Wonderla Holidays Ltd., India's leading amusement park has announced that the water rides at the theme park will be open to the public from November 20, 2020. The dry rides have already been operating since November 13th.
The park will be reducing the entry limit to 4000 from its original capacity of 10,000 per day for safety reasons. As a re-opening offer the entry price of the park has been reduced to Rs 699 inclusive of GST, for all the ride access for unlimited times.
Park will be functional only on weekends and holidays, from Friday to Sunday and as per the government safety guidelines few of the water rides will not be operational. In order to follow social distancing protocols and to maintain a contactless system, the entry into the amusement park will be permitted through online booking. Direct walk-in also will be allowed based on the capacity.
"The pandemic is not yet over, and we must continue to take precautions while stepping out and being in public places. Keeping that in mind, at Wonderla we have opened the theme park after taking all the necessary sanitization and crowd control measures for public safety. As per the norms laid down by the Health Ministry for water parks, we have ensured adequate and regular water filtration and chlorination," said Mr. Arun Chittilapilly, Managing Director, Wonderla Holidays Ltd.
Before opening for the public, Wonderla had invited frontline workers of Karnataka along with their families from November 9 -12, 2020 to visit the Bengaluru theme park. The initiative was taken to honour them for their benevolent service during the unprecedented times and was a huge success. Over 8,000 Covid warriors and their families visited the theme park through the week.
Shares of Wonderla Holidays Ltd was last trading in BSE at Rs.179.3 as compared to the previous close of Rs. 177.25. The total number of shares traded during the day was 12894 in over 843 trades.
The stock hit an intraday high of Rs. 182 and intraday low of 169. The net turnover during the day was Rs. 2299758.