Aquapark Aquacolors — Attraction in Grad Poreč

This place, although fun, did not buy my trust as far as safety is concerned. Within a first hour I have seen three random people getting injured after one of the slides. Just looking at them slide down can give you a pretty good idea what and where went wrong design wise. There are elements (for example a water sprinkler) that protrude above the slide wall surface. In no case should any element of a slide protrude above the surface.

In one of the slides a kid slowed down to a near stop midway. The light went green for me. Luckily, I could see down the slide she was in trouble, hastily pushing away with her hands and as I waited for her to appear at the slide’s end I could only wonder what would have happened if I hadn’t looked down the slide. And she was well above the height/weight limit.

Also while you wait in a hot staircase for your turn you start to notice things. Stairs and platforms shake and tremble, bolts seem tiny, entire slides buckle under 10 year olds. I am not saying this thing is going to fall apart any time soon, just that when I visited Suntago waterpark near Warsaw, Poland, the slides were rigid, bolts the size of two of my thumbs, nothing moved, nothing buckled.

Aquacolor's slides do not elicit much of a trust, especially when you see every other tube toppling over and people constantly hitting sides of a slide with their extremities at a high speed.

There is more. A tube lift for the bigger slides has been apparently broken for a year since I saw the same “out of order" sign that someone had already posted here. People then take these heavy four-seaters up the stairs because the slides are open. How do you call that safe? Not to mention a rip-off as the facility declares everything operational while it is not.

Even beach walkways are dangerous. It’s easy to have a foot slip to the side and get hurt. Some walkway planks were broken with sharp parts protruding. Details, details. They take the fun out of things when something happens.

Unruly kids climb sides of the "lazy river" and jump off of them. The staff doesn’t care about that. Compare it, again, to Suntago where lifeguards whistle even a smallest deviation from rules. Everything that is prohibited is not allowed - that is how safety is achieved at places like this.

Don’t get me wrong, I did enjoy my stay here, despite the shortfalls. Just not the slides. Loved the wave pool, loved the lazy river although it lacked in midway attractions, like waterfalls, sprinklers etc. It was indeed a lazy stroll. Apparently too dull for some as they tried to rush through it squeezing between other tube swimmers.

I also adored the dragon pool and its features. Just not the bar inside - way too dark, humid and claustrophobic. I couldn’t help but wonder what would have happened if panic ensued inside. But the outside is simply amazing. I could stay there for hours.

I am from Poland, I am inherently used to safety breaches and people going like “it’s gonna be fine”. But this has also sharpened my mind and I know when I see a failure coming. Here, things are accidents...

Aquacolors is a very interesting place to spend the whole day. You literally lose track of time. It wasn't too crowded, so we had our turn at all attractions immediately or very quickly. In many parts of the park there are carpeted paths that are in a very bad condition after the whole season, I understand that they don't want to change them now because they are closing soon, but at least they should remove the torn parts because you get stuck on them when you walk. It is unusual that the water near the slides and the pool for small children is the coldest, in fact terribly cold. No one controls the fact that even adults can go down these slides, pushing small children out of the way. I don't mean parents of children and people with small children, but groups of 18+ who hang out and have fun there, but have countless attractions for themselves. While those little children have nothing but that. In addition, the sprinklers on these slides are excessive, a child tall 110 cm from the sprinklers hits the head with water all the way. Why didn't they put it lower, reduce the number, and if it's so cute, let's put it on slides for adults. The children's pool at the krokodil bar with 2 slides is the worst. A path has been made around large stones with small pebbles between them. They are so uncomfortable to walk in that you either go in sandals or walk looking for a piece of clean part so you don't stab your feet. What's worse, pebbles stick to wet feet, so there are a lot of them in swimming pools. Our feet literally hurt from that pool. Krokodil Bar is a super nice place. Sunbeds with umbrellas look nice, they are charged for, but no one controls that either, so we paid for ours like fools, only to see later how countless people use them and didn't pay for them. Everyone who pays gets a strip to put on the parasol. In our row, all the sunbeds were taken, and the strip was on 5 places. Stupidly spent €9. The sunshade is fixed, so that's bad because it actually only covers the sunbeds for a small part of the day, the rest of the day you're in the sun and they don't make sense. It is better to sit on the grass in the shade. Children's playground in the sun without shade, awnings, shadows... below the rounded stones, children must wear closed shoes. It's clear why no one uses it for more than 5 minutes. All toys boil when touched. Also, more than half of the restaurants are closed, I know it's the end of the season, but at the box office, the ticket cost the same as if it were peak season, so it would be good if we could choose more than 2 types of ice cream, and only pizza to eat. Otherwise, they have numerous offers. Worst of all First Aid is far from the most dangerous slides, which is insane. Next to us was a woman who injured herself and complained of pain and feeling stiff after a slide. We told her to go look for a pain pill when we saw the first aid station, but when she came back she said they didn't have any pain medication, not even paracetamol. The slides are interesting and good, but the rest...

DON'T GO - DANGEROUS, OVERCROWDED AND EXPENSIVE. 1.entrance costs 34 euros, I expected a lot for that money, and I got only dissapointment. there are about 3 and a half people working in the park, all of whom are in a bad mood, bored and none of them pay attention to safety in the park and don't give any kind of instructions (because they are 15 16 17 years old) the lift that carries the floaties to the attractions does not work, you have to carry a heavy and large floatie for 4 people up the same stairs where people with the smaller ones are waiting for another attraction, safety 0 because you can easily fall over the fence too many people, not enough floaties which means you have to fight others in order to get them. some people even sunbathe and lie on them, and none of the employees pay attention to it. They are half deflated and dirty the pool tiles and the water in them are dirty the safety on the attractions is equal to 0. we got injured on each of them, even though we were within the weight and height standards. on some attractions we got stuck halfway down the slide, on some we flipped, and on some we injured our elbow. I think I would be less afraid of jumping out of a plane than going on these slides again because I know for sure that I will get hurt there are carpets on the floor, but they are cut so in some places you are forced to walk on the hot floor the attractions are very far from each other, there is a lot of walking with huge floaties which are NOT waiting for you right up on the slide there is a child working on first aid who does not even know the basics of first aid, God forbid something serious happens to someone people are allowed to jump, dive, go wild in places where they shouldn't (there are signs for that, but the workers don't care) 10. working hours are only from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., which means that with the amount of walking from one attraction to another, waiting 30+ minutes at each of them, you can go down the slide about 10-12 times tops they obviously only care about making money, considering that the park is not intended for such a large number of people, and there were a lot of them regardless it was weekday Even though we bought tickets online, we waited in line for about 30 min to get our bracelet - the line for buying tickets there was...