It was pretty fun, we rocked up at about 9:30am and just went straight in, there weren't many lines or anything especially because we had our season passes on so we just scanned them at the entrance.
If you're planning on visiting, first things first: you need a locker. You can buy them at the cafe for $10 for a small or $12 for a large. We had seven people and we needed two large lockers. The prices are for the entire day and you get to pick whatever locker is open and you just scan your myBand to lock/open it. It's pretty nifty and handy.
Another thing is that your myBand can have money loaded onto it so you don't need to carry around your wallet and money and stuff. None of us did that, but it seems like a really good idea because supposedly at the end of the day you can just take back whatever money you have on your band that you didn't use.
Next: the rides.
There are four lots of water rides (excluding the kids' ones).
This includes one section that can hold 3-5 people. On this section, off memory there was the Double Bowlseye (red and yellow), which was really fun and some other ones which I've forgotten the names of.
It's hard to remember but these ones were pretty fun and the queue wasn't that long (but maybe just because we lined up for them in the morning).
Then there was one section that held 3-4 people. You can recognise this one because it's got a HUGE green funnel thing and it's also next to the single person section.
That huge green funnel is called the T5 and according to the site, you drop at a 45 degree angle down that funnel. Unfortunately we weren't able to get on that one because it was already 2pm and they closed the entrances up (the morning session of the preview was from 9am-2pm, but you can see when the theme park opens up normally here).
We did end up going on the other two. The Bombora (red and orange) was a really long one (120m) with three smaller funnels that you can sort of see here.
It seemed like it was going to be really amazing, but it was a bit of a disappointment. In the funnel sections, you don't really go all the way to the top and there are these sections where the water splashes you a lot but you slow down heaps. I don't know whether it's just because our combination was the lightest combination (Me, Diwan and Alice Chan) since the other boys (Justin Dai, Damien, Kenneth and Dulan) gathered up for the mass, but we almost came to a halt and we had to keep shimmying the raft to get it moving again.
I wouldn't really recommend that ride (unless your group has the mass) if there's a huge line, but definitely try out the Tantrum (blue).
In the Tantrum, there's a 15m drop before you have to ride up this thing:
It's almost vertical and was quite a bit of fun, except make sure you hold on tight! I lifted up about 2-3 times in this ride because of the drops and if I wasn't holding on I seriously could have just fallen off (and it wasn't just me, Kenneth experienced the same)! This one was probably the most fun according to the majority of the group, but it, along with most of the other rides, was pretty short-lived though.
Then there were the sections for two people.
This section has about 7 rides, but the four middle ones (The Breakers) are more-or-less the same. The only difference is that the two middle red ones have a steeper slope at the finish.
The cool thing about these ones is that you can race your friends on them because they can let you all go at the same time.
You start off on a pretty steep slope and then you get propelled up that netted area. It gets super wet and the propellers even made my bikini bottoms slip a bit!
Then in that section there's also a purple and blue ride called the Half Pipe. After a moment of complete darkness you get dropped off 16 m and you slide up this wall at the end:
And the one next to that (red and yellow) was a pretty long ride that was just in complete darkness! It was so scary because I'm afraid of the dark and you have no idea where you are going to turn next and it's so terrible!
There were some other ones but the lines for that section were really long and so we didn't do them. There was a purple and yellow one that was done completely backwards that I will need to try next time!
And just a warning that these rides CANNOT take one person only, so if you have an odd-numbered group you would need one person to grab another lonely stranger and ride with them. We took turns on who was alone, but try to organise beforehand to get an even number. Eight is probably ideal but even 6 is good because on the 3-5 person rides you can split it 3-3.
THE LAST SECTION was the single person section.
This one had the classic H2GO Racers, with eight lanes for you to race each other in.
It kind of twists and turns and right before the end sloping bit, you get this amazing light feature!
Also just warning you that when you come down you should look up because they have the times at the top to show you who won.
Anyway that was really fun and right next to it were the 360Rush rides. There are 4 of them, two on each side.
Basically what happens is you stand in this little capsule that looks like a space capsule and there's a trap door underneath you. They then drop you 12m ALMOST VERTICALLY and you go through a complete loop:
Now, what happens if you get stuck?
Well, fear not! If you don't gain enough momentum to complete the loop there's a little opening at the bottom of the loop that you can stand up and leave from. They might not tell you this when you go in though. In fact, this is what happened to this woman last year at the Wet 'n' Wild at Gold Coast.
As I noted though, they left these escape hatches open so if this does happen to you, then it should be all fine.
LASTLY we have the random stuff that don't fit anywhere.
There was the artificial Surf Deck and the Sydney SkyCoaster.
These two rides you need to pay extra for each time you go on it. The Surf Deck is some artificial surf simulator where you can even take lessons (I think), and the SkyCoaster is some massive 75m high giant swing!
Geez, no thanks.
But currently it's not completed yet and I'm not too sure how long it would take for it to be open.
There was also the artificial beach. Probably not the best thing to go to when you need to pay so much for a ticket into Wet 'n' Wild, but it was alright. Some parts were nice and shallow for you to sit in and near the deep end they have some small waves going on. The area looks small but when you consider the areas of a beach in between the red and yellow flags, this beach actually seems quite big.
I couldn't find any pictures of the beach but I mean it's just a beach so you probably don't need pictures of it...
Also, there are some little cabanas near the beach, which look like little houses that have beach chairs in them for you to sit and lounge around. There were also some VIP cabanas right next to the beach that even had a fridge and TV. They looked really fancy but it wasn't available to us. Looking at the website, the price for a VIP one is $199 per day, whilst the normal ones are $89 per day and the family ones are $149 per day.
This was during the day time, and so the night time experience will be really different. There are some light shows going on for the rides, but I think they are just on the OUTSIDE of the rides.
And another cool thing is that when you go no the rides, you can scan your myBand just before the ride, then they will take photos of you coming out of the ride, upload them to your myBand and you can check them out on the website. The site is a bit laggy at the moment and the photos haven't been uploaded yet, but when they are I'll definitely post the good ones up here!
Anyway, that's about it for Wet 'n' Wild!
Definitely grab some sunscreen and water, buy a locker, go and have funsies at Wet 'n' Wild!
