Karynna Eileen Eichmann Review of Wild Waves Theme Park
I have always loved Wild Waves, but I went yesterd...
I have always loved Wild Waves, but I went yesterday June 26th, and it was the worst experience in my entire life. The park was crowded, and because they refuse to do any expansions on the konga river, the line was at least 2 hours long, they do not have heat relief rubber mats, so we couldn't stay in line because our feet were burning. We went to the activity pool, and it was egregious! The way the activity pool is, it is very dangerous going in there, because where kids are jumping, other kids are swimming back to shore, and for slides that are much safer they had sticks, but for jumping into 9 feet of water, a person just needed to be a "strong swimmer" which is a marginal judgement! Just before my boyfriend went down, an obviously to small child went down this slide and nearly drowned, the mom saving her. The life guard did jump in thankfully, but it was still worrisome! My boyfriend went in front of me down the steep black slides, had the wind knocked out of him as he hit the water at such a bad angle, and ended up close to drowning. He came up gasping for air, waving his arms at a life guard, and not a single one jumped in. I went down the same slide after him, and ended up hurt, in which I also nearly drowned because i hit the water so hard, it hurt my left leg, and I barely made it to the top. As I struggled to get to the rope, i also was waving my arms and ended up getting yelled at to "get off the rope". Again, I tried signaling to them, but to no avail. My boyfriend, who at this point was turning blue from having difficulty breathing, had to help me in, a too far distance from the slides. As we made it out of the water, we sat, hurt and both shaken, my boyfriend still blue! and just after, one life guard yelled to another, "Hey pay attention! these kids are jumping on top of each other!" It ruined the rest of the day. It didn't help that we had only been in the park for about an hour, this if course after standing in line from 10 o'clock until noon. We didn't get to go on a single ride, and it was slam packed with people (understandably so, we knew it would be). It was overpriced, and with so many people it is understandable the lifeguards would be overwhelmed. Lockers are overpriced, food is way overpriced and bad, and it is simply a horrible place to spend money to go to! I will never go back here, and if you want to keep your children safe, do not go either! Also, don't use the honey buckets, they are maybe cleaned every other week!

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