Tatralandia with children

Knowing how our kids love the water, it was difficult to skip this kind of fun when traveling through Slovakia. We had planned a visit to the pool for the whole day and managed to break our record - we were there for 6 hours. The joy was incredible.

Tatralandia water park is located in Liptovský Mikuláš, on the shore of the Liptovská Mara reservoir. 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 the 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 water and fresh water,
• 6 slides (including one partly outdoors - 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 101 m, and you ride on an inflatable tube. At the end of the track is a vortex (like a funnel) that we fall into with the tube.

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's area with shallow pools and a wading pool for toddlers and another is the slides hall. Additionally there are 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.

Fun fact: the thermal water at Tatralandia comes from a borehole about 2,500 metres deep, and it flows out at a temperature of over 60 degrees. The water park itself opened on 5 July 2003.

Above part of the pool there is an upper floor with sun loungers 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 Tropical Paradise, which is the pool's advertising slogan.

For children there are a lot of attractions. In addition to the water playground, there is also a pirate ship with a chest of gold, pirates and a rope bridge.

The whole 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 we spent the rest of the day in Liptovský Mikuláš, having dinner in an American-style restaurant Route66. This place is part pub, part restaurant. Cool place to dine for a reasonable price.