Abandoned Maui Sands Indoor Waterpark & Resort 🏝️🌊😎

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  • Welcome back everyone 😇 I am back with another unique abandoned video! 🏚️ Last weekend, I drove to Sandusky, Ohio to explore the abandoned Maui Sands Resort 🌴 Opened in 2008, this resort and waterpark included multiple water slides to go down, a lazy river to steadily float down, and hot tub areas 💧The hotel portion came with 300 rooms, along with Hawaiian themed art and furniture in each room 🌺🛌 Sit back, and enjoy this video 👏🏼💙

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  • @partycats.
    @partycats. 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I went here a couple times when i was younger. We also went just a little bit before they closed, a huge part of the building had water damage, and there was an arcade in the back that was completely ruined. If i remember right, the water park was actually pretty decent apart from the nasty water. I remember the rooms were pretty bad. But it was still loads of fun to 9 year old me 😢

  • @NikkiAdamsHer3littlethinkers
    @NikkiAdamsHer3littlethinkers 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Hotel impossible came to help get this place back to normal- the crew and staff stayed at Kalahari 😂😂

    • @urbanexplorer260
      @urbanexplorer260  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I’ve been hearing that lol, where can I find the episode?

    • @allreckless5091
      @allreckless5091 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@urbanexplorer260 season 8 episode 13

  • @Sherlyxzs
    @Sherlyxzs 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    people definitely had fun there

    • @urbanexplorer260
      @urbanexplorer260  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Plenty of fun times that unfortunately came to an end 😞

  • @PinetopJackson2
    @PinetopJackson2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Ah you got to Maui Sands! I scoped it out on my way back from Cleveland last month, but didn’t try to get in…THIS time…

  • @OGCatDJM
    @OGCatDJM 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I went to Kalahari and I saw this place, made me sad how a staple of childhood and nostalgia is just abandoned and sitting there.

    • @urbanexplorer260
      @urbanexplorer260  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Waterparks bring back so many fun times for a lot of people 🌴 it is sad to see such a once thriving spot just rotting

    • @Barnubedaboi
      @Barnubedaboi 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Same

  • @user-yp3rq2rw1p
    @user-yp3rq2rw1p 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    had a birthday there in march of 2017- i remember sitting out in the lobby area by the big windows. gives me the chills seeing it abandoned like this

  • @BrittanyLonardo6516
    @BrittanyLonardo6516 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This olace was definitely better in the budget for taking family there i think everynight you stayed youngot four passes for the water park (the day you checked in and the dat you checked out) it wasnt the most horrible hotel ive been too but it wasnt great let me tell you

  • @lizogden2458
    @lizogden2458 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I would love to have some of the furniture and hawaiian themed pieces. Why didn't they sell or auction off what's left? Money just sitting around rotting.

    • @urbanexplorer260
      @urbanexplorer260  25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@lizogden2458 I wonder the same thing, it is nice furniture! 🪑

  • @masterking3979
    @masterking3979 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    And FYI the city of Sandusky didn’t shut the place down Perkins Township did

  • @BrittanyLonardo6516
    @BrittanyLonardo6516 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thats wild i took my son there once we stayed there as well. The room was such a turn off it wasnt clean at all. I never knew their water was not properly cleaned thats wild. We went once and never went back

    • @urbanexplorer260
      @urbanexplorer260  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’m sorry to hear that! The previous owner of the building was running a shady and dishonest resort 🌴

    • @dennistaylor5065
      @dennistaylor5065 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​ @urbanexplorer260
      The man who tried to purchase the resort with falsified business documents was charged with both fraud and money laundering.

    • @urbanexplorer260
      @urbanexplorer260  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dennistaylor5065 that’s the way the ball rolls, people see dollar signs and all logic leaves out the side door 🚪

    • @dennistaylor5065
      @dennistaylor5065 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @urbanexplorer260
      Also, a TV show called Hotel Impossible went there to try and help them, but they wound up going down the street to Kalahari instead after saying the rooms' hairdryer was the only thing that worked when they needed something.

  • @NobodyGoodEnough
    @NobodyGoodEnough ปีที่แล้ว +4

    How recently was this recorded? Been scouting the place and there has been constant security.

    • @urbanexplorer260
      @urbanexplorer260  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Just go right before the sun rises, and park at the indoor tennis court next door and walk around to where your next to the highway, there is an easy way in, any questions you can hit me on insta @urbanexplorer260

    • @NobodyGoodEnough
      @NobodyGoodEnough ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@urbanexplorer260 awesome! Thanks for the reply.

    • @NikkiAdamsHer3littlethinkers
      @NikkiAdamsHer3littlethinkers 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Be careful getting there- there’s been over 113 trespassing incidents since it shut down

    • @NobodyGoodEnough
      @NobodyGoodEnough 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@NikkiAdamsHer3littlethinkers source?

  • @urbex_coasters
    @urbex_coasters ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Went here in 2014. While I enjoyed it something just felt "off" about the place. In retrospect I'm surprised it took as long as it took for the place to get shut down. And when I say it felt off I'm not just talking about the internet not working. Maybe it's that I'm naturally suspicious of cheap tacky theaming you can see right through but the place was run so bad even back then. Being that I've seen the entire video from the interview and videos of what opening day looked like on here, it now makes sense being that it was a shell of itself even back then. I wouldn't rule out a Breaking Bad type situation having happened here (after all, it opened around the same time Gus explaining the mechanics of his lab with the Chlorine hiding everything in the show was first aired). On a more positive note, I do hope Great Wolf looks at relocating that bowl slide, it would give their Sandusky waterpark the star attraction it desperately needs.

    • @urbanexplorer260
      @urbanexplorer260  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was really eerie to be inside, it felt like a waste town, it seems all the abandoned resorts and indoor water parks are all closing due to deceit and bad practice. I mean heck, there was Caribbean Cove in Indy, Fort Rapids in Columbus, and now this! Cowabunga 🌊

    • @urbex_coasters
      @urbex_coasters ปีที่แล้ว

      @@urbanexplorer260 Don't forget Coco Key. Of these tacky theamed places, Splash Lagoon in Erie is the last one I know of. And even so that place focuses more on the slides and less on the tacky theme (although the same could've been said of Fort Rapids looking at how many slides come out of that building so who knows-surprised Kalahari hasn't tried to buy Fort Rapids. Great Wolf wouldn't since they have the Kings Island Great Wolf but Kalahari might) but it's under contract with multiple hotel chains so the departure of Holiday Inn from Carribbean Cove is unlikely to repeat itself there, for example.

  • @Loggie20
    @Loggie20 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Went here in 2014. It was our first indoor water park experience that we purchased off Groupon. We had such a good time. Came with pizza and drinks, tokens and a breakfast buffet for great price

    • @urbanexplorer260
      @urbanexplorer260  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That’s awesome bro! It sounds like you truly did enjoy yourself 😎

    • @OGCatDJM
      @OGCatDJM 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How? It closed in 2009

    • @Loggie20
      @Loggie20 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@OGCatDJMit was purchased by another company and reopened in 2012. It shut down for good in 2019 after another company purchased it again in 2018

    • @OGCatDJM
      @OGCatDJM 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Loggie20 oh ok. Thank you for clarifying

  • @dopeexplorers3133
    @dopeexplorers3133 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I’d say me and my group were the first to expore in 2018 had power on in some areas still was insane went down hill after u didnt even see how it used to look lol

  • @beans.1421
    @beans.1421 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    it’s amazing how different this place looks now abandoned!i went here winter break of 2016 💀

    • @urbanexplorer260
      @urbanexplorer260  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh my gosh what a coincidence 🤯😱 how was your time there?

    • @beans.1421
      @beans.1421 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@urbanexplorer260 it was pretty good as i remember! i honestly think it was a super underrated water park! it was considered the “budget” water park of sandusky and i definitely understand that cuz compared to kalahari, this place is tiny.

  • @AmericanXplorers
    @AmericanXplorers ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome vid, we now have this place on our list of places to visit soon

    • @urbanexplorer260
      @urbanexplorer260  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you 😄 good luck when you go 🏚️

    • @AmericanXplorers
      @AmericanXplorers ปีที่แล้ว

      @@urbanexplorer260 thank you! Did you recently go here?

    • @UptownWatta
      @UptownWatta ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @AmericanXplorers make it fast, they are applying for demo permits now

  • @UptownWatta
    @UptownWatta ปีที่แล้ว

    Wish you could've got into the arcade or the section they remodeled in hotel impossible

    • @urbanexplorer260
      @urbanexplorer260  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I did not know they were involved with that show? Which episode was it? That’s crazy 😳

  • @kelpps707
    @kelpps707 ปีที่แล้ว

    man I went here with my fam in like 2014

    • @urbanexplorer260
      @urbanexplorer260  ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m glad you were able to go! Did you and the fam have a blast?

  • @UptownWatta
    @UptownWatta ปีที่แล้ว

    Got the worst case of food poisoning off a pizza there smh

    • @urbanexplorer260
      @urbanexplorer260  ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh my gosh! Hopefully it wasn’t overpriced 🍕

    • @UptownWatta
      @UptownWatta ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@urbanexplorer260 yep per usual lol

  • @Nascarfanchris99
    @Nascarfanchris99 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just was at the hotel at the front and i wanted to get really close but I did not want to get in trouble so i stayed little far

    • @urbanexplorer260
      @urbanexplorer260  ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s awesome bro, you should have ventured inside!

    • @Nascarfanchris99
      @Nascarfanchris99 ปีที่แล้ว

      @urbanexplorer260 is there a easy way to get in?

    • @urbanexplorer260
      @urbanexplorer260  ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Nascarfanchris99 yeah there is, hmu fayediv09@gmail.com

  • @kennethwise7108
    @kennethwise7108 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow

    • @urbanexplorer260
      @urbanexplorer260  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow indeed, this place was massive 🌊

    • @kennethwise7108
      @kennethwise7108 ปีที่แล้ว

      @urbanexplorer260 such a shame. I only learned about this place by accident. We've staying at a motel adjacent to it and I wanted to see what that place was. Such a shame. What kind of laundering were they involved with?

  • @exploringwithbrody
    @exploringwithbrody ปีที่แล้ว

    🔥🔥