Yas Waterworld on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi has been officially awarded the Guinness World Records title for the most waterslides in a waterpark, adjudicated at 55 slides — a total no other park on Earth can currently match.
The certificate was presented on-site by Hanane Spiers, the official Guinness World Records adjudicator for the Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye region. It caps a multi-year expansion by the park's owner and operator Miral, which recently added 11 new rides and attractions to bring the total to a record-breaking 55.
For anyone who has ever felt personally judged by the length of a summer waterslide line, the number is almost comically generous. Fifty-five slides means guests can — in theory — try a new one every ten minutes for a full nine-hour day and still not repeat a ride. The lineup runs the entire gamut, from gentle family flumes designed for toddlers, to steep drops for teenagers who like the specific sensation of temporarily leaving their stomachs at the top of the ride, to high-thrill flumes that shoot riders through translucent tubes over the park below.
Miral's CEO Mohamed Abdalla Al Zaabi called the record "a defining milestone" for both the park and Yas Island as a family entertainment destination, and thanked Guinness for the certification in a public post celebrating the moment. Yas Island already hosts a cluster of major attractions — Ferrari World, Warner Bros. World, SeaWorld Abu Dhabi — but a Guinness world record in a category as visible as "most waterslides" is precisely the kind of headline that travels easily.
The record matters less because it makes Yas Waterworld the "biggest" — several parks would still claim more total acreage or attendance — and more because "most slides" is one of those wonderfully specific, easily understood superlatives that means exactly what it says. It also raises the bar in an industry that has quietly become one of the world's more competitive design fields. Waterpark architects now compete on flume length, drop angle, thematic storytelling, and, of course, sheer inventory.
Behind the number is a genuine engineering feat. Adding waterslides to an existing park is not a matter of unrolling more tube. Every new slide requires water treatment capacity, pump infrastructure, lifeguard positions, structural support, permitting, and — crucially — enough guest flow to keep lines reasonable across all 55 rides. Park designers describe it as a puzzle in which throughput matters as much as thrill: the fastest ride in the world is useless if the line to reach it takes an hour.
Yas Waterworld's expansion appears to have solved that puzzle for now. Early visitor reports since the expanded lineup opened have described crowds distributed across the park rather than concentrated at a few marquee flumes — the sign of a well-tuned attraction mix.
Guinness titles in the theme-park industry tend to be won and re-won as parks jockey for headlines. Yas Waterworld's crown will almost certainly be challenged; parks in China, the United States, and elsewhere have been quietly expanding their own slide portfolios for years. But for now, on the Emirati coast, one park holds the certificate, the trophy, and — quite literally — the world's highest number of ways to get wet on the way down.
