Europes biggest waterpark opens!

[BIG TONY]

Siam park Europes biggest & newest water park opens for business tommorrow in Tenerife:- http://www.siamparktenerife.com/

[mary]

They had an unofficial opening on Monday for locals - havent heard yet how that went.
Siam park is HUGE and looks like it could be a great place to visit

[delilah]

Here are a few links with more information and photographs from the opening night. I saw these another forum.
http://www.colinkirby.com/
http://www.discovercostaadeje.com/
http://www.losgigantes.com/pictures/thumbnails.php?album=63

[Cyberhiker]

The official opening went really well and the park opened to the general public two days after on the 17th. Drove past it on the TF1 motorway on the day and the area outside was awash with parked cars. There are Siam Park double-decker open topped buses driving around Las Americas and Los Cristianos regularly, so it looks like this is going to be a big attraction. Aqua Park and Jungle Park are already dropping their prices. The only criticism is the miserly reductions for registro's/residencia's, 3 euros for adults, 1 :eyebrow: euro for kids.

[emskie]

Have a look at the tenerife sunshine website as they are offering reduced prices for both holidaymakers and residents

[redswanlady]

We have just been to siam park and all I would say is really dont bother! We had read all the hype and thought it sounded like a fantastic place to go, but it was chaos. We had got the first ferry from here so we reached Siam at about midday the signposts are awful and it just appears from no where, we had to park 20 minutes away in the carpark which we had to pay to use, we then carried a coolbox of water bottles to the entrance to be told you werent allowed coolboxes in he park, coolbags yes, boxes no! so that went back to the car! We then entered the park to discover there were no loungers, seat spare anywhere in the park and there were also no lockers free anywhere, my advise get there when it opens or you are stuck with your stuff all day.

The food & drink is really expensive in the park, a small Can of tropical was 2,70€ and a bar of chocolate was 2,20€ with the queues for toilets, food, showers etc being really long. The park itself is lovely to look at but really disorganised and not quite as advertised, the tower of power is a big let down with a tank of fish at the bottom not quite the crocs it promises! and be prepared to wait for over 40 minutes to get on it. The other rides are exactly the same to aqualand nothing to shout home about! The lazy river is slow beyond a joke and you are forced to go round the long boring way unless you are spanish then they send you round the faster more fun route, my kids proved this fact when they spoke to the lifeguards in Spanish and she said "oh your spanish I thought you were english, we only send the english round that way the spanish get to go this way"

The lifeguards were rude, unhelpful and very bias againgst any other nationality apart from their own! Good for my kids they got free rides, sweets, drinks etc but I felt for the english kids who were left standing around.

Overall the park looks stunning but is a huge let down and we wont be going back.

[barrypaula]

cant believe you wernt impressed ? we went in january & had a brill day ! free bus service from all over tenerife no probs at all !! lifegaurds joined in the fun & were very helpfull ? as for food being dear ? isnt all tenerife ?? would deffo go back. just goes to show ! you cant please em all

[redswanlady]

I agree everyone is different and everyone likes different things, we drove over so no free bus for us! I agree food and drink is expensive hence why we took our own water, we live in the canaries so this is the norm then to be told coolbags yes coolboxes no was a big shock.

[coolcreen]

cant believe you wernt impressed ? we went in january & had a brill day ! free bus service from all over tenerife no probs at all !! lifegaurds joined in the fun & were very helpfull ? as for food being dear ? isnt all tenerife ?? would deffo go back. just goes to show ! you cant please em all

I am a bit confused. One of the previous posts indicated that it opened on the 17th, so I assume that it was the 17th June, but you visited it in January. Are you all talking about the same waterpark?

[coolcreen]

Please ignore my previous post. Now realise that it opened on 17th Sept 2008

[mary]

We went to Siam park last week. Our son loves water parks and has been to all the big ones in Florida and of course the ones on GC.
He thought Siam was fantastic.
We went over on the ferry and our park tickets were included in the price of our ferry ticket - this also meant that we went straight through on arrival at the park and didnt have to queue.
We arrived at about 10.30. Car park was full but managed to get a space nearby. We walked striaght to the beach area - inland beach complete with sand on the edges of the wave pool. There were loads of sunbeds but they were all full by about 12.30.
The wave pool was great - every hour, for half and hour, huge waves - the first one of each section was 3 metres high.
Son also loved the Tower - slide starting at 28 metres with a sheer drop, slide took you through an aquarium tunnel too.
We snuck in our lunch in our rucksacks - thanks redswan for the hint - so didnt buy any food etc. But they had deals for food - hotdog and drink - 4.50 euros. Big queues though at all the bars and restaurants around lunch time
Later people were being stopped eating and smoking on the beach - fag butts and rubbish would be a pain to clear from there.
Siam park hats were for sale for 2 euros.

A really good day out. Get there early and last ride is at 5.30