Where to go in Hangzhou in Summer

The summer of ice cream, the sweetness of popcorns, the romance of merry-go-round … this summer, let’s regain our childhood and experience the thrill and excitement in Hangzhou's many amusement parks.

Hangzhou Paradise Park
Encompassing an area of 533 square meters, Hangzhou Paradise Park is the largest comprehensive theme park in Eastern China. It offers a kaleidoscope of recreational activities to ensure people of ages and genders can have fun here, anytime, anywhere, under any weather condition, within its boundary. The activities offered here are so diverse that tourists of all stripes, from thrill-seekers to peace lovers, will find something engaging here

Address:
No. 2555 Fengqing Avenue, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou
Per Capita price:
?150

Opening hours:
9:30-17:00

Recommended Touring Time:
five to eight hour

Crazy Appleland
Crazy Appleland is an indoor high-tech parent-child amusement park that incorporates nearly one hundred world-class high-tech interactive entertainment projects as well as comprising of ten themed zones.

So with Pirate Street, Four Season Garden, Jellyfish Square, Deep Sea Square, Fruit Tribe, Absurd Town, the Cabin of Love Story, Magic Jungle, Candy Town, and Gold Coast at your leisure, Crazy Appleland is guaranteed to spoil you rotten!

To awaken your senses there is also over 30,000 sq. m of indoor pleasure ground equipped with visual and audio entertainment facilities such as a virtual roller-coaster, an earthquake house and a magic train.

For a taste of something sweeter than ‘Crazy Fruits’, a stage play said to be on a par with Disney, is staged in the Deep Sea Theater. It is decorated with giant life-like artificial trees, long luscious green vines and over 1000 LED lights which, hanging from above, create the fantastic starry night scen

Address:
No. 2555 Fengqing Avenue, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou (opposite Hangzhou Paradise Park)

Per Capita price:
?223

Opening hours:
9:30-17:00

Recommended Touring Time
four to six hours

Hangzhou Polar Ocean Park
Hangzhou Polar Ocean Park is located in Xiaoshan Xianghu Lake Tourism Resort, adjacent to Kuaihuqiao Site Museum and about 20 minutes drive from Hangzhou downtown. Covering an area of 340 acres, it is a large marine park and a national AAAA level scenic spot that integrating polar animal display and polar landscape experience.

The park has the most representative polar animals, and uses advanced theme park design, construction concepts and methods to achieve an unprecedented polar experience for visitors. The park features more than a dozen exhibition venues and leisure experience areas, showing rare polar marine animals from around the world. In addition, the park also has a dolphin pediatric adolescent escort center for dolphins to help children recover. This is a worldwide research project being implemented in Western countries.

Address:
No.777 Xianghu Road, Hangzhou

Per Capita price:
?372

Opening hours:
9:00-17:00

Recommended Touring Time:
eight hours

Xianghu Lake Jinsha Water Paradise
With a 34,000-square-meter open-air beach area and 6,000-square-meter outdoor swimming pool, Jinsha Water Paradise is a good place for children to play with sand and water. Xiaoshan Children's Park and Jinsha Water Paradise converge here. With the scale and content having been greatly improved, it sure can bring you more shocking outdoor leisure experience.

Address:
No. 508 Meishan Road, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou

Per Capita price:
?20

Opening hours:
9:30-11:30

Recommended Touring Time:
2 hours