This place is a massive mix of positives and negatives.
Letās start with the positives. There are generally deals available for tickets. Donāt buy on the door. You will usually get 30% for single day tickets online. If you can go more than once, really good deals are available. It is worth going more than once for reasons I will get to.
The slides are excellent. There are loads here that are among the best water slides I have ever gone on. You will want more than one go them and there are lots.
The park is really big, clean and well maintained.
Those are the upsides. Now the downsides.
The prices once you arrive. Parking in a standard space is $32. It was hard to find a space even then.
Paying for a ālargeā locker was $30. It was not large. The bigger one was over $40.
The food is A) terrible. Cold, tastes like cardboard. B) MASSIVELY expensive. Drinks are also hugely expensive. As a family of be 6 in two cars we dropped over $250 within 30 minutes of arrival to add to the approx $400 for the tickets.
Experienced park goers ensured they didnāt need the lockers and food.
The lines. These are usually huge and very slow moving when the park is busy. There are a couple of slides that have multiple riders and short turns which mean the line is fast, but mostly they take a very, VERY long time. In addition, staff shortages seem to mean that rides with multiple slides are often not running all the slides, making the lines slower.
There are two approaches. Either stump up the money for the unlimited quick queue, which is really expensive, OR what I would advise is be able to go twice. Get the second visit free tickets. Get to the park at around 3. At that time, having been open since 10, it begins to empty out. You will be able to get on the big rides with very minimal queues particularly in the last couple of hours. The park stays open until 8. Arrive post lunch. Leave before dinner. If you do this, you will ride a lot, queue little and minimise the expense. To make it really work though, you need to go twice!