Big Splash Waterpark Closing Down, A Piece of 90s Childhood Lost


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80s/90s kids, there goes another piece of your childhood.

Back when Wild Wild Wet and Adventure Cove didn’t yet exist, Big Splash was everyone’s go-to waterpark. Westies travelled all the way down to East Coast not only for the flume rides and water slides, but for its famed Seafood International Market & Restaurant.

Image: wensdelight.blogspot.com
Image: wensdelight.blogspot.com

But after 40 years in operation, the waterpark is going out, not with a big splash, but a small trickle. Seems like kind of an insult, for a place as iconic as this – in its heyday, it was known for having the tallest water slides in Singapore.

Image: Facebook (Big Splash)
Image: Facebook (Big Splash)

Big Splash will close its doors on 21 October, when its NParks lease expires. It will make way for a new development, details of which have yet to be revealed.

As for Seafood International, the restaurant will be operating until 15 September – in the meantime, they will be running a Thai-themed lunch buffet promotion, featuring many of the dishes on its original menu in 1983 as a last hurrah. So if you’re looking to take a trip down memory lane, now’s the time.

First Underwater World, now Big Splash. Urbanisation is inevitable, but it still sucks when a place you’ve spent such a huge chunk of your childhood just closes down like that.

Top Image: Chew Seng Kim / Straits Times

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