aimed more at toddler to ten years. Those two or three flumes you could easily be queuing (again) for thirty minutes plus each time. The outside flumes are very slow. The ‘rapids’ very busy and other than toddler climbing/water play areas that’s pretty much your lot.
I’d encourage the owners to have a good scout round picking up the discarded paper wristbands which have a habit of coming off and discarded on pool shelf edges.
翻译:我们预订了这里作为我女儿12岁生日的家庭活动,她邀请了一位朋友,我们一共六个人,三个大人和三个9到12岁的孩子。
我们每人花了23英镑,玩了2.5个小时,虽然不算是一整天的游玩,但也足够我们体验所有项目一次,然后开始问自己“这就完了?”。停车免费是个加分项。附近的水上乐园停车要收费,但我觉得性价比更高。
我们预订的是三月份一个星期天上午11点的场次,结果人山人海。我们提前20分钟到达,却花了整整30分钟排队通过两个旋转闸门(这是设计不合理、无法容纳这么多游客的第一个迹象)。总共有三个闸门,但一个是严格意义上的入口,一个是出口,还有一个是无障碍通道。储物柜需要20便士,这让原本就混乱的队伍更加不堪重负。
更衣室空间不足,储物柜的数量也少得可怜,而且真正能锁上的就更少了。淋浴间的设计更是糟糕透顶,竟然只有不到十个!不过,这个区域总体来说感觉很干净,工作人员也维护得很好,这肯定是个巨大的挑战。
水上乐园区域相对较小。对于十岁以上的孩子来说,只有两三个滑水道能让他们体验到渴望的刺激,其他设施可能更适合幼儿到十岁的孩子。那两三个滑水道每次都可能要排队半小时以上。室外滑水道速度很慢。“激流”区人很多,除了幼儿攀爬/戏水区之外,基本上就没什么可玩的了。
我建议业主好好巡视一下,捡拾那些经常脱落并被丢弃在泳池边缘的纸质手环。