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Location Date Mon, 15 July 2024 
1720998000 Sun, 14 July 2024 1720973239
- Breakfast in the hotel. lots of options again with many cooks preparing things if want. (we stuck to the pre-made things and tried some odd fruit & Malaysian things & fresh juices).
- Taxi (via Grab app) to Subway Lagoon. Our driver clearly didn't know the way, with a number of last-minute highway changes across marked islands. The highway network interchanges are complex. I'm glad I'm not driving, given that a local taxi driver struggled from the city centre to the city's biggest amusement/water park (and was using Google maps) I would have no chance.
- Got to Subway Lagoon around 10:30 am. Check-in was smooth other than them not giving us the fast passes (although they quickly corrected when I queried). For future note, using 3rd party booking site (been using trip - dot com) much earlier than using their own site.
- The park is a reasonably large sprawling facility, although mainly a water park. The amusement park aspect was not very good and only rides would not do more than once (despite many people in the park, the amusement park aspect was mostly empty). Actually getting on the first ride took some doing (as despite having bag storage, they did not allow bags to be placed in it… - well some.. It was an inconsistent, confusing "system" - had to pay $6 AUD & 15-minute walk to officially store the bag with just towel and change of clothes - which it turns out we really didn't need later).
- The first ride looked like a standard swinging ship, which it was; however, it went right over (360). It was not particularly enjoyable as it was very controlled and slow—i.e., it never swung, just slowly went around. The other main ride was very similar, with 2 caged sections (the same as we did in Melbourne). This one did swing briefly but only once for one rotation—i.e., just when we thought it was getting going, it stopped (when we did it in Melbourne they run the sequence much longer).
- Walked over the massive suspension bridge. Is impressive (includes a bungee platform). Then decided to just go into the water sliders. Started out on the flow-rider (boogie board thing) as there was no cue (this immediately changed as we were on it & a long cue remained the rest of the day so worked out well). Ethan was only just tall enough (interestingly, the Flow Rider at Phuket, which looked identical, had a much lower height limit).
- We made our way around the water slides at the far side of the park, where there were no queues (these latter had queues - which the fast passes made slightly faster).
- Back at the "main" water slides, we did the vortex slide (the biggest in the world, apparently) - like the Kraken at Adventure World - just bigger. The fast pass came in very handy here as the cue was huge, apparently 30 min, but we wanted 10 min with the fast pass & the fast pass queue was small compared to the main cue (probably 10 in the fast pass vs 80+ in the main queue). While the biggest & was good, it was also likely the roughest, as a lot of repair work to the slide surface, and it was very bumpy as it fell into the funnel (once aware, could push into the edge of the tube to lift off the bottom & was then more pleasant).
- we're going to do the flying fox, but neither of us could (have to be between 40 - 80 kg - Ethan is 39kg).
- Spent a few hours working our way through all the slides a lot of times.
- We were waiting for one 2 person tube slide with tiny kids ahead of us. The slide involved going uphill at the end, so we were interested to see how they went. They didn't even make it to the uphill & got stuck halfway down on a flat section. The lifeguard at the top didn't seem to care at all and just shrugged and left them there for quite a while. The lifeguard at the bottom ended up climbing up the slide to rescue them (he didn't seem to impressed about the lifeguard at the top doing nothing).
- The wave pool (or Surf pool as they called it) was good, similar to the one in Phuket, but they only run it for 1 hr per day… This was the best organised we've been to with lifeguards in the water to manage people staying in the right place, and a clearly defined line on the floor (others just had an imposed line that lifeguards on the edge were forever blowing whistles to tell people to go back to an arbitrary un-marked point). The lifeguard next to us was great, mucking around, and very happily engaging while keeping everyone back.
- Overall, the staff was a very mixed bag; some were great and engaging, while others clearly not interested. It was like an in-between Singapore (where most didn't seem to want to be there) and Bali (where almost all were very animated, happy, and engaged).
- We went to the night park (it turns out this is included in our pass), which only has a few rides (water slide/tube thing… river rapids & 2 different spinning, undulating rides).
- For some dinner here, it frustratingly turned out the money I put on my wristband was not very helpful, as most places either didn't know how to use it or couldn't make it work. So we had to get converted back to cash (this is the only water park we have been to that doesn't mandate using money on wristbands only). But we were able to get lunch/dinner (as we hadn't eaten since breakfast until around 7 p.m.).
- The night park was small and not very crowded. We watched three shows, which, as it happened, ended with a fire display, which seems only appropriate now every county we've seen a fire show. It was also impressive & had its own unique quirks compared to others (like shaking fire embers everywhere).
- We went on all the rides (all 4 of them…) multiple times. Had a lot of fun on one we didn't expect which is reasonably slow and can raise your "car" - and o manually spin it. We could really get it spinning!
- Ended up over 12 hrs at the park.
- Getting back home took a long time after wasting 30 minutes waiting for the Grab driver, who never came (or responded to calls or messages)…. I ended up cancelling despite the app telling me not to and getting the next Grab taxi, who arrived quick. So, we didn't end up getting back until around 11:30 p.m. It's a good thing we have a slow start tomorrow.
- Something we have noted with interest is the amount of music in every country at both amusement parks, taxi's, restaurants, etc…. in English. Only rarely hear music in the local language.
- Given our delayed flight out (5:45 pm departure) we're thinking of walking to the amusement park inside the shopping mall which opens at 12 pm (25 min walk), try this (is a fee per ride I think, so can do a couple of rides we want), then go to the airport.
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