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Water slides ‘not slippery enough to prevent crashes’ at Hong Kong event, say customers who waited two hours for 20-second ride
Unhappy customers are demanding refunds from a Hong Kong water event, complaining of long queues and slides that were not as long as advertised or slippery enough to prevent people crashing into each other.
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Slide the City Hong Kong, which opened on Saturday at the Kai Tak cruise terminal, features “live music, food, drinks, water, and … the biggest slip and slide ever to hit asphalt”, according to organisers.
However, posting on a Facebook page called “Slide the Sh**ty Hong Kong”, disgruntled visitors complained of two-hour queues to ride a slide which takes just 20 seconds to descend.
Others said a HK$480 “night slider” package allows participants to slide unlimited times from 5pm to 10pm, but organisers stopped the queue at around 9pm on Saturday.
Only half of the slide has a sloped surface and there was not enough water to keep it slippery, some posters to the page, which had attracted 294 guests by 11am, said. Many participants stopped mid-slide and sometimes people crashed into each other, they added.
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