Dorney Park and Wild Water Kingdom August 10, 2007
Posted by Joe in : Entertainment , trackback
My girlfriend and I recently went to Dorney Park. Its a 2 hour drive from our house but friends said it was worthwhile. We live right down the road from Six Flags Great Adventure here in NJ, which also has a water park (Hurricane Harbor). In search of something new, away we went to Dorney Park.
We bought discounted tickets from Acme for $27 a piece. That was a bargain since its good for both parks. Unfortunately, we only went to one.
Wild Water Kingdom, to be frank, sucked. Let’s just call it Calm Dribble Pond. The slides sucked. They were slow, lines were long, and there wasn’t much variety. The two lazy rivers were packed with people and had way too many waterfalls making it not so lazy. You also had to wait in line to get in the lazy river. What the hell is that?
But my biggest gripe? Chairs. There were maybe 100 chairs available for laying out and leaving your towel, sunblock, etc. for easily 500-1,000 people. Maybe more. Rediculous. We ended up having to leave our things on the grass behind the main wave pool. Oh, and they advertise their huge wave pool (millions of gallons, blah blah) on their website, but when you get there, it’s divided in two sections, and one of the sections is closed off. Needless to say, everyone gets crammed into one half of the wave pool. Lame.
So, after sweating our asses off waiting in line for the lazy river for about a half hour in 100 degree heat, we decided to go home. Screw Dorney Park and Steel Force and all the rest. Not a good experience. There wasn’t even 1/10th enough seating if you wanted to buy food in the water park. Are you supposed to eat it standing up? I don’t understand what the problem with chairs is for Dorney Park.
I’ll upload a few pictures I snapped (later today) of everyone sitting on grass and the 80 or so chairs there were available by the wave pool. Quite amusing.
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