Aqua Mundo, Hattigny

2.5⭐️ - For bigger children this might be a lot of fun, but for smaller kids (and parents) it‘s way too crowded and cold. The pool for small children is colder than the main pool. Why?! Most importantly, for the amount of cottages they have in this park, the adventure pool area needs to be much much larger. It’s so incredibly crowded that there is literally no place to relax (even for a minute) as a parent or to not be trampled on in the pool.

Overall, it's not half bad. This Aqua Mundo is located in what is reportedly the largest Centre Parcs village. You definitely get that feeling from time to time here. We stayed for a week and the first few days were OK. The pool was busy but not crowded however by midweek it was very busy. The main/wave pool was like people soup, not much option for actual swimming and the rides were packed, even witnessing a couple of people being stretchered off from the rapids. Talking of rides, when it's busy, the queues were very long with waits of 15 minutes not uncommon and on a couple of occasions the rides were closed early, leading to disappointment. Talking of disappointment, the pool isn't open all day so even though there is a poolside cafe it closes with the pool for 1.5 hours over lunch meaning you also need to plan your morning or early afternoon around the pool times if you want to get in for more than 1 hour. Finally, getting in and out. It's bedlam there are so many people and not enough changing areas and even if you do want to leave the pool at that time, you can't as you have to pass through a cubicle. Finally, security. The park has a modern bracelet system for accessing your villa and storing activity tickets which also works as a locker key. Issue is, they don't always work and while the locker looks shut, it can pop back open. We fell foul of that and the result was the loss of all my daughters clothes, so we made sure to be extra vigilant after that. Sounds negative but it was mostly OK, just want to share the "real" experience. Bigger is not always better.