By Cheri Sicard
What could be better in the hot days of summer than an RV waterpark? The team from Life Rerouted takes us to Splash RV Resort & Waterpark in Milton, Florida, where they enjoyed a weeklong stay a year ago.
When they visited, parts of the park were still under construction. But know that this is an up-and-coming park with lots more features and amenities to come.
However, the star of the show, the waterpark, was open.
Of course, this is a family RV resort. However, a nice feature is that there is an adults-only pool where you can get away from screaming, splashing kids (if you choose). There’s also a large kids’ pool, a lazy river for a relaxing float, a splash pad, and two different water slides.
Still under construction at the time this video was filmed are an arcade and a lodge area, a beer garden, two dog parks, and space for food trucks.
If not everyone in your family has an RV, the park also offers stylish little cabins outfitted with full kitchens and baths, as well as washers and dryers.
While this is a unique park, our host did have a few things to complain about, starting with highway noise. You can mitigate this by choosing a spot well away from the road. They also reported some irrigation problems that were the cause of mud pits throughout the park.
While this looks like it will be a great park, at the time of the video they were still working out some issues. The bargain pre-opening rate was $91 a night for a back-in site. Yikes. I am not sure this is worth it, but maybe if you have a bunch of kids along it is.
Have you stayed at Splash RV Resort & Waterpark? Please leave your thoughts and experiences in the comments.
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If anyone has a chance to get to Crystal Beach, Texas, they opened up a Margaritaville RV resort. It’s a lot of fun, massive pool with swim up bar, concerts, restaurant, access to the beach with rental golf carts, each site has a private oversized dog play yard and the list goes on. The owners are on site and super nice, might see them bartending on a busy night. The land close to the beach is still under construction and it will be class A when it’s finished, the sites up front are going to be all other RVs. You can take the ferry over to historic Galveston and go site seeing, shopping watch the cruise ships depart, lots of nice restaurants on the bay.
How much per night?
While not exactly a boondocker’s destination (duh), this does look like a nice family RV park with all the stuff you need to keep kids active and entertained. If it ever gets completed (you know how these things go) I can see RV’ers who like this kind of park flocking to it. It won’t be me though.
We have passed this resort several times while being built. The owner Craig who recently passed away also owned a beautiful resort on the bay in Navarre and that’s where we go as seniors. So we have no interest in splash resort.
My husband and I full time in Navarre, Fl (which is about 30 minutes south of the splash park) so we went last year for a few nights just to enjoy the lazy river. I found it nice enough but pricy. It’s really huge and we were smack in the middle of all the rvs so we didn’t have a great place to walk our dogs except on the road. Thankfully we didn’t have any neighbors during our stay on either side. I would go again in the middle of a week during off season just for the lazy river again. I would definitely try to pick my spot (if they let you) even for an extra price.
Thanks for the link and summary, Cheri! No, never visited such a place while traveling. The park’s campground where we stay when visiting friends in DC also has a waterpark. Thankfully, it is always out-of-season and closed when we are there, so the congestion is limited to campers and day-use folks.