Siam Park to reopen to the public on Saturday May 29th

The number one water park in the world, Siam Park, will reopen its doors in Tenerife on Saturday May 29th after being closed since March 15^th last year due to the global pandemic.

The reopening date to the public coincides with the eve of Dia de Canarias on May 30th, and initially, over the next couple of months, Siam Park will allow the public to attend its facilities in Costa Adeje three days a week, from Friday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm, but if you are an Agüita Card holder, you will have early access and will be able to visit the park on Friday May 28th during the same opening hours.

The vice president of the Loro Parque Group, Christoph Kiessling, announced at Fitur that the reopening, on the most representative date for Canary Islands, is “a good start to return joy, leisure, and fun to the islands after a year full of suffering."

Kiessling predicts that the arrival of visitors will be "much lower" than in 2019, when more than 1.2 million tourists visited the water park and the two summer months accounted for 40% of the influx of the whole year.

"In the rest of 2021 we will be grateful to all tourists who visit us, and we will do everything possible so that each one experiences the wonder of Siam Park," he said and added that the park facilities are a safe space that complies with Covid protocols.

During the fourteen “tough months” in which the Group's companies, Loro Parque, Poema del Mar, Siam Park and the Hotel Botánico, have remained closed, the company “has survived” thanks to the emergency plan it had for unexpected situations and the temporary employment regulation file (ERTE) which, according to Kiessling, was the only public aid, although "very important."

Siam Park will thus join the reopening of the Loro Parque, in Puerto de la Cruz in Tenerife, and the Poema del Mar aquarium in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, which opened on May 1st and will favour the visits of Canary Islands residents by offering 50% discounts on tickets to these spaces.

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On the other hand, the president of the group, Wolfgang Kiessling, has announced that the Hotel Botánico de Puerto de la Cruz will return to its usual activity as of September 1, since "the low demand for tourism" in the summer period makes it impossible to advance his return to normality.

Despite the circumstances, he has been satisfied with the number of visitors to Loro Parque during the first fifteen days of this new stage, although he considers that the zoo is still "very far" from profitability.

The maintenance of all the companies during the inactivity period represented a monthly investment of more than two and a half million euros for the group.

"When it reopened, we thought it was good to reach 500 visitors a day, but in that time we have reached up to 900 people on average and even on Sundays we have reached 1,900 tourists", the German businessman added.

The Loro Parque Foundation has continued during this stage with its usual activity and, since its creation, has invested 22.8 million euros in more than 200 conservation projects on five continents, which have made it possible to save ten species of parrots from extinction.