点评:I debated even writing a review, since this place is (thankfully) closing in a few months anyway. But since there isn’t a single review from 2026, it seems no one else is bothering to warn people about this place, and if I can save even one person from wasting their money on this Colossal Destroyer Of Money And Fun over the next few months, I will (it’s worth noting that the terrible reviews stretch back 19 years... so clearly the owners and management have long been aware their business is awful and just never cared – nothing has ever changed).
In short, this is the worst “attraction” experience I’ve ever had in my entire life. Do. Not. Go. There. You can’t imagine a bigger waste of money, or a more poorly run establishment. If you’d like more details, read on.
Let’s start with the astronomical cost involved. If this had cost me twenty bucks, I’d still be disappointed and think the place was trash, but I’d be like “okay, lesson learned.” Instead, it cost us $180 for two people plus parking, just to get in. That’s right, you pay $25 extra just to park there - evidently the $65 admission fee isn’t enough to cover that. And then there’s the lockers ($16 for a tiny slot that could barely fit my backpack) and absurdly overpriced, terrible food ($16 for a tiny burger that was essentially a slider made of cardboard).
Then there’s the fact that the place is 100% staffed by children. I’m not even exaggerating. Most of them appear to be 14 / 15 /16, and I definitely didn’t see a single person over the age of 18. Look, I get it, places like this hire seasonal workers, and those are often teenagers. But shouldn’t there be at least ONE responsible adult present? Somewhere onsite? A supervisor? Someone to make sure the children are actually, you know, doing their jobs? Spoiler: 2026 teenagers don’t care about anyone but themselves, and boy do these teenagers let the customers know it. In exchange for our $200+ we got sighing and eye rolling, glaring and barked orders, attitude and power tripping. How can you expect any establishment to function well when you have zero reliable staff or anyone who actually cares about their job? It was very clear that none of these children cared at all about the customer experience (just FYI to the staff – no one can hear a single word you’re saying at the bottom of the slides, given all the water rushing out - so maybe just save all the yelling).
Why only be open from 11 to 6, especially when you’re charging this much? Kind of feels like 9 to 8 would be more appropriate, especially since it’s light out until after 9:00 in the summer. Even if the park were great (which it’s very much not), it would be really difficult to get your money’s worth in such a short time, and when you’re mostly waiting in long lines all day, it’s hard to even get around to each slide once. I guess they need to close at 6:00 so all the child staffers can hurry home to stare at their phones all night.
We specifically picked a weekday so it wouldn’t be as busy, but the place was still absurdly packed, with huge long lines for literally everything – we spent so much time in line, we didn’t even get to ride everything. Given how awful this place is, and the high cost, I legit can’t believe how popular it evidently is. It’s not like there’s nothing else to do in Washington State, and a lot of them are free.
Within 15 minutes of the gates opening, all the deck chairs in the place had been “reserved” with people’s towels and belongings. They need four or five or six times as many as the very few they have available, especially given that there’s no grass to sit on, just hot pavement. Just silly.
There are, inexplicably, NO changing rooms onsite. So you have to go change in a bathroom stall, and there aren’t many of those, so you do the math (also, you don’t want to be doing much of anything in any public bathroom stall – gross).
The so-called ”wave pool” does not work. There are NO WAVES. And they close it altogether for extended periods of time for no apparent reason, forcing everyone to stand on the sidelines in the blazing sun. It’s a super packed wading pool, nothing more.
The “Raging River” ride closed two hours early, without any posted reason. We had looked forward to it but never got the chance, because of all the waiting in lines all day. We were raging, all right.
The entire park is covered in concrete, with almost no grass, and shade only in the upper part of the so-called amusement park, nowhere in the waterpark. On an 85 degree day, this alone made for a super unpleasant experience, especially since we spent 90% of our time at the park waiting in line in the direct sun. Maybe put up canopies over the stairs, if you’re going to force people to wait that long? No? That would make things too pleasant? Cool.
Why require a tube for EVERY slide? I’d much prefer regular water slides where you’re actually IN the water – it’s cooler, you go faster, it’s way more fun, and you don’t have to lug a giant tube up several flights of stairs (the glaring child lifeguards are NOT happy when they have one of their very-frequent shift changes and you are in their way on the stairs – sorry, I’m just standing here in the sun for an hour and paying your salary; my bad). I couldn’t believe there wasn’t a single regular water slide in the whole place.
Even given all of the above, the absurdly long waterpark lines were by far the worst aspect of this awful experience, and the wait times should be completely unnecessary, if anyone actually knew what they were doing (or cared at all about the customer experience). I have never witnessed anything so inefficient and poorly run in my entire life. We waited, on average, for 45-60 minutes for a ride that lasted 30 seconds. Why? Because the “staff” (children who don’t give a F) don’t keep the lines moving at all. They could be sending the next person down when the previous person is halfway down the slide, and there would be ample time for the person to clear the pool at the bottom before the next person comes out. This is how waterparks are usually run. Instead, they won’t even get the next person ready sitting on the tube at the top of the slide until the previous person is already out of the pool at the bottom. On the four-slide tower (Konga Slides), which has 8 spaces for tubes to be ready to go at the top, fewer than half of those were occupied at any given time. Since the bottoms of the four slides are completely separated, there is no danger of anyone colliding, so they could (should) all be running simultaneously. But no. Instead, they wait, and wait, and wait. They send a single person every four minutes or more. No wonder the lines take at least 45 minutes. It’s ridiculous. The delay between riders was so exaggerated and ludicrous that we actually started to wonder if the child staffers were doing it on purpose to show extra contempt for the sunburned customers paying their wages. Based on the general attitude we got from all of them, it would not surprise me in the least.
Do not go there. Just don’t. You will regret it as much as we did.
When I first heard the news about Wild Waves closing permanently after the 2026 season, I thought it was kind of sad. But now, having visited, I think it’s better for everyone that it gets bulldozed to the ground and turned into a warehouse. Adios.
翻译:我原本还在犹豫是否要写评论,毕竟这家店几个月后就会关门大吉了(谢天谢地)。不过由于2026年之后没有任何评论,看来也没人会费心去提醒其他人远离这家店了。如果我能在未来几个月里让哪怕只有一个人避免在这家“金钱与乐趣的粉碎机”上浪费金钱,我也算尽到了责任吧。值得一提的是,关于这家店的恶劣评价其实从19年前就开始出现了……显然,老板和管理层早就知道他们的经营状况糟糕透顶,却根本漠不关心——一切都毫无改善。
简而言之,这是我一生中经历过最糟糕的“旅游体验”。绝对不要去那儿。你根本无法想象还有比这更浪费钱、管理更混乱的地方了。如果想了解更多细节,请继续往下读。
先来说说高得离谱的费用吧。就算只收我20美元,我依然会感到失望,并觉得这家店烂透了。不过我通常会想:“好吧,这次算学到教训了。” 但实际上,我们两个人加上停车费,光是进入园区就花了180美元。没错,光是停车就要额外支付25美元——显然65美元的门票费还不足以覆盖这项开支。此外还有储物柜收费(一个勉强能放下我背包的小格子要16美元),食物价格更是离谱得离谱且难以下咽(一个小得可怜、吃起来像纸板做的汉堡也要16美元)。
还有一点就是,整个园区的工作人员全都是小孩子。我绝对没有夸大其词。他们大多数看起来也就14、15、16岁的样子,我压根没见到一个18岁以上的人。我明白,这种地方会雇佣季节性临时工,而这些人往往就是青少年。但至少应该有一个负责任的成年人在场吧?就在现场某个地方,比如主管之类的?得有人确保这些孩子真的在好好工作吧?剧透一下:2026年的青少年只关心自己,根本不在乎别人。这些青少年可真是毫不掩饰地让顾客们感受到他们的态度。为了支付200多美元的费用,我们换来的却是叹息、翻白眼、怒目而视以及粗暴的命令,还有傲慢的态度和滥用权力的行为。当一家店连一个可靠的员工都没有,也没有人真正在乎自己的工作时,又怎么能指望它正常运转呢?很明显,这些年轻人根本不在乎顾客的体验(顺便提醒一下员工们:在幻灯片播放时,下面根本没人能听清你们在说什么哦)。鉴于有这么多水倾泻而出——或许还是别喊叫了为好。
为什么开放时间只有11点到6点呢?尤其是当你们收取这么高的费用时。我觉得9点到8点会更合适,毕竟夏天9点以后天还亮着。即便这个游乐园真的很棒(事实上它一点都不棒),在这么短的开放时间内也很难物有所值;而且整天都得排着长队等候,连每一个滑梯都玩不到一次都很难。我猜他们必须在6点关门,这样所有年纪尚轻的员工就能赶回家整晚盯着手机了。
我们特意选了个工作日来参观,本以为人会少些,结果那里还是挤得不可开交,几乎所有项目前都排着超长的队伍——我们花太多时间排队了,以至于根本没机会玩到所有项目。考虑到这个地方环境糟糕且价格昂贵,我真不敢相信它居然如此受欢迎。华盛顿州又不是没有其他可玩的地方啊。而且其中很多都是免费的。
大门刚打开15分钟,那里的所有躺椅就被人们用毛巾和随身物品“占用”了。他们所需要的躺椅数量应该是现有数量的四倍、五倍甚至六倍,尤其是考虑到那里根本没有可以坐的草地,只有滚烫的人行道。真是荒谬至极。
莫名其妙的是,现场竟然没有任何更衣室。所以人们不得不在卫生间的隔间里换衣服,而这样的隔间也很少,具体情况大家可以自己算算(另外,你绝对不想在任何公共厕所的隔间里做任何事情——太恶心了。
所谓的“造浪池”根本没法用。根本没有浪。而且它常常毫无缘由地长时间关闭,逼得所有人只能站在烈日下干等着。其实它就是一个挤得水泄不通的浅水池罢了。
“狂野河流”游乐设施提前两小时关闭了,也没有任何公告说明原因。我们原本对此满怀期待,结果却连玩的机会都没有。因为一整天都在排队等候,我们气得不行。
整个乐园都铺满了混凝土,几乎没有草地;所谓的游乐园区域上方还有些阴凉处,但水上乐园里则完全没有阴凉。在气温高达85华氏度(约29摄氏度)的天气里,这种情况就让人体验极差——尤其是我们90%的时间都是在烈日下排队度过的。或许应该在楼梯处搭些遮阳棚吧。既然要强迫人们等那么久,那又何必呢?那样反而会让体验太愉快了吧?好吧。
为什么每个滑道都必须配一个泳圈呢?我更喜欢那种让人真正泡在水里的普通水滑道——那样更凉快,滑得也更快,有趣得多;而且也不用费劲把巨大的泳圈扛上好几层楼梯。(每当换班时,那些负责看护孩子的救生员可不会高兴看到有人在楼梯上挡路哦——不好意思啦。)我就这样在太阳下站了一个小时,相当于在帮你们发工资了;怪我咯)。我简直不敢相信整个乐园里竟然连一个常规的水滑梯都没有。
即便如此,那条长得离谱的水上乐园排队队伍仍是这次糟糕体验中最糟糕的方面。如果真有人懂得如何管理,或者哪怕稍微在乎一下顾客的体验,这些等待时间根本就不该出现。我这辈子从来没见过管理如此糟糕、效率如此低下的地方。我们平均要等45到60分钟,才能体验一次仅持续30秒的滑梯项目。为什么呢?因为那些“工作人员”(其实是一群根本漠不关心的孩子)根本不维持队列秩序。其实,当前一个游客才滑到滑梯一半时,他们就可以让下一个人开始下滑了;这样一来,下一个人从滑梯下来后也完全有充足的时间离开泳池区域。通常水上乐园都是这么运营的。事实上,直到前一个人完全离开底部的泳池后,他们才会让下一个人准备好坐进滑道顶部的管子中。在拥有四个滑道的塔楼(Konga Slides)上,虽然顶部有8个可供滑道准备就绪的位置,但任何时候这些位置被占用的都不到一半。由于四个滑道的底部完全互不相连,因此不存在任何人相撞的风险,所以这些滑道完全可以(也理应)同时运行。但事实并非如此。他们不停地等啊等。每隔四分钟左右才放一个人进去。怪不得排队时间至少要45分钟呢。简直荒谬至极。乘客之间的间隔时间被拉长到离谱的程度,我们甚至开始怀疑那些年轻员工是不是故意这么做,以此来表达对那些晒得黝黑、付了钱的顾客的蔑视。从他们的整体态度来看,这点也完全不让人意外。
千万别去那儿。绝对不要。你会像我们一样后悔的。
当我最初听说“Wild Waves”将在2026赛季后永久关闭时,我觉得挺伤感的。但如今亲自去了一趟后,我觉得把它拆掉并改造成仓库对大家来说才是最好的选择。再见了。