Bristol's Wavegarden reopens
“Our amazing Wavemaker team has been working tirelessly as always to get everything up and running again,” they wrote on their Instagram.
Clarification: A Wavegarden has never closed due to commercial problems and everything indicates that the one in Bristol will reopen in a few days.
Editor's note, with apologies to readers and stakeholders
Bristol's Wavegarden closed its doors unexpectedly
Owners reported that it's not due to business issues but rather a "financial technicality." The owners are trying to reopen the property. This is the third time the property has closed under this technology, the first being the Cove.
Aguerre: “The ISA is not against holding events in wave pools”
However, he reflected that his events are too long to be held in such an environment.
"This is a project that will be unique in Uruguay, it gives Punta del Este a unique content in the world"
Federico Fischer, partner of El Nido, a neighborhood that will have the first Wavegarden in Latin America outside of Brazil and Fernando Odriozola, commercial manager of the Basque company that makes perfect artificial waves, in an interview
Editorial: The disruption generated by the arrival of a wave pool in my country
I thought it would take longer and my being doesn't know how to handle the information.
Uruguayan Wavegarden will be operational in the summer of 2026
A good part of the pieces for the wave pool have already been imported and the private neighborhood where it will be located is beginning to be sold; lots in the first round of sale to the public range from US$ 250.000 to 330.000
Brazil's fourth Wavegarden confirmed
It will open in 2027 on the outskirts of São Paulo and will follow the format of valorizing land through the dynamic that is the pool.
Wavegarden announced its newest pool in the Kingdom of Bahrain
The park is expected to attract approximately 300.000 visitors a year who will take more than 140.000 annual surf sessions, they reported in a press release.
Surfer dies in Garopaba wave pool
“The client was seen unconscious in the water, shortly after walking away from the board. Within seconds, he was rescued by the water safety team, still with vital signs, and received first aid,” Surfland reports.
Surfer did 108 sessions in a month at Melbourne pool
He bought the “winter warrior” package that for $1.500 gives you unlimited access to the waves; he slept in the car to pay for it and in one day he did nine sessions.
Kanoa Igarashi invested hundreds of thousands of his own money in a wave pool
Óbidos Park will open in 2026 in Peniche, Portugal and will have a Wavegarden, restaurants and a resort with 144 beds
Wavegarden got angry and sent a statement to combat what it claims is false information
“We wanted to address this misinformation for the sake of clarity and concrete facts. After all, we invent technologies, not stories,” said founder and owner Josema Odriozola.
Starting in June, tickets for the Garopaba pool will no longer be sold
Surfland's business model will change; it will be co-owned and only the owners will be able to use the wave and invite friends
A third Wavegarden has been announced in Brazil
With Filipe Toledo as ambassador, he will give training courses in the pool
Surfland, Garopaba's Wavegarden, opened today
With tickets sold out for advanced levels for over a week, it costs $100 for a 50-minute session.
Third WSL event in Wavegarden pool to be held in South Korea
Between November 17 and 19 this year, there will be QS 3000 and LQS 1000
Stage of the 2023 South American QS will be in a wave pool
The Wavegarden of Praia da Grama in the interior of São Paulo will be the venue