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There’s a new contender on the way in the world of inland wave pools. As the BBC reports, The Lost Shore Surf Resort promises to be the United Kingdom’s largest wave pool and has already begun construction.
Located at the site of the former Craigpark Quarry near the Edinburgh airport, The Lost Shore Surf Resort claims that its Wavegarden Cove-powered pool will produce 1,000 waves per hour once it’s fully operational. Around the pool itself will be an 820-foot long beachfront, lodges, a food market, a restaurant and a spa. The accommodations will include 31 luxury lodges for up to eight people and 22 premium pods accommodating between two and six people, as the Edinburgh News reports.
The resort uses uses Wavegarden Cove technology, which has a bit of a checkered past in the UK. Surf Snowdonia in Wales closed earlier this year due to purported mechanical problems that plagued the park’s Wavegarden-powered pool since its opening. However, that wave used a foil-based technology that was a precursor to the Wavegarden Cove system Lost Shore will employ. The Lost Shore site itself attempts to ward off any Snowdonia-based skepticism by sttating on their website that “due to the nature of Wavegarden technology, we will be able to continually run updates on the machine, meaning we will be able to remain at the cutting edge for many years to come.”
The Lost Shore Surf resort is set to open September 2024.
