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The interior of the Wavehouse contains the control centre coupled with a restaurant and bar which overlooks the waves and becomes a pulsating action bar at night . This venue has captured the imagination of the Durban public and is truly a world first that illustrates the ingenuity and vision of its South African developers and co-designers working together with the American inventors to produce a revolutionary model for a new kind of experiential entertainment that is destined to be replicated in the rest of the world .
Entertainment Detail The concepts of the entertainment / surf culture are delivered together with the ultimate in action entertainment , the ‘ floriders ’, where the top board riders - surfing , skate , wake , snow , skim , sand - and windsurfers can all meet and try their styles riding on a standing wave . A huge 4,000m 2 skate park - a skateboard park designed with input from the doyen of skateboarders , Tony Hawk - provides extreme action .
A further addition to the facilities on offer includes “ Explore your World ”, a 2,500m 2 area , offering a variety of services from camping and climbing equipment to scuba diving instruction . It will cater for bird watchers and present an exciting new edutainment component to fishing .
The largest family entertainment centre in the country consisting of 16 bowling lanes , a pool area and a range of electronic simulators , from car racing to dance machines has been installed . The entertainment centre will use the roof of the parking garage to include adventure golf , go-karting and several other innovations in time .
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