New water theme park near Ottawa, Canada

[Absimilliard]

Valcartier, which already operates "Canada's largest water park" in Quebec City announced today they were building a 30 millions, 450 acres themed water park near Ottawa. It will be next to the highway that goes from Montreal to Quebec City and they're promising theming, water slides, a huge wave pool and kid activities. "Sunnyland" should open in 2009.

 

Valcartier is extremely good at theming, so it should be promising. One question through... With Proslide talking about building another water park near Ottawa, how will the relation between Proslide and Valcartier go? Would be hard to buy slides from your potential rival park...

[canadianfreak]

It said in the newspaper that Drouin will be looking for other companies to buy from.

 

Links:

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/business/story.html?id=84eb0e50-b292-4710-a3ab-614c71bc0606

 

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/business/story.html?id=77fcd265-be48-45a2-88da-f26339b0d296

 

I already have a topic on the Proslide park, thanks for starting this one.

They both plan to open in June 2009, I can't wait to see how everything goes down and compare them. Having gone to the Quebec park, this should be one heck of a water park! I think that the Alottawatta park will mostly just showcase Proslides water slides.

[Absimilliard]

I just read the 2 articles and this could be bad for both parks! Proslide did some good stuff at the Valcartier park in Quebec City... but this is all over now. Is the market large enough to support 3 water parks?

[canadianfreak]

With a population only about 875,000 people in the city, I doubt it. No one will go to Mont Cascades anymore besides the locals because it's so hard to get to. Since the parks are all spread out, the whole area population is about 1,130,000, but I still doubt thats enough to support 3 water parks.