Splashdown Quaywest is the largest outdoor
waterpark
A water park (also waterpark, water world, or aquapark) is an amusement park that features water play areas such as swimming pools, water slides, splash pads, water playgrounds, and lazy rivers, as well as areas for floating, bathing, swimmin ...
in the UK. It is located on
Goodrington Sands
Goodrington Sands is a sandy beach on the English Riviera, located at Goodrington, a coastal village on the outskirts of Paignton.
The beaches are gently shelving with a promenade at one end and rocks leading around to Oyster Cove at the other ...
Beach near to
Paignton
Paignton ( ) is a seaside town on the coast of Tor Bay in Devon, England. Together with Torquay and Brixham it forms the unitary authority, borough of Torbay which was created in 1968. The Torbay area is a holiday destination known as the Engli ...
, Devon.
The original site has 8 water slides, small splash pools for youngsters and a swimming pool. In addition to the water park, the site also hosts a beach shop and a restaurant called 'Boarders waterpark cafe' and several food outlets selling fast food, ice creams and drinks, and now boasts 18 waterpark slides. 11 in the main waterpark and a further 7 in Captain Lewey's Shipwreck Island area.
History
The water park first opened in 1988 as Quaywest and it was run for 15 years by Freetime Lesiure Management. Due to heavy financial losses Freetime Leisure Management handed the keys back to the council in September 2008. Torbay council awarded the contract to run the park to the Lemur Attractions Group, the company running the
Splashdown water park in Poole, Dorset initially on a five and half year basis. The park was re-opened in June 2009 as Splashdown@Quaywest and is now known as simply Splashdown Quaywest. In 2021 the operators signed a long-term lease with Torbay Council, planning to spend £3 million to redevelop and expand the site.
This development started in 2023 with a new 3 lane head first multi slide (the first in the UK) 3fall opening in June 2023, the first new slide since the Waterpark opened in 1988. May 2024 saw the opening of "Captain Lewey's Shipwreck Island" boasting a further 7 slides. They plan to open 2 more unnamed slides in the future as part of the expansion, as shown on the websit
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Goodrington
Goodrington is an area of Paignton in Devon, England. It is situated in Tor Bay and lies between Paignton town centre and Brixham, less than south of central Paignton. Its beach is known as Goodrington Sands.
History
Goodrington is mentione ...