Where to get your adrenalin rush this year in Kent

Forget the spiel about embracing your inner big kid, most of us never really grew up anyway and there are plenty of places in Kent to expel some of that carefree spirit.

And 2022 is about to offer up even more with some pretty exciting new additions and events.

Inflatable 5k, Brands Hatch

Billed as the world’s largest and best inflatable 5k, this bouncy course involves 32 huge obstacles with five pumping music zones. And it’s coming to Longfield on Saturday, May 21.

You can choose from 2.5k, 5k, 10k, or 15k. Obstacles include The Crawler, Bish Bash and The Demon, with some running in between.

Children must run with a participating adult.

For more information click here.

JumpinFun, Rochester

This inflatable theme park (@jumpinfunrochester) on the Medway City Estate will offer 16,000 sq ft of fun with wall to wall inflatables, giant slides, obstacles and a huge ball pit.

It’ll also have a cafe and spectators’ viewing gallery.

It’s designed for children and adults so everyone can get involved and it’s due to open this month, so any day now.

See more at jumpinfun.co.uk

Ninja Warrior Adventure Park, Chatham

This course (@NinjaWarriorUKChatham), which opened in December, is inspired by the hit ITV show and will put you through your paces to see if you have what it takes to be a Ninja Warrior.

The course is packed with inflatable obstacles and fixed Ninja runs for you to climb, balance, jump and swing. There’s also that famous Warped Wall.

Find out more here: https://ninjawarrioruk.co.uk/chatham/

Whitemills Wake and Aqua Park, Sandwich

Currently being built with an expected partial opening in the early summer, this new addition to Sandwich will boast an inflatable aqua park (@whitemillswake) along with a cable system for wakeboarding on a purpose-built lake.

The park on Ash Road will also offer other water-based activities such as open water swimming and paddleboarding.

See more by clicking here.

Bewl Water Aqua Park, Tunbridge Wells

Adrenaline junkies have been visiting this fun-filled spot (@bewlwateraquapark) since it opened in 2019.

The giant obstacle course boasts 2,400sq metres of inflatable fun with an ice tower, XXL action tower, springboard, balance bar, flip mattress, monkey bars, aqua slide, halfpipe, hurdles and lots more. The aqua park opens for the 2022 season on April 29.

See more here.

Action Water Sports, Lydd

This inflatable aqua park (@ActionWatersportsKent) on a lake on the Romney Marsh offers obstacles galore.

And this year there is more climbing, more up-and-overs, more jump stations and a shute slide, all new for 2022. The aqua park reopens in April.

For more click here.

Skywire, Bluewater

Skywire is the first of nine attractions that will complete the ‘Hangloose Adventure - Bluewater’ (@hangloose_bluewater) site.

Skywire is the focal point of the adrenaline-themed concept and includes four individual 725-metre-long zip wires linked to a 15.5-metre high dispatch tower. Situated on Bluewater’s 40-metre high chalk cliffs, it creates a vertical drop of 55 metres. Riders of the Skywire will achieve speeds of up to 60 mph as they make their descent.

Three more Hangloose Adventure - Bluewater experiences are set to launch over the next 12 months. This includes Europe’s largest rock climbing wall opening at the end of the year, followed by a 45-metre-high giant swing, and by early 2022 the destination will be home to Skydive, a free-fall experience not found anywhere else in Europe.

These will be followed by five more experiences: a bungee tower, giant slide, clip and climb, waterdrop boulding wall, and Via Ferrata, a route-marked climb using metal rails and rungs embedded in Bluewater’s cliff walls.

More info: https://hangloosebluewater.com/