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  • Waiwera's famed hot pools have been slowly deteriorating since they were abandoned in 2018. Read more: bit.ly/3v9TOJb | Subscribe to our channel: bit.ly/2JPg8oB
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  • @Wessex90
    @Wessex90 3 роки тому +75

    I used to go there, and seeing it abandoned breaks my heart.

    • @felosipisua3951
      @felosipisua3951 3 роки тому +7

      The twister, and the dark hole were my favorite slides. So sad

    • @Wessex90
      @Wessex90 3 роки тому +3

      @@felosipisua3951 great slides! I liked “Bob’s Mistake” and the movie pool as well (not to mention the scalding hot chips). Tragic.

    • @felosipisua3951
      @felosipisua3951 3 роки тому +2

      @@Wessex90 Bob's mistake? Dam I can't even remember that. hope that place comes back to life.

    • @Wessex90
      @Wessex90 3 роки тому +2

      @@felosipisua3951 It was a pretty basic huge open top slide with a nice jump at the end. The Speed Slide was cool too! I hope it comes back too…

    • @igurpreetsingh
      @igurpreetsingh 2 роки тому +3

      These pools were the good times ever been there couple of time during childhood the last time I went was with my MIT field trip in 2013 please renovate it make it better than ever and are we allowed to go see it like ask for permission?

  • @Idontknow-iu5cz
    @Idontknow-iu5cz 3 роки тому +19

    I went there when i was 8 for my sisters bday. I loved the pools with the bright dark blue water. It was so cool! That place was one of my favourite childhood memories... I miss this place so much !!! 😔

  • @grobs6704
    @grobs6704 11 місяців тому +5

    bro the worst part of this video is the sound of everyone in the background having fun bruh shits heartbreaking

    • @JJackRebel
      @JJackRebel 6 місяців тому +2

      So true bro 😢

  • @fatmajinbuu112840
    @fatmajinbuu112840 3 роки тому +13

    I used to love the cinema pool and it's atmosphere. Miss that feeling.

  • @maiz6063
    @maiz6063 3 роки тому +10

    this was the best place on earth in my eyes when I was young it’s such a shame it’s abandoned

  • @Liam-sb8jj
    @Liam-sb8jj 3 роки тому +10

    My parents would take me here at least twice a year up till about 2013. My dads work gave free family passes + sauna access so visited quite often . The drive out from Auckland to Waiwera was half the fun. Just looking at that place I can get the nostalgic chlorine/sulphur smell. Sometimes we’d take along family friend too and I have so many child hood memories here.
    I must admit tho the place was a little run down in places and although I was too young to see the foreshadowing there were signs it was going to close. A lack of teenagers meant that most of the slides at the higher levels of that slide tower weren’t used. Usually they were closed. The slides looked dirty and the pool water at the end of the slides looked like it wasn’t changed often. I did go on some of the more commonly used slides near the bottom and they were fun.
    The more used pools like the movie pool and the one with the elephants were quite clean tho which was nice. I must have touched those elephants and tried to block the water coming out of their snouts so many times.
    There was also the “old people pool” where the water was really hot and there was that little pool that fed into it where the water was boiling hot!!!
    There were some weird things there like a really grassy field with run down volleyball nets. Turns out there was a camping ground there. It always confused me why someone would play volleyball at all when there was a swimming pool right next to it. I’m going to miss looking up at the cliffs from those warm pools.
    As for restoration potential I feel if they got rid of all the slides (or at least the ones above the third story of the slide tower it could be economically feasible.

  • @breecheese2951
    @breecheese2951 3 роки тому +18

    Refurbish n bring it back to life!!!

  • @MBCxHBFKNLZ
    @MBCxHBFKNLZ 2 роки тому +2

    This is sad. I remember in the 90s this was the pools me n my cousins would go. Good memories

  • @tinahills3697
    @tinahills3697 2 роки тому +5

    This is an absolute disgrace. The owners should be charged with neglect and fined by the council. The council should also seize the property and turn it into the glory it once was. The terminal Pools are theire for everyone to use. Look at how the Therminal Pools in Rotorua are run and the same could be run the same way in Waiwera. Why is the council doing absoltey nothing. Shame on them.

  • @nataliechilds4259
    @nataliechilds4259 3 роки тому +9

    Really sad to watch the downfall of such a fun place and many memories

  • @jamiebelmont2589
    @jamiebelmont2589 3 роки тому +4

    Use to come here in the 80's late 90's best memories of this place such a shame it shut down and abandoned 😰

  • @JayMusicNZ
    @JayMusicNZ 3 роки тому +4

    I'm still grieving.

  • @hopefilledsinner3911
    @hopefilledsinner3911 3 роки тому +13

    I'm so disappointed this has been allowed to happen.
    Surely it could become a viable business again.
    Sell it to someone whom cares.

  • @mattparr3038
    @mattparr3038 11 місяців тому +1

    This is such an iconic place in nz, why the govt couldn't save it is beyond me, they spend money on far worse..

  • @Hex_in-
    @Hex_in- 3 роки тому +12

    Boys once I'm a billionaire I'm opening that place backup

    • @gabrielsadaraka494
      @gabrielsadaraka494 2 роки тому +1

      Before doing that got to get a prest to kill the demons who is guarding the place 💀💀💀

  • @lucytarm
    @lucytarm 3 роки тому +4

    Once upon a school holiday and Christmas for the family gathering and fun place to visit, so sad it come to this. 😭

  • @joryll
    @joryll 3 роки тому +2

    I remember going her when I 4 in 2012, Its heartbreaking to see a place i have fond memories of like this.

  • @annettebaird543
    @annettebaird543 3 роки тому +13

    Yes I remember going to Waiwera hot pools when I was younger I remember the two statues of that pink elephant then they change the colour to blue have elephants and I remember the gut Buster hydroslide and the black hole Harbourside and especially the movie pools they were awesome one day they do bring back by a hot pools awesome family outing maybe we should start up a givealittle page to bring back by a hot pools to renovate it to bring it back to original Waiwera hot pools I'll definitely would go back there never forget the good old days all those Precious Memories kept in the back of my mind forever bring back Waiwera hot pools💖💖😊😊❤❤💖💖💖🤗🤗🥰🥰🥰🥰💕💕💕💖💖💖💖🙏🙏🙏🙏💖💖💖💖🇳🇿

  • @PierreCorbett
    @PierreCorbett 2 роки тому +2

    it will be good to see this up and going again
    I hope the land owners can do that and get it going again
    remember this place when I was younger very sad see this happen

  • @toby2119
    @toby2119 Рік тому +1

    Rember going here in 2017 a few months before it closed

  • @saanzacs
    @saanzacs Рік тому +1

    Waiwera will rise again!!! 😢😢💔💔

  • @jngazy526
    @jngazy526 3 роки тому +4

    Why am I just learning now that this awesome place isn’t even open. This is sad 😢😢😢😢

  • @rylandmalcolm3825
    @rylandmalcolm3825 3 роки тому +4

    Climbing the large frog as tiny child, eating ham in supermarket cheese buns.
    Watching spacejam in the movie pools as a kid.
    Being old enough to drive there my self eventually with mates for their open late nights.
    What happened to take this away from us?

    • @SD78
      @SD78 3 роки тому +1

      Motorway bypass.

    • @renee9113
      @renee9113 3 роки тому

      Awww I was wondering why it closed. And yes the bypass is why for definite.

  • @Delos5
    @Delos5 3 роки тому +3

    I had so much fun on those slides. Wish I could take my daughter there.

  • @KingCr0nus07
    @KingCr0nus07 3 роки тому +1

    i used to spend my friends birthdays and my birthdays too at Waiwera. while everyone was swimming i use to just hang out in the arcade and master my streetfighter vs xmen skills. So sad and heart breaking :(

  • @kcplays3760
    @kcplays3760 3 роки тому +1

    brings back memories😢😢😢😞

  • @madeitup2009
    @madeitup2009 Рік тому +1

    Greed is why this has happened. All over rent payments. Hope they feel like fools now. Years of damage and hundreds and thousands of dollars down the drain. Absolute GREED

  • @ashleymalamute
    @ashleymalamute 2 роки тому +1

    I wonder what happened to those lovely stainless steel slides?

  • @sendtoheaven7653
    @sendtoheaven7653 3 роки тому +1

    I celebrated my 4th birthday there it breaks my heart to see it like this

  • @MXRiderFiftyTwo
    @MXRiderFiftyTwo 2 роки тому +1

    Who owns the pools?. It's the best attraction if you visit Auckland. Was worth the trip from wellington

    • @mackenzie3934
      @mackenzie3934 Рік тому

      The person who owned the pools was a bad person who made the pools bankrupt. He died last year so now the government owns it. I don’t think anything’s going to happen to it

  • @josmith9316
    @josmith9316 Рік тому +1

    Remember,the 3 hydroslides...the Ghostbusters...night rider?...an twister or somthing .. that debretts pool..my brother went on slides then gave me the rest the ticket...you go down and find the corners are made for teenages ,and adults get a swamack on that last fast corner..Dow ..went 3 more times tho and never again .hehe

  • @jarrodhireme3134
    @jarrodhireme3134 14 днів тому

    I work there sense i was 19 and when I saw the video breaks my heart 😢😢

  • @JohnEiao
    @JohnEiao 3 місяці тому

    Its heartbreaking seeing this how one of new Zealands iconic pools became an attraction to many people from different countries or around Aotearoa was abandoned. Work was supposed to be done on it in 2018 nothing happened.z

  • @videofurniture
    @videofurniture Рік тому

    used to go there all the time in the 60's that was way before the water slides etc.

  • @masterjenkins632
    @masterjenkins632 3 роки тому

    bruh i went there as a kid and it was the best water park in the country me and my brother had so much fun there i remember there tower thing they had in the middle with all the slides on it, i remember loving the black hole but remember vividly refusing to go on the Squeeze tube because my child mind thought i was gonna get stuck or something lol

  • @Park-hz3em
    @Park-hz3em 3 роки тому +1

    This place was my chidhood memory😣😣😣

  • @testingthings9575
    @testingthings9575 3 роки тому +2

    Rest in peace one day you will be rebuilt into somthing better

  • @alisoncarroll4337
    @alisoncarroll4337 2 роки тому

    This is so sad to see.

  • @jpowell2603
    @jpowell2603 3 роки тому

    So sad I remember my parents taking us there back in the early 90s now look at it 🙄

  • @bittersweet340
    @bittersweet340 2 роки тому +1

    So they could pay the rent.... So wheres the owners of the land... money hunggus

  • @gavanator86
    @gavanator86 Рік тому

    The Auckland city council should have done that place up and not let it go to runes. Re name it to something else .

  • @wandaberrymore1104
    @wandaberrymore1104 2 роки тому

    I’m really sad

  • @gailgraham925
    @gailgraham925 3 роки тому +1

    What a disaster and a waste I went their for 30 years a what a disappointment

  • @imbetterthanyoubtw
    @imbetterthanyoubtw 2 роки тому

    hey fellow new zealanders! did you hear this place was bought, and they are planning on fixing it?

  • @financeplank
    @financeplank 2 місяці тому

    well it's been ripped down and destroyed shame on council and government and owner

  • @toby2119
    @toby2119 Рік тому

    They said they are going to rebuildit and may take up to 10 years

  • @gabrielsadaraka494
    @gabrielsadaraka494 2 роки тому +1

    Fact no matter how rich you are always pay your debt and no Matter how successful and safe u are always fix the problem and Hazard that the reason why waiwera is abandoned and the owner is a Russian billionaire

    • @williamahn7093
      @williamahn7093 Рік тому

      I guess s/he is not rich at all since he couldn't pay his debt.

    • @gabrielsadaraka494
      @gabrielsadaraka494 Рік тому +1

      @@williamahn7093 first of all he was rich but just greedy he did have money but didn't want to pay for damage and dept

  • @murraystarkey2058
    @murraystarkey2058 3 роки тому +1

    Bloody disgrace

  • @garethbrown4231
    @garethbrown4231 3 роки тому

    what a waste lots of good times there

  • @wandaberrymore1104
    @wandaberrymore1104 2 роки тому

    There ruined it

  • @bradley5819
    @bradley5819 3 роки тому +1

    Chernobyl nicer

  • @rosetinker
    @rosetinker 3 роки тому +2

    You couldn’t even pay someone to narrate? 😒