Sunset Aquapark

Worth a detour

A large water park on the edge of Pomorie with thirty-two slides, a free shuttle round the town and free parking for a hundred cars. A day ticket is about €30 for an adult and around €20 for a child between ninety-one centimetres and a metre thirty; after three in the afternoon both drop. It is a straightforward day out for a family with older children and the obvious escape from a hot afternoon.

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Background

The park trades now as Aquapark Pomorie, having previously been known by the name of the resort next door, and the older name still circulates in listings and on maps. Its own site is clear about two things a visitor needs to know in advance: the water is not heated, and it closes completely at the end of the season with a notice saying so.

The practical arrangements are good. A free shuttle runs a fixed route around Pomorie, parking is free with room for about a hundred cars, and the day ticket covers ten in the morning until six. A half-day ticket from three in the afternoon costs about a fifth less and is enough for most children. Over-sixties pay the children's rate. Anyone under ninety centimetres goes free, which in practice means under-threes. Lockers cost a few euros.

Two notes of judgement. Thirty euros a head is a great deal of money by the standards of everything else in this guide, and a family of four will spend more here in a day than on three museum days combined. And unheated water in a wind off the sea in early June or mid-September is genuinely cold; this is a July and August proposition. If the weather is doubtful, Pomorie's museums and the salt pans cost a fraction of it.