PLANS to build a huge water and adventure park in the UK have finally have been submitted.
Great Wolf Lodge, which has 23 resorts across North America and Canada, hopes to to open its very first UK site very soon with another in the works.
US-based company Great Wolf Lodge has submitted plans for a new site in the UK, and another is currently under construction.
With plenty of mega parks in North America, Great Wolf Lodge has now unveiled its plans to open one in Basingstoke.
The company has announced that on the current site of Basingstoke Golf Centre on Worting Road in Hampshire, it hopes to construct a 50,000 m² complex.
On the site are set to be three interconnected buildings – one will be a hotel, another an adventure park and the last, an indoor water park.
Inside the water park will be lots of family-friendly pools, slides, rides and splash pads.
Planned activities inside the adventure park will be a children’s haven with a rope course, mini bowling, mini golf and a games arcade.
It will also be home to its interactive adventure game called MagiQuest as well as a lobby show called ‘Legend of Luna’ which is shown in the US locations.
The animation is shown in the hotel lobbies every evening before bedtime – it shows The Legend of Luna, an enchanting fable about a young wolf who longs to find her place in the world.
The hotel on the planned Basingstoke site is set to have 512 family-friendly rooms that can sleep up to twelve people designed for multi-generational stays.
It will also have conference space and an on-site car park.
Great Wolf Lodge day passes for their indoor water parks in the US generally start around $50 (£36.88) per person.
A one-night stay for a family of four at a Great Wolf Lodge Resort in the US starts from $199 (£157) a night.
Basingstoke councillor Gavin James said: “One of our key priorities as a Cabinet is delivering a leisure park that is fit for the 21st century and a place that our residents can be proud of and we are really pleased to have signed this initial deal to move forward to bring Great Wolf to Basingstoke.
“It is an important first step in developing plans for this exciting new attraction that would provide amazing new facilities that local residents can enjoy, lots of new opportunities and attract thousands of visitors to the borough in a boost to our local economy.
“Alongside this, the deal and sale of the land will see the council receive significant funding which will be reinvested in the regeneration of the leisure park.”
The resort is expected to be busy with families and could bring in as many as 600,000 extra visitors each year to the region.
Great Wolf Lodge operates 23 indoor water park resorts across North America and Canada – the biggest being in Perryville, Maryland.
While the Basingstoke site still needs planning permission, Great Wolf Lodge is already constructing its first site.
The resort costing £200million is currently under construction in Chesterton near Bicester.
The complex will include a massive indoor waterpark, hotel accommodation, restaurants, and family-friendly activities.
The plans for completion were originally targeted for late 2024, but work is still ongoing in 2026.
In 2025, designs for a similar waterpark also from Great Wolf Lodge were submitted with a 500-room hotel were revealed for the village of Clowne in Derbyshire.
The site would include a massive waterpark, hotel, conference centre, golf facilities, a games arcade and restaurants.
If approved for the site of a former colliery that shut back in 1961, the project could create up to 500 jobs.
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