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Overview
A wet and wild adventure awaits you both with this full day canyoning gift experience. Perfect if you’re adrenaline addicts seeking your next thrill, canyoning is a sport that gets your blood pumping right from the start, as you’ll plunge into a fast-flowing mountain stream, allowing the movement of the water to take you downstream.
Along the way, expect to tackle streams of varying heights and several obstacles, including gorges, cliffs, waterfalls and giant rock pools. You’ll be required to use a variety of techniques to make your way across, whether its walking, scrambling, climbing, jumping, abseiling and swimming of course, only adding to the hours of excitement you’re bound to have!
Whether you’ve experienced the sport of canyoning before or not, this water-filled experience is sure to put you both through your paces not only physically, but mentally too. Sometimes you’ll have no choice but to just jump!
An instructor will run through the safety procedures for your canyoning experience, then with an outline of the course you’ll be following for the day. A wetsuit, harness and helmet will be provided so you’ll be all set for the awesome aquatic experience that lies ahead!
Key features
When can I go?
This experience is available Monday to Sunday, throughout the year.
How long will my experience last?
This experience will last approximately 6 hours.
How many people is this experience for?
There will be other people there on the day.
Can I bring family and friends?
You're welcome to bring spectators to watch.
What else do I need to know?
The minimum age is 12 years.
This activity can be tiring but does not require a high level of fitness. Concern over medical or health issues should be checked before purchase.
There are no qualifications required.
This is for a voucher entitling the holder to any of the activities supplied by Activity Superstore up to the value stated.
We can’t control the weather!
This activity is dependent on appropriate weather conditions.
Locations
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 | Bala Adventure & Watersports Centre, GwyneddHolly from National Accounts, August 2019 |
I was a little apprehensive about doing this experience however it turned out to be one of the most fun action-packed days I’ve had in a long time! Being a bit of an adrenaline junkie, I felt like I had ‘done everything’ but canyoning (or ‘gorge walking’) was a completely different experience altogether! Think: heights, water, abseiling, swimming, jumping, climbing and picturesque mountains and you pretty much have canyoning summed up! I didn’t realise there was an experience that encompassed all the adrenaline staples in one go, however canyoning did just that.
We arrived at Bala Watersports in the morning and quickly got changed into wetsuits (Bala provide these, you just need to bring your own swimwear, towels and trainers). We then drove in convoy to the Snowdonia National Park and got suited up in buoyancy aids, harnesses and helmets. After this we walked down through the mountains and got to our starting point. There was certainly no ‘easing in to it’! One at a time we stood with our backs to the water, arms crossed across our bodies, and ‘fell’ back into the water off the rock edge. After that it just got more and more fun and adrenaline filled! We swam through pools of water, jumped off high rocks, abseiled down a cliff into more water, dropped off the edge of waterfalls… and much more. There wasn’t time to get scared or worked up about anything, although if you really did not want to participate in a particular part you could opt out.
Our instructor, Will, put everyone at ease and ensured we were all safe whilst having a great time. At no point did I feel the ‘health and safety’ bore taking its toll on our fun filled day, yet I felt safe and secure throughout the experience.
After an action-packed and fun filled few hours we headed back up to the top of the mountains and got changed into some very welcome warm clothing and ate lunch. I honestly had such an amazing day and cannot wait to do this again! I would highly recommend to all adrenaline junkies out there.
Top Tip
Wear trainers that are comfy, with good grip that you don’t mind getting wet and muddy.
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Very impressed!
Hedge94 - Verified purchaser
18/11/2019 
5
Yes I recommend this product.
I was a bit unsure about this at first, however I am sooo glad I decided to choose this experience! My partner and I had the best day and lots of fun. Our instructor was very knowledgeable and adapted the canyoning to all different levels of experience. For anyone who isn’t sure - just go ahead and do it! Great day, beautiful scenery and the most fun I’ve had for ages! Tip - take a GoPro!
When did your experience take place? August 2019
What was the name of the venue where your experience took place? Bala Adventure
Gorge walk
Weaver - Verified purchaser
14/10/2018
5
Yes I recommend this product.
Wife bought it myself for Xmas finally did it start of September and me and my son absolutely loved it only 4 in total so didn't have to wait long to move on but would recommend it very enjoyable beautiful views lovely part of country I wish I had a go pro to record it would definatlly recommend 5 star
When did your experience take place? September 2018
What was the name of the venue where your experience took place? Bala water sports
Cold and fun but not a "Full Day"
Krazy Ken - Verified purchaser
01/12/2018
4
Yes I recommend this product.
This was a gift from last Xmas, which I had not got around to using. It was originally a "50 lap Karting session for Two" but having experienced Karting a number of times in the past and the approaching expiry of the voucher, I exchanged it for a "Full day Gorge walking for one". I was told that the value of the Karting was only £59 and that I had to pay an additional £20 for the Gorge walking for one. I did not think that the experience was worth £79 as the "Full day" activity only lasted approximately four hours. To be honest, four hours was long enough because even with two wetsuits on, we were all shivering with cold by the end. However, this does not excuse the fact that it was billed as a full day, not 1/2 day. The activity was extremely good fun, including sliding down wet rocks, an abseil and leaping off rocks into water pools. It allowed everybody in the group of 8 to safely do as much or as little as possible (you could walk around parts you were not happy with ) under the clear instruction of our guide. The downside to having only one instructor was having to wait shivering on occasion, whilst he retrieved the ropes. NB. even though the sun was out, it never reaches the bottom of the Gorge, so wear as much warm waterproof gear as possible !
When did your experience take place? 17/11/18
What was the name of the venue where your experience took place? Bala Adventure & Watersports centre
Poor communication
Canyoning not again - Verified purchaser
19/11/2019
1
No I do not recommend this product.
We booked the “full day” experience. To find we had not been provided any correspondence on equipment needed or itinary. We turned up in good faith to be told that we also were required to provide transportation to a different site, which was not allowed for. We also expected clothing and boots etc. To be provided, but we’re sent off to a local shop to purchase items as nothing was provided. Thoroughly disappointed with the poor pre event organisation. Furthermore you would expect a Full day experience to be that and not a circa 3 hour outing. The participants enjoyed the actual experience albeit were left feeling disappointed as was not as long as described.
When did your experience take place? June 2019
What was the name of the venue where your experience took place? Bala
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