poconos\' kalahari: america\'s largest indoor water park

Imagine a large outdoor water park with almost all the imaginable slides and splash spots, including a wave pool, a winding lazy river, a water roller coaster, A funnel ride, a flower ride wave-
Make machines for boogie boarding, taking bowls, etc.
Now imagine putting everything in a huge building.
This may make you feel the huge indoor water park at the Calahari resort in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania.
When the park opened for the first time in 2015, it was 100,000 square feet, which is quite large compared with similar facilities.
The expansion, which opened in March 2017, has more than doubled the area of the indoor water park to 220,000 square feet, which Kalahari said makes it the largest water park in the country.
It\'s much bigger now than the big box shop.
Higher story.
Really, the park is bigger than advertising.
All the water slides start and end indoors.
But to maximize space, many of the main slides slide outdoors.
There\'s a lot of stuff.
Along the colorful slide section outside the park building represents thousands of square feet.
Because the slides that extend to the outside are closed tubes and the water that passes through them is heated, the rider will remain relatively warm even if the outdoor temperature drops and the snow drops. (
After all, this is the Pocono Mountains. )
In fact, it\'s half the fun of an indoor water park: bathing suits when the weather outside is really bad
Tourists dressed in clothes can play in a pleasant climatecontrolled, 84-
The degree Park is as warm as summer.
Visitors in the park can\'t see what is waiting for them in many rides because the slides are not visible outside.
This mystery helps to increase the stimulus.
There are many scenic spots here, many kinds, impressive.
To give a few examples: the Cheetah Race is a fourlane, mat-
Digital Leadership Board racing slides with tracking completion time.
Wild Horn is a flying time.
Full slide of four passengers
A man soared back and forth on a half wall.
The screaming hyena was in the raf of the building and began to go up in an almost vertical capsule. After a 3-2-
1 countdown, trap door open, release slider into Pulse
Accelerated decline (and a wedgie-
Cause splash at the bottom).
Everyone in the pool is not the target of all attractions is to stimulate adrenaline.
One of the more sedate options is extraLazy River.
The \"transposition entertainment\" conveyor belt connects the park\'s original lazy river with the second river that opens with expansion.
There are also two indoors. to-
Outdoor whirlpool.
During the snowstorm, it was especially lovely to go out in bubbling hot water. The over-
21 people can also enjoy an outdoor hot tub that can be used as a swimming-up bar.
Like other lounges throughout the resort, the bar specializes in drinks of an oversized size.
Adults will also love the full set of Kalahari
Spa services, its 100,000-square-
Walking distance to convention center and restaurant.
The double-cut Grill is a very delicate steak house with particularly delicious charcoal. fired fare.
As part of the 2017 expansion, it opened with Sortino\'s Italian Kitchen.
Sortino\'s food is also quite good, although it is a basic sin for an Italian restaurant not to provide bread.
At the other end of the age range, Kalahari offers eye-catching Safari for young children, this is a large interactive water game structure with smaller slides, web crawling, water guns with a bucket of water poured down every few minutes.
Very small tots can also find activities specially prepared for them, including coffee tables.
This is not always the case at Kalahari Resort.
Poconos hotel is the family\'s third indoor water park resort-
Operating company.
The original Kalahari was in Dells, Wisconsin.
It is the capital of the World Water Park and the birthplace of the indoor water park phenomenon.
There is also a resort in sandarsky, Ohio.
According to owner and president Todd Nelson, Kalahari was initially targeting families of children aged 10 and older.
\"About five years ago, we started having grandchildren,\" he said . \"
This made his audience see that his water park did not really serve them.
He began his work and developed his customs.
Proper features, most of which are designed and built in the interior of Kalahari
Theme store.
\"We now have some of the best water park attractions for children under the age of five,\" Nelson added . \".
The indoor water park hotel at rival Wolf Resort has always attracted toddlers.
It also has a location in the Pocono Mountains (
And in Wisconsin Dells and sandarsky)
Aquatopia, another large indoor water park hotel, is also part of Mount cammerback ski resort.
Nelson is not worried that the market will be saturated.
\"We feed each other,\" he insisted . \" He said that the water park resort has helped inspire the vitality of the past --
Resort.
\"The rebirth of the Pocono Mountains is now in progress.
\"The Resort may provide food to each other, but having the largest indoor water park in the country is clearly Nelson\'s pride.
\"We like to win,\" he said . \"
There are also good business reasons for applying for this title.
\"The bigger we are, the more fun we can provide and the more people we can attract.
\"There is a lot of fun in Kalahari.
In addition to the water park, there is a 40,000-square-
Small family entertainment center with arcade games
Golf, bowling and interactive sports theater.
And the arena, a free one.
Virtual reality roaming experience.
Participants can choose zombie survival, first
A man shooting game, or engineer, a puzzle adventure.
In both cases, players must work together in the virtual world.
Graphics and games are impressive.
Of the two engineers, there are three.
It seems that the participants are allowed to fight the bending sequence of gravity. The 15-
It takes $25 a minute to experience.
This is the jungle of Africa-
The theme resort is filled with artifacts, stunning photos and other items that Nelson and his family personally collected during their many trips to continental Europe.
It helps to give Kalahari a sense of authenticity.
With the expansion, the hotel now offers nearly 1,000 rooms.
There are a variety of configurations including suites with up to five bedrooms.
There\'s a honeymoon suite with a heart.
Vortex (
After all, this is the Pocono Mountains).
A children\'s bunk bed room that sleeps up to four people, depending on the time of the year, it takes about $360 to $500 per night for the weekend. Mid-
Lower weekly prices.
Room rates include water park passes for all hotel guests.
Check out at 11. m.
However, hotel guests can use the water park throughout the day of departure.
On Saturday, when guests leave and arrive, there will be plenty of crowds and long lines gathering on the water slide in the water park.
Unlike the Wolf Lodge and Aquatopia, which restrict hotel guests from entering the water park, Kalahari does provide day passes to the public based on availability.
This can increase the crowd, although the queue time is quite short even on weekends. All-
Daytime water park tickets for tourists who don\'t live in the hotel are $75.
Nelson said he has not completed the expansion of the Poconos resort.
It is planned to double the area of the exhibition center, increase the scenic spots of the outdoor water park and increase the indoor theme park.
He is not sure if he will continue to develop the Hill he built outside the hotel, turn it into a snow pipe attraction, or use the land for other things.
There are more Kalahari Resorts on the way.
The company announced that it will open its fourth branch in 2020 near Austin, the circular rock District of Texas.
Nelson said it would be his biggest resort, including amusement park rides such as roller coasters and exhibitions by Nelson Mandela in addition to indoor and outdoor water parks.