[Roadtrip ☁] Melacca: A' Famosa Water World (part1)

What's a roadtrip without sunglasses kan? ^^

About a week ago, we've both decided to give A' Famosa a go since because I happen to stumble upon some Groupon offer, we both need a short getaway and we thought we've never been to a A' Famosa before anyway so why not (truth is I realise later on that I actually been there once when I was much younger and I totally forgot!) =_=" I choose the package which includes Water World and Old West. Anyway, we picked weekdays and hit the road :)

Hullo A' Famosa~ Water World first! 

All changed with endless slabs of sunblock and we're ready to conquer everything! 

Not too sure if the place is considered big but compared to 'The Lost World of Tambun' quite an amount of walking and climbing is needed. As for the rides, I'd say you can sort of finish trying out everything in like about an hour? But of course we went for as many times as our legs would carry us because its a weekday and there's practically no need to wait in line.

Big Ice-Cream

The Big Ice-Cream is like one of the newest attraction with a craze of adrenaline rush. It's a four-person ride and would make a great ride for friends and families who come as a group. You're suppose to carry your own tube all the way up and mind you, that tube is really heavy! The adrenaline rush kicks in as you sit on the tube and hopefully you're not the one with your back facing the slice because there'll be a sudden drop into that huge cone and you'll start screaming all the way oscillating back and forth until the tube loses momentum then... end of ride, thank you. Please carry the tube and climb 5-stories for another round of screams thrill.

As for both of us, we had to aim for another willing couple and ride. Although it's always a different couple, one thing was all the same. Panting for breath while climbing up and before you'd manage to catch your breath, you're already screaming all the way down. Goodness~

High-Speed Slide: Would you have give it a go?

Now this is liken to the height of flying fox except you're headed for a 45 degrees straight down. I didn't think it was scary until I saw the real thing. We really had to muster-up lots and lots of bravery to ride this thing and only the wavy one was operating. I almost wanted to give up but it'd be a waste to not challenge myself and so I did. The adrenaline rush is 5x of the Big Ice-Cream (probably because there's no tube and its a solo ride)

The rest of water theme park rides are nothing to boast about. There's a mixture of rides which some requires tube rental which we skipped because its rather pointless to rent a tube with just two of us.

Lazy River for leisure and relaxation

Source of the tidal in the Lazy River

Although without a tube, we've decided to wade the Lazy River anyway and discovered that the lifeguard who guards this station is rather humorous though. He encourages everyone that is within his range of sight to come close to that giant mouth to experience sorta a mini 'tsunami' at regular intervals and many of them keep coming back even after they're being wash away including us

Family Raft Slide

Its another group ride but thankfully they take in any number up to four. Its like bumper car tube version on water. I guess its probably cause we're only two and not heavy enough, the bumps at each cornering takes a scary swing and kept bouncing on our bottoms.

Body Slide which requires no tube

This is the slide which we rode the most until the lifeguard got fed-up and decides to have lunch rather than watching us lol.

Kid Adventure Pool

Surely all toddlers and kids would enjoy this. We only came here mostly to rest our hearts from all the exhilaration and to take a dump from that gigantic water bucket! More than the fun it seems to portray, getting water dumps' abit painful lah~

A must-have in every water theme park: Wave Pool 

Since the sun is blazing and we're like at least ten tones darker, its time to chill under the shaded wave pool, listen to extremely overly-played music (I think it only has like 3 songs in a CD, meh!) and enjoy some waves before calling it a day.

Lunch included. Its not much but good enough.

Enough of the water and feeling all tired and hungry now, we got changed and redeem our lunch boxes. Yes, this deal has lunch included and though choices are not plenty its good enough. We sat by the man-made sand beach and slowly munch our late lunch.

What about the deal?
I'm not too sure if the deal is a steal but here's the catch; we had choices of choosing 2-3 parks to enjoy except we had to do all places on the same day which at first I thought like why not? Seems okay to me and I wanted to almost sign-up for 3 parks all in one day! But he said better not be too ambitious. It turns out he was down right. After all that thrill and excitement, we're both feeling jelly-ish with sores all over and sleep was all you can think of.  But we still had Old West to visit at night >_<

But if you've not experienced or been to A' Famosa before, I think the deal's worth the price as its only half of what I paid at normal rate for two attractions. Its your pick :)

나요,

A' Famosa Water World: ✔Checked