Aquarama Water Park

Most water parks are landlocked, ringed by car parks and hotels. Aquarama sits directly beside the Mediterranean, so riders on its tallest slides get open sea views on the way down — and one of those slides, The Devil’s Drop, ranks among the eleventh-highest waterslides anywhere in the world.

A world-ranked slide beside the sea

Aquarama opened on 4 June 1986 — a year after Water World in nearby Lloret de Mar, making it part of the same first wave of large Spanish water parks that arrived on the coast in the mid-1980s. Its standout attraction, The Devil’s Drop, holds a genuine global ranking as one of the eleventh-highest waterslides in the world, sharing that distinction with The Beast at Western Water Park. The park’s Space Shot pushes that ambition further still, launching riders 60 metres upward in just two seconds — an attraction the park itself markets as unique in Spain — while WOW, a 210-metre tubular slide, is billed as the longest of its kind anywhere in Europe.

A seaside setting most water parks can’t offer

What genuinely sets Aquarama apart from inland competitors isn’t just the scale of its rides, but where they sit: directly on the Mediterranean coast, with sea breeze and open water views built into the experience rather than an afterthought. The park leans into that setting deliberately — green space and rest areas break up the ride circuit, and the wave pool markets itself explicitly as a “freshwater sea,” echoing the real one visible just beyond the park’s boundary.

Nearly forty years, still a summer fixture

Aquarama has now run for close to four decades, celebrating a 30th anniversary in 2016 with a season-long “30 Years of Adventure” campaign, and it remains one of the defining summer plans for both Benicàssim locals and the international crowd the town attracts each July for its FIB music festival. That longevity matters in an industry where theme parks routinely close, rebrand or get bought out within a decade or two — Aquarama has instead kept adding record-chasing attractions like The Devil’s Drop and WOW to a park that opened well before most of its current riders were born, updating rather than replacing what originally drew visitors here.

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