Imagica Water Park

As I have passport of Imagica, I have to complete my four trips in a year so last week I decided to go to Imagica Water Park.

As part of preparation, we did following:

• We purchased a swimming costume for my daughter as all her costumes were small in size and didn't fit her anymore.
• We purchased a T-shirt for myself which dries fast and doesn't soak a lot of water.
• We took slippers, towels, swimming costumes, swimming goggles and swimming caps for all of us.
• Some guidelines for clothing and footwear is given here.
• Make sure you put Sunscreen protection on your complete body otherwise you might get tanned.

Timings: We started from my home at 9 AM. There was a Bhakti Shakti Cyclathon on 26th November on NH-48 (old Pune-Mumbai highway) so google gave us this route which avoided going via NH-48. But we somehow lost our way in-between and finally reached Talegaon toll plaza at around 10:20 AM. From there too when we reached the Khalapur toll, instead of left-most lane, we crossed it in a middle lane and after that, the left turn for Imagica could not be taken so we had to take a U turn and took this route to reach park. The time when we reached park was around 11:45 AM, almost an hour later than what we had planned.

We presented our passport and got tickets from the ticket window and thought of going via rope-way to Water Park but we came to know that rope-way is under maintenance so we had to go via bus. 

Once inside the water park, you have to purchase a locker for which there is a deposit of INR 200 and charges are INR 150. The helpers suggest you to take out your ornaments like chain in your neck or bengals in my wife's hands and deposit them in lockers otherwise there is a chance for these items to get stuck in one of the rides and you may get hurt. You get a locker key which you need to tie on your wrist and carry for the day. Some people don't bring slippers and in summer you might get burns as mentioned here. Also the season was pleasant due to winter and there was not much sunlight.

We finally changed into swimming suits and went into the park at 12:30 PM. There are in total 13 rides as mentioned here.

• The Pirate Bay: The first ride on the right when you enter the park is for kids to have tube-slides with gentle speeds and shallow pools. You can  also have rain dance in this ride.
• Puddle Town: This is similar to pirate bay and had some tube-slides and shallow pools.
• Boomerango: After you complete the first two rides above, you reach this one where you have to carry tube from the bottom of the ride and reach the top where you slide in the tube two persons at a time. The ride provides some thrill.
• Splash: In this ride, you have to site and slide. My daughter bumped her head in this one and cried for some time but neither my wife nor I felt any problems.
• Soakerz: This also is a tube ride for small kids.
• Floatsa: We didn't immediately went to this ride but went there in evening since there were 3-4 buses of kids from Surat's Sadbhavana school and students from some tuition class in Bardoli who occupied a long waiting queue.
• Yell-O: This is a high-speed tube ride and kids may feel afraid.
• Zip-Zap-Zoom: This is a high-speed mat-ride where you go down head-first on a mat. This is one of the most thrilling rides of the park.
• Loopy-Woopy: In this there is a glass chamber where the rider stands and the support below his feet is taken away resulting in 39 feet fall providing experience of free fall. This is one of the most thrilling rides of the park.

During these rides, my daughter brushed her leg with a railing and got some blood so we went to medical centre where she got some liquid spray which protected her wound from water for the rest of the day. We were carrying some sandwiches which also we ate as my daughter was advised to avoid water for around 15 mins.

• Screamer: This is a ride where three people can sit in an inflatable raft and there are so many ups and downs that you feel like your raft is going to turn upside down.

• Twisty Turvy: This is a two person ride and just like its name, there are lots of twists and turns in the ride on an inflatable raft. The minimum weight requirement for this is 50 kg so kids are not allowed to sit inside.
• Wacky Wavess: In this ride, large waves get generated in a pool. In between there is music during the weekend on which you can dance.

• Raaftastic: This is again a three person ride as per what I remember and all of us enjoyed it quite a bit. 

• Swirl Whirl: This is a four person ride and one of the most thrilling rides of the park. You swing like pendulum from one side to the other in a cone shaped ride.

In between the rides, we had lunch from 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM where we took one Indian meal and one Oriental meal from Ammos.



All in all, we had a great day. We covered almost all rides and more. My daughter went to the Pirate Bay thrice, Boomeranggo too thrice and many other rides also she went multiple times. We literally ran out of time. I hope you too enjoy your time at Aqua Imagica!

Update: I visited the Imagica Water Park again on 18 Feb to complete my 4 visits on Imagica Passport. This time we also decided to go to Snow Park as there was a free snow park entry on adult tickets.

In Snow Park, there is a 45 minute duration for which you are allowed to go. You can choose at what time you want to go in the park at every hour, so you can decide to go at 11 AM or at 6 PM. You also are given a coat, pants, hand gloves and boots to protect you against cold since the temperature inside is less than 0 degree centigrade. There are multiple activities that you can do inside:

• There is a tube ride on snow
• There is an igloo
• There is artificial snow fall

Snow park is worth visiting once to see what it is and how it feels.