Sandcastle Water Park, Blackpool

Sandcastle Water Park bills itself as the UK’s largest water park. It is on Blackpool’s promenade right next to South Pier and those familiar with the climate in the North of England will be glad to know that the attraction is indoors. The kids were desperate to visit this park after we read about it online before visiting Blackpool so we headed there on a wet day. I was shocked at the admission charges, an adult pays £14.20 for admission to the pool and to ride all of the chutes with a child ticket costing £11.85. You are free to stay in the waterpark all day once you have paid but I would ... more

Blackpool’s Sandcastle Waterpark is a monstrosity of a building located at the end of the Golden Mile, just across the road from the Pleasure Beach. Housed inside is the ‘world’s largest indoor waterpark’ which consists of pools, lazy rivers, slides and thrill-rides galore. I remember going as a child and really enjoying it, so we ‘borrowed’ the nieces and nephews and took them for a day out during the last half term holidays. We had an absolutely fantastic day out. The other half was worried that we’d get there and only last a couple of hours before the kids got bored and wanted to go. As it ... more

We were here on the 12/8/11 with our 9 year old daughter. Cost us £35 to get in with one "Hyperzone" wristband for the new rides. It was way too busy as you could hardly move in any of the pools and you certainly couldn't go for a swim. Flumes are ok, enviroment looks good but it just isn't worth the money. It's so expensive and there's hardly any difference in price whether you're an adult or a child. We wouldn't go back mainly due the price and busy-ness. At the end of it all, the only thing we had a was a really sore head and we were £35 down. We couldn.t find a big locker so in order for ... more