Knowing how our kids love the water, it was difficult to miss out on the fun when traveling through Slovakia. We had planned a visit to the pool for the day and managed to break the record – we were there for 6 hours. The joy was incredible.
Tatralandia water park is located in Liptovsky Mikulas. It is a year-round water complex. Our children love to play in water, and therefore we couldn’t skip it during our trip. We spent almost whole day there. This was our longest time at a pool.
Since we visited the facility in winter, a large part of the attractions (those in the open-air area) were closed.
A few words about the facility:
- 9 swimming pools with sea water, thermal and clean water,
- 6 slides (including one partially exterior – in winter!)
- swimming pools for kids,
The coolest attraction was the slide that was partly external – named Tornado (color white and pink). The outside temperature was hovering around 0 degrees. There was a moment during the slide when we were outside the building, and after a while we got back. The length of the slide is 101m, you ride on a pontoon. At the end of the track is a vortex (like a funnel) where we fall with the pontoon.
The building consists of several interconnected halls. In one of them there are four swimming pools (with a bar on an island in the middle), another is a children area with shallow pools and a wading pool for toddlers and another is the slides hall. Additionally we have outdoor swimming pools with hot thermal water. It is interesting that the water there is green, which is the natural coloring of the water from the depths.
Above part of the pool is an upper floor where there are chairs and a place to rest. You can use the pools on the ground floor or sunbathe on the upper floor. The whole building is very warm, almost like a tropical island. Hence the name of the Tropical Paradise, which is the pool’s advertising slogan.
For children there is a lot of attractions, in addition to the water playground there is also a pirate ship with a chest of gold, pirates, rope bridge.
All waterpark is for recreation only. You will not find a covered sports swimming pool here with separate lanes.
It’s best to buy tickets using the GOPASS card, where the price is much lower than at the box office, you can also collect points that can be used for other attractions in the area.
A day admission for the whole family costs about 40 EUR. We managed to use points from the card to get a locker which normally costs EUR 4.
Our movie showing the entire day at the pool:
After the pool the rest of the day we spent in Liptovsky Mikulas, having dinner in an American-style restaurant Route66. This place is part pub, part restaurant. Cool place to dine for a reasonable price.