Dr. P. Phillips Community Park — Attraction in Dr. Phillips

Despite the difficulty getting into the splash pad today we had a lovely time while we were allowed in.

WE WILL NOT BE BACK!!!

It appears the "health department" decided today that from now on all state run splash pads have a bathing load of 62.... Whatever that means....

Today the Dr Phillips facility decided to implement the new policy at our expense. Instead of having a bathing load that consisted of people inside the facility. They decided to count the amount of tickets sold and stop selling at 62. Even though only 30 people were inside.

We arrived at 10:30 the bathing load was not posted! They were turning people away by 10:45. While there were only 31 people inside.

We will see how this new implementation goes this summer. Seems like it's going to be a disaster which I will not be back to see.

We waited an hour and half and basically pushed our way in after being tired of being turned away (we paid at 10am and were "admitted" again around noon.) When we went it there were 38 people inside.

I would suggest being prepared for something strange going on this summer all over the state.

I will say, the poor woman in the booth was such a sport and even though she was implementing rules that made no logical sense, she was fantastic. The amount of people she turned away was crazy, I counted over 50. And since she was expected to monitor the in and out I think she did well for the circumstance: people were walking in and out with no bands, and not paying, leaving without checking out which meant even more people were being turned away.... Ah....

The management after 40 complaints said it was out of his hand that he was "new". By 1pm he put up new signs with the new bathing load number, because it was not posted.

I find it bad enough that we need to pay for use of the park which our tax dollars already pay for. But being turned away when the facility can clearly hold 200 people with no problem is such an irritant. It would make more sense to make 30 min sessions where everyone has to leave. Which I hate that idea. But only allowing 62 people to use the facilities for each session is not a solution.

We will be driving an hour away to use any other splash pad than this, forever. We will...

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