Welcome to one of the most impressive waterpark in the whole world. This is Meryal Waterpark in the Kingdom of Qatar. It is brand new and we are confident that you will love it.
First of all, let us say that you should wait a few months before visiting Meryal Waterpark as they are still running a soft opening with some of the rides not opened yet. This includes most of their star attractions like the train going around the park, their roller coaster, a dark ride and a few other waterslides. The Qetaifan Island where this amusement park is located is also in its early stage but will eventually be a destination of its own with luxury hotels, dinning, shopping and more.
With that being said, even at this stage, Meryal Waterpark is very impressive. The highlight is the now world famous Icon tower which houses many different waterslides including a water coaster and the world's tallest waterslides.
The overall theming, might be a bit weird for some as most of the world is slowly going away from fossil fuel but remember how important this industry has been for the development of Qatar. We truly enjoyed the depth of the overall theming and thought it was really well done. For the theme park goers, Meryal's theming is at a Disney or Universal Studios level.
And yes, this amazing day was during a simple layover in Qatar. This country makes it so easy to do exciting activities outside of the airport during longer layover to a point where we started to plan long layovers just to have some extra fun!
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Chapters: 0:00 Welcome to Qatar 0:25 Best Breakfast in Qatar 2:26 First Impressions of Meryal Waterpark 4:31 The Future of Waterslides 5:59 Weird Theming 6:46 Spinning Waterslide 10:27 Let's Slide 10:52 Lazy River Time 12:04 Drop Slide 12:37 Icon Tower 15:11 World's Tallest Waterslide 16:34 Made in Canada 16:47 Pizza for Lunch 17:58 Our Thoughts About Meryal Waterpark
we just landed in Qatar for 13 hours L
over meaning that we have two different
options one we go to a l and do
nothing or second we turn this layover
into the best day ever so guess what one
we chose Best Day
Ever best day
ever so it is not even 6:00 a.m. so
before getting too excited with our day
we are going to go for a great breakfast
at one of the best breakfast buffet in
the state of Qatar are you hungry I'm
super hungry I'm hungry too right
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now so we just arrived at the Grand haat
DOA it is a massive and very luxurious
looking Hotel we are here for the
breakfast at the uh Santa Monica uh
Breakfast Club Breakfast Club restaurant
it looks super nice it's like very
colorful and like really has a big
contrast with the rest of the hotel
which is kind of like yeah fancy I need
some coffee first though I'm looking a
little bad right now yeah it's still
just
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6:30
the variety is insane this is one of the
best breakfast buffet I've ever seen
everything I just order breakfast tacos
they could only have breakfast tacos and
it' be
great I just ordered myself a banana
waffle with maple syrup
and it's real M syrup so as a Canadian I
always appreciate it this place was so
good we should get a t-shirt to remember
it forever look at this best breakfast
venue we've got best breakfast
restaurant family favorite brune best
breakfast so I'm not the only one
thinking that this is the best breakfast
ever okay so we just made it to Mariel
water park which is the largest water
park here inar it just opened a few
months back and okay the teaming is very
intense and it might be a little weird
but just stay posted because I'm going
to explain a little bit more about it
I'm so excited to be here they have so
many unique things I've never seen
before in a theme park so let's have a
good
day if YouTube doesn't work I'm coming
back here and I'm going to be a
character dancing in the middle of the
ethereum going back to the theming that
is different we're just just waiting for
the park to open we're literally the
first ones here they're opening still in
25 minutes but there's a few characters
that came out and from what I can see
there's fire there's propane tank an oil
barrel I think water and there's a
random horse I don't understand the
horse but yeah unique so we're going to
go change and then Adventure all changed
up the main building has like a few
stores and things like that but here's
our first impression let's turn around
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please don't
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touch nothing happened okay so there is
36 rides uh total in this park there's a
few that are still under constructions
or at least not completely finished
there's literally a roller coaster
that's going to be there but sadly it's
not open yet but we're going to start
with a banger with one of those famous
rotating uh water slide Trac is a little
bit stressed about it she thinks she's
going to be claustrophobic in it yeah
it's honestly it's not drops or anything
it's just the fact of knowing like I
can't see the out thinking about it just
is really hard to it's a very weird
looking uh ride and there's only five of
those in the entire world so I'm pretty
pumped about it just check it
out so just as it was our turn it broke
so in the meantime probably going to
reopen that later on but in the meantime
we're just going to do another
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one is it cold um little unusing oh yeah
party
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party
what is this this is the next generation
of water pars projection music
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wo okay so something that I totally
forgot about until we get in there is on
certain rides like that when there's a
dark aspect or like when it's in case
you get to choose your music there's
like jungle party Sunset and extreme oh
extreme would are crazy too crazy for me
but it's really really cool so this
house is actually Four this will be
number three I'm just trying to figure
out which is
which
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Thunder we're picking up some
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Ste dad just keeps getting better and
better so good vies it don't matter the
weather the dad just keeps getting
better and
better the dad just keeps getting better
and better all got us my the dad just
keeps getting better and
better okay so remember earlier when I
said that the theming is a little bit
weird it's not that it's weird it's just
weird for us westerners so the entire
theming of this water park is about oil
and gas so you know like kind of
celebrating fossil fuel might be a
little weird but just think a minute
about how important um oil has been for
the kingdom of Qatar and basically it's
all their history and this is why they
wanted to Showcase here so they fix the
elevator this is the one we tried to do
first thing this morning but the
elevator for the tubes isn't working
throwing all the sensors off so now it's
our time they're doing a really good job
at theming to be honest like even like
the fake rust and things everything is
in the same theme nothing stands out to
be different in terms of like water park
like this is like Disney and like
Universal Studio um level of theming if
you ask me like it looks really cool
like look at this all of this just
airbrush not real rust the hardest
beating out of my chest right now
Tracy's not very brave uh with those
things no the worst part is Tracy just
needs to put her big girl pants oh no
she has no pants I don't have pants the
wor part is is is I genuinely think this
will like I'm not worried about drops
and stuff it's just the claustrophobic
feeling I know once I'm in there I'm
going to be completely
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fine are you ready no cuz I it's not my
normal hang on spot and I don't know how
to do this this is so weird guys like is
such a weird SL don't talk go to how
weird it
is you're going to be I just imagine
getting capped inside nobody's getting
dropped I don't know where I want to
hold this stressing me out going in
W oh that was cold it's very cold after
not being in look at
this this is so weird this is so weird I
can't look so it really tries me
out like you look up you look down
there's just slides
everywhere
wo and then you go up and then
down and then you just got to wait for
it to turn more it's oh my I saw
somebody on YouTube saying it's like the
movie Inception and it's exactly that it
is so
freaky talking about it Tracy's loving
it
give me a thumbs
up
woo almost
out come on I see the end I see the
end now
it's this is the fight I
like
w
follow and here we
go and we made
it okay here's a review if you get
motion sick do not do not go in there
even like it's you you lose like all
your you lose your horizon like you
don't know what's up or down at some
point and everything around you is
moving at least when you're in like a
tube going fast or spinning you still
have the concept of you're spinning and
you still know where the wall is
this it just wish washes you around
that's my best describe it the wish you
watch it even me like normally on rides
I don't really get too uh motion sick
but like in this one after like the
third rotation I was like get me out of
this spinny thingy yeah he looked at me
and he's like what's wrong like are you
okay what's wrong I'm like I just need
to concentrate just just just let me
it's still cool one more
yay
just enjoy the
music
holy
W once the roller coaster is live it's
going to add so much more Al in the park
like cuz it's actually going through
like everywhere around the water slide
which is super cool after all these
intense rides it's time what's the
problem with about is
matter time for what
it's time for a lazy
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rib so again with the theming this is
water but it's supposed to represent oil
basically all of
this oh that's a
lot I'm stuck in
it I did not avoid any of
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that
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so this is going to go do a ride now
that I will not want to do so see you in
a bit so there's this Tower with those
three drop ride you know like you just
stand and then the floor opens and it's
these ones are like super super
fast this is terrifying 3 2
1 wo
W wo
W that's
Fasto you thank you okay welcome to the
Icon Tower this Tower is the highest
water slide structure in the entire
world at 85 M tall there's 12 water
slide and we'll see what they're all
about they look really fun some take
over a minute to go down this is how
high they are now if you want to do all
12 rides going up 85 M every time would
be very annoying but don't worry they
have three elevators to bring you all
the way
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up so we're just halfway what level
level is
this level three so we went from 5 to
three hello how are
you which one is your favorite no what
one this one's very nice I don't like I
trust you I
see he looks like a trustworthy guy I
see the drop I am not
okay
W oh
light oh that's
fun oh this is the blue one no I love
blue
my I love you so
much
w
I'm so proud of you I'm we're we're back
up Tracy went straight back up because
we already did the blue one the blue one
was one I didn't want to do and he
finished that one have a choice pretty
big drop and up and Tracy I thought she
was going to freak out there's probably
going to be some edited Out
versions family she's not very family
friend she really
good okay hold on tight enjoy the ride
thank
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wo okay so once again I left Tracy down
I'm going to go up this time not to the
fifth but to the sixth floor to go on
the highest body uh water slide in the
entire world 85 M high and I'm looking
at people coming down and they're going
fast so the top level level six there
are two slides one drop slide and one
body slide and it's we're so
high oh it's hot in here
guys there's some nice
music so what I'm wearing on my back
they call it the jetpack and it's
basically just to protect your back and
it makes the ride much more comfortable
and
enjoyable woo
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woohoo
wo
wo it just never
stops W I'm still so hard oh my God how
long has this
been oh wow this is the longest water
slide I've ever been on wo
something I have to say because I'm
proud you see like this massive tower
that breaks a bunch of Guinness World
Record well all the water slides in this
park were actually made by a Canadian
company from British Columbia so that's
pretty
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cool
so time to get some lunch they have a
few restaurants onite they have an
Italian restaurant called Italian
restaurant they have an Asian restaurant
called Asian restaurant and they have a
kid restaurant called kid restaurant
meaning that they're
eating oh no no I bet it's just like kid
food you know like Kitty food dinosaur
nuggets or something like so we pick the
Italian one to order some pizza because
y'all know that we love pizza so we're
just waiting for it now we both ordered
a pepperoni pizza and like it took a
little bit of time but to be honest
they're made to order so worth the
waiting if you ask me it's actually
really
good good pizza they were 45 R each it's
like a decent size
pizza and for a theme park price pretty
good good pizza especially when you
consider that it's like theme park food
yeah I thought it was PR decent very
fresh yeah yeah they made it to order
and I really appreciate that so not only
do you have the huge rides water
attractions itself you even have a beach
front here so especially if you have
little kiddos then that is fantastic oh
speaking of kiddos there is a kiddo
section as well so this water park is
part of a new development they basically
build a man-made Island and they're
going to have like a bunch of dining and
shopping uh different like luxury hotel
and resort and of course this park so
this island is going to become its own
destination just like Cotes Island in
Singapore for
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example I I like One camera I love on
camera here are the two things that like
truly impress me first first of all the
staff so nice so friendly so helpful 10
out of 10 for that and the second thing
is the theming all around it is so
consistent they were like we're going
oil and gas and we're going 110% and
like it looks really good I was a little
bit skeptical at first but to be honest
the theming is solid to me really really
good it's going to be even better when
that train goes around I'm telling you
the staff the staff the staff solid lot
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so we just took a quick shower which by
the way was very nice everything is
brand new in there so like it's it's
very nice I'm going to say it I think
this water park is better than the one
in Dubai the Atlantis even though like
you know a few rides kind of broke when
we were there and a few WS weren't even
open like they are still doing their
soft opening so I'm going to give them a
pass on that they need to run into those
problems before actually launching and
once all these little things are fixed
and once all the other rides are open
this place is going to be epic and I
really really want to come back once
it's fully launch I agree this is hands
down like my favorite waterpr I've ever
been to solid yeah but for now we are
heading back to the airport a little bit
of Lounge time maybe yeah until next
time see you guys in the next one