Knott’s Soak City Chula Vista is positioned in Chula Vista near the Coors Amphitheater. I've visited Knott’s Soak City Chula Vista as soon as a summer time, since earlier than it was Knott’s Soak City (it used to be White Water Canyon). While most summer time’s visits have been memorable and pleasant, the standard of the water park has been rapidly “slip-sliding” downhill lately, and this year expertise specifically made me by no means need to go back.
For these of you who aren't aware of Knott’s Soak City Chula Vista, it is located at 2052 Entertainment Circle in Chula Vista, California. The worth of Knott’s Soak City is more than I feel that this explicit water park is price, however we all the time use low cost coupons for the grownup discounts, all although I've yet to search out discounts on children’s tickets. Adult tickets are $26.95 ($21.95 for Southern California Residents); $14.95 for children 3-11 and seniors 62+ whether or not you live in Southern California or not. Adults, children, and seniors are all $14.95 after 3pm. Additionally they provide season passes, which in my view are a rip off ($75.00 for adults, $45.00 for kids and seniors); I believe the season cross is a rip off as a result of it doesn't include parking which is able to run you $8 for cars and $12 for RVs and buses. Low cost coupons are usually obtainable within the San Diego Reader, coupon flyers, and this year Ralph’s stores also offered low cost tickets.
Knott’s Soak City doesn't permit you to convey meals, beverages, and even bottled water into their park. They're very choosy about this, they usually test all bags, purses, and again packs upon entrance into the park. I think they want you to pay their excessive prices for food. Food prices will run you a substantial amount of your water park budget, with the common combo meal for adults costing virtually $7 and not using a drink, sure that’s proper, a combo meal does not include a drink, it contains French fries and your alternative of a hamburger (slider), cheeseburger (cheese slider), or ¼ hot dog. Additionally they have fried rooster, pizza, onion rings, and other common meal items. Pizza will run you around $6, and onion rings nearly $5. Drinks will run you one other $3 each. Snacks, together with churros, soft pretzels, and even Dip N Dots ice cream will run you an additional $3-$4 depending what you choose. Children’ meals can be found, but they don’t save you all that a lot money. We saved cash having the two youngest individuals in our social gathering share a pizza, which was a lot for two young kids, together with a bowl of French fries. You have your choice from a number of window type food locations including Casa Ortega, Mrs. Knott’s Fried Chicken Categorical, Salty Canines that includes Hoffy, Surf Daddy’s Meals Hut, and Surfin Hen to call a few.
For the price of the food, you'll expect it to taste better, at the very least that’s the way in which that it was at Knott’s Soak City Chula Vista. This year, the hot dog from the combo meal had a soggy bun that was very slimy, the pizza took almost 15 minutes and was chilly, and there was no mayonnaise for the hamburgers. A spot that doesn't have mayonnaise would not be such a big deal underneath most circumstances, but we had a child in our party who was allergic to ketchup, and once we asked for extra dressing, so the kid could use the dressing for her French fries as well, the workers had the nerve to suggest we buy one other hamburger. We have been shocked, all we needed was one more packet of dressing, and they wanted us to purchase one other hamburger!
In addition to meals and drinks, if you happen to intend to rent a locker, you may anticipate paying $10 for a large locker. They also have small lockers available, which are thought-about “wallet dimension” and I'm not sure the current worth of these lockers. $4 of the $10 on the large locker is a refundable deposit that they return to you at the end of the day while you turn within the key. The locker keys are the everyday orange bracelet keys you would possibly look forward to finding at a water park. I just like the design of the important thing, as a result of it makes it straightforward to maintain track of all day, and doesn’t fall off on the slides.
While we're with reference to slides, let’s talk about top requirements. Depending on the peak of your children, they may not be capable of take advantage of rather a lot that this park has to offer. Pacific Spin, La Jolla Falls, and Imperial Run all have 48” height requirements. Palisades Plunge and Solana Storm watch have 42” inch height requirements, and children between 42” and 48” should put on a life jacket on the slides. Coronado Specific has a 46” height requirement. Balboa Bay (the wave pool), Sunset River (the lazy river), and Gremmie Lagoon (children’s pool and activity space) would not have height requirements. The playground, often known as Dick’s Beach House might be enjoyed by adults and children of all age nevertheless you must be 42” tall to journey the slides. Tykes Trough, the “kids slides” also have a height requirement, you must be underneath 48” tall to journey the slides on this area. They're very strict on the height requirements, and they don’t mind “stopping the road” of people waiting for a slide to measure a toddler who doesn’t look quite tall enough.
Life vests are available freed from cost for children. The life vests hold on large tree trying things which remind me of hat racks near the wave pool. The life vests should not in any explicit order and finding the scale that your youngster requires can be a difficult task. In case you have an toddler who gained truthful nicely in a life vest, you could want to rethink a go to to this water park, as a result of they do not allow you to herald child floats, wings, or every other flotation devices. The park also gives rafts and internal tubes at all of the attractions that require them, or you possibly can lease a wristband for an entire day which can enable you to make use of special internal tubes that say “wristband required” on them. In the event you don’t pay for a wristband, don’t even think about using the “wristband require” tubes because the lifeguards will make you give up them, if they catch you with them. It always seems like there are not sufficient inner tubes to go around, and kids within the wave pool are sometimes very diligent about trying to get rafts from different children. We had not one however two kids in our group injured (nothing critical) in the wave pool by older children bullying them, pushing them off of the inside tubes, and other horseplay, right in entrance of a lifeguard, who confirmed no concern concerning the behavior.
The lifeguards and the Knott’s Soak City staff confirmed little concern throughout the day with accommodating our social gathering, from a raft with a gap on it on Coronado Specific to the food issues, even to the lack of customer support, and the refusal to allow us to talk with a manager. They wouldn’t let our cars drop folks off within the parking lot both that means that our occasion had to make a stroll throughout the parking lot. The handicapped member of our get together went through to the car parking zone anyway, after the gate threatened to name security for not allowing her to drop off her kids to fulfill the grownup they were spending the day with. In addition to the little issues I already talked about, the whole facility is just not as properly saved as it used to be. The bathrooms are not stocked with bathroom paper and on multiple event there were no seat covers, no rest room paper, and no paper towels in the bathrooms. Fortunately, we travel with a primary aid kit, which enabled us to have the essentials tissues to wipe with, and antibacterial hand gel to wash hands with as a result of large shock, there was no cleaning soap either.
If you do get to benefit from the slides, your options are limited. Coronado Specific and Imperial Run have been both closed for greater than ¾ of our visit (all day) and once opened; the traces were lengthy, even when we went on a weekday. Coronado Specific is a pleasant family raft trip via an open. Many of the slides are not for “thrill seekers” and received produce the form of thrills you'd look forward to finding at a serious water park. Pacific Spin, the most recent attraction, has a protracted line just about all through the whole day, so hit it early and infrequently for those who plan to experience it.
Like most amusement parks and water parks, you would possibly look forward to finding gift outlets at Knott’s Soak City, and also you will. Wipeout! Surf Shop sells a whole lot of garments, jewelry, towels, even bathing fits, sunscreen, and all of these different issues that they want to talk you into buying. For essentially the most part, the massive items (clothes largely) is overpriced such as you might expect, however every as soon as in awhile you will discover a small memento that is cheap, however undoubtedly not grime cheap. Surfer Dick’s can also be accessible, and it’s a candy shop that even has a machine to let you make your own pucker powder tube, which could be a highly regarded factor to do when the candy shop is packed. Personally, I wouldn’t spend the price of a pucker powder tube (don’t know the precise value) to fill a tube with sugar, however hey, the kids love it. Don't expect loads from the present retailers, other than garments, there is not much merchandise with the Knott's Soak City brand, and they have had the identical postcard (only one put up card) yearly for so long as I can remember.
Whether or not you have got children or not, the playground space offers an ideal place to chill off. The multi-story playground has rope nets to climb, tunnels to crawl by, and bridges to trample across with a big bucket of water that dumps down over the whole playground periodically. You probably have by no means been, you have to trip Pacific Spin at the least once, however in case you get movement illness or sea sickness simply, keep away, as it's type of like a swinging dragon swing movement, only in water on a raft. For very small children, there may be not a whole lot to do outside of the small children’s pool and the play ground. I might recommend ready until your children are 42” to bring them to Knott’s Soak City Chula Vista.
Regardless of all the pieces that happened, the messy loos, the cold food, the shortage of concern for a number of conditions together with a child that wandered off for over an hour on behalf of the lifeguards, and the expense, we had a fun day at Knott’s Soak City Chula Vista. It was sizzling, and we have been surrounded by chilly water, how are you going to not take pleasure in your day? It’s too unhealthy this place is barely open through the summer months, when it's so crowded! Strive looking on the Internet for camp area journeys forward of time to keep away from YMCA and different massive group field journeys, you can be glad you probably did later!
