In our time doing Loops & Lapbars International, we’ve visited 4 water parks so far. Alton Towers, Port Caribe, Bellewaerde and Rulantica and each one has been different in its own way and Plopsaqua continues this trend!

It feels like a hybrid some of these, where it’s got theming akin to Rulantica, a compact layout like Bellewaerde, and a similar number of slides to Alton Towers’ Water park, and I don’t mean that in a negative way at all!

It offers 3 larger slides that weave around outside that anyone can use, as long as you’re tall enough. There are also a handful of smaller slides that are all internal and most of these are designed for users 1.4m or below so we couldn’t have a go on them. They would have been quite tight though as they are very compact!

Besides the slides, the park has a dedicated lane swimming pool, complete with starting blocks for those of you who want to just swim. There’s a decent play structure as well that has a lot of jets and water effects that can be turned on and off as well which added more fun to it.

Then there’s the wave pool which isn’t quite as big as others that we’ve visited but it does have rain effects and flashing lights making it feel less like a wave pool and more like a storm simulator, but it’s not too much that you can’t enjoy it, which I also liked!

The park has a sauna which we didn’t try as Tracy doesn’t like the dry heat they create but there is a small outdoor seating area and a pool for relaxing in.

There were also 3 Jacuzzis. 2 were inside and one connected to the outdoor pool, and finally there’s the rapid river, which I thought was the best attraction in Plopsaqua.

It is very comparable to the Vildstrøm at Rulantica, but not as long and arguably a bit faster flowing. We had a go on this multiple times as it was just great fun to play around in. It feels like a lazy river on steroids, as you start off at a much higher elevation than when you finish and inbetween starting and finishing are sections that stop and start, giving you a breather in-between.

After each section, you’ll fall into a slightly deeper pool and then have to climb over a small damn to start the next section and it’s entirely possibly to keep the flow going from the top all the way to the bottom and it is just such a fun time!

The 3 larger slides were good fun too, the first is a body slide called Disco Slide which is exactly as it sounds, not to thrilling but not dull either. The second is a ring slide that is massive and allows one or two riders called De Glijdende Banden (sliding tyres), and is so wide that you can easily turn around in your inflatable whilst sliding down it.

The third large slide is Sky Drop, which is a Proslide trap door attraction and I found more fun than. Rulantica”s offerings as it wasn’t as violent and didn’t force so much water into your face on the way down.

Each slide uses the same staircase and all but Sky Drop are unmanned, so you can do them as often as you like, so long as you follow the traffic lights at the start of each. They all finish in the same location too which is right by the same stairs you started at so you can rinse these easily, if you have the energy!

The park has a single food outlet that sells burger meals and drinks and it wasn’t a rip off but it wasn’t exactly cheap either. The food was nice here though!

The nice thing about Plopsaqua is that it isn’t so big that you feel rushed to do everything and it’s small enough that you can easily do it after a day at the park, assuming opening times like up nicely. When we went, Plopsaland De Panne was due to close as 6, but the water park was open until 8pm, so you could easily leave Plopsaland and hour or 2 before closing and do the water park on the same day.

The better option would be to stay on site, do Plopsaland on the first day, the water park on the morning of the second, and then finish off in Plopsaland for the afternoon if you wanted to get maximum value for time spent.

Tickets were priced at €27.50 online which is about £23.70 and I feel that was about right for what we got out of it. Parking was an additional €15 euros which is a bit steep, but the car park is across the road and covered by solar panels which keeps you car cool. I would have felt it a bit nicer if parking was included, or tickets were €30 per person with free parking but we had a good time irrelevant of the cost.

I can certainly recommend Plopsaqua De Panne, especially as it is very accessible from the UK, as is Plopsaland De Panne too!

A Vlog is available here!