26 May 2024
Splashdown Poole is one of the biggest waterparks in the UK, open all year round and offering a thrilling & fun experience to all those who love a flumin good time. You can find Splashdown Poole in Poole, Dorset, moreso in the Tower Park retail area with other entertainment & food options. With 13 slides that feature mainly indoors but also outdoors, there is something for all slide fans here.
Splashdown Poole has been open for some time now, since opening back in 1990, Splashdown has expanded from its original 7 slide offering to what they have now, offering year round entertainment and being one of the more popular waterparks in the south region of the UK. Splashdown also operate Splashdown Quaywest, which is the UKs only fully outdoor waterpark over in Paignton. This waterpark only operates during the summer period but these two waterparks share the same message of offering a fun family day out for those who love waterparks, slides and good times.
You can purchase tickets to Splashdown Poole online prior to your visit which is highly recommended as they do often sell out during weekends and peak times. Tickets cost £18 for a 2 hour session and £21 for a 3 hour session. Spectator only tickets cost £6.50 and for visits after 4pm, you can get a possible up to 4 hours slide time for just £19.
Our review is in partnership with working with Splashdown Poole, where our photos were taken before & during the opening session. All footage has no other guests within and have been taken with permission and agreement.
Splashdown Poole has 8 indoor slides but it feels like it has more. The 8 slides are scattered around the waterpark and they have a mixture of body and tube slides. Starting with the most popular, this is Mississippi Drifter. This is a tube slide which features multiple smaller slide sections and is mainly indoors. However, during the summer months it has an outdoor section (named Grand Canyon), which makes it a little longer. It’s super fun and offers a great challenge to try and stay on your tube as you go down.
Heading up the stairs to some of the more extreme body flume slides, you have Infinity, which is a space bowl slide which has different options of music as you go down. You end up in a deep pool at the end, so you need to be able to swim but provides a great thrilling experience. You also have Red River Roller, Zambezi Drop & Colorado Coaster. All of these are body slides and offering a range of different thrills. Red River Roller is a nice slow journey full of twists and turns, where as Zambezi Drop provides a much faster experience, with more of a thrilling journey in mind.
Keeping with the inside thrilling slides, you have Dragons Lair. As the name suggests, you may be lucky to see the dragon within, as you speed down its path in a fun slide. Not forgetting Black Thunder, which is a dark slide which simulates a thunder storm as you slide down the near pitch black route. The last slide inside for the thrillseekers is Baron’s Revenge. The shortest slide by far as you take a quick descent which is a short, sharp and shock slide.
Heading over to the more seasonal part of the park, this adds another 4 thrilling slides to the lineup, This part of the park usually opens in May but it is all subject to the weather. It was open during our visit in the middle of May and this allowed us to head up the giant outdoor slide tower to take on these large slides, not for the faint hearted.
Starting with Velocity, this is a quick slide that plunges you down 30m before you take a slight twist before ending. Short but intense. Next up you have The Screamer, a slide which only lasts around 5 seconds as you go through 40m of tubing. This does include some twists and turns to get down so prepare for one speedy journey, as this is the most thrilling slide they offer.
Finally, you have the duo tube slide which is Tennessee Twister & Louisiana Leap, both these slides are similar but provide a great racing opportunity whilst providing plenty of fun. They pick up plenty of speed like the other slides in this tower and these are pretty fun and more enjoyable than the others if you are looking for slides to do again & again.
Also outside, you will find a seating area to enjoy in the sunny weather as well as an outdoor pool. Although not open during our more recent visit, we expect these to reopen shortly and are nice to relax in.
For the younger audience, you do have a splash play area which features a play area, a shallow pool and other splash features. Whilst Splashdown Poole is best aged for teenagers and kids who are happy to experience more thrilling slides, its nice for them to have a small offering for the audience under 7 years old.
Splashdown Poole also has a café for spectators to wait in, so if you don’t fancy getting wet you can sit in viewing distance of the waterpark to just watch and keep an eye on your children. The café has your typical hot drinks, snacks and soft drinks on offer. Lockers require a £1 coin to operate, which the staff can assist with if you require a coin.
Overall, Splashdown Poole has a lot on offer and is popular as ever. We recommend you visit early in the morning to be one of the first in, as during peak times, there may be some short waits to get on the slides. Towards the end of the day, the waterpark is the quietest, but how busy the waterpark does usually depend on the weather and time of year.
A huge thank you to the team for working with us during our visit. They did provide us free entry and exclusive permission to film & take videos. All footage has been approved by the team, as usually no camera equipment is allowed in the waterpark area for safety reasons.
If you wish to visit Splashdown Poole, then make sure you head over to their website to book.
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