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Guest's review of Barnsley, Metrodome

“Winter fun!”

★★★★☆

written by on 19/01/2014

We travelled over 50 miles to come here in January 2014. We were a party of 4 adults and a 2 year old. For a family of 2 adults and toddler, it came to about £13 - bargain!
We came in the morning for 10am which was ideal as afterwards the queues were horrendous - I suppose it shows how popular it is!
The changing village was immaculate. £1 needed for the lockers which is returnable. Minor point - more baby changing cubicles.
There is a laned swimming pool and a small filter throughway you can swim through to get to the waterpark. There is a sunken galleon with a three laned water slide for small children - though it is surprisingly fast. My 2 year old loved it! A wave pool and the wave machine was every 15-20 minutes or so. Various deco stuff in the theme of pirates, a 4-laned astra slide which my 2 year old joined us on when sat on his father's knee. He loved that. A diving pool with 3 dive boards. The pool has windows for people to view divers.
Saved the best til last. Three tube slides. The green Kraken we thought was 'tame' turned out to be quite fast! the Terror Torrent was the black hole slide. It simple turned and went on a downward direction whic made it very fast. the red Eruption slide is 'different'. Other water parks now have this slide but relatively 'new'. You slide down a longish chute into a giant bowl where you slide about before dropping out the bottom into a 2m pool.
There is a cafe poolside for those wanting to eat but not wanting to get out and get dressed.
Overall, it was a good waterpark. We spent 1.5 hours there which was enough for my little boy but for older kids and adults, about 3 hours is probably enough. I have been to one other waterpark in the UK (now closed) and it was better in terms of number of slides and thrill factor but the price of this waterpark is excellent value for money. We are definitely returning!

  • January 2014

    Date of visit (month/year)

  • All ages

    Ages suited for

  • Value For Money

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