Top 10 Water Parks in Shanghai

Dino Beach is only opened in the summer vacation from late June to August every year. It is one of the largest water parks in Shanghai, also the nearest one to the downtown. Every summer, Dino Beach would be crowded. Many people go there to drift on the long waterway, play on the supreme artificial wave pool, experience a slide ride down from the Asia’s highest water slide, and feel the extreme cool as large amounts of water pouring down every 8 minutes. There are also other interesting water activities, as well as the parent-child zone with giant cartoon figures.

How to Get There:
1. Take Metro Line 12 to Honghua Road Station and then walk westwards for a moment.
2. Take city bus 173, 753 or 763 to Xinzhen Road Gudai Road Stop.
 

Playa Maya is a quite large Shanghai water park. Playing here, you seem to be playing in the sea. You can try the thrilling amusement like water roller coaster, various slide rides, rafting, surfing, etc. Some are parent-child games, to give you the water fun with kids. In addition to these water play projects, you can watch the exotic performances. The hot Brazilian Samba, mysterious Mayan sun sacrifice dance, and the music carnival make you feel at a real beach by Caribbean Sea.

How to Get There: Take city bus Huchen Line, Songjiang Line 67, Songjiang Line 98, or Songqing Line to Linyin Xin Road Linhu Road Stop.

It covers a large seaside area in Fengxian District, south of Shanghai, consisting of the mangroves, golden beach, swimming area and boating area. Tourists can enjoy sunbath, or have fun with interesting programs, such as the live CS game by sea and kart racing on the beach. The swimming area allows 10,000 person at most at the same time. At the boating area, you can take the motorboat, battery boat or others to float on the water.

How to Get There: Take city bus Fengxian Line 9 to Baihai Jinsha Stop.

Sanjiagang Seaside Resort is a Shanghai water park close to Pudong Airport. While playing on the beach, you can look up to see the plane flying over from time to time. In addition to relax on the beach and enjoy the water sports, people go there for more activities too, like beach barbecue, beach camping, water games show, outdoor training, etc. Located next to the estuary, it is also a good place to see the sunrise over the sea.

How to Get There: Take city bus Pudong Line 47 to Renmintang Road East Huaxia Road Stop.

Hawaii Water Park is at the east part of Hengsha Island, Chongming, and it’s a countryside-like water park in Shanghai. Tourists will get the idyllic beauty of folk houses, bamboo woods, orange orchard and green cropland, etc. on the small fishing island, which has always been a popular summer resort in Shanghai. Water sports, like motorboat riding, skateboard surfing and parasailing, are available at Hawaii Water Park, as well as seafood barbecue, beach yurts and observatory towers for seeing the sea and the sunrise.

How to Get There: Take city bus Hengsha Line 2 to Dongbang Village Hall Stop.

Next to Dayang Mountain Forest Park, this is a special water park near Shanghai themed on forest and an amazing place to enjoy the fun of water and forest at the same time. With trees all over around, Forest Waterworld is divided into four parts: Service Area, Rainforest Insects Area, Rainforest Bay Area and Rainforest Adventure Area. The Insects Area is designed for children, to lead kids play with water in the fairytale-like place with the chirping sounds. Adventure Area is full of thrills with speed slide rides, rafting and other exciting programs. Crazy beach recreations are at Bay Area, including the hurricane wave pool.

How to Get There from Shanghai: Take a high speed train from Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station or Shanghai Railway Station to Suzhou, and then you can transfer to Suzhou city bus Fast Line 3 from Suzhou Railway Station or metro line 2 then Bus Fast Line 3 from Suzhou North Railway Station to the Forest Waterworld.

Themed on The Thousand and One Nights, Hengdian Dream Valley Water World is a Middle East-styled water park near Shanghai. Expecting for the fast and furious water activities you could find in other water parks like slide rides, water coaster, rafting, etc., there is also a large Dolphin Bay, where tourists can watch performances by clever dolphins and some other marine animals. If you stay there at night, it will surprise you with a carnival night and charming night views.

How to Get There from Shanghai: Take the train or long-distance bus to Yiwu, where there are buses to Hengdian.

Jurassic Water Park is adjacent to China Dinosaurs Park in Changzhou, reproducing the water scape of Jurassic Period and equipped with modern amusement devices. As the water park is themed on dinosaurs, you can see the sculptures of dinosaurs everywhere. For instance, when you drift on the waterway in the “gorge”, “dinosaurs” will come up out of the jungles on sides. You can also play with the water freely in the wave pool, ride on the almost vertical water slides and roller sliding as well. At the shallow area for kids, there are water sliding boards, colorful semicircular hoops on water for kids to go through, and other children facilities.

How to Get There from Shanghai: Take a high speed train to Changzhou, and then change to metro line 1 to China Dinosaurs Park and Jurassic Water Park.

At a side of Thousand Islets Lake, Hangzhou, Lanbo Bay Water Park is based on the lake bay and surrounded by green hills, like a hidden paradise far away from the bustling city. You can spend a leisurely holiday there, trying the canoeing, jet skiing, banana boat riding, water sofa drifting, and other water sports there. The boat tea bar is also visit-worthy. The flyboard show draws many audience as well.

How to Get There from Shanghai: Take a long-distance bus from Shanghai Bus Station or Shanghai South Bus Station to Thousand Islet Lake and Lanbo Bay Water Park.

It’s located in Anji, Huzhou, Zhejiang, where is famous for bamboos, and you can see bamboo groves and the mascot panda here and there at Anji Happyvanko Water Park. Having the largest water area out of the water parks in Asia, it is like a castle complex made up with varieties of colorful slideways, for you to have the sliding rides never the same. There are water jetted from all sides to the wave pool, so that you will feel utterly cool in the water.

How to Get There from Shanghai: Take the bus at Shanghai South Bus Station to Anji, and transfer to the local transport to Happyvoanko Water Park.