Water Park Expansion

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My moneys on FParker.

[acquaz10]

I confused him with someone else. My apologies.

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Theres a lazy river that goes behind it and a big play structure like at the SFMM one to the left. Also infront of it there's a small little octopus thing and a little pirate ship. But you're one of the people that complains about Great America never getting thrills so I can see where you're coming from.

We already have a lazy river, wavepool, and big play structure that are only 5 years old. So how would this help us? I wouldn't exactly call this big thrills either!

[acquaz10]

^Its for little kids! Obviously it wouldn't help just you but the families. Thats what the ProSlide Topsy Turvy and ProSlide Rocket would be for. For you This way you have the thrill seekers coming in and the families coming in. The families will spend extra money to rent out the provided cabana's. Trust me. They get rented out in a few hours.

Also, I know I'm always mentioning SFNE, but you mentioned already having a lazy river and wave pool. Guess what? Splash Island made the water park even better even though it was the third lazy river and third wave pool. The little kids aren't big enough to do the big big wave pool that most people do. So this one is a shallow one. Then the third one is for the medium kids, I don't know its somewhat pointless with somewhat smaller waves. Its like the second one at Aquatica if you have ever been there.

Now for the three lazy rivers. You have the 100 ft one in Mr. Six Splash Island with a bird animinatronic type thing on topic of a boat that squirts water at you, and other things to get you wet. A usual lazy river and an adventure river, where you don't use tubes and it uses jets to pull you extremely fast-for the thrill seekers. I personally love this one. Goes to show that you can have more than one of the same thing that serve different purposes for different groups.

[tribar]

I wish HH had the fast lazy river

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[quote="acquaz10"]

I really hope all this does not happen. It would take up a ton of space and we have so many waterparks within reasonable driving distance already. I would much rather see any money spent on the dry park where it can used the whole season.

[tribar]

Good point we don't really have any theme parks anywhere close but we have lots of waterparks Wis Dells for starters

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Not only that, but Raging Waters just opened in Illinois in 2008. I've never been there, but looking at reviews it looks like a slightly smaller version of Hurricane Harbor. I would imagine the owners probably left some room for expansion, but I'm speculating there. Attendance appears to be about 3000 day and it's considerably cheaper than a 1 day pass at Great America....... Is there even a market for an expanded HH? And yes, there are so many in the Dells already.

[Jcoaster95]

Raging Waves has a HUGE amount of space for expansion. They have room for just about anything you can think of.

[david]

I think the reason that HH has only received one expansion from the day it opened, is because they had a lot of practice with water parks, so they knew what was good, and what wasn't. I think our Harbor is near perfect, it just needs a hydromagnetic water slide, or something that interesting, then I think they can call it a perfect water park.

[monsterfan99]

The families will spend extra money to rent out the provided cabana's. Trust me. They get rented out in a few hours.

If it is ever added, this will be why. Private cabana's with cable and such are huge money for indoor water park resorts. I can see SF capitalizing on it as well.

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Can't cabana's just be added to what is already there? I don't see why there would have to be a significant space addition to accomodate these.

[Ilovthevu']

^We have cabanas already. They are right next to the wavepool. You guys should go to the waterpark more.

I just hope what they build it isn't a lot of slides on one complex because when Six Flags does that, they understaff the stuff (Only 2 per complex I wish they would have.), and on top of that, people don't care to keep up going the same complex over and over again because they think that all the slides are the same. More lines on more complexes equals more of a spread out feeling of a park.

[FParker185]

not sure Tornado was really an expansion or addition, it was planned and most of it was built during the original construction, they put bushes around all the footers and filled in the splashdown pool with sand for the one year. They just delayed it a year so they could have an addition at no real additional cost

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You're right Vu. I've only spent about 4 days at HH since it opened. GF said she saw the cabana's there, but I totally missed them. I guess I just haven't been much of a waterpark person the last few years.