A nice variety of activities and all the life guards were friendly and helpful. Nice price too!…read moreOnly thing I would suggest is family friendlier music.

I don't care what nobody says, I love the Bay, I mean I know half of it is closed but what they…read moresuppose to do with half staff. They are not only ones, a life guard shortage across all KC. Some places have been closed all summer. The lifeguards are chill, the family pool and slide are out young families favorite. Today they opened up one of the big slides which was awesome. 4$ to get in and a regular pool with a bball hoop. They open at 12:30 but some days it's closer to 1 when more life guards show up. Again I'm not bothered by it, we bring lunch and hang out all day. They have a large parking lot, a playground and splash pad that's no cost. It's not the best but from my lounge chair by the pool it comes close:)

Came here on a cloudy Thursday right at open. Staff at the parking was NOT helpful. I have the…read moreunclose parking and drove to the regular parking (that person was helpful told me I had to go back to the road, come in again and stop at hut at the bottom). Did that and stopped at the booth/hut. Staff stared at me until I rolled down my window to let them know I had up close parking. Was waved to a little lot super close to the booth that was farther away than the regular parking. It was nice for getting out but people who parked in the regular lot were closer and got to the front faster than we did. Getting into park. We were standing at the Fast Lane desk, waiting for the park to open. Divided and conquered to send one person in to ask about them, person inside said they would do fast passes. Got out of line, went inside they said "No I am coming outside." Got fast pass and headed for the Riptide Raceway. Fast pass not needed as there was no line. Lifeguard at the top was so nice. Giving us tips, was nice when my kid let go of the mat and they had to call for a lifeguard to go down the slide to get it out. This ride uses a foam mat with plastic handles in the front. Rode Aruba Tuba. It drops you off into Coconut Cove which is the kiddie pool (3 feet deep everywhere except where the ride drops you off) this pool was closed as they were doing lifeguard drills. Staff was pretty rude about not allowing you in the pool. Seems they should have finished with training/drills prior to open but what do I know. This ride has 2 person tube or single tube. Typhoon was closed. Sad as it was my favorite ride when I was a kid and I wanted my kid to experience it. Used fast pass for Hurricane falls. We were the only ones in fast pass lane and we got on super quick. Ride was meh. One at Hurricane Harbor in STL was more fun. This ride needs multiple people working it. The poor lifeguard had to walk out of the pool, grab the raft from the lift, bring it to the pool, hold it steady, load passengers, help them push off, then repeat. Ride operations would have been improved by 2 lifeguards. Did all 3 slides on Shark's revenge. The purple one is completely enclosed, dark and has glowy lights. These are tube rides where you can ride a 2 person tube or a single tube. I rode 1 of 3 of Predator's plunge. Red was closed and I rode orange. Allegedly yellow is "slower." These are the slides where you stand on a ledge, they close the plexiglass cover (like a coffin) there is a robotic countdown then you are dropped down. This is a body slide vs using a tube or raft. Kidlet spent lots of time in the wave pool and checked out Captain Kidd's even though some of the slides on there were closed. We skipped: Caribbean Cooler, Crocodile Island, Flamingo Beach club (21+) and splash island. Did not purchase food or snacks. Tried to use our Icee plan. Staff refused to help us. Said we had to go to guest services. Guest services stated staff lied and they can help us and to go back, tell them or look for a supervisor. I chose to go to a different area to get an icee and had no issues. We had 2 icees while there. Pina colada for me and cherry for kidlet. The lockers here were much better (they could be kept open until you were ready to close it) although the locker we had was located in a row with a huge puddle. I was surprised they did not send someone over to sweep/squeegee the water away. They had one water bottle refilling station on the men's restroom but it did not work. The person at the icee hut let me fill my water bottle there. We made it longer at this park than HHSTL (5 hours vs 2). It was fun to revisit a park from my youth and take my kid. If in the area again I would go back, even though this park will no longer be on my Six flags pass as they were purchased and are under the management of Enchanted parks now. Lots of room for improvement with guest interactions but was an enjoyable day.

Wonderful day at Oceans of fun. Kids are having a great time. Almost everything is open. Super hot…read moretoday but plenty of seats still. The park is really clean overall. Guests seem happy here. Fun music playing by the wave pool and free ice water everywhere since it feels like it's 105 already. No issues at all keep it up guys. It's going to be a hot summer.

Ignore previous reviews, this is a nice water park and we enjoy going…read more We have gone yearly for many years with grandkids.

This place gave me and my kids lice. Complained to the manager when I saw a dead rat in the water…read moreand he proceeded to call me fat while I'm pregnant. Told me I was a bad mom. DO NOT RECOMMEND GOING HERE!!!

I was very disappointed that they only had the lazy river open and the water was so low. Also way…read moretoo many people to have only one attraction open. And pricey!! Not ever going back!

This is one of our favorites, this last time though the center play area was closed. I do wish…read morethey would go back to discounted evenings but the season pass is worth it. Teen life guards can be grumpy but I know they're out in the sun all day and probably not hydrating enough. Lazy river and whirlpool are pretty fun and what my kiddos always look forward to. Just started getting into the diving boards. Plenty of bathroom space and parking.

First timer at Great Wolf Lodge, and the experience has been mixed…read more On the plus side, it's a relatively cheap vacation not too far from home. The water park is solid. The room was spacious and easily accommodated our family of five. And when we weren't able to check in on time, they immediately and preemptively gave us free laser tag and mini golf passes for our whole stay. That is great customer service. Finally, this is a nice location, with close proximity to groceries and an outlet mall. On the negative, the hotel is really showing its age. Our faucet didn't work properly, our microwave had to be replaced, and our door needed to be slammed closed and pulled open hard. It's noisy too; our neighbors upstairs were not conducive to our sleep, as we heard their every step. Oh, and we did not know this until our third day, but you have to *ask* for housekeeping. I expect more when paying $350/night. As I said at the top, GWL is mixed. Not sure I'd come back, but fine for a one-time trip.

We stayed Sunday-Tuesday this past weekend, we booked the suite with the loft. When we arrived on…read moreSunday, we opted to do mobile check in however, we needed to wait in line to speak to the front desk to grab our wolf passes and add an additional car for parking. During check in time the lobby was hectic and there is only two elevators on property, which meant a lot of waiting around with the luggage. Once we arrived in our room, our top deadbolt lock was broken on the door. I used the app to report it and maintenance did come within an hour to fix it. The rooms were fine, clean. We didn't hear anyone during our sleep which was nice. The upstairs lot got hot so we did have to keep the AC running pretty regularly throughout the night. We booked the private cabana for about $400 and honestly we all agreed we would pay for it again. It was nice to have a private area and was perfect for my 2 year old to chill out when she needed. The cabana included 4 unlimited drink cups, two branded towels to keep, pizza, wings, cheese bread and two additional travel cups. We did have a server there too if we wanted to order more items. My kids loved the waterpark, however one slide was off for one of the days that we were there. There was plenty of staff and lifeguards around. The downside is that the waterpark doesn't open until 10am. It would be nice if they opened the waterpark earlier, or had earlier hours for hotel guests and then opened to the public at 10. We did the wolf passes, and my son loved the MagiQuest. The wands that are included are pretty basic, but they do have upgraded wands that you can purchase that light up and have fun toppers. Pricing is between $20-$30 per wand. Wolf passes included an ice cream - the shop was very slow and out of a lot of options. The ice cream machine was down so we could only order hard ice cream and those options were quickly gone. We got the candy cup (included), honestly I was impressed with the amount of candy the kids got. This was self served. The laser tag game was fun, and lasted about 5-7 minutes. Kids under the age of 7 must have a parent with them in the laser tag arena. The arcade is open 24/7. They had some fun games that my kids enjoyed. With the Wolf passes you get three games to play so it goes quick. We looked at reloading on a card but the cheapest option was $20, which wasn't worth it for our family. Build a bear that was included in the package was a brown or white bear, again pretty basic. No worries, because they have plenty of other options you can purchase at a cost. The downside is that I had to go ask employee where we find the bears included, they weren't set out, so of course by the time the employee helped us my kids had scouted out other "more fun or colorful" options. Towards the end of our stay, one out of the two elevators was down. Which caused a lot of backup in the hallways. Overall my kids 2 and 5 year old loved their stay. I wish there were more things to do in the morning. Quiet hours are between 11pm-7am. I was hoping we could walk around and do MagiQuest when we woke up but it doesn't start until 9am. Pool, laser tag and mini golf doesn't open until 10am. I am surprised for a place designed for kids there wasn't more options for earlier activities.

June 2026- DO NOT COME HERE IF YOU ARE HANDICAPPED and want to ride coasters…read more So here is my June 2026 review...and I can't wait to update this in a few years. This park has a lot of potential. I can't wait to see what the Enchanted people do to/for it. There were a lot of rides down, like a lot a lot. Someone in the parking lot warned us as they were coming out and we were going in that "more than half the park is closed" and he wasn't wrong, but not being locals these were the two days on our road trip that we could come to this park. A bunch were down for the two days we were there with nothing to indicate they were going to open...Others had opened and closed a few times over the two days. There are walking paths that would have made life on this forty-something year old easier that were blocked off for the train tracks. (I imagine on years when they were better staffed they had someone at these spots to open and close the gates as needed for the train.) These spots would have saved a good amount of time, and some energy. It frustrating to see where you need to get to, but you have to walk pretty far out of the way...and in at least on spot down a steep hill and back up it so you go under the train to get there. The few restrooms I went in seemed clean enough...pretty good actually for an amusement park. The staff I encountered seemed nice enough....but should realize that if someone is getting an ADA pass because they don't get along with stairs, maybe let those people know it's going to be a rough day and elevators may as well not exist in this park. Really, there should be staff at the ride entrances for all of the rides. They should be able to tell you where the ada entrance to the ride is located. (The entrance to the ada isn't always obvious. It's often the exit to the ride, but if you've never done a ride before then you don't know where you're going to come out.) If there was a staff member at the entrance to each ride they could let you know that either the elevator doesn't work, or that you need staff to help you with the elevators? I'm not even sure if all of the elevators needed staff/ a key to operate, or if every one was just broken, but since you couldn't find an employee outside of the stations there was no one to ask, so either you're not riding or stuck figuring out the stairs. (Thank god for my husband and his patience) Long story short, they need to get their act together concerning ada/ride accessibility. They need to staff the park better.

Came here on a Friday in summer. Very hot. Limited shade. Pro was water refilling bottle…read morestations at every bathroom we saw. Got inside and headed to Plaza Gifts to get our fast passes. Proceeded to ride Zambezi Zinger and Viking Voyager with fast pass. Got into the FP line for Mamba. Proceeded to watch the employee let everyone in the non fast lane in before us. Comes over to tell us we have the wrong color wristband on. I explain this is what we were given and we have already ridden rides with it. They say supervisor will not allow us to ride, we have to get new updated bands. Trek back to the photo booth at the end of Mamba to get new bands, trek back up. This was one of the better rides in the park and a favorite from when I was a kid. Rides we rode and thoughts: 1. Cyclone Sam's- no fast pass but can hold a lot of people. Appreciated the a/c 2. Flying dutchman. Only rode since there was no line and appreciated the breeze 3. Fury of the Nile-was closed at the beginning of the day, opened. Appreciated it had fast pass. Please get the poor employees who work down there some shade. I felt so sorry for them. 4. Le Taxi Tour-says on their website has fast pass. it does not. Can take a while since families will have 10 different cars so every person in the family can "drive" 5. Mamba-see above 6. Patriot-had fast pass. Best ride there 7. Prowler-had fast pass. Pretty rough 8. Spinning dragons- has fast pass but you have to buy it? Band you buy for the day does not include it. LAME 9. Timberwolf - on their website says it is on fast pass but they do not have fast pass. ride closed while we were in line. Sad as this ride was around from when I was a kid and I wanted my kid to ride it. 10. Viking Voyager-had FP, used it, didn't need it. Was different than I remember it as a kid. Didn't get wet. 11. Zambezi Zinger-different than when I was kid. It was a good ride. Rides that were closed: 1. Skyliner- this is a ferris wheel 2. Steel Hawk-swings 3. Zulu-closed, one of my favorite rides when I was younger. 4. Scrambler-why is this on Fast pass? it was closed 5. Sea Dragon Rides we skipped cause we like the thrill rides: 1. Autobahn 2. Bamboozler- I wanted to ride for memories, kidlet said no, too similar to ride where we live 3. Detonator-it is so small. Like why is the tower so tall but the ride only goes up a small height? Ride similar to this where I live is 100 feet taller 4. Fjord Fairlane 5. Mustang Runner-on FP 6. Nordic Chaser Kidlet tried to get an icee but it took over 30 minutes because people kept cutting them in line. Found another icee place and got an icee. Kidlet said person working there was basically giving them to everyone for free. Did not eat at this park. Had up close parking and when I told the person they sent me to the same lot everyone else is parking in. Was sad that a place that held such fond memories from when I was a kid, was so unpleasant to visit as an adult. I don't live any where near here so will not be returning.

This place is awesome!…read more First, there's a lot to do: -Totally little kid friendly area. They call this the zero depth area. Two kinds of slides, interactive fountains and fenced in. -Lap Swim area - even during peak hours, they maintained a few lanes for lap swimmers. -Normal "pool" areas varying from 3ft to 6ft. -A "lillypad" challenge. Put your ego aside because the kids will kick your butt, but it's super fun. -Diving boards (low and higher - I think apx 3 m) -Aqua wall (like a rock wall) -two slides Note: What I love about the slides, they have double tubes so you can take your little one with you. This policy/allowance SAVED THE DAY -Lazy river So why is that important? Because you can keep rotating through the various activities and really enjoy a good, long time there. Finally - their staff is top notch. Super helpful, engaging, nearly always smiling. Shawnee is lucky to have this place! It's worth the drive!

I'm a long time Johnson County resident and live not far from this pool. I used to bring my…read moregrandkids for years and had a membership. This is the first time I've been back in probably four years. We tried out there twilight hours for the pool, which are from 6 PM to 8 PM. It seems to be the least busiest and also it's not blazing sun, and there's more chairs to choose from with umbrellas at that time. I brought my 12 year-old granddaughter, my eight-year-old granddaughter and my six-year-old granddaughter. They had a great time in the pool, but there were several things they were disappointed by. They wanted to go down the lazy river in one of the Floaties and even though there weren't that many people they did not have very many Floaties to use. Also, they had the slide closed down that you go down with on the Floaties. They did have a good amount of lifeguards who are paying attention. I think the one negative it seemed like there were no adults on the premises, it was all teenagers. Now I will say that the teens were doing their job and we're not messing around and very attentive. But I do believe they need an adult to handle unruly people or people trying to sneak in to the pool without paying. There was a line to get in at the 6 PM twilight hours. And everyone was waiting patiently, but there was only one teenage boy at the checkout. There were three adult women in their 20s, who clearly went around the line and snuck in the side door and were bold about it. I do believe that the young man saw them and just didn't want to deal with them. When I got up to the cash register to pay, he was friendly and he asked if I was a resident of Shawnee and I said yes, and he asked to see my drivers license which I have no problem with. I think that's a good thing but it's still irritating that he knew they had snuck in and did nothing about it. I paid by Apple Pay and then I got one lifejacket for the smaller granddaughter and the other granddaughter who is a brought her own. I found a seat easily and watched the kids enjoy the water. The pool seemed clean and fresh. The bathrooms were another matter, the women's bathroom was a mess, and I tried to put my purse in a variety of lockers on the outside that did not work. I finally found one that worked with my lock that I brought so that I could swim. I enjoyed the pool as well and most people behaved themselves. There will always be some kids that they need to blow the whistle on about rules that need to be obeyed for the safety of others. And the last comment I have was, I was sitting in a chair by the lazy river, watching the grandkids go by and there were what appeared to be older teens. There were two girls and one boy. The girl punched the boy and proceeded to call him racial slurs in a negative connotation, (she was the same race). She kept hitting him and he did not hit her back and he just tried to hold her wrist to prevent it. The lifeguard clearly saw what was going on and did not blow the whistle or say "Hey, stop that or you're going to have to leave. " He clearly just turned his back on it and did not want to deal with it. The other girl was embarrassed and saw everyone looking, and she de-escalate the situation. So that was concerning to me because what if it was a larger crowd that got into an altercation around all of the children that were there. I absolutely know that the lifeguards could not handle the situation and they would have to leave their posts which then leaves the swimmers at risk. They need to definitely have an adult or several on the premises, particularly a security guard to make people think twice about their actions.

In a bit of a sketchy neighborhood however, this is a great place for family fun!…read more My son, loves to play here and the reward gifts are funny and appropriate. Age limit on the games, I would say 13-14 due to video games. Wednesdays they have a special of 60 tokens for $10 which is a steal as 100 tokens are like $20-25 regularly. If you are hungry there is Sonic right across the street. In addition to the arcade, they have go-kart track , and four 18- hole mini. I love to golf so this is a PLUS! I am a frequent visitor here. Sorry nothing to rave about regarding the food.

The only good thing I can say about this mini-golf is that the course we chose was shaded. This…read moreplace is REALLY RUN-DOWN. Greens are ripped and full of ants. Structures are broken (windmill with no blades ). And we left after just doing 10 holes because we were getting mosquito bites. We noticed the family ahead of us, who seemed to be having a great time, was gone, too. Likely for the same reason. I wonder if, like us, they came because they remembered this being a nice, fun place. Sadly it's broken down over time and not bean updated, repaired, or sprayed for bugs!!