I Visited for the first time in a few years today and I was extremely disappointed to see the brutal state of the park. I enjoyed this place so much as a kid and it saddens me to see it fall into such disarray. Beyond the increasingly unreasonable price gouging and outrageous policie changes in recent years, the park is falling apart on all other levels. Past just the politics, The physical ride structures and experiences themselves are becoming severely unsettling for number of reasons.

-The metal ride structure scaffoldings are beginning to develop rust rot in a number of locations in the plain view of guests, even on the ‘newer’ slides, which is quite concerning.

-All raft rides have a SEVERE lack of available tubes leading to absolutely outrageous wait times, even if lines appear to be quite short. Furthermore, an alarming number of the rafts were badly deflated once you managed to even finally acquire one.

-The amount of tubes in the lazy river was literally a straight up joke. There was MAYBE 15-20 tubes available. A lazy river of that size should have a minimum of 50-75 for it to even be advertised as any sort of an actual attraction. And again, many of the few tubes in use were badly deflated.

-ALL of the slides severely need to be repainted, which should be simple yearly maintenance. Faded paint is one thing, but we’re talking massive chunks and areas where paint has flaked off for years. Extremely bad staining on the slides and pools giving the appearance of the water a gross dirty tint

-Ride structures are shaking and wobbling to a borderline concerning degree. I’m no engineer, and I know structures are designed to flex to a point, but I observed a number of concerning instances that make me question if the park even does any form of preventative safety maintenance on the structures at all.

-I noticed a large number of the interactive water features on the kids Pirates cove area are completely broken with no sign of maintenance or repair since it was opened 10+ years ago

-Extremely inexperienced and rude staff that’s basically entirely made up of kids aged 16-20 with zero regard for guest experience, concern, or satisfaction.

-The ride operations provided by them is atrocious as well. The majority of them have no regard for the massive lines forming and make no haste to run the rides at a reasonably efficient rate. Example: there’s no reason for 2-4 minute intervals between riders on Radical Rapids when there’s a line of 30+ people at the top of the slide ready to go. I recall riders coming out the bottom of every 15-30 Seconds max only a few years ago.

-the food stand prices have raised exorbitantly as the portions and quality have dropped substantially.I also noticed not a single person in the kitchen was wearing a hair net despite long and shaggy hair on good chunk of the kids preparing and serving the food.

I could go on about a number of other things that have contributed to the steep decline of the guest experience at this park, but what truly bothers me is that this park is pinching quite literally every last penny possible while raking in millions, if not TENS of millions of dollars in net profit a season, yet they can’t even be bothered to do basic maintenance on their attractions. It is really becoming harder to ignore as the years pass. It also really makes me wonder what other concerning issues are being set aside or swept under the rug as well. Sadly, I don’t see any sign of this turning around due to the lack of any serious competition, and thus us guests have to pay the price for their greed