Park Profile
This tilt coaster from Golden Horse is a unique attraction of the park
Hefei Wanda Water Park
The 2,970 sq m (32,000 sq ft) Wanda Water Park at Hefei Wanda City is the largest indoor temperature controlled waterpark in China.
The indoor park comprises
13 slides and attractions and some of the latest facilities. Both Jora Vision and WhiteWater prepared initial concept designs, but the park was eventually built to a different design to a traditional Chinese theme. An iconic feature of the
park is a big dragon on top of a rock. Signature attractions include the longest indoor hydromagnetic water coaster in China, the world's first two- layer flowing river, and a Boomerango and Superbowl by WhiteWater, which also supplied a selection of open flume body slides and kids' slides including a ramp slide, mini slides and mini mat- racer. The park also enjoys more obscure bragging rights such as the largest indoor loudspeaker combination in China.
WhiteWater has to date
worked on the indoor waterpark at Wanda Changbaishan International Ski Resort and much larger outdoor park at Wanda Xishaungbanna International Resort. According to the company's David Bogdonov, a further three indoor parks are in the pipeline.
The 6-star Wanda Vista Hotel, for example, features white walls and black tiles, a bamboo grove and artificial mountains. Meanwhile the Wanda Mall is shaped in the form of a scroll of rice paper as a nod towards Anhui's Huizhou district, which is known for its poetry, music and calligraphy, as well as being the place where rice paper was invented. Wanda also wants to establish Hefei Wanda City as a major destination for sporting and business events, and to this end it has already hosted China's first Ironman triathlon, Hefei international marathon and Anhui Business Conference. Wanda, incidentally, owns the Ironman brand. Hefei is accessible to hundreds of millions of people in
central and eastern China by high speed train, and Hefei Wanda City will soon be linked by subway to the high speed hub and airport. “Wanda City is a perfect combination of international style and Chinese characteristics, bringing local culture and high technology under one roof,” believes Wu Cunrong, Hefei Party Secretary. Wanda Group chairman Wang Jianlin, often referred to as China's richest man, has said that he is determined to build Hefei Wanda City into a world-class mega project in order to boost Hefei's wider tourism prospects. His company is to invest a further RMB10 billion in phase II of Wanda City, construction on which will commence within the year. Exactly what park or attraction components this will include, or which companies will be working on them, had yet to be revealed. Jora Vision has confirmed that it has provided the concept
design for a new Wanda Movie Park in the northeastern city of Harbin, which will include a dark ride and a flying theatre, similar to the "Fly over Anhui” attraction featured within the indoor theme park at Hefei. The Dutch firm is also designing for a new science and technology park concept Wanda is developing in Shanghai, set to open in 2019. Meanwhile Wanda plans to have as many as 15 Wanda City projects across China by 2020. As for the group's immediate plans in Hefei, no official park attendance figures have been released yet. Admission is priced at RMB 218 per person ($32/€30), or RMB 308 ($45/€42) for a family. If the park can achieve – and sustain – the same sorts of numbers as in Nanchang, which welcomed 300,000 guests within its first month, then Wanda could be onto a winner.
For a full breakdown of storylines developed by Jora Vision for each ride and attraction at Hefei Wanda Theme Park, visit
parkworld-online.com/wandahefei
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