Port Aventura Park

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Theme Park:	Port Aventura Park (since 2016)
	Port Aventura (2004 - 2015)
	Universal Port Aventura (2002 - 2003)
	Universal Studios Port Aventura (2000 - 2001)
	Universal's Port Aventura (1999)
	Port Aventura (1995 - 1998)
	Part of the Resort Port Aventura World

Address:	Avinguda de l'Alcalde Pere Molas
	43840 Salou
	https://www.portaventuraworld.com/de

Operated by:	Port Aventura Entertainment SAU

Port Aventura Park in Salou is one of the largest theme parks in the country. It is part of the amusement resort Port Aventura World. Originally planned by a consortium of Spanish investors and Anheuser-Busch, the theme park opened its doors for the first time in 1995. During the construction phase, the English Tussauds Group also joined in, taking over 40% of the shares and the subsequent management. In 1997 Universal Studios took over the shares of the Tussauds Group. This was followed by numerous name changes and the expansion into an amusement resort. In 2004, NBC Universal and Anheuser-Busch sold their shares in the park to the Spanish bank La Caixa, which then held almost 100% of the shares. Since the end of 2009, the investment company Investindustrial has held a major stake in the park.

Port Aventura Park is home to some of the best roller coasters in Europe, such as the wooden roller coaster Stampida or the hyper coaster Shambhala. The park also offers a very large number of family-friendly rides, breathtaking water rides and a large number of worth seeing shows.

Fun Fact #1: The site on the outskirts of the city of Salou was one of the possible locations for the European Disneyland Resort, but was rejected due to the weaker infrastructure compared to the city of Paris.

Fun Fact #2: Originally, a roller coaster similar to the Loch Ness Monster from the US amusement park Busch Gardens Europe was to shape the face of the park. John Wardley of the Tussauds Group, however, was able to prevent this from happening, whereupon the Dragon Khan roller coaster was commissioned.

Highlights of the Theme Park

Dragon Khan

A truly intense roller coaster

El Diablo

Lifthill: The ride

Furios Baco

A great launch coaster; at least in the front row

Hurakan Condor

A Giant Drop

Serpiente Emplumada

A very unique Schwarzkopf ride

Shambhala

A great hyper coaster

Silver River Flume

An interesting log flume

Stampida

The duelling wooden coaster

Street Mission

Cookies and a Dark Ride

Tomahawk

A fun wooden coaster

Tutuki Splash

The ride that can soak you

TKathke September 8, 2011 May 4, 2023 Port Aventura

An afternoon in the Aquatic Park

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Port Aventura Caribe Aquatic Park

During a stay in one of the hotels of the Port Aventura World you will have the possibility to visit the main park for an unlimited time during your visit, as well as the water park Port Aventura Caribe Aquatic Park. At least this was still the case in 2011, but nowadays the offer is focused on the new theme park Ferrari Land.

The Aquatic Park was created at the same time as the Hotel Caraibe, but is located right next to the main park. Because the temperatures were quite high and the whole coastal area had a rather unpleasantly warm climate, the urge of the visitors to go to the water park, despite the low season, was enormously high, so that the probability of catching a free lounger was very, very small.

Tifón

The offer of the water park Port Aventura Caribe Aquatic Park is not outstandingly large, but not too small either. The Proslide Tifón slides in the covered part of the park were, to everyone’s surprise, extremely fast and featured a really well-done layout.

Mambo, Limbo and the Barracudas

The bodyslides Mambo and Limbo both feature a nice ride with various jumps, tight curves and an overall good pacing. Unfortunately these slides share the same tower as the tube slides of Barracuda and access to the slides is often blocked by the sliders holding their tubes. The slide down Baracuda is a bit on the milder side, nevertheless it is a nice family adventure.

El Torrente

The park’s El Torrente rafting slide is really impressive, where several people in a boat can reach slopes of more than 90°, thus involuntarily approaching each other, as the boat is not stiff but very elastic. Those who are at least afraid of a bobsleigh run should definitely not get on here, but for everyone else this family raft slide is great family fun – as long as you hold on tightly.

Miscellaneous

The park also has WhiteWaterWest’s La Laguna de Woody water playground, where you can stand under a huge bucket, the beautiful and long Lazy River El Rio Loco, and the wave pool El Triangulo de las Bermudas, with rather leisurely waves and water cannons.

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TKathke September 8, 2011 October 29, 2023 Port Aventura Caribe Aquatic Park

Terra Mítica

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Theme Park:	Terra Mítica (since 2000)

Address:	Partida de Moralet
	03502 Benidorm
	http://www.terramiticapark.com/en

Operated by:	Aqualandia Mundomar

Special feature:	Splitting into the two leisure parks "Terra Mítica" and "Iberia Park" between 2013 - 2017

Terra Mítica is one of the largest theme parks in Spain. Like the amusement parks Parque Warner near Madrid and Port Aventura near Barcelona, the park was built during the theme park boom of the 1990s. Already after the first season, the majority of the shares were sold to the US-American Paramount Group. Terra Mitica has since then operated as a Paramount Park with the addition “a Paramount Park”. In 2004 Paramount sold its shares to the Valencia region. This was followed in 2012 by the sale to the Benidorm-based Aqualandia-Mundomar Group.

The amusement park overlooking the city of Benidorm offers a successful mix of breathtaking rides and shows worth seeing. The park also impresses with its successful design.

Fun Fact #1: The park has an artificial watercourse that creates several pools for visitors. On several levels, visitors can refresh themselves and let off steam in these pools. In addition, there is a larger spa area in the Iberian themed area.

Fun Fact #2: Under the name Tizona, the Titanide roller coaster used to be located in the Iberian themed area on the other side of the park before it was downsized.