January 01, 2025

Aqua Planet Experience and Christmas 2025 Celebration

The most awaited time of the year.

Christmas is undeniably one of the holidays that we are looking forward especially for us Filipinos. Once the “Ber” months starts to kick in Christmas decorations are now starting to show up on malls and other infrastructure. There are several ways on how we celebrate this holiday; reunion and parties are almost every week to some, most of those who work on the cities are travelling back to province to celebrate with their families, some are travelling out of town or even out of the country.

We chose to celebrate Christmas by staycation and went to Aqua Planet for a little adventure.

We decided to stay at one of the hotel/condominium situated at Clark Pampanga which looks like one of cities in Korea to me as I saw a lot of Koreans, infrastructure and posters have Korean signages, security guard greeted us in Korean and there’s even Korean Church. It was a studio apartment that has 2 beds and enough kitchen tools and equipment [though we decided not to cook at all and I realized that don’t have a lot of photos of the room.

We arrived around past 5:00PM of December 24, 2024 and rest of a little bit and went to Koreatown in Angeles. We walked until we found out samgyupsal place that offers unlimited meat. Most of the restaurants there only serve meat in ala carte and very few serves unlimited which is 15 minute walk from where we parked.

We drank wine after by midnight also watched movie and played UNO.

We woke up early to get ready to go to Aqua Planet. We booked our tickets online for Php 1250 per head since it was a holiday. Aqua Planet is one of the modern water theme park not only on Philippines but in Asia. It is situated inside Clark Freeport Zone which is just less than 10 minutes from our accommodation.

There are several attractions which majority of those can be done in pairs and groups of four and below are I truly enjoyed:

Spiral Slide – the first one we tried by pairs, quite a chill one

Tornado – the most intense that I tried so far. I really hold my life to the floatie and I screamed through the twist and sudden drop then we were swayed like a tornado

Superbowl – a milder version of tornado, since we went to tornado ahead than this one it is easier for me go through the next attraction.

Octopus Racer – this one I had to do it myself I was lying my face down and slide through the rainbow

Hurricane – there were 4 types of slide that we need to go through and this an extreme version of spiral slide

Boogie Bay and Wave River were the chill ones and we went there on our downtime.

Unfortunately, outside food and drinks are not allowed so we just grabbed few snacks. It was on a pricey side and we chose few things that will keep us full until we left on Aqua Planet.