Adventure Bay Waterpark — Attraction in Altoona

Our favorite bits here was the wave pool and the lazy river. The slides are fun but you do have to haul your tube up multiple flights of stairs (the Kansas City Great Wolf lodge slides have the tubes brought up on a conveyor belt) but it’s still worth it for the slides. The lifeguards were attentive and focused. You could clearly tell they were there to do a job and that was a great safe feeling. There are several places to get food, treats and drinks including a wide variety of adult beverages that you can take into the water which is pretty cool but there was also an adult swim up bar which was kind of the best part, it should be made for adults only though, a place for adults to escape children. Our two biggest complaints was the walk to the water park and how packed it was… you’re forced to walk through the Adventureland park rides and attractions to get to the water park. The amount of people allowed into the waterpark per day should be limited. There were so many people it was borderline miserable trying to do anything, including relaxing in the lazy river.

Some tips and hints: -wear water socks because the cement is very hot, too hot to stand walking on between pool areas. This will be especially important for children, if I couldn’t stand it as an adult it is worse for the kiddos. Amazon has really cheap, adorable water socks and they’re worth it. My sister had a pair and she had zero issues so mine are already ordered and on the way.

-get there early or you won’t get a chair… there aren’t nearly enough chairs for even just one group putting all their stuff on one

-they do have towels and other items for purchase but they don’t have the adventure land logo on them which was disappointing

-bring sun screen and plan to reapply once an hour, we applied three times and still burned (spray sunscreen sucks, go with the lotion)

-a locker isn’t necessary, you can wear the waterproof lanyards and the only thing valuable with us fit in them (phone, cards, ID, cash and car keyfob). They sell these as well but there are better cheaper ones on Amazon.

-change into your suit before going and change into dry clothes when done to find a chair faster and hit the waters before others do

-pay the extra $5 for better parking, as I said above it’s a trek to get to the waterpark and cutting out as much walking as you can will be nice when you’re done swimming and just want to get...

attended adventure bay and with my two friends and was super excited to go in the wave pool only for all of us to almost without notice from ALL three life guards. not only are the waves in the wave pool extremely dangerous they pull you underwater, and life guards don’t notice. they only have three life guards watching a wave pool when there is VERY small children in there. After almost drowning in the wave pool, we decided to go to the lazy river. it was fine until we discovers MULTIPLE dead or alive june bugs all up in the pool. after this we gave up and decided to leave, when we get to our stuff we realize a pair of $100 shoes and had been replaced with $10 gift shop shoes. obviously confused we went to tell the gift shop staff, and asked where to go or where lost and found was to report something stolen or missing, when she informed us that if we wanted to report anything stolen or missing we would have to walk ALL the way up to guest services, which was all the way at the other end of the park. which left me forced to walk all the way to the entrance of the park barefoot. once we arrived at guest services, we informed them of the stolen shoes, they said that there are no surveillance cameras at the bay and that all they could do was ask the cleaning crew if they found any shoes. after we gave them our information i was left with nothing else but to go get gift shop sandals. other than that staff was horrendous, the life guards don’t watch at all, they mess on their phones, and are just short with children. i HIGHLY recommend not going here, not worth the...

Very poor management of the lifeguard staff. Came here with my family including our soon to be 4 year old. Things were going well 2 hours in at the water park, 3 year old was having a blast in kids area going down slides and enjoying kids area until a lifeguard Madelyn? said sorry you can’t go down he’s too short. This after he has been down all slides multiple times multiple lifeguards and with both my wife and I. Furious after waiting in line 10-15 minutes we went to a different line we had just went down with a different male guard forgot his name waiting 10-15 minutes again. We are assuming Madelyn radio-d him as we watched a girl shorter than him go down in front of us then denied us, feeling discouraged and being singled out/discriminated as many kids were shorter in line and still going down than him all because of Madelyn trying to have a power trip/prove a point with me/us? Mind you our son is right at the 40” borderline and my wife was waiting each time at the bottom while I was at the top with him. So we were referred to the Aquatics manager Issac who did his normal apology that the lifeguards would be discussed and that consistency should be done better amongst the lifeguards, etc. Our son not understanding of course we went to change and leave and watch other lifeguards continually let other smaller kids going down. How ridiculous and lack of regard to any customer service or consistency if they are trying to abide or follow “safety” protocol what bull. Definitely a disappointment to a rather fun day with our family...