Great for a slumber party
My husband and I took 7 kids for a slumber party for our son's 11th birthday. I did not read the reviews until making the reservations so I was a bit anxious upon checking in, however we were pleasantly surprised! We stayed in a villa room, which was large and comfortable. We had 2 queen beds, a queen sleeper sofa and a bedroom with a king bed. The room was well-appointed and the beds as opposed to the reviews were really comfortable. My only complaint and they are relatively minor is their was a bit of peeling wallpaper in the king bathroom and the tv's could use a bit of updating. The remotes to the tvs did not work great if at all and the movie rental system was down all night, which is a huge bummer with 7 kids who have their sights set on staying up all night. I will say the person working at the front desk called a few times to see if she could help us get it working before figuring out the system was down and we did appreciate that! The waterpark was clean and fun! We have been to both CoCo Key and Great Wolf and we preferred the waterpark at Ft Rapids to either (as did the kids). They loved the funnel slide and I loved the racer type slide, I can not believe how fast and fun it was! They also spent a lot of time playing basketball in the pool. They played for 3 hours on Thursday and 3 on Friday with no whinging about going to the arcade, they had a blast! The park was clean and uncrowded, which may have gone hand in hand, my only suggestion is I don't know if they didn't have them all out but on days as slow as when we were there they were running out of double rafts, so I can not imagine what it would be like on a busy day. The kids were having such a good time on Fri and since the hotel appeared pretty slow, I asked if we could check out at 12 instead of the appointed 11, they said no problem. I went again and asked if we could push till 1 and again they said no problem.Upon deciding they were waterlogged the kids went to the arcade to play their few remaining tokens and then cash out all of the receipts they were collecting from redeeming tickets. They all decided to pool their tickets and split evenly. They were bummed to find out the ticket carrier could not find them and they had around 1500 pts. I talked to the guy working at the arcade desk and he was very accomodating in letting them redeem their points without the tickets. All in all we had a great time and we will certainly be back!