Disaster at Six Flags
Published by Sara on Tagged UncategorizedA couple of weekends ago it was pretty hot and muggy and we REALLY wanted to go to a local water park. But which do we go to?
We considered some small local ones like The Water Mine and SplashDown Waterpark and even considered heading down to Kings Dominion which is an hour and a half away. I decided I wanted to stay closer so I did some more research. I found out that the Six Flags in Maryland has a water park and is supposed to have one of the BEST wave pools in the country. Score!
I went to the Six Flags website and saw they were offering all of their tickets for the price of a child’s ticket. Double score. I was really excited that we had gotten a good deal on the tickets and were headed to a fun water park!
We arrived at Six Flags at approximately 11:30 AM. There was a long line to get into the parking lot, but it really didn’t bother us at all. We opted to pay the extra $5 for VIP parking so we could beat some of the people in. When we get inside the park, we immediately head towards the water park since that is really the goal for the day. Once we get there, we rent a locker to store our keys and our clothes. We forgot to bring sunscreen so I went to the shops and they were all sold out unless you counted the 8 SPF sun tan lotion. Well, 8 SPF is better than nothing; I figured I would just need to watch the kids closely. At the locker area, i looked down on the ground. There was squished ketchup packets and plenty of other things I couldn’t identify just thrown down on the floor. It was really pretty gross. I was anxious to get out of there and get into the water.
Little did I know that the ketchup packet was just the beginning. We started heading towards the wave pool and see that the no one is in the pool. We assume they are taking a break and will open it in 10 minutes or so. We head down to the kids play area. It looks nice and big from a distance but once you get close, you see all of the disgusting things on the ground. We let the kids go into the wade pool and stepped in ourselves. I felt extremely dirty all of the sudden. Walking through patches of warm water grosses me out just a little bit. We let the kids play for about 20 minutes then we decided we needed to check on the wave pool because surely that would be cleaner. We headed over there and noticed the pool was still closed. On the way there, we saw drinks spilled on the ground and what looked to be vomit. After speaking to a security guard, he said they had a spontaneous water quality check and they had to close the pool. We were officially grossed out and decided to leave. Nevermind the fact that we spend $115 on tickets and parking, we were leaving as fast as we could.
I don’t consider myself a clean freak by any means but being there made me feel extremely dirty. I will never go back there. Yuck.
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