Alpamare, Water park in Pfäffikon, Switzerland.
Alpamare is an indoor water park beside the Seedamm-Center in Pfäffikon, Canton of Schwyz. Its 25,000 m² site holds four pools covering 2,750 m², three of them outdoors, plus eleven slides totalling 1.7 km. The longest, Balla Balla, runs 111 m through a black tube and 150 m in the open. A yellow tube slide with a blue-striped entrance passes above the building.
Alpamare opened on 14 June 1977 and soon became the largest covered water park in Europe. The Rio Mare current pool followed in 1985, the Alpabob in 1986, and the Thriller (1998), Balla Balla (1999) and Tornado (2004) slides later. In 1999 the owner sold it to the Spanish Aspro-Ocio group, which ran 31 parks in seven European countries.
The name Alpamare combines "Alpa", after the Alpine setting, with "mare", Latin for sea. The wave pool stages virtual thunderstorms after dark, with lightning, thunder and rain. The Balla Balla slide, opened in 1999, runs 111 metres through a black tube before continuing 150 metres in the open.
Alpamare sits beside the Seedamm-Center in Pfäffikon, a short distance from a junction of the A3 motorway. The grounds cover 25,000 m², with three of the four pools outdoors and one indoors. The Jod-Sole-Therme is reserved for visitors aged 16 and over.
The Balla Balla slide combines a 111-metre enclosed black tube with a 150-metre open section, 261 metres in all, which the park describes as the longest pure body slide in Europe. The Thriller, 130 metres long and dark, projects figures onto its walls with fibre-optic lights.
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