{"id":303367,"date":"2019-07-12T06:06:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T20:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=303367"},"modified":"2019-07-12T06:06:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T20:06:48","slug":"swrs-wave-jungle-re-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/swrs-wave-jungle-re-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"SWR\u2019s Wave Jungle re-opens"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
Cement statues representing Easter Islands moais are among the added attraction at the Saipan World Resort\u2019s waterpark, called Wave Jungle, which re-opened to the public last Tuesday after undergoing a massive facelift after Super Typhoon Yutu\u2019s devastation last October. (Ferdie de la Torre)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pool waves are now much higher and more moai statues, also known as Easter Island statues or heads, have been erected. These are just a few of the many attractions that have been installed at Saipan World Resort\u2019s watery playground called the Wave Jungle, which had a soft re-opening last Tuesday after undergoing more than eight months of renovations to repair the damage wrought by Super Typhoon Yutu in October last year.<\/p>\n

At this time, though, only some parts of the Wave Jungle are open to the public. Areas that have been re-opened are the wave pool, black hole slide, tube slide, kids\u2019 pool, Amazon River, tanning pool, Castle pool, and the beach.<\/p>\n

The Wave Jungle had been undergoing renovation after it sustained major damage during Super Typhoon Yutu\u2019s devastation last Oct. 24 and 25. It was re-opened last July 5, but only re-opened to the public Tuesday.<\/p>\n

By Aug. 26, Wave Jungle will be closed again to complete the renovations. The target grand opening is this October.<\/p>\n

Jomar Danas, lifeguard senior supervisor, said yesterday that they consider it a soft-opening because not everything is fully open yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really focusing on renovating everything completely. We want to make our resort a brand-new resort,\u201d said Danas in an interview.<\/p>\n

Right now, the main attraction is the wave pool.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Before Yutu, the pool waves were low; during renovations, Saipan World Resort replaced some of the motors. \u201cNow the waves are much higher,\u201d said Danas.<\/p>\n

The Wave Jungle\u2019s Amazon River was also renovated because, according to Danas, the flooring was pretty dangerous due to some sharp edges.<\/p>\n

Now, the flooring of the Amazon River, along with the rest of the pools, are now very smooth.<\/p>\n

Danas said they also have a lot of Easter Island heads now, so guests who go to the waterpark will feel like they are in a Tiki resort\u2014or a Maori-inspired resort.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt used to be more of a jungle feeling. Now we\u2019re like a little bit on the Tiki feeling,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Wave Jungle buildings were also repainted.<\/p>\n

There used to be a diving pool, but it has been retrofitted into an additional spa area.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have bigger spa now,\u201d said Danas.<\/p>\n

Saipan World Resort will again be closing the waterpark starting Aug. 26 as they will be fixing the master blaster slide and installing the kids\u2019 pole attraction.<\/p>\n

Yutu\u2019s biggest damage to the waterpark was on the body slide as 90 percent of it broke up and flew into the ocean and the Amazon River. A portion of the master blaster slide or the yellow slide broke and flew into the Amazon River. The slide in the kids\u2019 pool also broke up.<\/p>\n

Danas said a lot of umbrellas and wooden structure were all damaged and a lot of the debris were in the water. That made it difficult to clean the Wave Jungle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pool waves are now much higher and more moai statues, also known as Easter Island…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":303368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[1493,6263],"class_list":["post-303367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-swr","tag-wave-jungle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}