Continuing with my adventure to Nha Trang during one quick weekend!
These are some tips for you when visiting Vinpearland Nha Trang, before you get bored of my gibberish haha.
1. Since you pay almost $30 for visiting Vinpearl Land, prepare to spend the whole day exploring everything, make the most our of your money (10.30AM to 7PM preferably like we did).
2. Bring your swimsuit! You are not permitted to play those ride in the water park not wearing proper swimsuit. And the rides are extremely fun, one did hurt my ass a lot but overall fun fun.
3. Have a huge breakfast! Anything you can eat, so you won't be so hungry in Vinpearl Land. The drinks are priced quite reasonably, but the food is really expensive, and it tasted awful (well it did taste good those sausages at the water park gate, since we were so hungry after 2 hour dipping in water fun. However, we didn't eat anything since the breakfast). The 2 sausages costed 60,000VND I tell ya! ( ⚆ _ ⚆ )
4. Lastly, have a lot of fun! σ(≧ε≦ｏ)
Here's my diary :P
I woke up at 6am, surfing the Internet as usual and came across a warning that there was a huge storm coming to the East Sea, and we practically lived among the beach. 'Man there goes my holiday', I was thinking. Fortunately, it was the nicest Saturday, no rain, all sunny all day, thank you God!
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| OOTD? |
We came down to 3rd floor to have the fabulous breakfast buffet. The breakfast was delicious, combining Western and Vietnamese food. The waffle altogether with butter and maple syrup was exceptionally delicious, I ate 4 big pieces with crapload of butter. The waiters looked at me with strange eyes seeing how much butter I took haha, no shame! I did eat some of the sausages with potatoes soup mimicking the wonderful Louisiane's dish last night.
We wanted to keep the transportation cost at the lowest, so renting a bike was the best choice. Reading some of the review online, I called an uncle who was commented to be very friendly, honest and gentle. The daily rate was 80,000VND for a gear scooter without gas, we paid 150,000VND for almost 2 days, quite okay since the hotel rate was nearly double. I did not get his name even I called him for a few times (I'm such a jerk!) but if you want to rent a motorbike in Nha Trang, he is the guy.
The Vinpearl Land ticket was 600,000VND buying directly at the entrance, the renting scooter uncle sells those too, but 15,000VND cheaper so we bought 2 from him as well.
Renting scooter: 0935605963
And btw you can leave the scooter overnight at the hotel, mine was really friendly but probably asked the reception first before renting any. But I believe they would be happily ok for you to leave the scooter at their basement.
There was a gas station on the way to Vinpearl, it's on the right if you go along Tran Phu Street. 20,000VND was enough (1 and 2/3 day) for our gear scooter because it is very fuel efficient.
We parked our scooter in the parking lot, the fee is about 2000VND, make sure to take the scooter ticket (which evidently shows that you did park your scooter there to show to the security guys) and pay the money upfront.
At 10.30 we reached the cable station. The security will check your bags for food and drink since you are not allowed to bring them from outside to the theme park. My bag was considerably small, (like a kindergarten bag, some people commented) so the security lady didn't even bother checking! Score! Except didn't score anything since I didn't bring any food at all, not even drinks!
The cable ride was 15' to Vinpearl Island. There weren't many people that day and we could have the cable car all for ourselves ! Lucky us!
We went to play those indoor games first. I LOVE LOVEEE the 4D ride, since I was a little kid so obviously we queued there first. But the ride has become very old now, and frankly I couldn't see anything for the whole time. The video image was unclear, dull and dark. And only the English speakers could understand what was going on because the voice was in English as well. But we did pay for the whole package then so shall oblige to play everything.
My friend and I are really impatient people so we could not play any game until end. As soon as any game started, we walked away :)). We stayed there for maximum 30 minutes. Made a bunch of Gopro videos (and they are lost because of the stupid Gopro, can't stress that enough T___T).
We then walked our ways to the most interesting ride of the park, it's called Vinpearl Alpine Coaster.
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| This is how it looks like (taken from Vinpearl Land's website) |
So basically there are two handles on both sides. You push them to the front, the car will accelerate due to gravity pull (I do remember physics, or don't I), and pull them backwards to brake. I did manage to video the scenery while the car was being pulled up. The ride going down was fun but sometimes scary everytime I did those turns.
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| Pretty hur? |
Warning though, if your companion is one of those people who love speed then let them go first. Why I said that? Because my stupid, impatient flat butted friend just kept yelling me to speed up and pissed the crap out of me ಠ_ಠ. We fought for the next 30' haha, I was so angry. Here's a picture of that butt-face (if you're reading this, yes I'm still mad at you!).
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| View of the resort looking from the outdoor games area |
My most favorite part of Vinpearl must be the aquarium, as they call it under water world. Back in 2010 when I first went there with my high school peeps, there was nothing much to see in there, the fishes were normal and so was the design. The only reason we went into it because of the air conditioner :)), little break from the extreme sun. It surprised me this time!
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| One fabulous dragon |
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| Pretty fishies |
We spent 40' looking at fishes swimming around, and I have ever felt so relaxed in my life. I said to myself if I ever earn enough, I would spend whole week once a year to swim and dive in the ocean looking at little fishies swimming around.
The next highlight of Vinpearl is the water park, it's not Saigon Water Park (I know, it's ages ago) or even Dam Sen Park, but it indeed was fun. The beach was located there as well, the best beach the most peaceful beach I adore. Nha Trang's beaches are mostly very steep, three steps and the sea level is already at your waist, but Vinpearl one was man made and really shallow, which I like. The water was so blue and the sky is so clear. Urghh, just heaven!
Before you go have fun, make sure to put all your stuff in the locker. Each locker costed 10,000VND, keep the paper the lady gave you so you can have your stuff back later. The locker for technology, expensive stuff should go into those lockers behind the ladies at the counter. Other stuff you can leave in other normal lockers.
Here are some awesome rides!
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| Taken from Vinpearl Land's website |
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| Taken from Vinepearl Land's website |
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| And this asshole hurt mah butt, so make sure to follow life guard's instruction (taken from Vinpearl Land's website) |
Footage we took during a ride. Yes do ignore our creepy voices
After the show, we were pretty exhausted, walking real slow to catch this scene, and of course shall take mandatory photo :P.
On the way back to the cable station, we decided to relive our childhood with this ride.
And while riding it, I saw a couple were prepared to play some kind of Bungy Jump. It looked really fun and apparently nobody knew you could play it. We got off the horsie ride as soon as it stopped and ran so fast to the Bungy Jump, it locates nearby. We saw the couple played for 7 or 8 minutes (see video)
It looks like fun right? It was really really fun, but one thing is it hurt my thighs a lot. However, the pain was somewhat bearable and the joy was off the hook. It's something I have never ever tried before. This only opens after 5.30 to 7.30PM (that was what I remembered). So if you stay late, come check it out. We played for about 5' and the protective gear was hurting me so I begged the operator to stop haha.
And that's all I wanted to tell you about my lovely day at Vinpearl. I do hope you will have a good time there too!
Here is my Nha Trang Getaway Day 1 if you haven't check it out :D (Click here)