A Fun Day at Wild Wild Wet at Downtown East

On Sunday we took Caelyn to Wild Wild Wet to have a bit of a swim. We've always wanted to check out Wild Wild Wet, but for some reason never got around to it. HSBC credit card has a promo going on which gives you 20% off the entrance fees and if you're an NTUC member, tickets are even cheaper for you.

We were surprised that the park wasn't that crowded, i told Edmund that maybe cos Singaporeans don't like staying out in the sun so much. We had bought along Caelyn's swimming vest, but were told that we couldn't use it and had to use their life vests. And surprisingly this was provided for free! Even Wet n Wild at the Gold Coast doesn't provide any life vests for free to the guests. Great value added service. They have different size life vests for the little ones all the way to adult sized ones. i later found out that these vests are quite fun to use for floating alon on the lazy river (or what they call Shiok River)...hehehe.

There are also lockers for hire for $2 per use. note that i say per use because each time u decide to open ur locker u'll have to pay another $2 to lock it, which really sucks. So what we did was just use the lockers to store our clothes, shoes and valuables.Other things like drinks, towel and sunscreen we took out and put aside on a bench or deckchair. It seems relatively safe, a lot of ppl also did that with their stuff. It would be great if they installed some water fountains in the park tho. I guess they'd prefer if u just go buy drinks from the pizza hut, kfc or food stalls they have in the park. They say you're not allowed to bring in outside foods into the park, but there is no bag checking at entry, unlike at Sunway Lagoon, where even water bottles had to be thrown away before entry.

We spent most of our time at the Shiok River and the Children's pool which is called Yakult Professor's Playground. The Shiok River is excellent, tubes are free (again, unlike at Sunway Lagoon) and they have big tubes as well as a smaller tube which I found more comfortable for floating on the river while having most of your body submerged in the water. Or you could just grab a life vest and use that. Caelyn really enjoyed being able to float around without us holding onto her hands (tho little did she know we were still holding on to the back of her vest). These vests have a tendency to make u float either straight face down or on ur back. So for the little ones you need to hold on to them so they remain upright. The difference with this river compared to those at other waterparks is that this one actually has waves turned on every so often which makes it so much more fun. And in some of the areas they make it into a river rapid where the water jets underneath propel your tube. I could've probably stayed there all day.

The Yakult Professor's Playground was also very good. There were several fun and winding slides that we could go down on with our child sitting on our lap. At least if we couldn't go on the big slides, we still had fun going on the small ones :p And the smile on Caelyn's face when she was going down the slide was just priceless.

Too bad I wasn't able to take more photos cos of the locker situation, I didn't want to leave my camera lying around unattended. So was only able to take a couple of snaps just before we got changed as we were too keen on getting into the fun. Maybe next time. We'll definitely go back.