Before You Visit Water Kingdom: Your Pre-Splash Checklist
A few minutes of preparation saves a surprising amount of time at the gate, so here are the essentials in one place. If you would like the full details on tickets, payments, safety, and visitor requirements, the Water Kingdom FAQs page is the place to look.
Park Timings
- 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
- Prices, offers, and terms can change without prior notice, so check before you set out
Tickets and Booking
- Online Booking: Encouraged for cashless, paperless, and queue-free entry, though not compulsory
- Free Entry: Children below 3 ft. 3 in. This is only valid in Water Kingdom. Not valid for Combo, All Access pass, and Passport Next.
- Child Rate: Between 3 ft. 3 in. and 4 ft. 6 in.
- Adult Rate: Taller than 4 ft. 6 in.
- Ticket Policies: Tickets cannot be exchanged, cancelled, or refunded once booked, although exceptions can be made.
- Card Payments: If you pay by credit or debit card, carry the same card you booked with
Ride Rules
- Swimwear: Compulsory for the water, as explained below. Change into nylon. For more information, refer to the FAQ page.
- Footwear: Not allowed on the rides
- Metal Items: Jewellery, watches, and spectacles stay off the slides to protect the surface
- Restrictions: Displayed at each ride, with lifeguards stationed throughout the park
Visitor Requirements
- At the Gate: Bag inspection for all personal items, plus your ticket
- Restricted Items: Picnic lunches, coolers, large duffle bags, suitcases, wheeled bags, outside food and beverages, and alcohol (infant food such as cereal and milk is the only exception)
- Re-entry: Not permitted on the same ticket except in case of Passport Offer.
- Before the Rides: A mandatory shower
- Children: Supervised by a parent at all times
Here is what works:
- Gents: Nylon or lycra shorts, or cycling tights
- Ladies: Nylon or lycra swimwear, or full or half tights with a collarless T-shirt that has no buttons or metal parts
If you have forgotten yours, or would rather not pack it, you can hire or buy swimwear at our FAB 5 merchandise outlet. If synthetic fabrics bother your skin, wear a nylon costume over your regular T-shirt and tights. Guests who only plan to watch need not change at all, though the slides have a way of changing minds, and the same rule applies the moment you decide to join in.
- A nylon or lycra swimsuit
- A towel for afterwards, which can come upstairs with you but not into the water
- A dry change of clothes, plus a plastic bag for wet swimwear
- Sunscreen to guard against sunburn
- A waterproof pouch for cash and cards, since you may want to buy food later
- Your ticket and, for card bookings, the card you paid with
- Comfortable footwear for walking around, which can wait at the shoe rack while you ride
When guests ask us, “what should I bring to a waterpark?”, this short list is our answer, and anything beyond it can happily stay at home.
Little Splashers, Big Plans: A Family Guide
Bringing children along changes the plan, in the best possible way. Let these tips for water park days with little ones set the pace, starting with the most reassuring fact of all: you do not need to know how to swim to enjoy our park, because the pools are built as fun pools. Supervision is the one rule that never relaxes, and for non-swimmers we suggest a baseline of 1 adult per child, kept within arm’s reach.
We would begin gently in the Lagoon, a 30,000 sq. ft. aqua play pool with ten elements, including 3 kiddie slides and 4 family slides. Turbo Thriller and Turbo Wurbo add sprinklers, sprayers, water wheels, and spinning trays, while the Frog Slides and Zoomroo Slides pair gentle slopes with shallow landing pools. Over at the wave pool, the shallows offer softly rolling waves under constant lifeguard supervision, and when energy dips, Mama Miya, a small, warm pool with jacuzzi-style jets and rain showers, makes a cosy pause.
A few practical details help parents most:
- Splitting up to Change: The common meeting point outside both changing rooms
- First Aid: Points around the park for cuts and bruises, plus a medical centre and an ambulance on site
- Wheelchairs: Available on a refundable deposit of INR 100, with ramps and accessible facilities throughout
Planning more than a single splash? Our guide to things to do in Mumbai with kids pairs the park with other child-friendly stops, including the neighbouring EsselWorld Bird Park.
- Arrive Early: Be at the gates as soon as we open, since weekday mornings usually bring shorter queues and calmer pools.
- Lockers and Changing: Change into your swimwear, take a shower, and lock your belongings away in a locker, which starts from INR 200. The wristband key stays with you, as there is no duplicate. Shoes can be left at the shoe rack for a nominal fee.
- Priority Rides: Head for the thrills while the queues are short. What-A-Coaster drops riders down 7 storeys, Rushin Gushin is a 70 ft free fall with a 90-degree drop, and Black Demon winds through tubes raised to 47 ft. Rafia Fafia recreates a cyclone before dropping you through a splash hole, and the Lagoon’s adult slides, namely HydroBurst, Aquaconda, and Typhoontube, are worth a run too. If you are unsure where to start, our guide to Adventure Activities at Water Kingdom can help you choose.
- Meals and Breaks: Eat inside the park, where Food Wharf and Hunger Thrill offer both full meals and small bites. If you booked the Wave & Crave offer, lunch is already included. Rest between rides, and top up at the free drinking water stations.
- Family Attractions: Save the gentler fun for the afternoon. Float around the Lazy River on a tube, ride the waves at Wetlantic, try the 8 slides of Octagonal, or join the DJ-led party at Aquadrome.
That order is our answer whenever a first-time guest asks us, “What to do at a waterpark?” Our ferries run until the last guest has left, so you can savour a final float without watching the clock.