Interview with Lionel Caro, Director of AkOatys waterpark on Reunion Island
This month, continuing our journey to water parks around the world, we meet Lionel Caro, the person responsible for the management of AkOatys waterpark, on the wonderful island of Reunion, who shares details about the park and its management. “The park started as the aquatic leisure area of a small resort hotel and only had 3 slides and some basic amenities. After 12 years and 4.5 million Euros in investments, the park has an area of 3 hectares and an assortment of attractions for all kind of visitors. The park opens from October through March, as do many parks in [...]
Splashworks Bangladesh
This month we’re presenting some of the new projects on which we are working in the Far East, starting with Splashworks, the first waterpark in Bangladesh, to be built in the capital Dhaka. Amusement Logic has been the company chosen to develop the ambitious resort, designed to the highest international standards, which includes a waterpark, a hotel and an area of “glamping” bungalows; a type of business that doesn’t exist in the country and in which the client has decided to invest. Bangladesh is a beautiful south-eastern Asian country. With almost 170 million inhabitants, it is one of the world’s [...]
Surround for a waterpark: multiple points of view for one sole building
We’re working on the architectural project of a water park surround, destined once again to become an architectural landmark in its environment. Today’s architectural monuments are not just intended to be admired from afar. Our goal is not to create just another emblematic building, recognizable from long distance: but to also shape and articulate the public space, offering citizens the possibility of evaluating and enjoying different points of view, different design variants. We understand that our buildings are not designed to be seen and admired from a single viewpoint, nor from only one direction. In effect, like a [...]
The project of the first indoor waterpark on the Iberian peninsula is moving forward
It’s a great pleasure to be able to inform our readers that we have completed the executive project works for the first indoor waterpark on the Iberian Peninsula. This new project is part of Aquashow, one Europe’s best waterparks, located in southern Portugal and whose manager Celestino Santos, revealed to us last month details about the history, management and news of the park. We are currently working on the supply of the attractions for this new project of year-through operation, whose opening is scheduled for 2019. The park will have several swimming pools, a wave pool, slides, an interactive Spray [...]
Interview with the manager of the Aquashow water park in Portugal
We’re already used to collaborating each month with one of the most representative water parks in the sector. After a very active and successful summer, on this occasion we’re returning in the company of Celestino Santos, manager of the Aquashow water park, one of the best parks in Europe, located in southern Portugal. "It's been several years since we started managing Aquashow. We acquired it around 1999 and its size at that time was 12 hectares, although they were not all intended for the park. There were 6 hectares of land that were for residential use, so we changed their [...]
Opening of the new indoor waterpark in Camping Le Farret
April was the start of the season for most of France’s campsites and the new indoor waterpark that Amusement Logic did for Le Farret campsite in Vias Plage (France) opened just in time for this. It’s a magnificent complement to the leisure activities offered to guests, by one of South France’s renowned campsites and it has quickly become the favourite attraction of families staying at the campsite. This success was to be expected, as the park already has different zones aimed at all kinds of people: a children’s pool for the youngest guests, slides for teens and a swimming and [...]
Interview with José García Liñares, Director of Aquapark Cerceda, Spain
This month we’re collaborating with José García Liñares, the predecessor of Aquapark Cerceda, a municipally-owned waterpark. During our talk, he spoke about interesting aspects of the park’s management and its visitors. “The waterpark was born in the year 2000, with an investment of around 3 million Euro. Its initial 3 hectares have not been expanded, but its attractions have been, taking advantage of the increase of visitors and the park’s popularity. We open almost 90 days a year and although temperatures aren’t favourable at the beginning, in the months of July and August the park fills with people from Galicia, [...]
Interview with Raquel Rodríguez, Director of the Aquaola waterpark in Granada, Spain
“Aquaola opened its doors in 1986, with an area of more than 4 hectares, which we have maintained throughout the years. Our main attraction lies in the landscape. There are numerous areas with trees and gardens, which compose a landscape of great interest. This aspect has become one of the most emblematic features that differentiate this waterpark from other similar installations. Out of the 45,000 m², the park has 32,000m² of splendid gardens and recreational areas and all the attractions are configured taking advantage of the natural unevenness of the terrain, without mechanical structures and surrounded by very beautiful, fresh [...]
Interview with Zaurad Yumakaev, Director of the Planeta Waterpark in Ufa, Russia
This month we talked with the Director of the Planeta Waterpark, located in the city of Ufa, Russia. The park has a year-through operation and forms part of the namesake leisure and shopping centre, the largest in the Republic of Bashkortostan. “Our waterpark has an area of 5,400 m², a space that was determined by the shopping centre in which we are housed. We have a varied offer of themed children’s slides and a group of classic slides such as a Hydrotube, a Black Hole, a Body Slide, a couple of Kamikazes, a FreeFall and the most popular attraction with [...]
Diver Laciana, a new leisure project in Villablino, Leon, Spain
In this newsletter we’re presenting one of the latest projects that we’ve recently undertaken. It’s a leisure centre which encompasses a great variety of leisure proposals, integrated functionally and spatially in a 100,000m2 terrain: an indoor and outdoor waterpark, pools and sports pitches, spa, adventure park, Canyoning, restaurants, public gardens, auditorium and events area, FEC and hotel. As can be seen, it’s an unusual combination of elements, as it joins together free-access public areas with paid zones. Villablino is a small municipality in Leon, with a mining past and currently in decline due to the disappearance of mines in the [...]
