Grand Cascade at Subtropical Swimming Paradise — Attraction in Newark and Sherwood

Centre parcs have spent a great deal of money on this but unfortunately it's a huge let down. This water slide is so tame you could take your newborn on it with your 90 year old grandmother. This ride should be renamed the lazy river. There is not enough water being pumped down the slide to build up any speed or spin around. It is not worth the 20 to 30 minute wait in line for the 40 seconds it takes to go down the slide. The rafts are designed to hold 4 people but the lifeguards let guests go down in ones and twos. If Centre Parcs put more guests in together in each raft to fill them then the wait in line would be down to ten minutes. Such a shame as the Rapids slide in Sherwood is the best of all the Centre Parcs as it pumps the most water down it making it very...

Some of our favourite water slides are at Center Parcs. Queue seems to take longer than necessary, as typically waiting for the raft to get to the top whilst the slide is empty. Needs an additional raft putting in, as I’m pretty sure it used to have more. Lifeguards also need to be quicker about getting people through the slides, and wait times could...

It's good and I screamed like a 2-year old! There was a weight imbalance between me and my companion and I ended up doing the entire ride backwards, which wasn't my preference, but I...