Which Benidorm waterpark?

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Hi, please can I have some advice from people who have been before?

Can't decide between aqua natura or aqualandia.
Two kids, 8 and 15. 15yo is disabled but not a wheelchair user. Can manage stairs at home but multiple flights of stairs are a struggle. Neither are strong swimmers but can swim a few feet in water they can stand up in. Youngest can self-save when out of depth/falls in and get to the side of the pool but eldest panics out of depth.
We're basically trying to figure out which park has the most slides for weaker swimmers cause they really want a go to one but I don't want them to be disappointed.

Thanks.

Anyone? 😭

Aquanatura is built into the hillside, and it's a trek down just to get to the water. The bigger slides are all up multiple sets of stairs. I don't fancy it with your 15 year old.

Not been to the other one - we got free passes to aquanatura so just went there several times. It does have a nice big, shallow (well waist-chest height) pool, and a young kids bit.

I've been to Aqua Natura and I wouldn't recommend for a few reasons (mainly food related, I wasn't impressed at all) but also I'd say the actual water park bit was for experienced swimmers, my 5 year old didn't venture past the shallow splash zones, they did have smaller pools dotted about the place that did have small slides etc but the water was absolutely freezing, I'm not a wimp at all but it was unbearably cold. That's the only water park I've ever been to so maybe that's just the norm but it was horrendous 😂

Would you be looking at staying at the park?It's quite hilly, and spread out depending on where your lodge is. I'd say we easily did 10k steps a day just pottering about between the zoo / water park etc

Sorry I mean I've stayed at the resort where the water park is btw!

Personally I would be very cautious with non-swimmers at a water park. If it's very busy you won't enjoy it. The slides often require quite robust swimming skills at the bottom to get out - the force of the water creates a kind of a vortex effect. My children are strong swimmers and I had a bit of anxiety watching them pop out the bottom in some parks.

This will mean your kids are bound to the splash zones and may be bored. It's also very expensive.

This is helpful, thank you. I was hoping there would have been plenty of slides like the sort you get at a haven or a local leisure complex for the younger ones. Where you just stand up and walk out. Thank you for mentioning about the hillside, I hadn't realised it was on a hillside.

We went to benidorm last year and stayed and magic robin hood water park is fantastic for kids and all in one place you can get a day pass

I live an hour away and we've been to both multiple times - most importantly what time of year are you going?

We are going to albir water park and gardens. 20 mins outside of benidorm but really lovely.
We love beni by the way and its easy to jump the bus or taxi for a visit.

Aqualandia is great but most of the slides involve going up a fair few steps and it is set on a hillside. There’s a wave pool / lazy river and a kind of play park with aerial runway etc but aside from that the other slides involve at least a few flights of steps.

August 😬

Can they take swimming lessons beforehand to improve? You might be able to find a swim therapy centre for your eldest. Another option would be to find a normal amusement park that has a few water rides attached. Good luck!

The pool water at Aqualandia stung all of our eyes something terrible - never known anything it.

Also, take a first aid kids with you if you go there as when another child pushed my DC on a slide causing him to scrape his knee, the first aid team were beyond rubbish. Wouldn’t give us a plaster or even so much as a tissue even though I said I had none, made us walk some distance to the toilet even though they could see DS was dripping blood on the ground. Two staff members literally stood on the doorway of a fully equipped first aid room while this happened…. For that alone I’d never go back.