Pioneer Waterland & Dry Fun Park — Attraction in Montville Township

My family and I decided to purchase season passes before we even visited because they were extremely well priced. We purchased pases at the office before we entered the park. While there are not as many slides and attractions you find at larger parks, it was still enough to keep our family entertained.

I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND bringing your own food if you go. The food they sell there is a little bit more over priced than you'd expect for what you get and normally it wouldn't bother me so much if it wasn't for such the long wait.

Every order that is made is served in that same order. So if the person in front of you orders a pizza, and you order a sandwich, you best believe you're not getting your sandwich before that pizza is done cooking and on the other person's hand. We were 5th in line, it took us 25 mins to move from 5th to the register, then it took us another 35+ minutes to get our food. They block the windows so you can't see the staff just standing around. But after you place your order you wait by the service door and when people come in and out you can just see them standing there doing nothing. There's no place to sit and wait, and I'm surprised our kids did as well as they did just standing for an hour 2aiting to eat.

And ABSOLUTE MUST is GET A LOCKER!! We learned this the hard way when someone picked up our towels, shoes, diaper bag and tote, threw it in our stroller and walked away with EVERYTHING. Keys, phones, shoes, wallets, literally everything. When we alerted the staff, they did try to help by walking around with me looking for the people who took our stuff. Luckily, while the staff was trying to help me, my fiance noticed some people walking past her with all of our stuff. She said something and they just left the stroller and walked away as if nothing happened. She couldn't go after them because she was with the children and didn't want to put them in any additional risk. I HIGHLY doubt anything was done to track the people who tried to steal our stuff. Lisa, the owner, is definitely someone who seems like she doesn't even care.

After we got our stuff back, we decided to leave as everyone was pretty worried and upset. On our way out we stopped back at the office where I met Lisa. I informed her that we were the family who's things were taken. I asked if we could get a refund on our season passes, she did process the refund and recharged us for just the day AFTER I asked. She did not seem to care at all, no "sorry you had this experience" or literally anything. She just acted like this was normal and took care of the transaction.

I don't understand how a business owner doesn't even show a single shred of sympathy when something like this happens at their business. I know they have all "at your own risk" signs everywhere, but at least be a decent human being and recognize when someone had a horrific experience at your establishment.

So as the signs say go at "YOUR OWN RISK," get a locker and bring your own food. We will never go...

We went on the Monday after Father's Day because they had a buy one, get one free deal going on for admission. I believe it is normally $33 per person, unless they are 46" or under. It is a small water park that has 5 taller slides, all off the same wooden structure (two are straight drop slides with a little hill in the middle, one is a tube slide that has curves, and the other two are curvy slides that are open), a decent sized lazy river, a concrete "pond" area with inflatable floating structures in the 10' deep area and a shallow area, and a small "splash" area that has a small frog slide and two water guns that are like sprinklers. There's not a lot of water options. There are also some dry activities available like batting cages, putt-putt golf, pillow jumping thing to jump on, paddle boats, a couple dry, small, single slides, some kind of foam archery thing, and go-karts (go-karts and batting cages cost extra).

If it's not crowded, you can do the bigger slides without having to wait in line forever, or at all. Same is true with some of the other water stuff and the dry stuff. Bad part is that it can get boring doing the same 5 slides over and over. Everything, wet and dry, seems run down and neglected. The water was cooler, but it was also around 90 degrees when we went, so anything would feel cool at that point. There were spots where the water seemed decently clean, and other spots, not so much, but nothing too terrible. Another good thing about this place is you can bring in your own cooler full of food and beverages. They have picnic table areas or you could just bring some camp chairs/blanket and sit in the lawn somewhere. There are some decent shaded areas. It is a very relaxed setting. If we lived closer to this place, like 15 to 20 minutes drive time, I could see wasting a day here during the week when it's not crowded. But since we live around 40 minutes away, it's not really worth the drive to go here. We might do a sporadic trip here again if they offer some more deals. They do have food and beverages available to buy, but they did seem expensive and I'm not sure I'd trust the quality of the food based on the upkeep of the rest of the park. Maybe a tray of French fries would be fine, but that was around $9. So it's a solid "okay" place to go, and that's only if it's not crowded. If it were crowded, it would've been worse having to actually stand in line forever to do the 5 slides they had. We spent around 2 hours here and the 3 kids (13, 10 & 7 year old) had had enough. Not the best place...

We come here every year & love it. We pack snacks & food and usually stay open-close. I hear there is new management & I can tell. Lazy river was DIRTY, also all you are looking at is where the old playground was which is full of weeds. The landscaping was awful. A LOT of the tubes were deflated or didn’t have enough air. There was some type of camp there with SO many kids and the kids were SO rude and disrespectful using ALL types of cuss words INCLUDING the N word. They were splashing, hitting, yelling, fighting, & all type of stuff in the lazy river. Lifeguards did not say ANYTHING to them. There was ONE lifeguard watching FIVE slides. Yes I said ONE lifeguard. We are always at water parks and I have NEVER seen that. That is not good for the safety of our children. Kids were just going down as they wanted. We thought it was going to be a hot day but it ended up being cloudy and rained for a short period of time. Called the office to see if we could get a rain check bc we just got there at 1230 & started raining at 2 but they said the rain should stop. We drive over an hour to go here so we will not come again bc today was SO disappointing. It’s sad bc we LOVE going & usually pass up so many places to go here. Update: there were three teenagers (overheard them say they were 19) drunk & and being served at this waterpark. They were cussing and talking very inappropriate & stumbling everywhere causing a scene. Two of them went to the deep end where lifeguards were giggling back & forth talking about them on their walk talkies. Lifeguards got themselves prepared to rescue as the could tell she was WASTED and then… she had to be rescued. I told the manager that I over heard them saying it was the parks fault for serving them alcohol when they weren’t old enough. The manager did not seem too concerned and was still allowing them to stumble Throughout the park. The girl that had to be saved in the deep end, could barely put her sandals on as she kept falling over. I wanted to tell the manager so that he could make sure everything was OK with them and that they weren’t going to get in the car and leave because that can cause big problems for the waterpark And obviously unsafe for them. As I was leaving, the sheriff department pulled up….. not sure what happened after that, But I would highly recommend not visiting this place until they can get it...