We have been coming here for the past 3 years for ...

We have been coming here for the past 3 years for my two kids birthday trips - we rather spend the money here than birthday parties. We always have an amazing time.

They renovated and now have better restaurants indoor and additional activities that my kids can enjoy other than the water park. We used to order out or pick up food outside the resort, however, this time we actually ate in - the new pizza place is our favorite! Trails End had a great outdoor view and fire pits to hang out as well.

The negative is the place is getting older so I found the rooms to be aging, and dusty...so upkeep to me seems to be slowing down. Also, we went while school was in session and now they have class trips - so it does get crowded on these days with a lot of older children that do not have much of courtesy for the smaller ones.

Lastly, I have to add about the flow rider - my eldest daughter was on this last year and my youngest was now tall enough this year. The first day we were there the person running it was so kind and thoughtful, went through instructions and even tried to have my eldest do tricks - when she did wipe out he was super concerned. The second day there seemed to be a group of people that were only concerned with doing tricks and the person running it seemed only concerned to hang out and talk with them (the previous day he was there doing tricks I am assuming as a visitor). My youngest went on for the first time, nervous - he gave her quick direction and put her on then continued to talk to his friends. He didn't even realize she wiped out and when he did he just waited for her to return the board, she is 7 (at my request my 8 year old ran up to see if she was ok). I didn't think about it at the time but when I look back at the video it annoyed me. So just saying consistency would be nice.

Overall, not sure if we will do it a 4th year now with a lot of other new and bigger places opening up. We love the tradition and my kids had an amazing time, however, was a little disappointed this go around.