Journey Park Geelong is Victoria’s largest theme park, combining an superior water park and ‘dry rides’ in a single enormous website in Wallington. It’s a simple day journey from Melbourne and solely quarter-hour from Geelong.
Visiting Journey Park Geelong
For an entire day of enjoyable, it’s moderately priced too – $64 for adults (120cm and over), $54 for juniors (90-120cm), $45 for seniors (60+), and free entry for youngsters below 90cm (evaluate it to among the Gold Coast theme parks at round $90 per ticket).
For a lot of Melbourne and Geelong households, a vast season go is the best way to go – go 2 or 3 instances and also you make your a refund!
We’re invited to go to Journey Park and have a unbelievable time. I notably like the mix of water play with mini-golf and different carnival rides and totally different rides catering to totally different age teams. Journey Park is a whole-day affair and since it’s all about being out within the solar, within the water and being lively it may be fairly exhausting.
So listed below are my High 8 ideas for benefiting from your go to to Journey Park.
1. Purchase your ticket on-line
Shopping for tickets on-line saves time on entry, and if you happen to get the Small Concepts membership voucher, it can save you cash too.
You may also be capable of rating low cost tickets by way of RACV (or equal) membership, low cost coupon websites like Scoopon or Groupon often.
2. Tips on how to get to Journey Park
There is no such thing as a public transport to Journey Park Geelong and parking is free first come first serve, except you’ve got a VIP go. In the event you arrive early there’s no have to pay additional for a VIP go in my opinion.
You may catch a practice to Geelong after which a taxi/uber to Journey Park or there’s a coach/bus rent service. See transport choices right here.
3. Issues to convey
Convey or put on your bathers, thongs/flip flops for the recent floor, a swim hat with a brim for water playgrounds and different locations that aren’t rides, a towel and LOTS of sunscreen.
You can’t put on goggles on the slides.
It’s a good suggestion to convey a e book or journal in an effort to take a break from the exercise.
4. Get there early
Journey Park opens at 10 am and except you’ve booked a sunbed or non-public cabana it’s vital to get there early as a result of it is advisable to arrange a house base within the shade for all of your towels and equipment.
There are a selection of shaded places with picnic benches and tables in addition to plastic lounge chairs dotted round. In the event you’re with youngsters I believe the perfect location is going through the water playground – it’s the place all of the household cabanas are and in a central location.
We’re supplied with a sunbed ($69) which is a shaded pair of picket lounge chairs overlooking the pool and twister experience. Whereas the sunbeds are comfortable and the view is nice, the situation is a bit faraway from the principle motion (plus up the slope on the pebbly floor) so I don’t assume it’s the perfect set-up for households.
Arriving early additionally means avoiding among the lengthy queues, notably for the Twister experience. On a college vacation weekend, it’s a 45-minute wait by lunchtime.
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5. Get a locker or e book a cabana
I believe it’s greatest to have a 1:1 grownup to youngster ratio in an effort to break up up on the rides. We’ve got two additional adults so somebody is accessible to ‘guard’ the house base whereas the others play.
In the event you don’t have an additional grownup you’ll be able to nonetheless ‘declare’ a spot by draping your towels and different non-valuable gear over a desk after which securing your valuables in a locker ($12).
Even higher is a non-public cabana ($129- $239) – you’ll be able to unfold your gear out and use it as a spot to eat and relaxation. In the event you do e book a cabana be sure to do it as far upfront as attainable – we attempt to e book two days earlier than and they’re offered out.
Organising a house base means that there’s a spot for everybody to return to (a) for lunch/snacks (b) to have a sit-down relaxation (c) if youngsters get misplaced. The downtime within the shade is vital to maintain everybody’s power and temper on a good keel.
6. BYO meals and a full refillable water bottle
Journey Park lets you convey your individual meals and drinks – simply no glass or alcohol. As barbecue amenities are usually not obtainable and are usually not permitted to be introduced into the park, I like to recommend bringing picnic-style meals as a substitute so you’ll be able to set it up anyplace. In the event you’re low on time, you too can buy a scrumptious picnic field or picnic hamper that you would be able to have delivered to your private home or picked up on the best way there.
Bringing your individual meals means that you would be able to lower your expenses, keep away from queues and supply wholesome, nutritious fare. I convey a scorching roast rooster, whole-grain bread rolls and salad components so everybody could make their very own rooster and salad rolls. For snacks, we’ve got fruit, crackers, and cheese.
Be sure to convey LOTS of meals, everybody might be lively and hungry.
The one meals we purchase is the ice cream (as a lure to depart).
Additionally, convey refillable water bottles already crammed with chilly water. Whereas there are water faucets they’re sparse and exhausting to search out and at any time when we ask the employees they don’t appear to know the place they’re.
7. Slide first, play later
As you’d count on weekends, public holidays and college holidays are the most well-liked instances at Journey Park. In peak instances among the extra well-liked rides can take as much as 45 minutes in line.
As such, I like to recommend occurring the slides first when the queues are shorter earlier within the day, then taking part in within the areas that would not have queues such because the splash pads, water playgrounds and mini-golf. There’s even archery!
This 12 months, Journey Park is releasing two new rides! First is the basic household Tea Cups experience that’s tremendous well-liked around the globe, and second is the Air Balloons experience which sees riders soar 18m into the sky for an epic view of the park earlier than floating again right down to earth!
The Wild West Canyon and Gold Rush Rapids have shorter traces as a result of they’re in the direction of the entrance of the park, the place the dry rides are ie separated from the remainder of the water slides.
Word that the water isn’t heated!
8. The place to go together with below youthful youngsters
At Journey Park there are many issues to do with below 5s and youthful youngsters!
Within the water play space, there are three splash pad areas dotted across the park, in addition to the Tiny Tots splash zone, the principle water playground Bonito’s Bay, Lazy River floating tubes and the pool subsequent to the Twister. Aqua Racer water slides are appropriate for teenagers 110cm+.
Within the dry play space, there are two 18 gap mini golf programs, the mini race automobiles on Little Buggy Speedway, Crimson Baron aircraft rides, Loopy Coaster, carousel, and the Ferris wheel.
In the event you’re at Journey Park with older youngsters then they’ll love the supersonic water slides resembling Victoria’s largest and longest waterslide, the Tsunami! The monster slide is 7.5 storeys excessive and 172 metres in size, with 4 visitors per raft taken up the slide by way of three mega funnels. The opposite huge slide is the Twister, which plunges you down a large 7.5 storeys after you’re taking a raft by way of 360-degree twists and turns.
Click on right here for my evaluate of different main theme parks around the globe – Luna Park Melbourne, Legoland Melbourne, Common Studios Hollywood, Hong Kong Disneyland, Ocean Park Hong Kong, Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo Disneysea.
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