PortAventura Caribe Aquatic Park, Salou

I had the worst day of my life in this place, wouldn't recommend it to anyone! 1. When you buy the ticket online, they don't tell you anything before, you find out when you get there, it's too late and you can't get your money back. 2. Nothing is included! you'd expect at least a place to put your things/a locker (they charge 6 euro the service and 4 euro deposit for the key). You don't even get a place to lie down, like a sunbed. 3. The place is overloaded/overbooked. It clearly states that the capacity is 3500 people, but today, you couldn't have found place for a toothpick. 4. In August, with over 30 degree temperatures and scorching sun, they make you wear the mask everywhere, even in the slides (where there's water), but you can't wear sunglasses in the pools, even if you can't keep your eyes open because of the sun! Even plastic ones. That's simply insane... 5. The line to rent the locker took us 1 hour, and another 20 minutes to get back the deposit, simply a waste of time. 6. The bathrooms were overcrowded, because some of them were closed. 7. The staff was not well prepared, not enough and sometimes rude and not at all helpful. 8. Everything was overpriced, I mean everything! (The parking alone was 12 euro) 9. The queues for some of the slides were huge, couldn't even try all the attractions. 10. The water wasn't the cleanest I've ever seen, it was full of hair, sand and leaves and it didn't smell of chlorine at all, I hope we didn't get any skin disease. 11. There wasn't any leaflet available (not sure if they actually charged people money in exchange for that) and no signs to guide you around. 12. In relation with the 4th statement, if you bought a bottle of Coke, they gave you a pair of sunglasses as part of their promotion, but you weren't allowed to wear them. As an adult, you simply cannot enjoy this place!

We were Impressed overall with the park but we did all of the attractions within half the day. Luckily we didn't have to many lines! And we spent the other half of the day in the main park. I would be exited to re visit the park if they plan on adding new attractions. All in all the children seemed to enjoy themselves and the port aventura parc has proven for us to be a memorable vacation destination.