Water parks are getting bigger and bigger; it is like a competition between the owners and operators of these establishments; they want to see who can build the biggest water parks in the world.
Holiday makers don’t mind the competition at all; customers are happy to jump around in the pools that can be as big as rivers; and slide in water slides as tall as small mountains.
People who have never visited any of these mega water parks are missing out on a different dynamic when it comes to fun; but thankfully these monuments are not too far away.
Top 50 Biggest Water Parks In The World
1. Chimelong Water Park
Chimelong Water Park is very long; in fact it is the longest water park in the world. This water park was opened in Guangzhou, China in 2007, and became instantly famous because, as advertised, it is the largest such recreational center in the world.
It is not big and empty; it sports several attractions that include giant inversion roller coaster, giant slides, and a pool as big as a river. This water park has an area designed like a tropical beach; it even has palm trees swaying in the breeze.
Chimelong Water Park is a great place of family fun; families can slide together in inflatable rafts as they move fast through the water slides. This water park also has several land attractions; some of which are unique in the world. For example; it has a Safari Park; which uniquely has Giant Panda Triplets which were born on July 29, 2014. There are few places where these amazing creatures can be found.
This water parks also has other exciting activities such as a motorbike roller coaster, and also a rocket roller coaster. There is also a circus and 2 hotels as part of the franchise.
2. Typhoon Lagoon
Typhoon Lagoon water park is located in Florida, USA. It is actually located in the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. This is a place of all out recreational activity; more like a holiday camp with tons of fun activities.
Looking at this place from a distance, it is difficult to believe that it was built by human hands! It looks like a tropical island with a ship somehow stuck on top of a rocky hill-something out of an adventure movie!
The pool is as big as a beach! It even has waves going to and fro like the shores of a tropical island, and a very attractive environment overall. People flock to the water like they would in a real beach, and they enjoy the feeling of soft sand beneath their feet.
This water park has several other exciting attractions including; Crush n’ Gusher which is a water coaster. This water coaster is so named because it moves rapidly in a series of upward and downward movements, and also spins in circular movements as well. However, visitors get to ride the water, instead of a mechanical contraption.
The water courses through tubes, and visitors ride in rafts; they slide very fast; ending in a sharp drop. They survive!
3. Blizzard Beach
Blizzard Beach is also located at Disney World in Florida, United States. This is the sister park to Blizzard Beach; and it is part of what makes the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida near Orlando a must visit for anyone who loves to have a good time.
This is a more recent addition to the place; it was opened on April 1, 1995 as the third Walt Disney World water park. The amount of planning, more and time it took to build this place have been totally worth it; this is one of the best water parks in the world; and one of the most popular as well.
Blizzard Beach receives more than 2 million guests every year; and that is all the evidence needed to prove its popularity. This water park is so popular because its entire concept is unique; it is built around an artificial hill called Mount Gushmore. Then the whole place looks like it was hit by a blizzard, and is covered with snow.
Blizzard beach has several well designed attractions including Summit Plummet; which is one of the tallest and fastest free fall body slides in the world. Other attractions include Team Boat springs; which is a fast flowing artificial body of water which includes turns and spirals, parts of which are built on a ledge. Visitors can pair off with one another in rafts, and race each other.
4. Therme Erding
Therme Erding is located in Germany. It is the biggest spa in the world, and also doubles as a water park. It covers an area of 185,000 square meters, and includes a thermal bath and spa complex. It is the biggest of its kind in the whole of Europe, and because of its thermal bath, it is one of the very few such places in the world.
It has opened in 1999, and has become so popular as it now welcomes around 1.4 million visitors every year. The water parks is built in a factual, modernist way. The architecture is urban which is why it has both indoor and outdoor slides; numbering 27 in total.
To show how modern it is it has incorporated a lot of technology in its design. This is the first water park in the world to offer a virtual reality slide; in which visitors get to wear headsets and go sliding through the water slide. This is a unique combination of reality and virtual imaging; visitors see the high definition images on the headset, while they also feel the water slashing on their bodies.
5. Thermas dos Laranjais, Olimpia, Brazil
Thermas dos Laranjais is the largest water park in Latin America, and one of the biggest in the world. It is located in Olimpia, Brazil, and one of the few to have the distinction of being thermal springs.
This famous park was opened in 1987, and is built in what looks like a heavily wooded spot with the water springing up like a lake. This make the resort look more natural than it truly is. This is without doubt one of the most important recreational centers in Brazil; and also the most popular.
The water park is more or less an outdoor park; there are rocks all over the place; and the trees provide shade in what appears like a natural paradise. One could even expect to find wild animals in this park; although that is out of the question.
People don’t come here for the trees; they come here for the water. There are massive swimming pools in this water park, and some of them offer the chance to surf. There are several water slides, and even a gentle flowing river on which people float gently in rafts.
6. Wuhu Fantawild Park
Wuhu Fantawild is a product of the popular Fantawild Company which has attractions all around the world. It is a located in Wuhu, Anhui Province, China. Wuhu Fantawild, as the name suggests, is a wild looking place by design. It is a themed park, and a water park rolled in one; the biggest such enterprise in china.
Some of the features of the Wuhu Fantawild include water slides, swimming pools; some as big as rivers, and a water slide that is so big; families float in rafts.
This water park is part of a bigger theme park; there are many other land based attractions in the park; they are themed areas all with a particular theme which is different from the next area.
7. Hot Park
Hot Park is one of the few hot parks in the world; built around a natural thermal spring in the town of Rio Quente, Sao Paulo, Brazil. People who know a little about this country know that nobody parties harder than Brazilians. This is why Hot Park is more than just a water park (one of the world’s biggest) but also one of the places to have fun like never before- water style.
Hot Park has a pool that is as big as a tropical lake; in fact it technically is- the water bubbles forth naturally from the ground; the basins are just constructed to hold it. The lake comes complete with white sand; and rocks, and palm trees.
As mentioned above it is big; this is the type of pool people float around in as if they were in a river. But the huge pool is not the only attraction to this water park; there are water slides, and a small river.
Hot Park is part of a bigger franchise which is the Rio Quente Resort. It has a hotel, and a bird sanctuary with over 200 birds.
8. Atlantis Aquaventure, Paradise Island, Bahamas
Atlantis Aquaventure, located in the Bahamas, is one of the world’s biggest aquatic parks. The Bahamas is a good place to cite an investment such as this; it is a place where people come in from all over the world to relax and spend quality time with their loved ones.
To take part in the world famous tourism industry of the Bahamas; Atlantis Aquaventure opened back in 1994, as a monument designed to be impressive and turn heads all across the world. Its sheer size has made it one of the most popular water parks in the world.
The water park is built to look like an ancient city; something Meso-American in nature. This much is proven by the Mayan Temple, which is one of the major attractions to the water park.
It is not the only attraction though; the Mayan Temple has two giant water slides running from the top to the bottom. There are also giant pools; one as big as a lake. It is complete with white sand and palm trees.
9. Volcano Bay, Universal Orlando, Florida, US
Volcano Bay is located in Orlando, Florida. It is owned Universal Pictures; the movie company. This is a water park and a theme park; one of the most exciting in the country. The whole design of the place is inspired by an island with an active volcano.
Looking from a distance it looks like an island with an active volcano spewing out a white liquid. It is not really a white liquid; it is just water; and the whole thing is man made- carefully crafted and designed.
The water cascades down from the top of the volcano; into a giant pool the size of a river; and designed like tropical beach. It is complete with white sand and palm trees.
There are tall water-slides, raft rides, and a unique mechanical, hydro-magnetic waterslide coaster.
10. Aquatica, Orlando, Florida, US
Aquatica is another beautiful water park in Florida, USA. It was opened in 2008, but has seen several improvements over time. The theme is quite modern; there is little attempt to hide the fact that it was recently built. However, there are plenty of trees in the area.
Among the trees are a series of colorful slides, tunnels and rides, most of which end up in one pool or another. There are some pools as big as a lake, and it even has props to make it look real.
Aquatica, Orlando receives around 1 million guests every year; making it one of the most popular water parks in the world.
The following are some of the 50 biggest water parks in the world.
| Rank | Name | Location |
| 1 | Chimelong Water Park | China |
| 2 | Typhoon Lagoon | USA |
| 3 | Blizzard Beach | USA |
| 4 | Therme Erding | Germany |
| 5 | Thermas dos Laranjais | Olimpia, Brazil |
| 6 | Wuhu Fantawild Park | China |
| 7 | Hot Park Sao Paolo, | Brazil |
| 8 | Atlantis Aquaventure Paradise Island | Bahamas |
| 9 | Volcano Bay Orlando, | Florida, USA |
| 10 | Zoomarine | Italy |
| 11 | Etnaland | Italy |
| 12 | Siam Park | Spain |
| 13 | Zolotaya Bukhta | Russia |
| 14 | Aquafan | Italy |
| 15 | Aquopolis Costa Dorada – La Pineda Salou | Spain |
| 16 | Waterpark Lebyazhy | Belarus |
| 17 | Zoomarine Algarve | Portugal |
| 18 | Slide & Splash | Portugal |
| 19 | Aquapark Istralandia | Croatia |
| 20 | Tatralandia | Slovakia |
| 21 | Aquapark Nymphaea | Romania |
| 22 | Terra Natura (Benidorm) | Spain |
| 23 | Aqua Magic | Moldova |
| 24 | Miramar | Germany |
| 25 | Aquapark Nessebar | Bulgaria |
| 26 | Aqualandia | Spain |
| 27 | Tropical Islands | Germany |
| 28 | Aquarama | Spain |
| 29 | Amarante Water Park | Portugal |
| 30 | Therme Bucharest | Romania |
| 31 | Druskininkai Aquapark | Lithuania |
| 32 | The Caneva Aquapark | Italy |
| 33 | Parque Warner Beach | Spain |
| 34 | H2O | Russia |
| 35 | Aqua Club Dolphin | Turkey |
| 36 | Aquaboulevard de Paris | France |
| 37 | Aqua Magic Mamaia | Romania |
| 38 | Aqualibi | Belgium |
| 39 | Aquapalace Prague | Czechia |
| 40 | Isla Magica | Spain |
| 41 | Water park Jungle | Ukraine |
| 42 | Badeparadies Schwartzwald | Germany |
| 43 | Moreon | Russia |
| 44 | Aquapark Pliazh | Ukraine |
| 45 | Aquapark Wroclaw | Poland |
| 46 | Wodny Park Warszawianka | Poland |
| 47 | Aquatic Paradise | Romania |
| 48 | Livu Akvaparks | Latvia |
| 49 | Waterpark Park Bešenova | Slovakia |
| 50 | Chocholowska Baths | Poland |
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Closing
The biggest water parks in the world are many and diverse in the kinds of attractions they have to offer. In order to visit them all, one would need to travel across America, Asia (China), and Europe where there has been a proliferation of huge aquatic parks competing for attention. Interestingly, it looks like the market is just picking up; water parks are getting bigger every year.