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🛝 SlideWheel🏝️ Meryal Waterpark🏭 WhiteWater West

Rapid Refinery

Meryal's SlideWheel, themed like an oil refinery.Rapid Refinery is the SlideWheel at Meryal Waterpark, Qatar (2023).

↕24 mtall
📅2023opened
📍🇶🇦Qetaifan Island North, Lusail, Qatar
🚦Operatingstatus

📏How tall is 24 m?

🧒1.2 mYou🦒5.5 mGiraffe🏠8.0 mA house🛝24 mRapid Refinery🐋30 mBlue whale

🔧How a slidewheel works

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1. BoardFour riders sit in a round raft.
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2. RollThe wheel turns and the raft rolls forward.
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3. Back againRoll backwards as the wheel keeps turning.
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4. OutSlide out of the bottom of the wheel.

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🗺️Where is it?

Meryal Waterpark, Qetaifan Island North, Lusail, Qatar. Show on the World Slide Map →

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