Wasserskipark Aschheim: the Longest Cable Here, and a Beginner Lift Beside It

Two lifts, 750 and 150 metres

Most parks in this research run one system, and the two that run more grade them by ability. Aschheim grades by scale, and the big number is genuinely big.

Seven hundred and fifty metres puts this ahead of everything else here that states a length: Singapore’s full-size System C is 535 m, Split is 500, and Männiku’s longest lane is 215. Nine carriers means nine riders can be on the cable at once, which is the other half of the same fact: a long lap and a lot of people moving.

The park counts 19 features, describes them as UNIT Parktech, and says the crew rebuilds the setup regularly rather than leaving it. It also says a wakeboard world champion, Dominik Gührs, rides there regularly — that is the operator’s claim about itself, and we have not checked it, but it is the sort of claim a park with 19 features and a 750 m cable is more likely to be able to make than most.

The prices, in full

Tickets are for the big cable, and under-16s pay less on every line:

The membership pays for itself quickly if you are around: 15 % of a 52 € day ticket is 7.80, so eight days covers the 60 €. There is no month pass of the kind Vienna or Copenhagen sell; the jump is straight from a day ticket to a 1,100 € season, which at 52 a day is worth it from about the twenty-first visit.

Two other things are sold by the session rather than the hour: an Early Bird two-hour morning slot at 37 €, and Slow Laps, two hours including equipment at 40 €, which the park positions for riders who have done the beginner course and are not yet ready for public operation. Slow Laps is the best value on the site for a second session. There is also a monthly ladies-only Girls Club session, and the park will rent you a winch for 149 € a day to ride urban spots.

Six courses, which is more than anywhere else here

Every other park in this research sells one beginner course, or none, or describes lessons without a price. Aschheim publishes six, all including rental equipment:

The 39 € taster hour on the small lift is the one to book if you have never done this. It is cheaper than the 60 € two-hour version on the big cable and, on the park’s own description of what the Easy-Start lift is for, more likely to end with you riding. Note that two of the six were marked currently not bookable when we looked, which is the sort of thing that changes weekly.

The rental sheet that disagrees with itself

Here is the catch, and it is the same class of problem Vienna has with its slow hour. Aschheim prints a rental price list on its tickets page and a second one on its sessions page, for the same equipment, and the numbers are not the same:

Every line differs by two or three euro, always in the same direction. We are not going to pick one. Budget from the higher column and be pleased if you are charged the lower, and note that the park says all equipment is booked and paid for on site rather than online, so you will find out at the counter.

What both pages agree on is the part that saves money: the buoyancy vest, water skis and a kneeboard are free. An RFID wristband is 7 €, and a locker for the season is 155 €, or 95 if you hold a season ticket.

Where it is, and when it is open

The park is at Am Eventpark 30, 85609 Aschheim, inside the municipal Sportpark Aschheim — the aerial photograph above is the whole site, with the lake at the top and the athletics track and football pitches below it. It is about 11.5 km from Marienplatz. By car it is exit 15 off the A99, then follow the signs.

For the last week of August 2026 the park published: closed Mondays, 13:00 to 18:00 Tuesday to Sunday. Hours move through the season and the operator points you at Instagram and Facebook for changes, which is worth knowing before you drive out. The same page also carried the line “the 2026 season is starting soon” next to that timetable, which suggests the text is not always current even when the times are.

Booking runs through Wakesys, and the park flags something that catches people out: an account at another Wakesys park will not log you in here. Register fresh and bring the wristband next time.

Beyond the water there is a sand beach, a board shop, a restaurant doing bowls and burgers, and an adventure-golf course — which, with the football pitches and the running track next door, makes this the most municipal setting of any park on this site. That is not a criticism. It is why a 750 m cable exists eleven kilometres from a city of 1.5 million.