Jolly Roger Amusement Park

Onlookers is a unique experience. The joy I got out of watching the "employees" use the "services" I payed for was a true thrill. It's quite a novel idea really: You pay they play. I tried to keep this theme going for the rest of my vacation. I went out to dinner later and payed the waiter to eat my food while I watched and it looked delicous. Then I went to a bar to pay the bar tab for the bartender: what a time he was having. After that I let a homeles man sleep in my hotel room; He looked rested and refreshed the next morning as I made the bed and scrubbed the bathroom down. To finish off my Jolly Roger weekend I had one of my buddies kick me in the nuts and burn all my money.

My recommendation is to stay far away from here and stay home to masturbate instead because either way, you are ultimately just screwing yourself. Words cannot describe what a scam this place is nor how dangerous their go-carts are. Actually, why call them go-carts when all they do is stop? We bought "unlimited ride passes" but most in the group did not get to ride any actual carts. What a deal, especially in a recession. The only thing they do properly is cut your brakes on a hill thus rendering you even more defenseless than when you ask for a refund. You and your kids would have more fun if you buried them up to their necks on the beach and rubbed sand in their eyes.....eeuuhhhh! This would provide the same stellar atmosphere as the Jolly Rip-Off but at least you would have your dignity, a functioning spinal cord, and $100 left over for some pina colada's at Fish Tales. The best part is that if you attempt to complain, you better speak at least 14 different Eastern European languages. Their are only 2 employees who speaks English: one is the brightly colored cotton-candy lady (but be prepared, she only has 3 teeth and tends to spit as she yells for you to leave) and the other is the self-proclaimed "Managaa" of the F1 racers (but dont worry about him, he doesnt have time to talk because he is busy monopolizing the fun associated with any customers actually getting to use the race-car). He is actually a good driver though....at least what I saw druing teh 43 laps he took while custoemrs waited in line. Did I mention we were paying customers? I cant speak from experience about the water park but my guess is that once you climb the 27 flights of stairs to the top of the slide, they tell you they are out of running water but you are free to slide down to the bottom anyhow to receive your free third-degree burns.

The Management loves the Manual Override function of the karts, especially when danger is imminent. My friend was stalled on a hill with a 40% grade. Once rolling backwards on the hill, his brakes were disabled and steering ability was severely compromised. Meanwhile all other carts in his vicinity were immediately increased to full throttle and collision homing beacons were activated. He was rear ended by a man who was way to large to be riding the cart on that track. A beer can left in my friend's cart exploded on impact and sprayed in both eyes, leaving him blinded on the track with a severe concussion. 911 was called immediatly and within 10 minutes a helicopter was on scene airlifting him to the nearest hospital. His recovery will be long and slow. We witnessed numerous children put in the same situation as my friend. If you do decide to bring your children here don't foreget a good supply of body bags.

Do not go to Jolly Rogers Splash Mountain. It is overpriced, dirty and poorly managed. Between admission, drinks and snacks my son, five friends and I paid well over $300 for an afternoon. The lines for the rides were unreasonably long. For example, we waited over 40 minutes for one ride that lasted approximately 30 seconds. The bathrooms were disgusting. There was fecal matter in one of the shower areas when I arrived shortly after noon. I mentioned it to an attendant at that time. When I returned to that facility more than two hours later it still had not been cleaned up. The walkways were dirty and slippery. Mold and mildew were everywhere on the walk ways. Twice I slipped and nearly fell due to the slippery surface of the walkways. I am an athletic person in reasonably good shape and was fortunately able to catch myself. I believe an older person or someone with even a minor disability would have fallen and could have easily been injured. The topper of the day came when I realized that the key to the locker I had rented had fallen off of its elastic key fob. After searching the immediate area and the few rides I was actually able to ride, I went to the admissions booth for assistance. The young woman working the register called for a manager. After waiting for about 5 minutes a person with a “supervisor” shirt warily approached the admissions booth. I showed her the broken key fob and tried to explain the situation. She clearly did not want to be involved and was obviously looking for someone else to arrive and handle the situation. A few minutes later a disheveled looking man in his late twenties arrived. He did not bother to identify himself; however, MANAGER was embroidered on his shirt. After I explained the situation to him, MANAGER instructed the supervisor to open the locker. He then casually “reminded” me that there would be a $20 fee for a lost key. I pointed out to him that I had not “lost” the key, the fob had broken. As property of the park, the condition of the fob was the responsibility of the park. Therefore, the failure of the fob to retain the key was in no way my fault. MANAGER then stated that I had somehow intentionally pried the key from the fob. Trying to remain calm, I asked MANAGER what possible use I could have for a key to a locker hundreds of miles from my home. His response was “I don’t know sir. What use do you have for it?” Clearly, some management guru had trained him to avoid answering reasonable questions by repeating them back to the questioner. Realizing that I was dealing with an individual who lacked the intellect to recognize a situation requiring discretion in the application of company policies, and who most likely occupied a position too low on the company ladder to be allowed to make independent decisions, I decided to pay the extortionist his fee and reclaim my belongings. MANAGER had informed me that he was “not in the business of rekeying lockers.” Clearly he and the Jolly Rogers company are not in the business of customer relations either. Prior to this experience I had seriously considered returning to Jolly Rogers the following day to go to the amusement park and race track. Obviously, after my day at Splash Mountain I did not, and will not, return to any Jolly Rogers park. For the cost of a few dollars to replace a missing key Jolly Rogers has lost hundreds dollars in future business.

We were sadly mistaken when we chose Jolly Roger (Splash Mountain) 30th Street location as our last activity on our vacation. We paid $130 admission for myself, husband and 4 kids to SPLASH from 3-6pm.. We rented a locker for $13 (got $5 back for deposit) We didn't even have the chance to put all of our belongings in the locker when the announcement came on that the park was closing due to possible thunderstorms....I immediately took my receipt showing that I had just paid 3 minutes earlier, and spoke with the very unfriendly General Manager. He refused to give us a refund, only a raincheck was their policy. I didn't read the sign when i paid the admission that NO REFUNDS would be issued, however I feel under the circumstances we should have been given our cash back. I explained that we didn't even enter the waterpark, it was 3 minutes... He would not budge and kept saying that is their policy. I was so disappointed as were my husband and kids. We just paid $130 to walk 5 feet rent a locker get ripped off another $8 and left..What a joke They should change their name to Jolly Ripoff. They should also try to employee at least 3 or 4 Americans....All of the employees we encountered were foreigners from Russia or Ukrane, their English was awful and they were down right rude, no smiles or thank yous.....A waterpark costing that much should have Cherry Clowns to greet you as you enter. We were issued a raincheck But - I refuse to return to any Jolly Roger location. Their games on the boardwalk are a rip too..... As I read other reviews I hope others will catch on and chose another park....I'm kind of glad this happened because now that I read all the other reviews, I wouldn't have wanted my children to be subject to their rude employees, further more if they don't care about hiring nice, well mannered, English speaking people then What else are they Skimping On??? Maybe take your penicillin before entering that WaTeR...Yuck..

I took my family in July to the waterpark - what a mistake! I suppose they have a policy that does not limit the amount of people they let in and as a result the slides are so crowded it takes an hour or more of waiting in the sun to go down a 45 second ride. I watched from the outside all week and the lines were the same. For a family of 4 we were charged $148 and gave up after 4 hours and 5 rides. As a note I will say that I don't think Jolly roger is the only park guilty of this .

We arrived that day expecting a clean , safe fun filled day at the park with our 12 yr old daughter and our friends and their 6 yr olds . We were there at opening so one would expect the park to be fresh and clean ....... Only to find disgustingly dirty bathroom upon opening of the park - dirty , cloudy water , a life guard asleep at his station in the kiddie pool and even though they claimed my daughter who is 5 ft could ride all rides and paid full price for was made to put on a life jacket to go into the wave pool ( and the kiddie slide )- which upon entering had cloudy dirty water and I stepped on a dirty pierced earing that went thru my foot . Needless to say I made her get out and stay out of for fear of what else might be in the water there. The lifeguard who attempted first aide barely spoke english as did 90% of the staff and had no clue what to do as i pulled out the earing and took over my own first aide using old peroxide and then had to request a new bottle because it only had 1 drop left in it. The day continued with rude lifeguards stating the sign below required a certain color tube only to be shown that their was no sign there at all. And a manager who with every complaint shrugged his shoulders and said good help is hard to find he does the best he can with what he gets , Save your money floks - there are two smaller CLEANER better run water parks in Ocean City and after experiancing them all I suggest for great family memories and fun go to one of them instead ....... to be ripped off head to the most expensive one you can find !

We went to the Jolly Roger and we had a horrible time. We were there for 5 hours and had about 5 minutes of fun. Even if it doesn't look crowded the lines take forever and you don't get to go on hardly any of the slides. This is not an exaggeration, some people even went to the manager to complain and they were treated rudely. Don't waste your time here.

I failed to present my discount coupons to the Speed World cashier at the beginning of the transaction, so the cashier refused to accept them. Talking to the manager was no better. He simply refused to help. They had already swiped my credit card, so there was "nothing they could do." I asked what would happen if I refused to sign the receipt. "Then I'll go in and void the transaction." When I suggested that he do that, and then redo the sale, he said, "I'm not going in just to do that! You either sign that receipt or you don't ride." It was just too much trouble to satisfy a customer. While we have always enjoyed Speed World, and owning a condo on the beach were regular customers, we won't be going back. I urge you to boycott them as well. They do not deserve our business.

We just came back from our OC vacation. We LOVED OC! The worst part was Jolly Rogers. I wish I would have saved my money. First the SpeedWorld, my eleven old daughter has never driven a go-cart so we took her there. She was being very cautious and another rider spun her out. This very rude employee hollered at her. It wasn't even her fault. He pointed at her and told her she had been warned! The waterpark is ridiculous. The rules are so stupid. The wavepool you have to be at least 60 inches to even put one toe in. It doesn't even matter if you can swim or how old you are. If you are not 60 inches you must wear a life jacket to enter. I sat right by the wave pool and watched how rude the life guard was. She would blow her whistle and yell if you tried entering. I saw her make a 60 something aged lady put on a life jacket. Give me a break!!!! the best part is the deepest end is 5 foot deep. I have been to many water parks and wave pools and never have I seen anything like it. My daugher is exactly 60 inches three different life guards let her go in. Then a new life guard came on duty and told her she wasn't tall enough! Not to mention she knows how to swim. Plus, the stairs to the water slides have poison ivy growing all around it! Please take my suggestion and save your money it is not cheap to go here either! Aweful!!!!!!