Who needs a swimming costume anyway!

Nick had found a pretty cool waterpark and amusement park to visit today and luckily every first Tuesday of the month is heavily discounted in price. It has a combination of 6 different parks from a water park to a zoo. When we arrived the queue to get the wristbands was huge and we were wondering what we had done! As it was so discounted we decided to pay extra for fast passes and we were so glad we did! We were able to just walk straight to the front of the line and get on the rides straight away. It was no Alton towers for rides but they did have a few cool ones including a pirate ship that went a full 360 around. We decided to do all the dry parts first before getting changed to do the water parks. The park is a little bit of a con as you can't take bags on rides so you are forced to pay a fiver to rent a locker for the day. We headed to the zoo after the rides where they had white lions and white tigers. We saw the white tigers up so close and they were pretty interested in each other which we discovered first hand is because it's mating season! The kids found this hilarious of course. After some food it was time to get changed and head to the water parks. This is when we discovered that me being such a bright spark had left my swimming costume at the hotel! I left it out of the bag as I was going to wear it under my clothes but decided in the morning I'd get changed when there and forgot to put it in. I had to go a buy some heavily branded shorts and t shirt to wear. Luckily they were in a sale but I spent the rest of the day walking around looking like a tourist who was so enthusiastic about the park that I bought the clothing to prove it! The water park areas were busier and they had some great rides so we were glad we could just go to the front and get on straight away. The best time for doing this was on a ride where you needed 4 people to go inside a large ring to go down the slide. When we got to the entrance we were paired with a boy who was about 5 and his mum who had been waiting for another 2 people to come along to be paired with. We entered the queueing area and they went to join the regular line where the wait time was at 1 hour and 30 minutes. It felt so good to say to them that they were able to jump the queue with us as we had the fast passes and the boy loved it as we walked up the stairs passed the hundreds of people all the way to the top and straight onto the ride. He also loved the ride as well so that made it even better. We went on it again later and managed to do the same thing for another child and her mum. Some rides didn't have a separate fast track queue so you had to ask to come through the line and with a large double rubber ring as well this was a bit tricky. You also have to explain to every person that you have fast passes and you do get some pretty annoyed looks. You do feel a bit rude but at the end of the day we did pay for this. After one water park area we climbed up so many stairs where we jumped another 1.5 hours queue to zip wire down to the other water park area which was pretty cool! Despite the lack of swimming costume we had a great day in the end and stayed up until the park closed and then had some Japanese food for dinner before heading back to the hotel.Leer más