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When you’re craving a dose of adrenaline, you could spend a day at one of the UK’s many epic waterparks with their gargantuan wave machines, colourful chutes and intense flumes. But sometimes, all you need to get your thrills is a simple slip and slide.
There are several slip and slides that pop-up around the UK over the school holidays. However, none are as big as the Giant Slip and Slide at St Columb Major in Cornwall, which is due to open seven days a week next month. At 440ft long (nearly half a mile), it’s supposedly the largest slip and slide in the entire world.
Giant Slip and Slide has been coming to St Columb every summer for the last decade. There are seven inflatable slides, all of the same length, set up in a field in the town. Visitors can zoom down in an inflatable ring or on a body board. When you’re sick of sliding, you can go and battle it out in the water pistol combat zone filled with blow-up obstacles.
Right now, the slide is only open on weekends but from July 22 it’ll be open every day of the week from 10am until 5pm – come rain or shine. Tickets for the experience cost £14 per person (plus a booking fee) and includes full access to the park plus use of rings and body boards. Kids under five go free. The attraction also recommends wearing a wetsuit to protect your skin from friction and offers wetsuit hire from just £3.50. You can book here.
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