But then again, everything was cool when I was a kid. Raced through the dark, didn't know where I'd come out. Loved the huge, dark indoor water slide jungle. An oasis of calm and peace in Mainland China. The park has no real rides, but makes for a great walk with few other people around. Built by the same people who created now-defunct Splendid China Florida. Hyper-themed, yet not a theme park, so don't expect any rides inside! Romance Park is a collection of shows, which I skipped. Spookily exotic, but somewhat irritating and totally amiss to call it a leisure attraction. Minsk World is marketed as a theme park, but it's a docked battleship with a few lost tourists and lots of dancing Chinese teenage girls inside. As of 2013 this is the newest, but also smallest and unfortunately worst of the Happy Valley chain of theme parks.
The theming is a terrible throw-whatever-together patchwork that can in fact serve as a role model as to how to NOT design theme parks. Another apocalyptic theme park whose purpose is to serve as a sales pitch for the property developments surrounding it. The water park only occupies 1/3 or less of the Water Cube structure, the rest is pools and restaurants. Consists of two slide towers and multiple giant jellyfish shapes (that look like purchased from IKEA) hanging from the ceiling. Smaller and less spectacular than internet pictures suggest. Hyped indoor water park housed in former Olympic building that was closed for six straight days in a row when I was in Beijing in September 2013. Happy Magic Water CubeĪttempted visit 2013.
Has budget, but lacks all the heart and soul it needs to survive and while already empty today , will be entirely unsustainable once it has to compete with Shanghai Disneyland. Brand-new, huge and noisy Disney/Universal rip-off with localized versions of the Indiana Jones and Transformers rides.
Located in Qingdao, between Beijing and Shanghai. Besides that, the park offers lots of theming and the latest ride technology, but nothing too spectacular. Don't skip the savage, mad-scientist roller coaster 'Dinoconda', if you dare. Rides in the new section are contemporary and worthwile. Consists of an old section that's terribly depressing, with lots of Disneyland rip-offs including Epcot's Spaceship Earth structure and a new section with lots of theming on the surface, but not much behind. China's first Atlantis resort will be located on a stunning beach that I found to be surprisingly empty.