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FlowRider surfi ng simulators are popular with waterparks
pool, rivers, surfi ng machines, China’s largest surfi ng wave pool and performance areas. The Nanjing Longmenzhen
Water Park is comparable to the Beijing park, with a similar product mix and design. It also includes a unique resort hotel and European-style spas and is expected to attract Nanjing residents and tourists from throughout the Yangtze river delta. “Although both will operate as standalone parks, the inte- grated resort hotels and spas will make these developments an attractive family vacation destination,” says van Dam.
MIDDLE EAST
The latest parks in the Middle East – Iceland and Wahooo – have also been designed with the brief that they have to be among the best in the world. Since Wahooo is the fi rst waterpark in Bahrain – a country which has a non-swimming culture, no beaches and only two heated swimming pools – a small scale waterpark may have suffi ced. But the developers, the same company which took indoor skiing to Dubai, aimed high. “The brief was not to just cross the line, but to smash through it,” says general manager Damian Latham. The US$60m (£39m, 44m) waterpark opened as the hook of a shopping mall at the end of October. Being new to the mar- ket, it was important there was something for everyone. Aqua Leisure put together the rides and slides package – to include high thrill rides, as well as sedentary ones –
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a wave pool and a lazy river. There’s a tots’ pool for the three and unders and a big rain fortress for three- to 12-year-olds. The crown jewel of the park is the Point
Break FlowRider, from Wave Loch, where people can have a go at fl owriding, a sport similar to surfi ng. Claiming to be the largest waterpark in
the Middle East, the Iceland Waterpark opened in April, 80km north of Dubai, in Ras Al Khaimah. This represents the fi rst phase of a 120-acre family destination, WOW RAK, which will also have an 85-unit shopping mall, a 180-bed hotel and a theme park, which is due to open in 2012. A joint venture between the Polo Group, RAKIA and RAK Properties, this park is themed around penguins and the Arctic. As well as waterslides, it will have the world’s largest artifi cially-made waterfall and raindance pool, a snorkelling pool, arc- tic wave pool and a kids’ cove.
NORTH AMERICA
Canada is also getting its largest water- park to date this June, with the launch of Calypso Waterpark in Ontario. Sitting on 100 acres, this park has a number of
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