Overpriced, Dirty, and Poor Management
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 08/07/09
On 8-6-09, I took my son and his friends to Big Splash which is an hour and 45 min drive one way. We live in Arkansas. For 1 adult and 5 kids under the age of 12, I paid $200 to get in. As we are floating in the lazy river, I notice all this trash in the river with me. QT cups, leaves, etc. The lifeguards working the slides and the tunnel are too busy worring about what they look like, and flirting with the opposite sex to do their job. When my son was exiting the big pink slide, he was pushed under water by the person behind him. The lifeguard at the bottom of the slides was too busy talking to friends to even notice my son having trouble trying to get up bc the person who went behind him was in a raft on top of my son's head. If the lifeguard on top of the slide was paying attention and timing the patrons on the slide, it could have easily been prevented. Even when fellow lifeguards are needing to get the attention of another lifeguard and using a whistle, they cant even manage to get the attention bc the lifeguards are too busy talking to others than to do their job. There is no visable security to run off the bad apples, The equipment is outdated. The wave pool will go for about 7 min and then shut off for about 15 minutes. For $25 bucks a person, it is definately not worth it.
