Ocean Park Gandipet Hyderabad

Ocean Park

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Location , Entry Fee and Food.
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Ocean park is situtated in Gandipet. Approximately 12.5 Km from the Mumbai Road to Mehdipatnam.

Drive is relatively easy except for a few pockets of traffic. Otherwise its mostly a pleasant drive through Military area.

The route is pretty easy to obtain from maps.google.com . A simple search will get the location and direction.

Entry Fee was 120 Rs for Child and 180 Rs for Adult.
Primary reason for going was because I got the tickets free with an offer on Coke Pet bottles. :-) The exchange of tickets for the Coke Tokens was relatively hassle free.

Outside food is not allowed and there is slight frisking at the entry gate of the bags for the same.
Everything inside was 20-30% above MRP.
Water bottles were 15 Rs.
Branded Juice bottles were 10 Rs above MRP.

Moderately good food in the canteen for moderate prices.
Examples Plate Wada - 25 Rs. Plate Lemon Rice - 25 Rs. Meals - 40 Rs. Fried Rice - 60 Rs.

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Water Games , Pool Rules.
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The park has only one major Pool as such. Wave pool.
Other than that there are a 4-5 water slides.
Strict guidelines for the dress is enforced in these .
Everyone should be dressed in proper swimming dress to enter the swimming pool.
They have Swimming dress for Rent and Sale for men and women.
For women its 20 Rs rent + 100 Rs deposit. (Rent for 2 hours).
For Men they sell Cotton swimwear @ 40 Rs and Nylon @ 60 Rs.

Lockers are available @ 20 Rs (rent) + 30 Rs (deposit).
I had taken multiple lockers. Lockers look small but with some effort you can pack a medium backpack into it.

The wave pool was extremely crowded the day i visited and slightly difficult with family esp small children.

For Women and Children below 4 feet, there is a separate swimming pool.
(Men not allowed). And there are no rules on dress in that swimming pool.
It has water fountains and sprinklers and the central water drop and small slides and ideal for Children.

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Non Water Games
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There are a few (about 4) free rides like Breakdance etc.
And a few more (another 4) for children below 4 feet 2".

Apart from that there are paid rides like...
Bumper Cars (10 rs per person)
Bumper Boats (20 Rs per person)
Winch which takes you on an aerial view of the place for 5 mnts (20 Rs per person)

All the rides can be covered in one hour.

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Timings and Comments
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The Park opens @ 11 am and is open till 8 pm.
11 am is a very bad time to go as it gets really crowded near the entry.

I could have spent the whole day in water had I probably gone alone.
But since I went with the family , i regretted having gone so early on such a sunny day.

Ideally it would be better to reach there by around 2:30 to 3 pm.
They switched on the waves only between 3:15 to 3:45 . Thats the ideal time to be in the wave pool.

So you can be in the pool for 2-3 hours and then 1 more hour for the slides.

The park can be enjoyed probably for 4 hours. Anything more than that becomes a bit boring.

If you have kids and women in your group , you would be better off to send them to the separate pool for kids.

Please note most of the information is based on my memory of what I have noted down.
I might be wrong here and there possibly. :-)