Oceans of Fun

The actual amusement park is ok. However they confiscated all of our bottled water. It was all sealed bottles. No outside drinks… Even water… It’s very important to stay hydrated when it gets this hot out. Water should be easily accessible and free! They offer unlimited soft drinks with the purchase of a souvenir cup. Water is scarce. Schlitterbahn lets you bring in water… Maybe you could take some advice from them. So I’ll just be hiding my bottled water in my backpack from now on!

Overall good experience, my 2 year old daughter loves this place and all the kids play house type water features, lockers cost $ 15.00 WTF come on, I think they’re like 10 at frickin Disneyland! Also there is zero limit on the capacity of guests they can squeeze into the water park, had to be a few thousand people there and the lines were not fun. I would recommend going but def on a week day!

The walmart of water parks. Pools were filthy bathrooms were filthy. Employees seamed annoyed by having to assist anyone. Platforms for the water slides were covered with mold, saw three different kids fall HARD with no consideration from staff. CAUTION… THE Aruba Tuba plattform was the worst. Take great care when taking your childern because they don’t.

It’s a lot of fun! You can spend the whole day there easily. My kids love it. The worst part is the restrooms are nasty. Food is expensive and you can’t bring anything in. They check your bag at the gate and make you throw it away if you bring any in. I would go during the week it is not near as busy and you will enjoy it much more.

This update is only for my recommendation to get the «Ride and Slide» or Gold pass. These are no longer options. Oceans of Fun and Worlds of Fun are one park as far as passes go as of last season. There are still 2 separate entrances and still only one connecting point between the parks, but a ticket gets you into both places whether you want it to or not. This change doesn’t effect my family since we always got the Gold season pass for both parks. There’s just not a less expensive option now. I don’t know that it’s a great change, but there you have it. Another change is the souvenir cups. They used to let you buy a cup and reuse it all season, then bring it back the next year. They had a transition season where you could get a sticker on your last season cup to reuse it, but that’s gone too. Now, it’s one cup per season. That makes for quite a collection of ugly plastic cups if you had bought one for each family member. We will buy only 2 cups for the 5 of us now. There’s usually a deal online to get 2 for a significant discount. I recommend that option. It’s open for everyone so you don’t have to have a season pass to get the deal. That being said, I will happily buy more cups if it would mean they would run the parking lot tram again. I’d pay a dollar just to not have to huff it from the farthest parking lot at Worlds of Fun with kids in tow. It really stinks to have whiny kids who need to rest and a drink when you haven’t even gone through the gate yet. My only suggestion is to get there when they open or wait until 2 hours til close. If you have a season pass you are allowed in 30 minutes early at WoF and 15 minutes early at OoF. Definitely take advantage of those minutes to grab a close parking spot!

For what it is, OoF is a great (somewhat outdated) water park. I live within walking distance so we always take advantage of their season passes and go as often as we can. In only a couple visits it does pay for itself for dual park entry and parking. If you planning going a few times at least, ITS WORTH IT. As a season pass holder, I do think they should at least discount their lockers. OoF can become very expensive, very quickly in a general. Food prices are more outlandish than a movie theatre level in my opinion but they do offer $ 1 days here and there. My favorite is the adult pool with the swim up bar. (Frozen drinks are just as expensive.) It makes for a nice break to relax with no kids in the area. Overall I think it would be refreshing to see OoF revamp itself due to competition from new water parks in the area.

Bring your $$$$$$$. Great time as always but Worlds of Fun, Oceans of Fun has sold out and is extra, extra pricey. Thanks for ruining for all of us who want to go to just one park. $ 51.99 per person to go to the water park? $ 15.99 for a hamburger, fries and a drink? Eff Me! Seriously, the prices are ridiculous. One park one price? Forget it. If you go, you WILL have a good time. But you will have to pay for it!

This is a very good park, the lockers are all digital and use a key code so no chance of a lost key. My only complaint is that you have to pay for tubes and leave a deposit, I would prefer to take them and leave them as I want and not be tied to the same inner tube all day. Also they nickle and dime you with a charge for parking, lockers, tubes, overpriced concessions. but it is a nice park and very fun.

We’ve been coming here off and on for at least 7 years. Both this park and Schlitterbahn on the Kansas side of the state line have their pros and cons. The pros of OOF include: proximity to Worlds of Fun (next door), decent, but not state of the art, water slides/​rides, and a feeling that the park is actually finished. The cons include the parking fee ($ 15 and up), not allowing coolers, and some dated slides/​rides.
Tip — if you’re visiting from out of town like us, buy your tickets the day before at any KC area Price Chopper, where all tickets cost $ 34.58 (incl tax).

Honestly, jaunting over to Oceans of Fun toward the end of our day was a wonderful way to end the day after spending most of our time in Worlds of Fun. We tired ourselves out from all the twists and turns of the roller coasters on the Worlds side and then my friend was like, «You remember it’s two parks in one right?!» I just about crapped myself since I totally forgot, and somehow mustered up the strength to drag my weary bones over to Oceans. I tossed my bathing suit on and slithered into the wave pool. Surprisingly, the wave pool wasn’t over crowded and filled with a bunch of lame-o’s elbowing and cackling like jackals. There weren’t a lot of stray kids either to impede one’s enjoyment of the ever persistent waves. Everyone did try to get as close as possible to the wave maker which honestly I didn’t think was as fun since if you stand further back the waves had time to build up in their attempt to drown you. We got a few munchies on the Oceans side and ran around Paradise Falls (mind you, we were like 20 – 30 year old people) like giddy kids. I guess it’s just something about this park that makes you feel like a kid, but I guess we’re all kind of kids at heart anyway. All in all between the two parks, we had a wonderful time. This was my first time at Oceans of Fun/​Worlds of Fun, so that may be why I had so much fun. But I love water parks anyway. Be sure and check this place out if you’re in the KC area.
BTW, we went to Worlds of Fun first and as the day wound down people were leaving Oceans, so once we got over to the Oceans side, there were hardly any lines on anything. I guess people like to get their water, rest, and relaxation on while it’s hot during the day time and them retire to the Worlds side because the lines on the Worlds side got super long toward the evening, so I think we played it right by doing the Worlds side first.

Alright… Im still at three stars.
We went back on a weekday. Mommy and Daddy took off from work and headed out to the park after nap time.
Visiting on a weekday vs. the weekend is a night and day difference.
There was ample place to play, sit, change, etc. Lines were relatively short so we could ride whatever slide we wanted too.
I still believe that improvements could be made to their shower/​changing/​restroom facilities. I also believe that to grounds, picnic tables, etc could be kept cleaner. And how about more umbrellas over the lounge chairs next to the pools?

Worlds of fun is great deal, $ 50 dollars for to parks so each $ 25 plus tax.
LOVE IT

Water slides were awesome. Bathrooms were clean. I purchased a cabana only to have the cabana’s on either side of us overtaken by large groups of squatters. Not sure why I paid $ 50 when Oceans of Fun makes no effort to run out those who don’t pay. They give wristbands to those who do so you can prove you paid but then doesn’t bother to enforce those using the cabanas without paying. Very disappointing. Also tried to spend money on Dip N Dots and Frozen Lemonade for the kids for snack only to find out they were completely sold out. Saved myself $ 40 but would have rather had less cranky cooled off kids.

Fun full waterpark. Love it

We had tons of fun at this water park. Again I am going to praise season passes that include entry to Worlds of Fun AND Oceans of Fun AND free parking every time. The only thing we had to pay for was a locker for the guys to put their wallets in!
All the slides are more than fun. The lines aren’t too long, some barely had lines at all. Granted we did go on a Wednesday afternoon! The only thing that annoyed me was the hurricane slide, with the four people tube, has two staircases leading up to the top and you don’t realize it at first but they are both for the same ride!!! So you think the line is really short, then you see they let one side on, then the other, and back and forth. Silly!!!
Other than that we loved the kayaks especially since they were free to use. The swim up bar area was a little run down and the counter seemed less than stocked. I asked how much a long island iced tea was and when he answered $ 8.25 I almost broke the no peeing in the pool rule, (ok no I didn’t but DANG that was a lot of dough!) Thankfully I watched him pour my drink and they used some decent top shelf booze! I saw tanqueray, captain morgan, and a few other goodies go in. Not to mention the guy was heavy handed on the pour, always a good thing ;) My drink was bomb dot com and I was happy to laze around the water enjoying it.
As silly as it sounds I had the most fun near closing time when we decided to play inside the big jungle gym area with the bucket that fills up and tips over every minute or so. The water is spraying everywhere, there were tons of slides, ropes to climb through, etc. We were probably the only adults up there but who cares! I didn’t see any age limit signs and there weren’t many kids at all since it was near closing time. None of the life guards said anything either lol, I guess they understand sometimes you just got to let your inner child come out and play. The water was pretty cold compared to the rest of the park but honestly it was refreshing!
Again, we are SO thankful to have bought season passes to this place. I will suggest leaving cell phones, wallets, purses, anything you don’t want to lose or get wet/​damaged AT HOME. I even leave my priceless rings at home in fear of losing them in the water. The only thing you need is your gold pass, I. D, and some cash! Maybe one phone per group, and a zip lock bag to store it in!

We went summer ’11, fun park overall with the wave-​pool etc. The rides are like all parks — too long of a line! It’s like a study in (in)efficiency.
The biggest perk was the swim-​up, 21-​year and up only, bar. It’s funny as hell watching kids at the rope trying to get parents attention who are sucking down «one more» margarita (which are AWESOME)

It might be time to consider bring your prices down. There is so much competition now in the water park world that $ 30 seems too high. They advertise that you can get $ 10 off if you purchase from HyVee but if you’re from out of town, where’s the nearest HyVee? It didn’t come up on our GPS so we had to pay the full price at the gate. We were not aware that we could bring in our own food and drink which would have helped but the food was reasonably priced enough that it didn’t throw us overboard. Rides were good and exciting. There were a couple of times that I thought I would fall over the sides but that’s just me. LOL

We enjoy going here during the week in the summer. Although its not as busy, there are still lots of children running around. We prefer to spend lots of money in the swim up bar, only choosing to use the slides and such occasionally. Still, lots of fun. Cannot go wrong here.

Congratulations. I am no longer a water park virgin. Yeah, I can’t swim too well, so I always avoided them like the plague.
Warning, there are very long lines and I didn’t see any VIP passes/​lines. I HATE LINES!
There weren’t many annoying kids. Mostly teens or adults on a Saturday.
Warning:
If you dare leave your stuff in the car, you’ll save a bundle. Locker prices are out of sight $ 8 and $ 2 deposit.
4 – 7 pm is a good deal (discounted tickets).
Loved the rides, but I felt there were too few adult oriented. Some don’t allow various clothing/​swimswear which is annoying. I wish they made it clear to us at the entrance so we would leave it in the car or the locker. I ended up stuffing foot or eye wear down my shorts.

I started to give it 4 stars, but just can’t. I can’t imagine going on a really HOT day when it gets really busy. My son, 10, absolutely loved the place. We went during the week and it was a warm, overcast day with hints of rain. They told us no refunds if they close for rain, so gladly it didn’t.
Expect super high prices!!! Make sure you have a discount. We didn’t. :(so for my son and myself it was $ 70 just to get in the door!!! 10 of that just for parking! Come on now. I’m already willing to come to your waterpark, don’t make me pay just to park.
So really, it’s smaller than I expected. But the slides are pretty good and the wave pool was fun. But the prices just killed me. I think if you get a season pass it pays for itself by just going twice.