Hawaiians....

We went to Spa Resort Hawaiians - at the moment ads for this place is everywhere. There is 5 themed areas and the most popular is the area with water slides, whirl pools and a gigantic pool.

We went via bus tour, it took about 2 hours from Tokyo station.

I got a shock when we got inside, it was packed to the rafters with people. I went to the change rooms to get changed and it was so full that you couldn't move!

It was even worse when we went to the water slides, the wait was 30 minutes - I was told this was good as at peak times the wait can be as long as 2 hours! Bugger that!

The whirl pool was so full that you had to walk while being elbowed.

BUT the slides were good in particular the biggest slide there, you go on it on a donut. Tyson of course wanted to go by himself so he went first and Brian and I went together on a twin donut.

The slide is enclosed and I had never been scared....maybe a close second to the space mounting at Disneyland. It was pitch dark so you couldn't see where you were going and it twisted and sloped and.... anyway it was scary BUT FUN!

The queue was soooo long we could only go on each slide once.

By this time I had a enough of the crowds so we decided to go to another area - the outdoor heated pool & spa zone.

This was nice - Tyson loved it as it starts with a pool inside but you swim through a tunnel and it leads you outside and they had caves and waterfalls.

Brian and I spent most of out time here in the spa areas - there were 6 different ones and each spa had natural spring water pumped into it with each one good for your skin, or sore muscles etc.

Best of all it was quiet as it was located up the stairs and back from the pool.

After that we went to Spring Town which was indoors and packed to the rafters as well.

Over all - We will never go there again in holiday season!