Best Summer Activity in Korea, Caribbean Bay

One of the best things to do during the summer in Korea is to head to Caribbean Bay to cool off with rides as well as wave pools. It's located not too far away from Seoul and it's a great place to have a day out together with your friends or your partner. It's relatively to get there via the train and it's extremely accessible by public transport. They even have shuttle buses there that pick you up from the Everland train station to the theme park itself.

Just for your information, foreigners usually get discounts when you show your passports so do remember to check their websites for more information before heading down and getting your tickets!

Getting to Everland/Caribbean Bay

From Suwon (Bundang Line) we went to Giheung Station and changed trains again (YongIn EverLine) The trains here are a little cuter because they're not counted as the underground metro, but called LRT (which I didn't find out what its for) and it's the same name as the LRTs that we have in Singapore that run the same way; serving only a smaller area rather than a longer connection.

Took the train all the way to the last stop: Everland

Very Disneyland-type Shuttle Bus Stops

Shuttle Buses

Here's the deal about the shuttle bus stop here at Everland/Caribbean Bay: When you're taking the shuttle bus back to the train station from Everland, you have to take the one that caters to Car Parks 4 and 5, because the train station is located at Car Park 5. There're 2 kinds of buses, one that serves Car Parks 1-3 and the former one I talked about. Take note!

EVERLAND!
(Pity we're not going there)

Below is the discount I was talking about, because of the Thanksgiving Day, they were having a holiday event for Foreign Residents and instead of paying 50,000W per person, we only paid 18,000W! What a friggin' steal :D

When you enter, you can choose a few different places to go to for lockers. But first things first, you'll see a Bay Coin Service Center. Basically, Bay Coins are what you use to go cashless inside the water park. When you need to buy food, snacks or drinks, you'll use this bracelet where you first reload money into, to scan and pay for stuff. There're certain amounts that you can put in, starting from 10,000W to 50,000W. 

The food and drinks inside are really marked up in price because that's where they get their revenue from, so beware, if you're going to eat something that will satisfy you, you'll need more than 10,000W. 

Indoor/Outdoor Sections

There're indoor and outdoor sections as well, so you can choose where to go and things like that. The indoor one is mostly for kids and toddlers that aren't tall enough to take the attraction rides outside, and also the outdoor closes earlier so make sure you get enough of the outdoors before looking around indoors.

Indoors: 10:00 - 19:30

Outdoors: 10:00 - 17:00 

Diving Pool (For kids only)

Indoor Wave Pool

Swimming/Wade Pools 

Swimming/Wade Pools

Lazy Pool 

(A pool that circles the theme park, with a slight current that pushes you in a with the current, thus "Lazy")

     

The skull that fills itself with water, and pours down on the crowd below

Tip: Go during their major holidays

My friends who went on Thanksgiving Day itself said that they only waited around 30 mins per ride because there were almost no Koreans there and only foreigners. For us, even though we went during that period, it was on a Saturday so it was packed and we waited roughly around 50 mins to an hour per ride. In the end we got tired of waiting and ended up only riding 3 rides.

Tower Raft and Boomerango

Tower Raft: A big tube that sits 4, and just the usual slide around all the way till you hit the bottom. It's not very scary and doesn't do much except the turns. The trick here is to be heavy. The heavier your tube, the higher you go when you turn and the more water is splashed on the people in the tube.

Boomerango: This one looked much more fun than the Tower Raft that we took.. But the queue was much longer so we took the former one instead. In this ride, it's also 4 per tube, but what happens is at the end of the ride you go down this long and steep slide up a curved wall and then back down the opposite direction into the water, hence the name "boomerang".

There're 6 outdoor attraction rides in total

Tube Ride: The tube ride is the normal ride for single riders, or dual riders. The tubes don't go very far because it's one of the smaller rides with shorter queues. But it's pretty fun, ending up in the water with a big splash. 

Water Bobsleigh

Water Bobsleigh: In this one, the slides are pretty steep and you get the feeling like you're flying for just a millisecond when you're at the peak of the slide and it steeps down. So you go down with your arms across your chest, legs first.

Aqualoop (Was closed for the day)

Aqualoop: Apparently the scariest (and most famous) ride of Caribbean Bay. This ride has 4 tubes, each a different color but translucent so you can see outside and inside. What's special about this ride is that there are 360 spins so you literally go upside down. I don't think I've ever seen or ridden one like that elsewhere. Unfortunately, it was closed when I was there... so I didn't get the chance to ride it.

     

Tubes for the lazy pool

The wave pool

B-e-a-utiful sunrays

Vest rental are 6,000W per person
You need a vest in order to go to the deeper ends of the wave pool

Other than just rides and pools, there're also spas and hot water baths of different temperatures where you can just sit in and relax. Somewhat like Japan, in Korea the people really LOVE getting into hot baths and just soaking inside. Thus that's how I think they have their clear, white and smooth skin.

     

After we were done playing with all the rides, took a shower and the came back out to take photos. The shower area is totally like a jjimjilbang. They have everything, from soaps, shampoo, dryer, powder, gel, wax and so on. Such an awesome place! It's also incredibly clean and sanitary.

Hope you enjoyed this post! Do check out some of my other posts for more about my travels! ^^