Sioux City, Angry Birds or Holiday World: the theme parks of south Gran Canaria compared
Updated October 1, 2026 · 8 min read
South Gran Canaria has three theme parks for families, and what decides your day isn’t the price — it’s the clock. Sioux City Park is the morning park with the full show programme: from €25, 4.7 out of 5 from 659 reviews, making it the best-rated of the three, but open only until 3 or 4 pm. The Angry Birds Activity Park, open 10 am to 6 pm, is the only full-day park, from €13 — but closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Holiday World Maspalomas doesn’t open until 4 pm at all, a pure evening park, from €13 for the Wooland ticket. Pick the wrong park for your time window, and the ticket price stops mattering in the end.
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The three parks compared
| Park | Opening hours | From price | Rating | Suits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sioux City Park | Tue–Fri 10 am–3 pm, Sat/Sun 10 am–4 pm, closed Mon | €25 | 4.7 ★ (659) | Families with a free morning, even without a hire car |
| Angry Birds Activity Park | Mon and Thu–Sun 10 am–6 pm, closed Tue/Wed | €13 | 4.5 ★ (106) | Families wanting to fill a whole day |
| Holiday World Maspalomas, Wooland ticket | Wed/Thu/Sun 4–11 pm, Fri/Sat 4–11.30 pm, closed Mon/Tue | €13 | 4.0 ★ (514) | Families with older children and late evenings |
Sioux City Park: mornings only, gone by early afternoon
Sioux City sits in the Barranco del Águila, also called Cañón del Águila, in San Bartolomé de Tirajana, near Bahía Feliz and San Agustín. Book the ticket through us and you’re paying the adult non-resident rate; on the operator’s own site, siouxcitypark.com, that same adult ticket is €25.00 including tax, with a child ticket at €15.90. Here’s the gap worth flagging before you buy: siouxcitypark.com doesn’t publish the age at which the child rate starts, or whether toddlers get in free. That’s usually the first question a parent asks, and at Sioux City you’ll need to ask it directly, by phone or email, rather than read it off the page. Residents get a discount, but only at the ticket window with proof of residency, never online. Online tickets stay valid for 30 days after purchase.
The hours are really the whole story: Tuesday to Friday 10 am to 3 pm, Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 4 pm, closed Mondays. There’s no evening show and no dinner show — the gates close at three or four in the afternoon, full stop.
Inside those hours, the park runs a full show schedule. Tuesday to Friday: Los Tres Amigos at 11 am, the Gran Show del Salvaje Oeste at 12.15 pm, El Ilusionista Country at 1.15 pm, Bandidos Mexicanos at 2.20 pm, and country music with a happy hour from 2.45 pm. Saturday and Sunday run a different line-up: shows at 11 am and noon, Bandidos Mexicanos at 12.45 pm, a barbecue from 1.15 pm, the Show Teatro 4 Estrellas at 2.30 pm, and a clown show with a foam party at 3.15 pm. The operator doesn’t state how long any of these shows run, so leave some slack either side.
Animals on site, confirmed through Gran Canaria’s official tourism portal, include bison, American cattle, Canarian goats, donkeys, chickens and ponies; cattle and a herd of wild horses appear in the daily shows, and horse riding is offered “for every age.”
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Getting to Sioux City without a hire car
A free shuttle runs Tuesday to Sunday, a white bus marked with the Sioux logo. Published departure times: 9.05 am Taurito, Playa del Cura and Amadores; 9.20 am the Puerto Rico bus station; 9.45 am the Faro Maspalomas bus station; 10 am the Barbacán, Riu Don Miguel and Rey Carlos hotels in Playa del Inglés; arrival at the park by 10.25 am. Return times aren’t published, and neither is whether a seat needs to be booked in advance — worth confirming with the park directly before you rely on it. Parking on site is free. Global’s bus line 45 does serve San Agustín and Playa del Inglés, but according to its published route it does not stop at Sioux City Park.
Angry Birds Activity Park: the child costs more than the adult
Angry Birds Activity Park sits on Avenida de la Cornisa in Puerto Rico, Mogán, and its pricing has one quirk worth knowing before you add up a family total. Non-resident day tickets: free from 0 to 2 years, €9 for ages 3 to 4, €17 for ages 5 to 13, €13 from age 14, and €9 from age 65. A child aged 5 to 13 pays more than an adult — the opposite of what most parks do. Residents pay €7, €11, €9 and €7 in the same order. A week pass runs €18/€34/€26/€18, an annual pass €60/€120/€88/€60. There’s no upper age limit; the over-65 rate is simply its own tier.
Opening hours: Monday and Thursday to Sunday, 10 am to 6 pm; closed Tuesday and Wednesday. Maintenance closures do happen, and this one wasn’t a rumour: in September 2026, the park was completely closed from the 7th to the 25th. That’s exactly the kind of detail worth checking again on the park’s website shortly before you travel. Once inside, the ticket covers the whole day, and you can leave and come back as often as you like.
The park covers ziplines, climbing areas, trampolines, minigolf, skating, a race track and a splash zone. The 10D cinema costs extra, and a 16-seat VIP area with misting costs €100 for the day. On age and size, the operator gives a few concrete markers: the Bag Jump has a minimum age of 5, small children can ride the ziplines together with an adult, and on the pedal cars, anyone who can’t reach the pedals rides on an adult’s lap. Almost everything else on site is simply listed as “all ages,” and the house rules mention, in general terms, that some activities carry a minimum height or age without giving a single figure. If you’re travelling with a small child, that vagueness is the thing to plan around, not the ticket price. For the heat, there are shaded seating areas, misting at the snack bar and in the VIP area, and fog stations around the park — it’s fundamentally an open-air site.
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Holiday World Maspalomas: an evening park, and a lesson in centimetres
Holiday World sits on Avenida Touroperador Tui in Maspalomas, and its pricing needs a flag of its own. In the operator’s own ticket shop, the “Entrada Wooland” costs €16.00, explicitly the same whether the visitor is a child or an adult; over-65s pay €10.00. A combined ticket with bowling is €19, and adding popcorn or candy floss brings it to €21 either way. On GetYourGuide, though, the same Wooland ticket is listed from €13, and resellers quote yet another tier again. The figures genuinely disagree — treat “from €13 via the booking platform, €16 in the operator’s own shop” as the honest answer, not a typo, and don’t take a reseller’s number as if the operator had set it.
Children under 0.90 m get in free, but that only covers the Playground, not the rides. The ticket covers everything inside the Wooland except the tombolas and the throwing booths. It does not cover bowling, the escape rooms (€40 to €76, depending on group size from 2 to 6 people), the karaoke room, or food and drink. The Holiday World-themed karaoke room can be booked separately on GetYourGuide: €75 for a group of up to 15 people, 1 hour 50 minutes, 4.6 out of 5 from 28 reviews.
The most useful numbers in this whole article are the height limits, because the operator states them precisely and every ride carries a sign showing them. The roller coaster (60 km/h, 18 m high) needs a minimum of 1.20 m and a maximum of 1.95 m. The two-storey family carousel needs at least 1.05 m. The Ferris wheel, 26 m tall, takes children from 0.90 m if an adult rides with them. “Toro” runs 1.10 to 1.90 m, the 360-degree “Spin Loop” 1.40 to 1.90 m, and the jungle carousel 0.90 to 1.20 m. Put a real child against those numbers: at 1.30 m, they can ride the roller coaster and Toro, but they’re already too tall for the jungle carousel and not yet tall enough for the Spin Loop.
None of this matters if you can’t get there in time to use it. Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, the park runs 4 pm to 11 pm; Friday and Saturday, 4 pm to 11.30 pm; closed Monday and Tuesday. The rides themselves stop 15 minutes before closing. This is a genuinely evening-only park — for a small child on an early bedtime, it’s the wrong choice, not a compromise. On site: over 11,000 m² with more than 30 attractions indoors and out, plus 16 bowling lanes, four escape rooms, karaoke, an arcade and a street food area.
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Why the clock decides more than the price
Line the three parks up by opening hours rather than by ticket price, and the picture changes. Sioux City is done by early afternoon. Holiday World hasn’t opened yet by the time Sioux City closes. Angry Birds is the only one of the three built to fill a whole day, and only on five of the seven. A family that arrives at Sioux City after lunch has already missed most of its morning shows and has an hour, maybe two, before the gates shut. A family with young children hoping for an early dinner out at Holiday World needs to accept that the rides they came for don’t open until 4 pm at the earliest. None of that shows up on a price comparison — it only shows up on the clock.
Who each park doesn’t suit
Sioux City doesn’t work if your morning is already spoken for; there’s no way to make up for a late start when the whole park closes by three or four. Holiday World is a poor match for toddlers and any child with an early bedtime, given gates that open at 4 pm at the earliest. Angry Birds is harder to judge with small children specifically because so much of what’s on offer is marked “all ages” without the operator giving a height or age behind it — worth a call to the park if your child is young. For families still weighing where theme parks fit into a week with kids, for travelling with a toddler specifically, and for how these three sit against the rest of what the south of the island offers, those comparisons are worth reading before committing a day to any one of them.
Our recommendation
For most families: Sioux City Park from €25. With 4.7 out of 5 from 659 reviews, it’s the best-rated of the three, has the only real show programme, and runs a free shuttle from Taurito to Playa del Inglés — the only one of the three with a shuttle of its own. The condition: your morning has to be free.
For families wanting to fill a whole day, and on a smaller budget: the Angry Birds Activity Park from €13. Ten am to 6 pm, re-entry allowed, half the price of Sioux City. Check two things: that your day isn’t a Tuesday or Wednesday, and that there isn’t a maintenance closure running.
For families with older children out in the evening: the Wooland ticket from Holiday World from €13. It’s the only park open until 11 pm, and its height limits are fixed in advance, so you know what your child is allowed on. At 4.0 out of 5, it has the weakest rating of the three.
None of the three suit you if you’re travelling with a toddler and need fixed age limits: Sioux City gives no minimum age for the child rate, Angry Birds marks almost everything “all ages,” and Holiday World doesn’t open until bedtime.
