Salalah Water Park is the first water theme park of Oman and is under constuction near Salalah Festival area (near new Salalah Airport). This is really nice news for the visitors and residents of Oman and particularly that of Salalah.
As per Oman Observer, Sayyid Mohammed bin Sultan al Busaidy, Minister of State and Governor of Dhofar, signed the agreement on 15th Nov 2014 for the construction of Water Park in Salalah. The total cost of the project is OMR 2.6 million.
As per Ministry of Information, Salalah Water Theme Park will be spread over a total area of 35,000 square meters and would have would have a capacity to accommodate 500 people every day. There will be a wide range of water sports and games so that the visitors can spend a whole day along with family and friends.
As per Ministry of Information, there will be water house pool, wave pool, kids’ pool, lazy river and a spa pool. Water house pool and kid’s pool would have an area of 1,975 square metres. These facilities lie in the east of the park and are surrounded by a 330-metre long lazy river. Located in the middle of the park the wave pool would be spread over 3,246 square meters. The wave pool would be biggest pool in park. Spa pool would have an area of 1,240 square meters. It lies in the north-west of the park. The park would have race slides, high-speed slide, variable high-speed slide, combination slide, space bowl slide, boomerang slide and water house slide.
Salalah water park is being developed by China Railway.
We all hope that the construction of Salalah Water Theme Park project gets completed soon and we enjoy the water house pool, wave pool, lazy river and many other attractions in Salalah.
Latest Update about Salalah Water Park
Updates of October 2016 are as follows
Updates of May 2016 are as follows, slides are now taking shapes
Watch the video of May 2016 updates
The update of the project as per April 2016 is as follows:
The update of the project as per March 2016 is as follows:
Location of Salalah Water Park
The proposed Salalah water park is coming up near the Iitin Recreation Centre, popularly known as Khareef Festival Ground. It’s besides the Amphitheater. Unfortunately, this park is not visible from the main road.
