Fancy a day-trip or holiday to Europe’s largest tropical spa and sauna?
While you’re there you can also marvel at the world’s largest free-standing hall.
The Dome as a Tourist Attraction
Tropical Gardens has Germany’s highest water chute and the world’s largest indoor rainforest - in addition to Europe’s largest tropical spa and sauna.
Other Attractions include: Rainforest, Tropical Village, Shopping Boulevard, Tropino Club for Kids, Water slide tower, Balloon Ride, Tropical Sea, Bali Lagoon and Indoor miniature golf.
Stay Overnight
You can also stay overnight in tents or lodges - but these aren’t ordinary tents and lodges. You are on the beach or in the jungle. Here’s what Tropical Islands says:
“The Rainforest, the Tropical Sea, the Village, shows, entertainment, good food … chances are you’ll need to rest after an exciting day at Tropical Islands.
We offer a wide range of options for staying the night at Europe’s largest tropical holiday world. In the Dome itself, you’ll find two indoor Rainforest Camps with tents of various sizes. Or how about trying out one of our comfortable Tropical Islands Lodges? You’ll find them next to the Angkor Wat Temple, right over the waterfall and in other exotic locations inside the Dome.”
History of Tropical Islands
In 1998, the Tropical Gardens site was purchased from the State with a plan to turn it into a modern, peaceful location for production and operation of heavy lift airship; but in 2002 the company went insolvent. In 2003, a Malaysian consortium acquired the site and turned it into Europe’s largest Tropical Spa and Sauna.
Dome Architecture
Tropical Islands hall dimensions: 360 metres long, 210 metres wide, and 107 metres high. Large enough to fit the Statue of Liberty in standing up, and the Eiffel Tower lying on its side! The Tropical Islands Dome covers an area of 66,000 m², the size of eight football fields. With a roof area of 70,000 m² it is high enough to fit in the whole of Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz, with all its skyscrapers!
The roof can withstand the significant mass of rain and snow that falls on it. The building, constructed using almost 14,000 tonnes of steel, supports an arched membrance roof.
The southern section of the dome sports a special foil roof that allows ultraviolet light to penetrate the interior, making it possible for a person to get a natural tan.
The heating system is able to maintain a constant temperature of 25°C and 40 – 60% humidity in the over 5 million m3 of air – perfect conditions for plants from all over the world. There is also under-floor heating in the Lagoon and the Tropical Sea area, so that visitors don’t get cold feet.
Tropical Island Video
This video, taken by visitors in a ‘balloon’ ride, was one of the better videos available on YouTube. It shows you the enormity of the dome. Despite saying it is 4min 12sec, the video only runs for 3min10sec with a lovely ABBA tune, Fernando.
What do you think?
The specs and images are impressive. Before I saw the video I was mentally planning my trip – especially the spa and sauna facilities.
Makes a great desktop background – click to see full size image.
But after seeing the video I’m thinking it’s very contrived and probably just worth a day trip rather than an overnighter? Then again – what a feat of man!
When I visit Germany this is definitely on my “to see” list.
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Nice post… Very Imformative