![]() ![]() Prices for overnight stays range from $209 to $469 and include passes to Camelbeach. The hotel follows the theming but to a lesser extent and offers loft fireplace suites, balcony suites, family suites with bunk beds, and one-and two-bedroom suites, some with full kitchens.Īccess to the water park is only for overnight guests, although day passes at $29.99 and $39.99 are available to people visiting Camelbeach Waterpark, Camelback Mountain Adventures or have ski lift tickets. There also is an adult spa and a buffet-style restaurant. Other family activities include a rock climbing wall, a small indoor overhead ropes course, miniature golf, black-light laser tag, children’s arts and crafts, and a kids spa.Ī nice touch is Neptune’s, a restaurant offering sushi and small plates overlooking the water park through a glass wall. To enter the water park, you have to go through the 45,000-square-foot video arcade. There also are two free-fall body slides in which the floor drops out and the rider plummets down at up to 35 mph in a 60-feet drop.Īt the entrance to the water park is a flow rider where visitors can surf or body board.Īn indoor/outdoor family hot tub offers a welcome respite and there is an adults-only swim-up bar. The Constrictor is a two-person raft ride with steep banking curves. The Himalayan is a fast head-first mat-slide ride through a lighted tube. The four-person Venus Slydetrap raft has an 800-pound limit, and the two-person Storm Chaser raft has a 400-pound limit. Something different is that Storm Chaser and Venus Slydetrap require you to be weighed before you go on the ride. The water park has eight thrill slides, including Storm Chaser, which at 756 feet is the longest uphill water coaster in the country. The water park also is unique in that it has a 1.5 acre Texlon transparent roof, which it says is the largest in North America and only filters out 20 percent of the sun’s UV rays so you can actually get a tan year-round in the park. A play area for very young children is themed to Antarctica with two penguin kids slides. The pools around the Kartrite’s Quest, a multilevel play structure with dumping buckets, are like little grottos, making it a pleasant place for parents to wait while the little ones play water basketball or try to cross the crocodile-head stepping stones. The exciting family tube ride, Venus Slydetrap, is fashioned like a gigantic carnivorous plant on which the tube slides up and down the sides of its toothed jaws. The Lost River is a lazy river tube ride that takes visitors through tunnels that look like an abandoned temple in the jungle. ![]() The wave pool has an Arctic theme with a real expedition Sno-Cat above icecap falls that flow into the pool. “This is the most highly themed water resort next to Disney,” says co-owner Ken Ellis. The theming is especially well-done and follows through in the park’s 13 water slides and seven pools. The water park is themed around the story of explorer Kartrite Van Der Berris, who traveled the world. “We now offer more year-round adventure in one mountain location than anywhere else in the country,” says Camelback Resort co-owner Arthur Berry III. “It will continue to bring more tourism to the area, and with an indoor water park you don’t have an off season.”Īquatopia joins Camelback’s entertainment conglomerate, with snow skiing at Camelback Mountain in the winter, the outdoor water park at Camelbeach in the summer and and CBK outdoor adventures with ziplining, a treetops obstacle course and a mountain coaster offered spring through fall.Ĭamelback owners say the $163-million Aquatopia and eight-story Camelback Lodge will be the largest ski in/ski out indoor water park resort in the country, giving it a unique position among the other area water parks. Mario Scavello, who represents District 40 which includes parts of Monroe County, called the new water parks “a home run” for the region.
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