Alanya AQUAPARK — Attraction in Alanya

Visited here with my family of 5 on the 21st August. Kids ages - 7, 2, 7 months.

From start to end:

We were greeted by an officer and told to remove our single 2ltr bottle of water from our pram. I had no clue why, and quizzed her. No response, so I passed around our water to drink before chucking into a bin. Imagine bringing a bottle of water around a ~37degree resort mostly for the baby, and being told you are not allowed it. She then started mumbling comments about us drinking the water in front of her, and she snatched it off us when it was nearly empty. This was our first impression - seriously not good. First impressions matter.

5 seconds later we came across the baby pool, walls covered in black algae/dirt/bacteria. Filter covers covered in algae, all broken, bits of the covers lying everywhere, floor covered in leaves, stones, clearly not brushed or cleaned for weeks. The water was really worrying though, but we continued to walk to see the slides and the other pools. As we were walking, I nearly fell through a hole in the filters. I can guarantee that hole it is still there today - yes - a dangerous hole on the side of the baby pool. What more can I say.

As we came across the next set of slides, we noticed no lifeguards on any but one slide. Yep, that's right. It seemed lifeguards didn't start their day until ~1pm however they still sold us a full price ticket! The "safety" they implemented in that time from 10am-1pm was to close off some lanes of the slides, ie 1 of the 3 blue ones when no life guards were there. I was struggling to comprehend what I was witnessing.

We finished our walk around the park, and I noticed 3 slides were closed, and the lazy river. At least so I thought. It turned out they weren't. They just didn't have the employees to man them, so come 1pm they started alternating opening them. Every 30 mins or so 1 of them opened. The lazy river, I thought was closed for good though, because of the quality of the water. It honestly was the dirtiest water I've seen. The type that can only happen if left sitting for months. Walls were broken in parts, covered in blackness, and dirt swirling around the bottom. It was DISGUSTING. We didn't set foot in it. The lazy river then around 2pm had kayaking in it! However that was at an expensive extra cost! It did not allow people to just use it as a lazy river... thank god though

Music was blaring and was adults only music. The two bar men were just there to listen to their music tbh.

Food was absolutely horrendous - I am talking the cheap of the cheap stuff. So bad we chose to "stay safe" and take chicken nuggets for all of us. My kids could not even eat them! That is extremely worrying for a kid to turn down a nugget! I then went to the shop to get pringles (or anything) but they ended up being 30 lira alone, so now we were out of options on food (and drink as they took it off us).

Stay out of the toilets - those places need burned down.

The wave pool water quality and the slides' pools were also disgusting so because we had the family, we went two/three times on the slides and left shortly after our failed lunch. I thought we were safe, but the next night I ended up with severe diarrhea and sickness. Following morning, my 2yo daughter got it. Following day, my other half, and then my baby! And then my son, my daughter and myself get ear infections. PS this is after 9 days in Turkey with no infection/sickness, so I can 100% attribute this to this illegal aquapark.

This place needs closed down immediately, I actually can't understand how it is open. So much so, I am reporting them as it’s dangerous to have such a dirty place where kids pick up serious (holiday ruining) infections and it costs to get in! Having to give 1 star as I can't give 0 to get this...

Genuinely an awful place, felt like I had stepped into the 1970s. So disappointed as I was really looking forward to visiting. Here’s why you should NEVER visit until the owners decide to spend some money & upgrade the park from looking like a pile of wasteland:

• About half of the slides were closed when visiting. We arrived at 10 with the best slides ‘coming on at 1pm’. No mention of this when entering.

• Changing rooms and toilets were absolutely hideous, looked like something from the SAW movie franchise.

• Lazy river was empty with green sludge, mould and puddles at the bottom.

• Baking hot sun beds with covers that felt like Ikea carrier bags.

• Wave machine wasn’t on, essentially making it just a shallow pool.

• Slippy floor, either walk on slippy wet tiles or a disgustingly filthy green rag that’s covered in slime.

• Dirt & dust everywhere.

• Old and weathered. From the slides to the sunloungers, everything is old and past it’s sell by date. This place really really needs some new equioment.

• No atmosphere whatsoever, it was so quiet that it felt abandoned.

• All of the slides that were open were the same size & steepness, meaning once you’re been on one you’d basically experienced them all.

• Once you leave the park, you’re not allowed to re-enter, meaning you’re forced to eat their food or go hungry.

I genuinely have no idea how this place is still open, it feels like it’s been stuck in a time warp from 50 years ago. Crumbling walls, litter, rubble etc. Very sad.

In hindsight the ‘no refunds’ sign at the entrance should’ve been an indicator to how bad it was going to be. This place was so weathered, I actually felt quite sorry for it. The park is in desperate need of some upgrading, new slides, new decorations & a total revamp.

We spent about an hour there & then walked straight out, don’t waste your time on holiday here, it’s not worth your...

Pretty expensive for Turkey (still £75 for family of 5 inc.1 teen) even after online discount), and the service was not at all good for the price either. They opened at 10.00 but none of the flumes were on at this point. Of the three "headline rides", two of them were only on for very very short periods during the day (literally about 20min!), and as we needed to leave around 2/2.30 due to the high sun and sunburn, it meant we got to use them once, and were lucky to get even that as the window could easily have been missed. There was a wave pool and that too was only working for a very limited time the entire time we were there, I suspect a maximum of twice during the day (they close at 5pm) The walking areas got extremely hot, and there was nowhere to buy pool shoes/aquasocks from, the green matting helped but was missing in important sun-exposed places. The food and drink was overpriced (beer was 50% more than hotel price!) and the food was poor, I have never seen a more pallid pizza, and it was pretty small too. After charging £75, they still had the gall to charge extra for the rafting which added insult to injury.

In high summer they would get more customers if they offered a evening session - 4-8 or even 5-9 would be much safer for European skin! However they...