Closed for the Season, re-opening September

2 hour street parking is available as well as free two hour parking at Whistler St Car Park, Central Ave Car Park and Wentworth St Car Park. Commercial car parks are also located at Manly Wharf and the Quest Apartments, Gilbert St Manly.

Can be purchased on arrival at the park, subject to availability, for a nominal fee of $5 per visit.

Manly Surf n Slide is a seasonal business, so please check our website (not Google) for the most up to date operating days and times.

• Manly Surf n Slide highly recommends guests follow sun safety guidelines
• Whilst Manly Surf n Slide do provide supervision on the slides, children under 10 years of age are not allowed entry unless under the active supervision of a person 16 years or older. Adult supervision is recommended for sliders under the age of 16.

Manly Surf n Slide strives to promote a fun and safe environment for all our guests and as such, we enforce:

• All Sliders must be 110 cms tall to slide.
• Sliders are to stand behind the red line until it is their turn.
• Sliders slide at 10 second intervals.
• Sliders must slide feet first.
• 1 slider per mat.
• No stopping in the tubes.
• No sliding in the tubes without a mat.
• At the end of the slide, exit the pool immediately.
• Anyone endangering others by disregarding these rules will be asked to leave the premises immediately & no refund of entry fee will be given.

In the case of inclement weather, Manly Surf n Slide reserves the right to close the park or amend our operating hours to ensure the safety of all guests.

No food or drinks are allowed within the waterpark. There is an adjacent spectator deck where food and drinks can be consumed. We also have an adjacent café, Sliderz, where food and drinks can be purchased on an eat-in or take away basis. Sliderz does cater for our birthday parties, and can also cater for picnics on the adjacent beach and grassed area.

Payment is only required for those using the slides.

• Birthday parties require a minimum of 10 children. At this time, the number of birthday parties are limited due to the NSW Government Restrictions.
• Parties over 25 people cannot be booked online, but email funtimes@manlysurfnslide.com for availability.
• We are more than happy to store your birthday cake in our refrigerators. Just notify us upon arrival. Please note we cannot accommodate ice cream cakes.
• Pinatas are not allowed at birthday parties for the safety of others.

Manly Surf n Slide is registered as a COVID Safe business. The health and safety of our guests and team members is important to us and we have implemented measures to help protect everyone.

• Please book online for your tickets and stick to the timeslot allocated so that we can manage the numbers through the waterpark in line with NSW Government guidelines.
• Stay home if you are feeling unwell or experiencing mild flu-like symptoms.
• Please submit to a temperature check upon arrival. Anyone with a temperature above 37.5, or exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19, will be denied entry.
• Do not enter the facility if you have been in close contact with a person who has tested positive for Covid 19.
• Wash hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds
• Avoid touching your face
• Maintain appropriate distancing (1.5 metres) from others not in your group and follow the markers on the ground whilst waiting in line.
• Sanitisation stations are located at the entrance to the park and at the entrance to the slides.
• Our pool utilises an automatic dosing system to ensure chemicals are maintained within a set range and has state of the art filtration. In addition, our pool is manually tested in line with Public Health and Safety guidelines to ensure the digital equipment is accurate.
• Different entry and exit points have been installed to reduce face to face exposure.
• Birthday party tables have been set up to ensure safe distancing and will be thoroughly disinfected after use.
• As we now have an online booking system, all client details will be registered when purchasing tickets and can be used for contact tracing if required.
• Face coverings are not permitted on the slides as they are a safety risk but guests on the spectator deck are welcome to wear a face covering if they wish.

The booking fee covers our general running costs which are incurred just like any other online business and include admin fees, customer service fees, staffing fees, marketing services, phone fees, software development, security audits, fraud protection, server hosting, office rent, ticket scanning equipment, box office equipment and onsite staffing.

Whilst, from a consumer point of view, buying a ticket is usually a straightforward process (although the industry has more work to do to make it simpler). Rest assured the technology behind that is very sophisticated & more complicated than they look; And with consumers demanding ever more developments to make it easier and more convenient to buy tickets (select your own seats, mobile ticketing, multiple payment methods, print at home tickets, payment plans etc) ticketing systems are set to grow ever more complicated and unfortunately that costs.

So hopefully that goes some way to explaining why there are booking fees. But why are they so important? Essentially Manly Surf N Slide is no different to any other retailer and what’s been explained is simply the cost of sale which applies to any retail business. However, when you go to a supermarket, for example, you don’t go to the checkout and get told that that your shopping comes to $100 and on top of that there will be $3 checkout fee. Except that, in effect that is exactly what you have been charged. Your supermarket buys a product at the wholesale price (face value in ticketing terms) and sells it with a mark up (booking fee) at a retail price. The only difference between Manly Surf N Slide and your supermarket is that we tell you what that mark up is.