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Kelly Gaston -
a month ago
Siam Amazing Park lives up to its name, with a wild assortment of teeth-chattering roller coasters and thrill rides, solid food options, and fanciful, homespun decorations and mascots. Plus, of course, the Guinness World Record holding largest wave pool to boot. It's as if someone fed Disneyland into GoogleTranslate to delightful, charming effect. It's well worth a cab ride from the city center to experience this family friendly wonderland.
Entry prices are modest by Western standards (around $30 USD for adults) and net you entry to every corner of the park. Towels and swimsuits are available for inexpensive rental at the water park, as well as tubes and sun chairs. There are multiple locker rooms with basic showers and facilities.
Don't miss the goofy-wonderful Jurrassic Park-esque jeep adventure, the double-decker carousel and brain-bouncing Boomerang rollercoaster--and hold on tight on the bouncing, music-thumping Tagada Disco spinner, which thumbs its nose at all American safety standards to exhilarating effect. If you start to wilt under the Bangkok sun, head to the wet and wild log flume ride, which leads you up, up, up though the gaping maw of a tiger. We rode it 4 times.
Tips: Although the park opens at 10 am, rides don't turn on until 11 am. The Log Flume restaurant serves good, mildly-spiced stir fries and Western grub on the cheap. The Vortex roller coaster can be a rough ride for taller patrons, knocking your head back and forth on the padded headrest. The path leading from Adventure World to the Waterpark is a great spot to spy legion shrieking, laughing Thai school kids exiting Big Double Shock, Siam Amazing Park's demon-infested haunted house.
Get going!