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Siam Park is a water park in Costa Adeje, a coastal suburb in Tenerife, Canary Islands. Siam Park features a Siamese (Thai) theme.[2] The park was opened by the Princess of Thailand Maha Chakri Sirindhorn. The principal owner is Loro Parque, operated by Wolfgang Kiessling and his son Christoph.[3] A second park is planned for the neighbouring island of Gran Canaria.[4]
Siam Park's construction started in 2004 and cost 52 million euros (US$58.7 million). Originally stated to open in May 2007, the park endured construction problems and finally opened to the public on September 17, 2008. The park's plans originally included a roller coaster, but the park opted to focus on developing the first phase of the park.
Siam Park includes Thai theming on all of its rides, park buildings, and restaurants. The park's 25 buildings are the largest collection of Thai-themed buildings outside Thailand. The park's designer, Christoph Kiessling, received permission from the Thai royal family to use the park's name and theme; but, to respect the family's wishes, he did not copy royal palaces, temples, or statues of Buddha in the park.[citation needed]
The park is built on a hill, which permits the slides to follow the park's terrain similar to terrain roller coasters. Hence, they lack the prominent support structure present in most water slides.The park's water is heated to 25 C (77 F). Kiessling calls Siam Park the "first air conditioned outdoor aquatic park in the world".
To conserve the island's water, Siam Park has a desalination plant on site, which desalinates 700 cubic meters (25,000 cu ft) of sea water per day.[citation needed] After the water is used in the rides, the park recycles the water by using it to water the park's plants. In addition, Siam Park has the first natural gas plant in the Canary Islands.[citation needed]
Well, it's been a while since I've visited a new-for-me park to review, and whilst I don't usually veer into the world of water parks I figured I'd make a special exception for Siam Park in Tenerife. Heralded by many (including Trip Advisor) as the best water park in the world, Siam Park which opened in 2008 is the top attraction in Tenerife. The water park boasts world class water slides, outstanding theming and landscaping and gorgeous beaches and animal enclosures. It's also easily the most hyped attraction I've ever visited - the minute I mentioned I was going my mentions were flooded with people telling me how incredible the place was, eager to hear my thoughts. So I guess I will get stuck in then!
Before I start I want to caveat this by saying that this will be a true to life, play by play of how our day went at Siam Park. I always do my best to be as up front about our experiences as I possibly can, and despite us receiving gifted tickets for this attraction our day wasn't the smoothest (as you will shortly see) and therefore I want to start off with getting to the crux of it: I don't think Siam Park is the best water park in the world. After reading on I'm sure you'll understand why but I wanted to put that out there first and foremost. So here we go.
It should be said that I am not the world's biggest water park fan, but I do love a fantastic bit of immersive theming and a good water slide where you sit in a boat of some description. I also usually do my best to avoid hype as best I can for any new-for-me attraction before visiting, but with Siam Park it was impossible. Literally everybody told me it was incredible and I was going to love it. Everybody. Which I completely get but I always worry it's going to set the benchmark to an unattainable place but yes, suffice to say the hype was real and I was excited to see what all the fuss was about!
Given the island was dead everywhere else, the park opened at 10AM and we arrived around 10.20AM to a HUGE queue of people, much to our surprise. There was no signage explaining which queue was for what, just various lines of people excited to enjoy a day of water slides and one poor park employee desperately trying to direct traffic so nobody got mowed down. And this was our first issue - I had to pick my tickets up but without much signage or direction it was impossible to know where to go. After about 20 minutes of running around, heading in and out of offices, being fobbed off by two different park employees who seemed way too stressed at 10.30AM in the morning and eventually being told to cut in front of a family to speak to a staff member at a kiosk (apologies again, family of Paultons Park fans decked head to toe in Tornado Springs gear), we had our tickets and we were in.
Once inside things still didn't move smoothly, sadly. The crowding was uncomfortable, especially given Covid-19. We were packed like sardines into a bottleneck hardly moving for seemingly no reason, until we turned a corner and realised it was because the park were insisting on everybody having obligatory photos at the entrance before being allowed into the park proper. After the chaos of entering the park this was particularly frustrating but we shrugged it off and focussed on our next task: lockers.
Now this isn't my first rodeo, I've been to many a theme and water park in my day and the golden rule is always to head to the back of the park first, right? So after consulting the map and locating some lockers more towards the other end of the park, we smugly passed through yet another crowd to seek them out. Once we got there we were a bit peeved to find these lockers were closed, despite the park being quite crowded at this point and all other locker locations now boasting huge queues. How annoying. We bit the bullet and just joined the next locker queue we could find which actually moved really quickly once we were in it, the long queues were kind of deceptive if I'm honest.
But we were in, stuff safely locked away, in our swimming gear ready to do an attraction. As the Mai Thai River was right there we decided to calm down a bit with this first, only to be told no we could only enter at another location the other side of the park. Oh, and we would have to wear a face mask. Yes, all day. Yes, in the water. Yes, on the slides. I'm not sure how Siam Park have gotten to the conclusion that this is the correct approach but from my perspective and experience this seems futile and dangerous - the one slide I did wear the mask on I almost choked on the water splashed in my face.
So on we fought, wandering around to try and find the entrance to said lazy river. We got close, only to be told by a stern security guard that the park is one way, and if we wanted to reach the entrance point literally 5m away from us we would have to backtrack around the entire park. Suffice to say I was more than frustrated at this point. It had been just over an hour and twenty minutes since we'd arrived at Siam Park and we hadn't dipped as much a toe in some water, let alone been on any rides.
Next up was a ride on the Mekong Rapids - a ProSlide Mammoth 4 person family raft ride river rapids ride. Controversially I'm going to say this was my favourite slide in the park. It was fast, it was wild, it had amazing steep drops with loads of airtime and just the right about of splashing. Like everything at this park, it's beautifully landscaped and the final drop splashes down into a pool surrounded with onlookers, so the atmosphere is quite fun hearing everybody cheering and clapping as you splash down.
To distract ourselves we joined the queue for Singha. Now, I knew this park had a Water Coaster somewhere but I'm nowhere near as on top of my water slides as I am my coasters so I didn't know which was which. Until we sat down on the thing and got going. The near misses through the trees! The huge ejector airtime! The crazy drops! Absolutely insane Water Coaster and easily one of the best I've ridden - another absolutely knockout attraction continuing the trend of there not being a bad or poor slide in the park.
With the final slide of the day done, we went back around to the entrance to collect Conor's flip flops, only to find they had been stolen. A fitting end to a generally frustrating day at the world's best water park then!
Siam Park is absolutely beautiful. It's a gorgeous park that's stunning to look at, with excellent theming, lush tropical landscaping and thrilling, world-class slides. Seriously, every single slide is excellent. What let this park down for me was the frustrating operation - because of the faff at the start of the day leading to us not being able to purchase FastPass, we literally did not stop all day. We didn't have any downtime to enjoy the beach or the wave pool, to sit down with a drink in the Thai village and pause to enjoy the scenery or watch the sea lions for a bit. We queued back to back, all day, and even then without stopping there were still at least three major attractions we did not experience, let alone being able to reride our favourites of those we did ride.
I truly believe you shouldn't have to plan a day out at an attraction with military precision nor purchase FastPass to be able to have an enjoyable time, and sadly this did feel like the case with Siam Park. I'm sure during periods where it's not extremely busy the place is absolutely incredible, and I'm very jealous of those who've enjoyed it in this state. Fantastic water park? Absolutely! Best in the world? Not in my opinion.
Siam Park is a water park located on the island of Tenerife. The parks theme follows a Thai architectural aesthetic and has won first place in tripadvisors Top 25 waterparks in the world. Siam park comprises of a 30m Point Break Surf Wave pool.
Wolfgang Kiessling opened his first attraction in the Canary Islands in 1972. The founder and president of the family firm that operates the award-winning Loro Parque, Siam Park and new Poema del Mar aquarium talks to Blooloop about plans for a second spectacular waterpark, his lack of concern over Brexit and the advantages of birds over big cats.
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