Disclosure: I received free tickets to Wildwater Kingdom as well as single meal vouchers for those in my party to facilitate this review. All opinions are honest, my own, and may differ from yours.
Are you looking for a place to cool off this summer? Someplace that has fun water activities for the whole family? Well, look no further than Wildwater Kingdom located in Aurora, Ohio.
My kids and I went to Wildwater Kingdom last weekend and had so much fun! Did you see my post on What to Pack for a Water Park Visit with Teens? Thanks to advanced planning, we had everything we needed for the day. When we first got to the park, we decided to eat first since it was lunch time. After a bit of wandering around, we found Happy Harbor Cafe and decided to eat there. I got the cheeseburger and fries, and my kids got the chicken fingers and fries. They were both tasty, and they give you a large portion.
You can buy a Dining Plan for $25.99. With this plan you get an entree and side at either Happy Harbor Cafe or Pizza Pier every 90 minutes. It is worth it if you are planning on eating more than twice during the day. If not, it would be less expensive to just buy the meals. They also have several cart type places where you can buy food, drinks, and snacks.
After we ate, we rented a locker to store our things in for the day. We even left our shoes in the lockers because about 90% of the people at the park were walking around barefoot. This only was an issue one time when the ground right by the lake was really hot on our feet. I’m not sure if it was the type of flooring used there or what, but you can avoid that area by walking on a different path. We did that on the way back!
Speaking of that path by the lake, here is a picture of Geauga Lake. Geauga Lake used to have an amusement park as well, but it closed down. I have a lot of fond memories of Geauga Lake Amusement Park. AND we used to have SeaWorld too…sigh.
After we stashed our stuff in our locker, we wandered over to Tidal Wave Bay. This is possibly my most favorite place in the park. The water was the perfect temperature. About every 15 minutes, the waves start coming and you get bounced all over the place! It is so much fun!
My second favorite place in the park is Riptide Run, which is Wildwater Kingdom’s lazy river. Grab a raft and float away. You’ll probably get very wet along the ride as there are lots of places where the water is falling on you, or the people on the bridge above may dump the water on you too!
If you have little ones, they will love hanging out at Splash Landing! “Splash Landing has four stories of water slides, soaking gadgets, geysers, water cannons and a giant bucket dropping 1,000 gallons of water every few minutes.” Fun, right?
For those of you who love the extreme, they’ve got the perfect water slides for you at Thunder Falls! Thunder Falls has Ohio’s tallest water slide! Are you brave enough? There is also Liquid Lightning in which you and your friends climb into a raft and slide into a huge funnel and get spun around!
The best deals for Wildwater Kingdom can be found online. If you are planning on visiting several times through the season, you’ll want to get a season pass. Two day tickets are available for $45. One time tickets can be bought at a discounted price of $25.99 online. You’ll save $7 off of the park price. Plan to pay $10 for parking too.
What is your favorite water park? Have you ever been to Wildwater Kingdom? I would love to hear what you think your favorite ride would be!
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That looks like so much fun! My boys love water parks and we are planning a trip to our local on on Sunday!
Yay, have fun!
I have never been there. Oh my goodness though, it looks like a blast!! I love water parks. 🙂
It’s so fun!
This is so great! There’s all kinds of slides to enjoy, AND it has those cute ducks and fish.
I know! You can’t go wrong with ducks 🙂
This looks like a great waterpark. My family loves to go to the waterpark near us. We have summer passes so we go every month.
If we lived closer, I would be getting season passes!
The tidal waves are always fun! This whole place is awesome. I think Liquid Lightning would be a blast.
Yes, they are! With my son being so tall, he was out in the deep waves lol.
Looks like a really fun place to go with the family. I think that meal plan price is well worth it.
It definitely is for the full day!
We love going to water parks. This looks like a really fun place as there are several pools.
It is very fun!
My kids would absolutely love to go to a place like this. We have only been to an indoor waterpark that was small. If we’re ever passing through Ohio, we’ll have to stop by!
Definitely! It is really fun!
Oh now this is my kind of place. It looks awesome, and that food? Looks amazing. Looks like they’ve got the whole package!
It was yummy and so much fun!
This sounds like such a fun theme park to visit! I’ve heard so many great things about it and would love to visit there someday myself with my son and husband.
It really is fun! Hope you get to go someday!
I have only been to a few water parks in my lifetime, but I really like the one at Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana. This one looks really nice, too!
I’ve never heard of that one. I’ll need to look it up.
This look slike so much fun for the whole family! We have a similar water park in my area and we love it.
Awesome! Water parks are sure fun.
This looks like so much fun. I want to take my kids to another Waterpark so hopefully my daughter can join us. She had to work the few days we have gone you do something.
It’s hard when they get older and have their own responsibilities.
We also have a similar water park here and we also enjoy the lazy river. The slides look challenging and fun to try!
Lazy rivers are the best…it’s like getting pushed in a stroller again lol.
What a fun place! We’ve never been to Wildwater Kingdom. We actually haven’t been to a water park here in the U.S. yet. It’s on our bucket list though.
It is a fun place!!
This is a place that my sweetie would love to visit – he love water parks – especially a good wave pool. I’m a foodie , so those chicken tenders caught my eye, and they look tasty.
He’d sure have fun then!
I absolutely love water parks! One of my favorite things about them is when the larger amusement parks have them. Great way to take a break from the roller coasters and such.
I do too! I just don’t like it when they charge extra for them!
This so looks to be my kind of place! It looks like heaps of fun and great food! I wish I were there now as I really do need to get away and feel like a child of five again! What a great family friendly place!
It is so nice having places like this close!
I have visit my share of water parks and this park seems to be well maintained and beautiful. There’s nothing that we dislike than visiting parks that are not maintained properly. Going to do some research on this park because we are planning a visit to Ohio soon.
Great! Yes, they take good care of this place for sure!