Best Waterparks Albufeira

Why choose Aquashow?

The Aquashow park is a complex of pools, slides and rides located around 25 mins outside of Albufeira by coach (this journey can vary depending on where you are staying and where your pick up point is) with a full schedule of pick ups all over the Eastern and central Algarve. Aquashow is the closest water park to Albufeira and it is also the newest and trendiest park to visit. Each year the park adds new rides, slides and pools to compete with its rival Slide ans Splash which is to the West of Albufeira. One entering the park you will be provided with a map so you can easily find your way around, the new activities for 2018 were the Thunder Cruise, the Jacuzzi and the Tropical Pool, each with its own unique style, 2 of the 3, the Tropical Pool and the Jacuzzi are for those of us looking to relax and unwind, probably from a few to many cocktails the night before, so head for these to get yourself back to the land of the living befoe you try and tackle some of the more stomach churning rides the park is famous for.

There are 2 main pools in Aquashow, one called Aqualandia, which is like a half submerged assault course where you can climb, jump, crawl you way around a huge climbing frame or do what most do and sit back in the waist deep warm water and watch everyone else make fools of themselves. The second pool is the wave pool, its a huge rectange pool filled with inflatable rubber rings and lilos that you can cling onto while the huge wave machine flips and pushes you around. But once you have had your fill of floating around in quiet calm pools with waves and climbing frames its time to get your adrenalin going and hit the rides and slides.

The first and most obvious slide you will see as you enter the park is the huge free fall slide, and its not called free fall for a joke, you really do free fall. This ride is not for the faint hearted it was the tallest slide in Europe for a period and once you have made your way to the top (which is an effort unto itself), you will find yourself staring down a vertical slide over 100 feet high, trust us you will get from top to bottom much quicker than you get from bottom to top. After you have had the life terrified out of you its time to move onto the white fall, this crazy looking funnel thats absolutley enormous. You climb to the top, jump omn a rubber ring and slalom down the funnel at such incredible speed you will think you will fly out of the other side, but you wont.

Things will start to get a little more sedate now with the normal slides known as the Tubos Lentos, or the Long Tubes as well as the racing slides which has several lanes where you can all line up and race each other to the bottom over crazy humps that will throw you in the air if your not careful.