Splashin' Safari Review & Overview, Holiday World's Water Park | World Water Coaster Capital
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ค. 2024
- Splashin' Safari is the affiliated water park with Holiday World. This attached water park is unique for having three award-winning water coasters (Wildebeest, Mammoth, Cheetah Chase) and no body slides. This water park has been named the world's best water park by several magazines and websites, but is the world water coaster capital worthy of that title? Find out in this review!
Video Credits
Bakuli (Holiday World)- • Bakuli at Holiday Worl...
Cheetah Chase Off-Ride (Holiday World)- • Cheetah Chase Off-Ride...
Children's Slides (Holiday World)- • Children's Water Park ...
Giraffica/Pilgrim's Plunge (Holiday World)- • America's Tallest Wate...
Hyena Falls (Holiday World)- • Hyena Falls at Holiday...
Jungle Racer (Holiday World)- • Jungle Racer at Holida...
Mammoth Off-Ride 1 (Holiday World)- • Holiday World's Mammot...
Mammoth Off-Ride 2 (Holiday World)- • Mammoth Water Coaster ...
Mammoth POV (Holiday World)- • Mammoth POV (Point-of-...
Otorongo (Holiday World)- • Otorongo at Holiday Wo...
Splashin' Safari Highlights (Holiday World)- • Splashin' Safari water...
Watubee (Holiday World)- • Watubee at Holiday Wor...
Wave Pool (Holiday World)- • Bahari Wavepool in Hol...
Wildebeest Off-Ride 1 (Holiday World)- • Wildebeest Highlights ...
Wildebeest Off-Ride 2 (Holiday World)- • World's Longest Water ...
Zinga (Holiday World)- • Zinga at Holiday World...
Zoombabwe (Holiday World)- • Zoombabwe at Holiday W...
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I've been to nearly every water park in the country and Splashin Safari is easily my favorite. Just incredible.
It's great.
Even though everyone wants more thrilling rides I love the ones the water park already has my mom and I have a tradition of riding watubee first together once it opens for the day 😊 I love Bakuli zinga and the wave pools ❤
They have a lot of fun slides.
This place is so amazing I can’t get enough of it. Love only being 3 hours away
I always pop in when I'm at Holiday World
They are in a bridge and it makes it much more shorter
No there is they added a bridge and it’s much more shorter to get there
Same, I’m 2 hours away
Lol I'm 45 minutes away
HW used to have an adult body slide. At the entrance of Splashin Safari, there used to be two slides. One was called Bamboo Chute and the other was AmaZOOM. Both opened in 1993, according to Wikipedia. AmaZOOM was an enclosed blue body slide and required no tubes. I remember going on it as a kid (in the early 2000s) and there was no tubes required, as they would've been entirely too big for the slide itself. (It was accompanied by another slide, Bamboo Chute, an open-top white slide that required tubes.) The sides used to go over the old lazy river, which was located between the locker plaza. (This is why the lockers are spread so far apart.) They since closed that lazy river because they had built another one under Bakuli. I believe the slides were taken out first and then the old lazy river was filled in afterwards. (RIP to the mushroom in the old lazy river, you will be missed.)
I believe the slides were relocated to the camping ground, but I cannot confirm, as I have never been to the campground. The slides were located where the First Aid station is now. I can see why they got rid of it, but it seems disappointing that they got rid of their only body slide.
The reason why it seems like Cheetah Chase seems crammed into its current location is because there used to be an old water playground there named Monsoon Lagoon. It opened in 2004/2005, when I was around 6. It ended up getting torn down because it was irreparable, I believe. There is a newer water playplace named Kima Bay. I believe it was built in 2007 and opened the 2008 season. I was able to go inside it though, so I was at least an older child when it was built. It just seems really weird that they built one water playplace and built another almost two years later.
I do remember seeing water slides at the campground so that's cool to know they used to have body slides.
I had no idea that’s why the lagoon is gone they kind of take things out silently when they do
Thank you for this info :)
I remember the bamboo chute well. Me and my dad figured out how to get the big double tube spinning on it. They made that impossible in the later years by enclosing the turns but it was a lot of fun. I also wish that they still had these as they were a nice break from standing in line for the water coasters or from getting knocked around in the wave.
I love their 3 water coasters. Those alone make this waterpark stand out. Unfortunately, that's all I really care to do here. I don't care much for raft or tube slides. Beyond water coasters, I'm all about body slides, and the 0 body slides here is a massive gap for me, making the waterpark feel very incomplete. It doesn't really bother me, since I can just spend more time riding the roller coasters.
That's fair. I usually focus on the water coasters myself.
This review made me shoot this park up on my bucket list as if it wasn’t high enough already
The water coasters are elite.
I do wish they would make an exception to their no body slides practice and add a drop slide. It's really the one thing this park is missing. I love slides like Summit Plummet and Deep Water Dive and think something on that scale would complement their other slides very well. They could put it up on the hill near Legend and have you drop through the various other structures in that area. I know that would be super difficult logistically but it would be awesome.
Maybe they could make a racing one to keep the experience style together.
Love this review you nailed it 👏
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Honestly I think having that mentality of each slide added to be an experience together, that actually make sense and they should strive to do that.
However if they want to keep that mentality and add a body slide to it, well maybe a multi racing Aqualoop similar to the one at Blue Bayou could be a great fit.
However I don’t mind the lack of body slides as for the most part yes Holiday World has a point on them being alone.
Adding the social experience can make a ride from being great to being something special and important.
As long as they keep adding great slides, I don't mind they're missing a key type.
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Nice!
Same :D
Man I must tell ya all, I can’t wait to ride Kondaa, it seems like a top tier coaster
Me too!
The first time I went to Holiday World, it was amazing, I went on a school field trip last year. A few months later I went again with my family and I did not really enjoy Splashin' Safari. I like The Legend though, probably my favorite wooden coaster.
Was the water park too busy?
@@CanobieCoaster No, my family ruined the experience. My step-mother took me to the kid play area thing and I was wearing shoes and she did not tell me where we were going. On that, at Cheetah Chase, I bailed out because it was too hot, and I was likely under the weight limit.
I love Holiday World it's one of my favorite Amusement Parks! It's only 1 hour and 30 minutes from where I live so I try to go at least once a year. If I had more time and money I'd go more often.
Lucky having it so close.
@@CanobieCoaster I agree.
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@@nationalchampions same here going for my second time soon!
I am not a big water park guy as water slides don't do much for me. I do like wave polls cause even those give me more airtime than water slides but this one is actually worth going to. They have 3 water coasters that all probably give good forces and a mat racer. And those are water slides I actually really enjoy.
If you like wave polls, then I guess I will conduct one.
What is your favourite type of wave?
1: Transverse waves
2: Longitudinal waves
Water coasters are what get me into water parks.
It is amazing I have been there
Agreed!
How many water slides (including water coasters) does Splash’N’ Safari have?
Depending if you count the kiddie ones, probably two dozen.
I am going to holiday world tomorrow and I all way enjoyed the water park
Enjoy!
Is this water park worth going or no , since im guessing the water rides and water coasters won’t be as thrilling as Noah’s ark and schlitterbahn since I been to those water parks but is it still worth visiting or nah , because I heard the there are more water coasters there , but there not as thrilling as the other water coasters in other water parks that I just mentioned , is this true ? So is this water park worth visiting or no?
If you love water coasters, it's worth visiting. I've heard the water coasters here are way better than those at Schlitterbahh. And from experience, Mammoth and Wildebeest are on par with Black Anaconda.
@@CanobieCoaster lol yea ppl kept talking shit about Indiana as a boring state for vacation d place , but I wonder why would they ignore a good looking water park and theme park in this state then??? The water park does look high quality like from the dells so I wonder why do ppl ignore it and say Indiana is a boring state to travel ?
What is air time?
When you get negative Gs or weightlessness and lift out of your seat.
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Wow I need to go to this waterpark but I say my home waterpark hurricane harbor nj needs this
I've never gone to that Hurricane Harbor because of the slide lineup.
@@CanobieCoaster yea I went there alot and the slide lineup isnt the best but its something
@@CanobieCoaster what issues do you have with the slide lineup I'm intrested dto know
@@jaydenchrist6152 It just looks like typical and average water-slides without anything special that cannot be found at other water parks, so it probably isn't really worth the time for anyone not living nearby.
@@ElectriKong- yea I can see that hurricane harbor needs a water coaster in my opinion. Well Hurricane harbor is my home waterpark and I love it but I do agree the slides need work.
I’m going there right now
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3:06 As of Mammoth’s opening?
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Did you mean to say that mammoth was the most expensive ride built in splashing safari? I'm sure that voyage, and thunderbird must have cost more
Voyage cost $6.5 million and Mammoth cost $9 million. Thunderbird became the park's most expensive addition after.
@@CanobieCoaster wow. I'm shocked that such a popular park basically hasn't added anything over 10 million dollars.
I meant to say before Thunderbird was added, not ever
They could at least use a regular body slide complex plus a drop slide complex similar to Vanish Point at Water Country USA. They should also find a build a new kids structure or something for the former Monsoon Lagoon spot. It's unfortunate they can't relocate Hyena Falls from where it once stood to somewhere else near the other water slides. That attraction looked fun while it lasted.
I personally would like to see an extreme body slide, but they don't seem interested in that type of slide.
I have kids and personally, I don't really feel that Safari lacks anything. I've been to a ton of water parks and this is my all time favorite. I know it's subjective obviously, but there's just sooo much to do. The water park is only a 3rd the size of the dry park, but to me somehow, it feels bigger. There's just massive slides everywhere you look lol. A body slide would be cool though
Meant to go last year but covid :(
Things are improving!
@@CanobieCoaster That's good to hear because I read reviews of their Covid practices last summer and NO ONE was happy with all the ridiculous wait times.
I read the title as “water park capital of the world”
_As a fellow Wisconsinite that offended me_
(Because Wisconsin Dells owns the title)
I’m just kidding 🤣
I've only been to Noah's Ark and enjoyed everything except the crowds.
I haven’t going but I’m going after three days
Enjoy!
I live pretty close, (20 mins away) so we have season passes. Cheetah chase had a complication the other day due to a boat flipping off the slide. All I know is a girls bone was sticking out of her elbow.
Yikes!
OMG!! Our family was thinking about going there but not sure after hearing this.
We want to chime in here and say that we checked with our Safety Team. They confirmed that there have been no reports of any compound fractures on Cheetah Chase.
Oh geez 😢
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Yes on the water coasters.
I visited 2 days ago and this ruined my HW visit and I barely got all the credits and only 1 voyage reride. I was alone for most of it so I couldnt really ride anything but the Water Coasters and the racing mat. Mammoth broke down right when i was the next one on and I waited 1 hr 30 for Cheetah Chase and once i got on the raft it broke again. Another hour passes by and i was the first raft to be sent and the ride just flat out sucked. Wildeebeast was the only thing saving this from being my least favorite waterpark but Im gonna give this another chance when i go back to HW
That's a bummer.
This is very common in this park. They seem to constantly have mechanic issues on their rides. It is not worth going there imo.
@@forliberty1805 i wouldnt say that. I could see the potential in the waterpark. I just made a mistake not getting out of the Cheetah Chase line the first time it broke down. Im probably gonna give this another chance next time i go back to holiday world. I already have the cheetah chase credit so i wont have to waste my time on that
@@thenuccichannel5742 Yes please do give it another shot sometime, I just went last week and the only water rides that were down were Otorongo and Zoombabwe
We went for 2 days in July and while the rides were awesome the park itself was not. Wait times were ridiculously long. They'd post a sign saying 20 minutes and the ride ends up being over an hour long wait. The staff refuse to fill rafts to capacity which would make for shorter wait times. Rides constantly were having mechanical issues. Long line to get anything to eat. Most restaurants close 2 hours before the park even closes which makes no sense. So if you are hungry at dinner time your choices are very limited what is open up next to the gate. The park does not have a very good lay out plan. So you are constantly walking back to go to the next area. I would not recommend this place.
The water park is usually slammed so I'm not surprised you had to wait a while.
First time?
You're straight trippin. I've been to practically every park in this country, and Holiday World is one of the best. But I know it is entirely subjective. Just like how a ton of people like Disney and I think it's dogshit.
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