Located at Gandipet, Ocean Park is one of the first theme parks started in twin-cities and continues to be a great hit especially with children. But it is not the young ones alone who enjoy, even adults can have lots of fun here. The park has a water sports section and another one for amusement games. Here you can relive your childhood or romp around with your children amid the various water bodies. If you enjoy the thrills of the games where the ships and trains make half and full circles, where tea cups juggle in the air and you are literally taken on a ride, then Ocean park is the place for you.In the kids section there is a wading pool and fountain, while the adults section has the exhilarating water slides. The most exciting in the water sports though is the 100 ft slide where you splash through water. Then there is waves and swimming pool where adults and older children can prance together. Jet skiing is also available. The swimming pool has men’s and women’s section too. If you can pull your children out of the water there is the amusement park adjacent to the water sports section. Toy train, helicopters, huge air filled balloon, video games are available for children. For the adults there is tora tora ride, single loop roller coaster and a ship that sails from side to side churning your insides out. The entrance ticket of Rs 200 includes free rides in all the games. However no food can be bought from outside. There are a couple of snack bars and a restaurant inside. Men and women can enter the water sports section in shorts or buy one inside the park. If you do not mind, swimsuits are available on hire for men, women and children. A unique amusement park for the entire family. What sets it apart are the water based fun rides and water sports in which folks of all ages can cool off in the thrilling and pleasurable pools, water slides and other innovative water rides. Enjoy exhilarating water sports in a one-of-a-kind amusement park, Ocean Park.

Located some 20 kms from the city, Osman Sagar is one of the outing spots most preferred by couples. Away from the city, it provides a serene and charming atmosphere to visitors. The drive to the place from Mehdipatnam through the cantonment areas is enchanting. Gandipet is the dam on Osman Sagar lake. It has now been converted to a 29 sq km reservoir — formed by constructing a dam on river Musi — that pumps in water to the twin cities. The major attractions of the place are the lake, the parks, and a road that gives a proper view of the lake from above. You can satiate your hunger with fast foods and quench your thirst with cool drinks available at a couple of eat-outs around. The big disappointment is that you won’t be allowed to take a swim in the lake or go anywhere near the waters for that matter. This step has been taken as a precautionary measure after a few incidents of drowning were reported. On the way to Gandipet, you can visit two theme amusement parks for kids — Elles World and Ocean Park. While Elles World, the first park of its kind, offers several fun rides for kids, Ocean Park has attractions like a kiddies pool, a 60-ft high ride, the Slam Bomb, bumping cars and dry rides for people of all ages. Entry into the park, at Rs. 100 per person, is expensive, though.

The places you’ve heard about till now only in the fairy tales come alive here in a mixture of dazzling colors. Ramoji Film City, owned by entrepreneur-cum-film producer Ramoji Rao, is magnificently built across 2,000 acres of land. Right at the entrance you will find two three-star hotels called Tara and Sitara, where you will be given a royal treatment as a visitor. The splendid looking place is famous for its sets and can make your day with the resplendent things on offer. Hawa Mahal, along the lines of the Golconda Fort, is on a hilltop from where you can have a bird’s eye view of the whole place. RFC has carved a niche for itself with its Japanese garden, the ETV planet (a multi-purpose editing suit), a multi-purpose building, a pool and artificial waterfalls. Sets like the airport and the hospital astonish. These are the added feathers in the Film City’s beautiful cap. If you've bought the ticket worth Rs 350, you can have a feast at Hotel Sitara. The others can check out a few canteens — both regular and mobile. At the Prince Street you can shop for nice handicrafts, pottery and other decorative articles. The place is popular among various film circles in the world not only for its visual feast but also for its multimedia and editing suit techniques. With some luck you are likely to find your favorite star shooting in one of the sets for some film.

Once popular as a lovers’ park (a place frequented mostly by couples), it has gradually grown into a major tourist spot and outing. Now, huge families from all over the twin cities (and from outside too) come over to the place for a picnic. Located at the end of the Necklace Road, the park has a rose garden, a rock garden and a floral clock that can be a major source of inspiration for the tourists.