ATLANTIS RESORT WATERSLIDES

If you’re planning a trip to the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas, you’re likely pretty excited about their waterslides. 

The Atlantis Resort gave their little waterslide paradise a name – Aquaventure – and that’s what the rides are all about, adventures in the water.

Serpent Slide

This devious slide is pitch black throughout and takes you and your tube winding this way and that through five stories of the Mayan Temple.  It, too, dumps you out in the shark tank, only this time you’ll get a better look as your tube floats through the tubular pool.

Challenger Slides

If you’ve ever been to Treasure Island Waterpark in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, you’ve likely seen the big, wavy slide next to the Demon Drop.  These slides are very similar, only there’s two.  This way, you and a partner can race down the slides and check your time on the display counter at the bottom. 

 
Leap of Faith  

Atlantis is renowned for its signature slide, the Leap of Faith (pictured left), found in the Mayan Temple.  Unfortunately, the entire Mayan Temple was closed for repairs during our trip, which was a real bummer, so we didn’t get to ride any Mayan Temple slides.  However, we did get a pretty good view of most of the slides without even having to ride them. 

Leap of Faith is just your average drop slide, except it has a shocking little twist at the bottom.  You literally slide right through a shark tank.  The slide descends into a transparent acrylic tube lodged inside a shark tank, giving you the allusion that you’re swimming with the sharks.  However, there might be a little too much water spraying in your face by the time you reach the bottom that you won’t notice how many huge teeth are swimming by above you.

Jungle Slide

The Jungle Slide is not your average Bahamian body slide.  In fact, you’ll forget you’re in the Bahamas at all.  This slide takes you on a high-speed race down to the middle of the Mayan Temple through forests of jungle flora.  But don’t worry about snakes and spiders; the ride is over before you know it.

The Power Tower is the other extreme slide hub at Atlantis’ Aquaventure.  These slides were open, so we tried out all of them, naturally.  Some of them are great fun, too, so long as you don’t mind a little jolting. 

The Surge

The Surge slide is by far one of the most thrilling ever.  Located atop the Power Tower under a crypt-like coffin, you know what you’re getting yourself into before you slide to your doom.  The Surge is definitely breath-taking, so it’s not a slide for the faint of heart.  As soon as you position yourself at the top, you’re plunging at a complete ninety-degree vertical angle straight to the bottom, where torrents of water flush you out into a dark pool surrounded by an aquarium cave.  There are lifeguards at the bottom just to make sure you made it out alive.  But remember to leave any valuables behind; when we were there, a man lost his credit cards as they flew out of his swim trunks one by one in a row behind him on the slide! 

The Abyss

The Abyss is the most thrilling tube slide in Atlantis; from the near-vertical 50-foot drop to individual surges and bumps along the way, you’re in for an amazingly mysterious ride.  However, you might only want to stand in line for this one once or twice, and get there as early as possible – it’s one of the longest and slowest-moving.

The Falls and the Drop

These two slides are very much the same, with the exception of a few different bumps.  You can ride these in a single or double tube, and you get to each of them in the same fashion – by way of the Lazy River or the conveyor belt – also located in a section of the Lazy River.  They’re not all that much fun, considering the time you spend on the Lazy River just getting to them.  But they’re definitely a must-ride; at least just once!

All the slides in Atlantis are amazing, but some you’ll want to ride more than others.  Make sure you also wear plenty of sunscreen if you plan on riding the slides along the Lazy River – we baked like crab cakes while sitting in line on tubes to get up the conveyor belt to reach the Falls and the Drop!