Aqualand Costa Adeje: The Water Park for Smaller Children

Aqualand Costa Adeje opens every day of the year, 10:00 to 17:00, stretching to 10:00 to 18:00 in July and August. A ticket including the park's dolphin show ran €37 per person on GetYourGuide on 18 August 2026.

That dolphin show is the honest reason to pick it. Tenerife has two water parks and the other one is famous; this is the smaller, calmer one, where queues run around 10 to 15 minutes rather than half an hour, and where a five-year-old gets a full day instead of watching from the side.

Aqualand or Siam Park?

Both sit in Costa Adeje, so this is a genuine choice rather than a geography problem. The answer turns almost entirely on the age of your children.

Aqualand has nothing on the scale of Siam Park's Tower of Power, and that is the point rather than a shortcoming. Siam Park has been named among the world's best water parks by TripAdvisor multiple times and runs the Wave Palace, with some of the largest artificial waves of its kind – its own height rules, locker costs and arrival tactics are covered in full in the Siam Park guide.

Pick on who you are travelling with. A family whose youngest is six spends the Aqualand day together; the same family at Siam Park splits into shifts.

The dolphin show, which is the actual differentiator

Siam Park has no dolphinarium. Aqualand does, and the show is inside general admission rather than an add-on – a real distinction between two parks that otherwise sell the same thing.

Practically, it also breaks the day up. A water park with nothing but slides asks small children to queue, climb and slide for six hours straight, and most of them run out of appetite for it by mid-afternoon. A scheduled sit-down show is the natural point to eat, dry off and reset.

If animals rather than water are the real draw, that is a different day out entirely: Loro Parque in Puerto de la Cruz is the island's serious zoological park, on the opposite coast.

Hours, age bands and what a ticket costs

The park runs 365 days a year from 10:00, closing at 17:00 for most of the year and at 18:00 through July and August. There is no winter shutdown to plan around.

Pricing is the awkward part. Aqualand's own ticket page uses dynamic pricing that changes with your visit date, so there is no single official adult price to quote – what the official site does publish is its age structure:

• Adults: 11 and over
• Children: 5 to 10
• Toddlers: 3 to 4
• Seniors: 65 and over
• Under-3s: free

Note where the adult band starts. An 11-year-old pays as an adult here, which is younger than most families expect and worth checking before you budget for a group. The Tenerife with kids guide sets this age band alongside every other height and age limit on the island.

Who should skip it

Teenagers, mostly. A 14-year-old who has seen the videos wants the near-vertical drop and the wave pool, and Aqualand does not have either – they will spend the afternoon comparing it unfavourably to a park they can see from the same resort.

The other group is anyone doing a single water-park day on a short trip. If you have one day and no children under eight, the bigger park is the better use of it. Aqualand earns its place when the party includes small children, when queueing is the thing that will ruin the day, or when you are staying long enough to do both.

Where it sits, and getting there

Aqualand is in Costa Adeje, in the same southern resort belt as most of Tenerife's hotel stock – which for a large share of visitors means it is a short local hop rather than an excursion. The Costa Adeje hotels guide covers what is on that strip, and the family hotels guide covers the resorts built around children specifically.

Coming from further out, or from the north, treat it as a half-day rather than a full one and pair it with something else on the same coast. The things to do in Tenerife guide sets out how far the island's fixtures sit from the southern resorts.

FAQ – visiting Aqualand Costa Adeje