So after another much needed lie-in we awoke this morning with only one thing on our agenda...... a day at Wild Wadi. The aforementioned location is a large (very large) water park located between the Jumierah Beach Hotel and the Burj al Arab. Jenny remembered the park very fondly and we both thought we could use a day at a water park that provided some relief from the excruciating heat. We left the house at about 10:00 this morning and caught a cab to the park. Because Jenny had been smart enough to order a Dubai Entertainer voucher book (an re-sell it for nearly as much as we paid) we were in possession of a buy-one-get-one-free voucher for Wild Wadi that saved us AED 220 (~£40) on the entrance fee.
We only got one locker to save money (AED25) as we really didn't need two, so I went into the ladies room and took Dan's t-shirt and shoes with me, and used the ingenious Wild Wadi watch system to close our locker. What they do is give you a plastic watch shaped wrist band that has a plain round face, you load Dirhams onto and thus have no need to carry around wet money! We slathered ourselves in factor 50, and set off !! Dan LOVED the rides =D Almost all of the rides at the water park are interconnected and they put you on a single or double tube and water shoots you up and down and around every ride! We chose to share a double tube first and were shot on our way, Dan yelling all the while how awesome it was, as I had told him it would be =D
Jut after the first round of rides, we decided to stop for another sunscreen slathering session (me being a super pink prawn and basically allergic to intense sunshine after hibernating for 6 years in Scotland!) and went off in search of some food as we hadn't yet had breakfast. We settled at Sinbad's Cave and had a supersized chicken wrap each. We went on the string of rides again in single tubes this time, the second leg of it terrifying the daylights out of us as it takes you out over the highway with the walls only going halfway up, so it feels like you could be shot out onto the highway at 50km's per hour, and 15m up. There is also one great part of the ride that is totally enclosed, and really long, so you swoosh through in the pitch black =D
They have two other rides open that were not here when I was last in Dubai, Tantrum Alley and Burj Surj. Tantrum Alley is at the top scale of crazy, as you get into four interlinked tubes(so we were opposite each other as we were just a two) that also shoots you out over the highway at much faster speeds, and swooshes you around and up and own so your tummy does that funny swoopy thing over an over again for the duration of the ride - its awesome !! Burj Surj is one down on the scale of crazy and you are sharing this giant tube that has a bottom and can seat up to 6 people in it, and it takes you into two whirlpools that then suck you down a steep incline and round and round the twists and turns of the ride.
The actual warning on the Wild Wadi site is that the rides 'may be stressful to those who fear heights, high speeds, and/or enclosed space. That's pretty accurate =D
We waited out front for his food to be made up, chose a Pepsi and a 7 Up, and were told that the total came to AED 20, so we gave them 30. I can verify that all the food was all very delicious, and the 'breads' - read pancakes - are not small at all, but are also super delicious.
Burj Khalifa tomorrow!
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We only got one locker to save money (AED25) as we really didn't need two, so I went into the ladies room and took Dan's t-shirt and shoes with me, and used the ingenious Wild Wadi watch system to close our locker. What they do is give you a plastic watch shaped wrist band that has a plain round face, you load Dirhams onto and thus have no need to carry around wet money! We slathered ourselves in factor 50, and set off !! Dan LOVED the rides =D Almost all of the rides at the water park are interconnected and they put you on a single or double tube and water shoots you up and down and around every ride! We chose to share a double tube first and were shot on our way, Dan yelling all the while how awesome it was, as I had told him it would be =D
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| The slides that run all over the park |
They have two other rides open that were not here when I was last in Dubai, Tantrum Alley and Burj Surj. Tantrum Alley is at the top scale of crazy, as you get into four interlinked tubes(so we were opposite each other as we were just a two) that also shoots you out over the highway at much faster speeds, and swooshes you around and up and own so your tummy does that funny swoopy thing over an over again for the duration of the ride - its awesome !! Burj Surj is one down on the scale of crazy and you are sharing this giant tube that has a bottom and can seat up to 6 people in it, and it takes you into two whirlpools that then suck you down a steep incline and round and round the twists and turns of the ride.
The actual warning on the Wild Wadi site is that the rides 'may be stressful to those who fear heights, high speeds, and/or enclosed space. That's pretty accurate =D
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| The Burj Surj |
We decided to get a taxi home at about half 3 and slept for the next three hours (its very tiring in the sun!) and then went to sit outside in the relatively cool evening and have a beer and some wine. Lewis then came home with Melanie and we played trucks and balls with him for a bit (kind of like fetch as we couldn't be bothered to get the balls every time they went off course, but Lewis didn't mind!=D). Dan's stomach started talking to us at around 8 so we walked down to Jumerah Beach road, the main road closest to Bob and Gillian's house, and found this tiny eatery next to a band that we saw a few days ago on our walk to the beach. We walked inside and asked if they did takeaway, at which point a little Pakistani man said 'come, come' and took us into the kitchen and proceeded to show us the wide array of large stock pots on the tables and tell us everything in them 'Beef, Chicken, Lamb' etc., so Dan chose Beef and some weird veggie looking thing and was then asked how many breads he wanted, he said two and the man said 'no take three, they small' and that was that =D
We waited out front for his food to be made up, chose a Pepsi and a 7 Up, and were told that the total came to AED 20, so we gave them 30. I can verify that all the food was all very delicious, and the 'breads' - read pancakes - are not small at all, but are also super delicious.
Burj Khalifa tomorrow!
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