Raging Waves Waterpark Reviews

Pretty good, just wish there were more pools. There is a wave pool, a lazy river, and water slides. Depending on the day, lines are usually pretty long.

Understanding there are precautions in place to enable social distancing but beyond the lazy river there were multiple slides not up and running. I feel you shouldn t charge full price admission if the park isn t fully operational. We come here 2-3 times a year so we were disappointed. A family of four costs nearly $200 not including and F&B. If you re looking to make a trip out I d recommend waiting until next year.

I would like that in the pool of hellas they will not last as long in losing them because they will light them as 3 meters and it takes them to put them again as 20. And so it's not so fun. I give it only 2 stars for that.

Very clean. Family friendly. Unfortunately due to Covid19 the Wave Pool and Lazy River is closed right now.

Lines always packed expect at least a 30 min wait each ride

Entrance price is worth it, the food portions were great and so were their prices. Definitely worth going, both adults and children have fun!

Very clean, well run, and the amenities are excellent.

they were lying trying ot get everyone oout of the park and i paid so much money that noone could refund i hate this place

Fun place to visit! Cabanas are a must as the other seating arrangements are inadequate. Slide lines are unbearable.

This park is NOT worth the money. Super crowded, long lines for everything. Entry terribly unorganized, way too long of a wait. Plus the water was ICE cold! I have a pool so I know what 80 degrees feels like and this was not even close.

Had a lot of fun. Just disappointed because my daughter wanted a walking taco but the stand was close. Other then that it was super fun.

Pretty nice waterpark; especially considering its in the middle of nowhere. MUCH better than the one in Rockford. Comparable rides to the one at six flags but with smaller lines. Get their when it opens and you won't have ANY lines.

Overcrowded. Overpriced.
Daily admission is $33, look for Groupon options, may get it for $24. They let far more people than facility can hold resulting in enormous wait times and packed attractions. Between 11AM and 4PM you can wait in a queue of up to an hour to get on a slide/ride that lasts under 20 seconds. Lazy river and Wave pools is a joke. People packed like sardines in there. A wall of flesh.
Very little shade. You have to come there well before opening at 10 AM to park close to the entrance and be able to catch a chaise lounge. Own food is not allowed, so is unsealed water containers. Food prices are atrocious, but quality seems decent. Park is in the middle of nowhere, some former corn field.
Some strategies one can employ too get some value for your money
- Arrive early, 30-45 minutes in advance
- Take your own food, leave it in a car, return to the car for a picnic style lunch (they allow re-entry)
- Best time to go on slides/rides is 10-11 and 5PM-6PM. when the lines are shortest. Use these time windows to enjoy popular rides/slides.
- Invest $5 for tube rental, that will spare you wait and fight for a tube to get on lazy river (which is anything but lazy when it gets packed),
- Avoid weekends and holidays.

Getting on slides/rides can get confusing as same stairs may lead to 2,3 rides/slides and sometimes it is not clear what line one has to be in. Things get aggravated by people cutting in lines.

I found that just sticking to the tallest slide of the 3 at "PJ's plummet" is the best deal in terms of wait time and fun/thrill during the peak time. It normally has the smallest crowd. You would need to ignore the line that forms for the lower two slides and stampede for the top one.

We took our 4 year old there. She's to small to get on the big stuff but they had plenty of slides and interactive stuff to keep her busy for hours. Some of the slides in the children's area were pretty fast. My wife and I took turns going to the big stuff. Can't wait for my girl to grow a few more inches so we can do everything.

Don't buy food inside... Un hiegenic... Got a long hair in in chicken wrap

Always something for every age group. Visited with 2 yr old niece, 12 yr old daughter, and 16 yr old son. Plenty of areas for the young ones and many waterslides to choose from. Dole Whip pineapple strawberry cone is refreshing! Food is reasonably priced considering it is a tourist attraction.

Great food clean i have a great time every time i go. Worth the drive

Support the suburban Oasis. Love killing a day here with the kids.

Paid full price admission for a couple of slides to be open and no lazy river very disappointing. The thing that really bothered me was my daughter dont like to swim or do the water slides with out nose covering goggles she can't stand water in her eyes or nose and they are not allowed. This was are first year coming here and probably are last!!! On the plus side there was 2 younger ladies and one guy that were super nice everyone eles working just seem mad and irritated.

Awesome waterpark be prepared for alot of walking tho

Took a day trip out here with the family and there was something for everyone to enjoy! There are enough slides to keep the big kids entertained and areas for the younger kids as well. The staff was very friendly and the park is well maintained. Overall, it was a great day!

great water park but what I don't understand is I got the summer pass for me and my boys and my wife and it was $100 per person so around $500 I don't remember paying that last year I think I paid less than that so and my opinion it's not worth $500 to go at most three times since we live in the city. So just pay the regular entrance from Groupon and you'll save money and the food's not too expensive either

It's as fun as a waterpark can be but don't forget anything because the prices are outrageous. So bring towels, flip flops, and one of those water proof cases for phones you can find them on Amazon for $8 for two. They are $20 here. Also the lockers fill up fast so make sure you get one quickly.

This place is the best place to be with children, they have a lot of activities for the kids and adults too.

I've been to a number of waterparks around the country, and was pleasantly surprised by this hidden gem. We went on a super hot Saturday in June. I was expected Six Flags-style crowds, and although the warm weather definitely drew people to the park (and some questionable clientele), still managed to have a fun time. The staff was very friendly. The park was spotless. The lockers priced similar to other parks (loved being able to get extra wristbands at no charge). The food, decently priced for this type of venue. It's a smaller park, and we probably rode everything at least once within 3 hours - still a fun way to spend a summer afternoon. My only complaints (if I had to) would be to decrease the time between the waves in the wave pool (we felt we waited forever, unlike other parks), add more waterfalls in the lazy river, and figure out a better way to manage the parking situation...even if that means directing people to park in the grass. It's a small lot that seemingly could use an expansion. I would go back...hopefully they continue to expand it. I feel this park is a solid 4 stars, with great potential, and what appears to be room for expansion!

Great rides, way overly expensive food/ everything is charged,

I enjoyed it. My two young daughters had a great time as well. The water was a little cold, but all in all the family had a great time.

Great family experience! Prices are a little high, but it's pretty easy to find coupons. Get there early!

Was fun! Few tips, they let many people in with food, at the security area, even though it says none allowed. You can rent your own tube to bring into wave pool after 3pm. They have more then enough coast gaurd approved life jackets for everyone. Food was good and easy on the pocket book.

Well in 3 hours my son went down 3 slides...it was all time waiting in lines for him....I'm not sure if that is the norm since I've only been here twice. My hubs and I had a great time playing with our 2 yr old in the toddler area. Great slides and sprinkler fountains

Clean facility, nicely organized. Friendly staff, alert lifeguards. So many family friendly areas and rides.

Need more parking. The kids will have fun. Just need to find a day where there is not a million people there! Would suggest avoiding when lots of people hard to do anything.

Great place to go on a hot day for family fun! They have everything for a family fun day. My kids loved the waterslides, wave pool, and even the kiddie area. I loved the lazy river!!

Could be better.... Rude staff and bad management.
Some slides can be fun though!

It was ok except I didn't like how I had to wait 30 minutes in line for food. I think they need to hire more staff.

Best water park in Illinois. Rides are super fun but lines are a little longer. Decent food and price for an amusement park. Staff is friendly and helpful. No alcohol served.

Terrible staff, confiscated our cooler and drank all of the items in there but left the fruit .

Friendly staff. I found this place through groupon though i wouldn't have fun but in fact had a blast. They have reasonable priced food, many slides and big ole lazy river. It might be a distance away but so is summer fun if you don't even try to visit this place with the family or even just the gf once.

There are water activities for tots, teens, adults, and seniors. It offers good clean fun. Nice choice of food vendors too. Illinois has this amazing outdoot water attraction in the cornfields of Yorkville.

Kid's and myself enjoyed ourselves very much fun place for family and kid's

Raging waves was so much fun! We had a great time there!! It was one of the best waterparks I've ever been to.

Water park rides were great! Only thing I did not like is some of the workers have terrible customer service. I told the attendant at the top of the slide for the children's area to wait until i got to the bottom of the slide to catch my 4yr old and she let her go and she tumbled and fell under and she can't swim!! OTHER THAN THAT, it was a great clean park lots to do and wait times weren't ridiculous.

I had fun with most of the rides and it wasn't a bad experience.

Visiting from California and this place is better than raging Waters

The wave pool was about all my family likes about the park. This was the first time we had been there and there was zero guidance given to customers. No signs anywhere about the secondary locker space. The person renting the tubes told us we didn't need one for the slides. Then after standing in line for 30 minutes for a slide we are told - at the top- that we need a tube. My husband was given a tube and went down another slide as instructed, to be told at the bottom that he can't use the tube he had. The kids didn't want to bother with another slide after that. The river is so shallow you scrape your feet constantly. In the middle of the river the lifeguards were yelling at people that they can't use the blue tubes. Then just remove them!!! Very disorganized. Staff is not to be found and when they are (at the top of a slide) it's too late! Get it together - organize the areas better - make sure staff is following their own rules - get signs to direct people if staff can't or won't be available to help. Even the food stands were disorganized. The person calculating the charge and giving change had no idea what she was doing. There were no adults running the park and directing the staff. For the $140 spent for three people it was not worth it. I guess we set our expectations higher than most. We will not be going back.

It's an amazing experience. We come here at least once a year. Thanks for trying to take caution so other people can enjoy as well.

very fun waterpark! nice lifeguards, fun slides, good food, it's a nice trip with friends or family.

This place is much bigger than it looks. It is a lot of fun & a very clean environment. Some of the issues I have with it though are price. It is extremely pricey to just get in so if you are planning on taking the family out just be prepared to open that wallet. Once inside, the food is also extremely expensive & not worth the buy. I would recommend bringing food & going back to your car to eat since they do not allow you to being anything in.

While we were in the water someone took my wife's Locker bracelet offer arm ,and they went to our locker and took my wife's phone my phone and my glasses which were prescription. the park has no security cameras so that was no help to the police when I called the security they made me feel like I was stupid by asking questions like are you sure you brought it in the park are you sure you lock the locker trying to turn it around where it wasn't their fault at all but totally mine. They also were telling me that it is impossible for someone to take the bracelet off of someone and to break into a locker but yet it happened. I do not believe I would ever go back to that water park again especially since they have no cameras to secure the place!

Lots of fun. Lines need to move quicker, if it's busy you'll spend most of your time there waiting in lines. Could also use signs at the BOTTOM of the slides instead of the top saying that you need to grab a tube for some of them.

Finally its warming up,love this place ,need to go with at least 2 people and 1 ride required 3 for balance. Or ask a group to adopt you and enjoy the plunge!!!

Fun for everyone! Toddler area, waterslides, and a huge wave pool

Great place to go. lots of rides and great service!

Love to go with the kids to have fun in the sun. Not to long of a wait to go on water slides ect.worrh the price and then sum

Water park is quite old.
So i give -1 star for closed Vortex rides.
Than -1 star for closed 1 of 2 Speed Slides.
One more -1 star for closing Aqua Rocket zone at about 4 p.m. instead of 7 p.m.

Park is overcrowded, every line takes more than hour.

There are additional lines for fast pass people, but you can join this line and save half on hour.

On some rides works girls that weights less than big inflatable ring they carry, extremely long and inefficiently.

15$ for parking, 12$ for locker, overpriced food and drinks, old equipment.

That s only one star of five.

I liked the lazy river, unfortunately some people don t grasp the concept. I wish they would only allow people floating in inner tubes on it. No swimmers or walkers! Everything else was fine.

I loved it there the staff was nice and it being the largest water park in ill why not try the park out so I went with my family and I had a ton of fun

Water park where you can more or less be carefree if you have children from 8 years old.
Toboggans and attractions more or less suitable for all audiences and 3 children's areas that will delight the little ones.
It's the second time we're going and we like it a lot.
If we miss more areas of shade to rest.
For everything else great.
We will repeat, sure.

Very Nice Place in Illinois. Kids love to stay longer and enjoy alot

The children have a lot of fun and the place is very safe. I just could not put a star more because it was very full and there were no chairs available. And the lines to enter were very long. But we have fun that is the important thing !! Recommendation: Arrive early to find a chair and can put their stuff.