- June 30th, 2007, 2:23 pm
#21262
So the other day (Thursday) my friends and I decided to hit up the water park for the first time this year.
Some things have definitely changed. Has anybody noticed that the wave pool is shallower. Last year you could go to eight feet and still not be at the "line", Now it is six feet for a long ways. Why did they do this. They kinda messed up the waves by doing it. They no longer crash around 2 1/2 feet-3 ft. Now the only crashing is a tiny one right at the entry way.
They probably did it for safety, but still, its not as fun as it used to be. No more body surfing the waves in the shallow end.
I also have noticed the lack of tubes. Last year they were lacking a lot for the slides, and this year there seem to be less. I would much rather hold onto a tube and weight in line on the tower instead of waiting for a tube on the blazing hot conrete.
One thing that annoyed me was how for the lazy river you can now only enter at one point. Thats no bid deal, but there were not enough tubes. I saw a ton of them at the other enterance that were on stands not being used that could have been utilized to keep lines down.
Oh, and Pipeline Peak was down. I have noticed that this year a lot of the rides are down. Every week we go and one or even two rides are down, last week it was top gun. Now don't get me wrong, i think cedar fair can and will do amazing things, but with paramount the rides always seemed to be running. and if they did break down they would be fixed promptly.
I do wish the South Gate would be open. You only need like 3-4 people to open it. We parked almost at the south gate thursday and had to walk all the way to the north gate. They had four people at the parking toll, which in the middle of the afternoon is really not needed. Once you see the parking lot filling up and people parking almost at the south gate, you need to open it up. Our last ride of the day was Top Gun and we had to walk all the way back and then all the way to where we parked, which took 15-20 mins.
I love Carowinds, but this is one of the few times that I have ever been not happy with a visit.
Some things have definitely changed. Has anybody noticed that the wave pool is shallower. Last year you could go to eight feet and still not be at the "line", Now it is six feet for a long ways. Why did they do this. They kinda messed up the waves by doing it. They no longer crash around 2 1/2 feet-3 ft. Now the only crashing is a tiny one right at the entry way.
They probably did it for safety, but still, its not as fun as it used to be. No more body surfing the waves in the shallow end.
I also have noticed the lack of tubes. Last year they were lacking a lot for the slides, and this year there seem to be less. I would much rather hold onto a tube and weight in line on the tower instead of waiting for a tube on the blazing hot conrete.
One thing that annoyed me was how for the lazy river you can now only enter at one point. Thats no bid deal, but there were not enough tubes. I saw a ton of them at the other enterance that were on stands not being used that could have been utilized to keep lines down.
Oh, and Pipeline Peak was down. I have noticed that this year a lot of the rides are down. Every week we go and one or even two rides are down, last week it was top gun. Now don't get me wrong, i think cedar fair can and will do amazing things, but with paramount the rides always seemed to be running. and if they did break down they would be fixed promptly.
I do wish the South Gate would be open. You only need like 3-4 people to open it. We parked almost at the south gate thursday and had to walk all the way to the north gate. They had four people at the parking toll, which in the middle of the afternoon is really not needed. Once you see the parking lot filling up and people parking almost at the south gate, you need to open it up. Our last ride of the day was Top Gun and we had to walk all the way back and then all the way to where we parked, which took 15-20 mins.
I love Carowinds, but this is one of the few times that I have ever been not happy with a visit.
Hmm......I have no sig.
However, the person I was with while visiting the park is nearly 70, and I am sure they would have appreciated a tram or another gate being open nearer "the Outback" where we had to park, LOL!
