Water Works Park — Attraction in Tampa

Went to this park a few times, clean & fun for the kids. They have cool things to climb on & water spouts that squirt out of things w/ a huge bucket above that fills up w/ water & eventually tips over! There are bathrooms but we didn’t use them. I’m sure they are typical park restrooms. Also, there are awesome restaurants within walking distance, many to choose from. My youngest loves it here but sadly had my first bad experience at the water park.There were 2 teens telling a little girl, approx age 6 to throw a bucket of water at us 3 moms who were sitting together talking & watching our girls! Most of the water hit the other 2 moms I was with & when I saw the 2 teens laughing & whispering to the little girl again & she started walking towards us with another bucket of water, I stood up & said “please don’t throw that water at us again, it’s not right”. The little girl stopped & a lady walked over, asked if there was a problem, told her what happened & asked her if she knew the other 2 teens & she said no but the little girl was her granddaughter. She scolded her granddaughter & told her they were leaving b/c of what she did. The girl began to cry which made us moms feel a little bad b/c the 2 older teens put her up to it. One of the moms calmly went up to the teens & told them that it wasn’t fair to make a child do things like that & now she has to leave the park & she crying. The 2 teens went & told, I believe there mom & she comes walking over with a toddler but kept her distance & yelled out “hey, you white b*tches”! Game over, we headed out. Went back a few months later & thankfully no bad experience. Sadly, there will always be those ignorant individuals who you’ll encounter but just walk away, don’t confront them. You don’t know what you’re...

Love it live and work with in walking distance love my hood getting better all the time. Had a bit of a Lal but here we go again. Rents are going up. A good thing for some and for those of us that have been working on cleaning the area up will now be priced out. Same as when I lived in Hyde park it was hookers, crack houses and used car lots. Till we got rid of them cleaned up and fixed up then came the money and up went the rents so off to Tampa hights and Ybor we went will did the same thing as we had done it what is now The SoHo district and what do you get after years of hardcore work getting rid of the undesirables snd picking up others trash day after day your landlord wants to raise your rent over what you are able to afford and still eat. It sucks being the gentrification crowd. Were to now have to get to looking for the next place to start on its way up not going to work as hard for nothing but a nice job now get out from the money crowd...sad to have to leave the hood you know and love it's all good though it well cost him in the end in all the work he will have to do and the money he will have to put in the place to get what he wants it won't be cheep and will cost him more in...

I went here on a sunday afternoon with my son and wife. First thing I noticed was a piece of fried chicken on the floor in the childrens playground, within a minute I saw an unsupervised child eating it while walking around, I looked around for the parent of the child, nothing. The child swallowed a few bites before throwing it on the ground. Next thing I see, is other children picking up the leftover chicken, and throwing pieces into the air for seagulls to catch. Some of the pieces of chicken fell on the other children playing around. We told one of the children to stop throwing the fried chicken in the air, he walked off and kept doing it. No parents around. Then after the chicken was done, he kept throwing a plastic water gun in the air, trying to hit a seagull, eventually after hitting the ground numerous times the gun shattered and sharp plastic pieces scattered on the floor, (big accident waiting to happen, with lots of kids running around barefoot). Great place for kids to play, it just can be ruined by unsupervised unruly kids. I think going at different times during the week will produce different...