UK's best and biggest inflatable water parks to beat the heatwave as a family

The Irish Sun

01-07-2025

YOU can beat the heat and have an incredible time at these inflatable waterparks around the UK.
With slides, inflatable blast bags, family-friendly obstacle courses and the huge free fall slides from just £20 entry too.
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Cliff Lakes has the biggest obstacle course in the UK
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The Staffordshire Aqua Park has huge slides and sessions are 80-minute
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Cliff Lakes Aqualand, Staffordshire
Go big or go home at
Across the lake are six separate courses with various challenges such as climbing walls, tunnels, trampolines, and high ropes.
The general admission price is £24 per person for an 80-minute session.
The price includes a shortie wetsuit (3mm or 5mm) and a buoyancy aid.
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One happy visitor wrote on
"Would recommend to anyone, best time to go is in summer as you do jump into the lake."
Aqua Park Group, Rutland Water
features
the largest collection of bespoke, high-impact water obstacles.
The biggest inflatable is at its water park in
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The giant slide has a 5.5 metre free-fall drop - and is the tallest of its kind in the UK.
Across the waterpark is also
Tornado
Tower, a 3.5 metre inflatable that you can jump off into the lake water below.
TUI resort next door to giant waterpark
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Rutland Mammoth is the UK's tallest inflatable water slide
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Blast Bags are popular at Aqua Action in Essex
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There are blast bags, slides, trampolines and inflatable climbing frames.
Visitors must book online before going to Rutland Water and a one hour session costs £21, or, you can book two hours for £31.
Other Aqua Parks across the UK include Aqua Park Lakeside and Cosmeston Lake.
Aqua Action, Essex
It's open until September 28, 2025 and on the lake is a 3.5 metre climbing tower and the two metre high balance beam.
There's the highly anticipated and hilarious blast bag, the jumping platforms, and thrilling drop slides and entry is £20 for a one hour session.
For the younger ones aged one to eight, there's a puddle park too called Aqua Tots.
Kids can jump on the giant turtle, hop on the inflatable swans, and have a good old splash about.
Entry to Aqua Tots for children cost £12 and an extra £2 for their accompanying adult.
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Thorpe Lake Aqua Park is set across a 150 acre lake
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Thorpe Lakes, Surrey
It has wobbly balance beams, towering slides, bouncy trampolines, and climbing walls.
The only downside to this inflatable
Entry cost £20 for 55 minutes of fun, and you get a life jacket included with the option to hire a wetsuit.
At Thorpe Lakes, you can also try
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with options for lessons for beginners.
WHAT IS A HEATWAVE?
Since 1960, UK temperatures in June have surpassed 34C in only three years, with the hottest being 35.6C, recorded on June 28 1976.
A heatwave in the UK is met when a location records a period of at least three consecutive days, with temperature values meeting or exceeding the heatwave temperature thresholds.
Across the north and west of the UK this is 25C, and across Greater London and the Home Counties, 28C.
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The Bewl Water course is in Tunbridge Wells
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There's an inflatable course as well as pedalo hire
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Bewl Water Aqua Park, Tunbridge Wells
It has a floating obstacle course with room for jumping, sliding and balancing.
Individual tickets cost £25 each for children (between 6-12 years old), teenagers and adults - for 50 minutes.
Also on the lake are pedalos for hire, paddleboarding and canoeing are also options.
One visitor wrote on
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Three of the
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These are UK's best Aqua Parks
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