My daughter checked out this waterpark a few weeks ago and discovered they have a wave pool. My Autistic teen is obsessed with wave pools, but they are hard to find in Indiana. So while I had both of my granddaughters for an extended weekend, we decided to make a fun trip all together and check this place out.
Entry is cheap. They have resident/non resident prices. Adults are $5/6, students $4/5, small children $2/3. If they raised their prices even by just a dollar, I bet they'd be able to address some of the mounting issues.
My daughter had warned me that she found their locker room and bathrooms to be absolutely disgusting. So we wore our suits in, and changed my toddler granddaughters in the car. While it was hassle to do so, especially with an oven hot car afterwards, I was glad we did when I saw the bathrooms for myself. Absolutely nasty with at least an inch to 2inches of water standing everywhere. That's a great way to catch something nasty...or you know, encourage people to just pee in the pool. They have family restrooms, but they are always locked and can't be used. Huge negative for families with small children.
We were really frustrated, watching people literally hoard the inner tubes. Everywhere you looked, people had the tubes stacked up by their chairs or were lounging in the sun in them. The wave pool is not very big and it overcrowds quickly. Having an inner tube to cushion yourself from the blows of all the other people in the water is nice. And if you don't have a tube, all the other people in tubes almost become a danger to you at times. I was lucky to procure a discarded tube, by chance, as we made our way out to the deeper end. Pretty sure someone fell off...and I hope it was one of those people that had been hoarding stacks of tubes with their chairs/towels.
We were shocked to find it so completely packed on a Monday. And then watched in horror as a bus of kids from day camp showed up. There were so many people that my teen son just couldn't handle it and spent most of our visit hanging out on his towel.
The area that's designed for younger kids was pretty cool, except for the huge bucket of water that dumps from up high. There is so much water, coming down at such a force that it knocks smaller children down, and even a few unsuspecting adults. It's really a bit much.
There was also the issue of the lifeguard assigned to the kiddie area. He literally did nothing but stand there and gaze off in another direction. There's 3 little slides, but the biggest slide gets most of the action. There is no one monitoring, except for the few parents that stand nearby. But no one really intervenes as the kids pile up at the bottom of the slide and knock others forward. There were often children that were to old to be playing in that area, actually knocking over and shoving small children...and the lifeguard seemed oblivious.
The lazy river is extremely tiny. Why they call it the lazy river is beyond me, because...the tube hoarding situation. The small, narrow "river" doesn't give much room for inner tubes anyway. There were only people wading thru the moving water and no tubes in there when we went thru it.
The 2 big water slides, we weren't able to go down because of having my granddaughters and my daughter being so pregnant. My teen son did go down them a few times and said they were pretty fun.
If it weren't for the fact it's so cheap, I'd give Seashore Waterpark only 2 stars. It's a neat little waterpark, little being the keyword. But it definitely has many areas they could improve. read more