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Published April 23rd 2012
The best Aquatic Centres have their facilities indoors in order to be accessible all year round.
Our favourite Aquatic Centre is the Leisurelink Aquatic & Recreation Centre in Waurn Ponds. This is located in Geelong but is well worth the trip down the Geelong Road for Melbournians.
The highlight for younger kids is a massive Water Adventure Park which has water cannons, a huge overhead tipping bucket, a spinning water wheel, hoses and plenty of slides. This is water mayhem when it is busy.
For the older kids (including Mum and Dad) there are two wonderful water slides:
The Cannon Bowl waterslide is a 15m high slide which spits you out into a large bowl and swirls you around before dropping you out of a hole at the bottom of the bowl into a pool. This is equivalent to being thrown into a huge washing machine on spin cycle.
The Black Hole Waterslide is a 15m high slide which twists and turns in total darkness until you reach a final splashdown.
These slides must be ridden on a tube and there are single and double tubes. Riders must be 1.2m or higher.
There are also plenty of other facilities including an 8-lane 50-metre swimming pool which can be split into two 25m pools, kids' splash pool and a learn to swim pool. The complex has a state-of-the-art gym and group exercise rooms.
The cream on the pie is the very low entrance price. A family comprising two adults and up to three children is $16.50 and an adult with a child under 5 years is only $3.80. The slides are an extra cost at $16 for unlimited slides or $3 for a single slide if you want to try it out rather than spend a lot of time on the slides.
The Adventure Playground and Slides may have restricted opening hours during school term.
Our other favourite is Casey Recreation & Aquatic Centre (RACE) in Cranbourne.
This Aquatic Centre has similar facilities to the Leisurelink Aquatic & Recreation Centre in Waurn Ponds.
It has the same water slides and a tipping bucket but does not have the large Water Adventure Park.
At Casey RACE you can go down the Cannon Bowl waterslide without a tube. This makes for a more exciting (but more painful) spin around the huge bowl. Casey RACE offers tremendous value. A family swim with access to the rides is only $18.90.
Our favourite outdoors Aquatic Centre is Doncaster Aquarena Aquatic and Leisure Centre which has a 25m pool and some pools suitable for kids indoors plus outdoors there is a 50m pool, dive pool and a water slide which winds down the hill.
During the summer there is usually some extra activities organized to make a fun day out.
Our favourite Aquatic Centre is the Leisurelink Aquatic & Recreation Centre in Waurn Ponds. This is located in Geelong but is well worth the trip down the Geelong Road for Melbournians.
The Cannon Bowl waterslide is a 15m high slide which spits you out into a large bowl and swirls you around before dropping you out of a hole at the bottom of the bowl into a pool. This is equivalent to being thrown into a huge washing machine on spin cycle.
The Black Hole Waterslide is a 15m high slide which twists and turns in total darkness until you reach a final splashdown.
These slides must be ridden on a tube and there are single and double tubes. Riders must be 1.2m or higher.
There are also plenty of other facilities including an 8-lane 50-metre swimming pool which can be split into two 25m pools, kids' splash pool and a learn to swim pool. The complex has a state-of-the-art gym and group exercise rooms.
The cream on the pie is the very low entrance price. A family comprising two adults and up to three children is $16.50 and an adult with a child under 5 years is only $3.80. The slides are an extra cost at $16 for unlimited slides or $3 for a single slide if you want to try it out rather than spend a lot of time on the slides.
The Adventure Playground and Slides may have restricted opening hours during school term.
Our other favourite is Casey Recreation & Aquatic Centre (RACE) in Cranbourne.
This Aquatic Centre has similar facilities to the Leisurelink Aquatic & Recreation Centre in Waurn Ponds.
It has the same water slides and a tipping bucket but does not have the large Water Adventure Park.
At Casey RACE you can go down the Cannon Bowl waterslide without a tube. This makes for a more exciting (but more painful) spin around the huge bowl. Casey RACE offers tremendous value. A family swim with access to the rides is only $18.90.
Our favourite outdoors Aquatic Centre is Doncaster Aquarena Aquatic and Leisure Centre which has a 25m pool and some pools suitable for kids indoors plus outdoors there is a 50m pool, dive pool and a water slide which winds down the hill.
During the summer there is usually some extra activities organized to make a fun day out.
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