Kathy Barkulis

Review of Busch Gardens Adventure island

Brought my four and a half year old granddaughter ...

Brought my four and a half year old granddaughter here and thought she was at an in between age for this water park. Too old for the kiddie area and too young for most of the attractions. She did like the wave pool, lazy river, and the little slide, but the rest of it wasn t really appropriate for her age. We had the food pass, but be aware that you cannot use it more than once an hour, you can t use it at every food area, and the snack stations require that you buy something to get something with your food pass. Their website doesn t explain this clearly. And the lines are long to get your food and the employees are not always trained well. For example, we went to a snack station that had about seven people working there, and about five people in line to order when the manager called a staff meeting while people were waiting to order!! So dumb.

Bathrooms were dirty so be prepared to get grossed out. And some of the pools were dirty too. I get that when you go to public attractions like this you re going to be faced with long lines and some unpleasant side effects, but hopefully the management can do a little bit better than what we experienced at this park.