Well....we completed our long-anticipated family cruise last week. We had a blast in the western Caribbean even with some poor weather (at least it wasn't hurricanes).
I won't bore you with a full trip report but did want to call it to this amusement park group an amazing water park that we got to visit at Costa Maya Mexico called Lost Maya Kingdom Adventure Park
https://maya-park.com/Easily the most thrilling and most fun water park I've ever experienced. Place is amazing....great themes and designs and the rides don't hold anything back.
The park is located right next to the cruise ship port and is within 5 minute tram ride from the dock. It features a 24 story Maya Pyramid as a centerpiece that can been seen through the park and from the cruise ships at the dock. Looks like both the park and the dock/shops where developed specifically the cater to the cruise ship visitors. The park is basically a combination Zipline center and water park and you can but tixs for each one or both. It really is built in the middle of a jungle. The paths around the park are raised and create an amazing atmosphere.
On the day we went there where only two ships in town and rain in the forecast all day so it was a relatively slow day and it felt like we had most of the park to ourselves!!!...maybe just a few hundred people there all morning. After finding very reasonably priced lockers within the pyramid 'ruins' the family jumped in a very long and amazingly themed lazy river that ran around and through the pyramid. River even had a long section full of dry ice fog that created a 'white out' effect....very cool and creepy.
My oldest two and I then headed back to the pyramid and suited up to do the ziplines. They had 3 courses of lines including a zip roller coaster which we tried first. All the courses started out of different levels in the pyramid. The pyramid has two ELEVATORS!!!! you take to get to the start points. The coaster was a slow curvy helix filled descent which ended with a splash down in a pool. It was actually probably the scariest zip course because I really got nervous making those turns just hanging from a rope. The other two courses had multiple ziplines onto various towers set around the park. The longer of the courses took about 20mins to complete and had 8-10 very high and long rides. The 'medium' one had 3-4 rides and a couple of rope bridges between the towers. All of them had a final splash down ride to end them.
Park had a huge kids play structure that my two youngest play at for hours. 3-4 slides on the structure and a nearby 'relax pool' that the played in too. With some rain coming in...my oldest and I headed back to the pyramid structure to do the water slides. Wow...the most intense slide structures I've even been on. There are around a dozen slides through out the pyramid. Levels 12, 18, and 24. Did I mention the Elevator!!! You can take the stairs or the elevator which has the slides listed out by level. The red tube slide we started with was the fastest I've ever been on....it whipped you through the tube and guaranteed a huge wipeout at the end. So much fun. The mat racers off of level 18 where intense....you slide on your belly face first into complete darkness....twist around not seeing what is coming...then burst out into daylight in time to dive down some more....crazy. After sampling about half the slides a few times it started to thunderstorm....not that the workers seemed to care. We got a few more rides in before the lightning really started to worry me and the wife was ready to go. Wish the weather was better...we really packed in a lot of action in just a few hours....would have been great to enjoy the attractions longer.
Few other notes:
Park was completely feed by ocean water - all pool and slides where salt water - first for me
All rides where equipped with RFID scanners for wrist bands (though they didn't give us any) Park had cameras setup everywhere taking pic and had scanners to try to identify who was there. During our exit through the gift shop process - they had to manually find our pics to try to sell
Did I mention the elevators - lol - sure beats hitting the stairs for every ride - really cool setup - had the lockers and zipline equipment at the base of the pyramid - zip liners could just jump on an elevator after getting geared up and pick a course to start - then they ended back by the pyramid where they rechecked your gear and you could just jump on the elevator to start another course - water slider used the same elevators
Also had an upcharge freefall attraction within the center of the pyramid. 20 story drop with 5 seconds of freefall was advertised....you just walk off a plank-like overhang in the center of the pyramid attached to a cord on your back (harness) that would activate to catch you on the way down.