Let's Check Out Wet'n'Wild Phoenix

Now that Wet'n'Wild Phoenix has opened I wanted to take a minute to look at it a little more closely. It has a wide variety of new attractions, most of which are the latest and greatest of the water park industry. The park was formerly known as Waterworld Safari and featured this selection of attractions:

Pretty much your typical run of the mill water park, sorta under developed and in need of expansion. Well, the new owners took care of that real quick, turning the park into this:

Now comparing the above map to the aerial photo of the former park, you can see that the new owners, Village Roadshow, really put the $30 million they used to expand the park to good use.

In fact, it doesn't appears they kept much of the old park at all, really. They've added new attractions from Proslide and WhiteWaterWest from what I can tell, including:

• A family Boomerango slide
• Family rafting slide
• Racing mat slides
• Bowl slide
• Selection of family tube slides
• Interactive family water play structure
• Proslide Tornado slide
• Dueling Master Blaster slides.

The dueling Master Blaster slides, known as Maximum Velocity, apparently opened a little later on than the park but appear to be the big draw at the park. One article I read said they had an hour and a half wait after the park opened!

If you want to see some photos of the cool stuff they've added, About.com has two galleries with some shots: here and then here.

The park was smart and also added a lot of shade structures to protect guests from the hot Phoenix sun, and also has an assortment of merchandise and food locations for visitors to enjoy.

The park certainly looks like a winner, so best of luck to them. If any of you readers visit let me know!