WhiteWater Launches 60+ Projects Worldwide in 2025
WhiteWater projects 2025 are set to make a significant splash, with over 60 new ventures launching globally this year. These initiatives span across indoor and outdoor water parks, hotels, resorts, and even cruise ships, featuring record-breaking attractions, world-firsts, and beloved classics.
Onno Meeter, president of water parks, remarked: “The volume of projects WhiteWater delivers each year, with 2025 being no exception, speaks to the quality our team produces. Time and again, we fulfil our client’s ambitions to elevate their guest experience.”
He added, “Across various venue types, including over a dozen in hotels and resorts, these projects demonstrate that creativity comes in many forms. Sometimes it’s about creating the biggest and fastest; more often, it’s about providing the best overall experience with the right ride mix for everyone, as well as making operations smarter. WhiteWater is proud to be an integral part of helping clients achieve just that.”
Highlights in the US
Among the highlights for 2025 in the United States is the Bavarian Blast at Bavarian Inn, which is the largest indoor water park in Michigan. Launched this spring, it features traditional German motifs and 16 water slides, including the world’s first inner tube Parallel Pursuit.
Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Pennsylvania will unveil two Open & Enclosed slides, reimagining popular originals with enhanced thrills and vibrant AquaLucent effects.
Soak City Water Park at Kings Island will introduce Ohio’s first dual-racing water coaster, a Blaster Battle, alongside a riverside-themed children’s area. Meanwhile, Soaky Mountain Waterpark in Tennessee will debut the first Wall Runner globally, offering a unique ride experience that extends the zero-G feeling through thoughtfully crafted arcs.
In Florida, Holiday Inn Resort Orlando Suites will feature three new slides, a FlowRider Double, and a RainFortress 3. Texas’s Castaway Cove Waterpark will welcome a new Whizzard 4-Lane Mat Racer, while San Antonio Zoo will adopt Vantage, WhiteWater’s visitor engagement and attractions management platform.
Latin America & the Caribbean
In Brazil, Beach Park in Aquiraz boasts the tallest water coaster in the world, named “Surreal,” launching from a height of 92 feet (28 meters). Thermas dos Laranjais in Olímpia features a tower called “Nações,” offering two 6-person raft rides, each starting with a Family Blaster and showcasing impressive water slide features.
Numerous hotels and resorts in the region are enhancing their aquatic offerings, such as Hotel Xcaret Mexico in Riviera Maya, which is developing a tower with five water slides alongside new guest suites.
EMEA Developments
Highlights of WhiteWater projects 2025 also encompass hotel and resort projects across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Cheval Blanc Seychelles launched this year with a FlowRider Double, marking the second property to offer this skill-based attraction. At Regnum Carya Golf & Spa Resort in Antalya, Turkey, visitors will enjoy two towers featuring 13 slides, including body slides, inner tube slides, raft rides, and children’s slides, along with an AquaPlay 1750 equipped with Life Floor.
In the UAE, Grand Hyatt Dubai is set to unveil a 215,278 square-foot (20,000 square-meter) urban oasis featuring 15 attractions, including water slides, a splash pad, a wave pool, and a FlowRider Triple.
At Yas Waterworld in Abu Dhabi, the highly anticipated expansion will introduce 18 new rides across 181,910 square feet (16,900 square meters), featuring the highest water slide in the country. Additionally, a Shoot the Chute will be the first water-based amusement ride integrated into a water slide complex.
APAC Innovations
In China, the Shanghai L+SNOW Indoor Skiing Theme Resort will officially launch its outdoor Water World following the indoor section’s opening last autumn.
Dream Space Water Park is set to become the largest water park in Chongqing, with WhiteWater supplying all water slides, aquatic play, and wave equipment, including 40 water slides, a 118-foot (36-meter) Double Wave Pool, an AquaCourse 180, and a FusionFortress 17, the largest aquatic play structure in the world.
In Hong Kong, Water World at Ocean Park is enhancing its aquatic play area with Life Floor, reflecting the region’s focus on updating and refurbishing existing attractions. Meanwhile, in Indonesia, Waterbom Bali will launch three new children’s slides, following the introduction of a Mini Boomerango.
Cruise Innovations
WhiteWater projects 2025 are also making waves at sea. Saudi Arabia’s first cruise line, Aroya Cruises, launched in late 2024, featuring an AquaForms 5, the first AquaForms aquatic play structure on a ship, along with AquaSplash Toys and Life Floor. MSC World America set sail last month, including an Adventure Trail.
In July, Celebration Key in the Bahamas will welcome its first guests, an exclusive destination for Carnival Cruise Line passengers. WhiteWater is supplying two AquaTubes as part of an iconic “Suncastle,” along with a splash pad featuring Life Floor.
Later in 2025, Royal Caribbean Cruises’ Star of the Seas will showcase a FlowRider Double, marking WhiteWater’s 24th collaboration with the cruise line.
Recently, WhiteWater announced the WhiteWater IDEA Scholarship, in partnership with the IAAPA Foundation, aimed at promoting inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) within the attractions industry.
