Avalanche Bay offered so much fun for my 12, 13, 16, and 18 year old. Many slides and activities to do. Several water slides, a pool with basketball hoops and a bunch of activities, a surfing thing, lazy river, a couple hot tubs, a huge activity tower with lots to do, and a little kid area. Lifeguards. All the safety things. Positives: It really is a great place to go for kids of all ages. Its well kept and clean. My kids had a fantastic time and kept them very busy. Negatives: I feel it's pricey. If you've ever been to Cedar Point or Great America...during the "on" season its similarly priced with not nearly as much to do. But...if you go during a day thats 20 to 30 dollars=worth it. GET THERE EARLY. Lots if seating but definitely not enough to accommodate everyone there. Same for the lockers in the locker room. They were all taken when we got there with no alternatives. So...no seats, no lockers. The locker rooms were quite a mess because of this. THE FOOD: Although there are several restaurants in the resort, they do have a little Cafe eatery in the water park. By 2:30 they had run out of most of their menu (no pizza, garlic, bread, or chicken tenders). They still had hot dogs and cheese curds. The prices are horrendous $6.50 for a hot dog. The pizza price was decent but not available. We were able to go to a nearby pizzeria and order pizzas to go. However...we went during the peak ski season so the wait at any other place was awful. All in all the things that sucked were adult worries and my kids had no idea. They had a great time and it was worth it. Just...get there EARLY.

Just a day trip with the kids. Our first time there, and it was excellent! However, I just wish they had a family changeroom. I'm a single father with 2 young daughters. Instead, we had to wait for a family washroom to change in. It is what it is... we made it work.

Not a whole lot for adults, the waterpark passes themselves are expensive for the amount of other things you have to pay for while there. Realistically, the passes should be like 30 dollars considering that's about all it's worth. Friendly staff. Locker rooms were sopping wet and crowded, should at least squeegee the floors every once in awhile. Especially with all of the kids running around. Waits weren't too long for slides, only 2 slides running but overall, decent experience. The room was almost 240 dollars. The couch squeaked all night long. Room felt very dated.

It was okay. We got the 30% off deal for a day pass before spring break, but I would have been highly disappointed if we'd paid full price (~$260 for 4 people). Definitely needs some updates as you can see paint peeling off in several places. It was mostly clean when we first got there at opening time, however no one keeps up on anything that we saw, I had a clump of someone else's hair stuck on my ankle at one point. Lots of hair and food pieces on the floors. Highly suggest water shoes because of this. Locker rooms were filthy, disgusting, and you can't use your own lock, you have to pay for a locker. It's nice that they have two medium sized water slides for younger kids, that don't empty into a pool at the end. The large water slides were fun, they just didn't have the one running that we looked forward to using (the toilet bowl one). There's a good sized area for smaller kids to play safely in. The water is too cold and the chlorine was harsher on our eyes than most places we've been. A lifeguard whistled and yelled at my husband for having our 5 year old on his shoulders in the basketball pool (he was the only thing between her and all the teenagers throwing basketballs). There's not really a pool adults can enjoy, only one with lots of basketball hoops where kids are playing. Which leaves the lazy river being the only place adults who can't use waterslides can enjoy. It says it's the biggest indoor water park in Michigan, however I don't see how it's any bigger than Great Wolf or Soaring Eagle they all look the same. Definitely not worth the full price, if you get a discount it's worth the kids being able to do something different in the winter. We won't be back anytime soon.

My family only visited the water park, Avalanche Bay, we did not stay in the hotel. The water park was okay. The stairs going up to the slides were painted gray and black, and it made it a little weird to walk up... they should maybe have a brighter color on the edge of the step for safety purposes. It didn't seem like there was enough chlorine in the pools. There was an odd background smell across the whole water park that smelled like a lack of chlorine and almost like a mechanical oil issue? The area for the kids, the big fort, was good overall. Again, there are a few safety issues with one area that is a wooden bridge that was SUPER slippery that they had rubber rugs on, but they really should come up with a more permanent solution...the rugs didn't cover the entire bridge and were slid down themselves a little even. There were also a few different step areas in the fort that were a little raised that if you're not careful and picking up your feet enough will trip you, or potentially hurt the bottom of your foot. The locker rooms as a visiting day guest were ok. I was really only SUPER concerned about the shower areas. I went in to shower off before leaving as I was a day guest, and there were little moths on my legs and body in the shower that were living in the shower, and the walls of the showers could use a good deep clean. We did enjoy the racing slides, the lazy river, and the big slides. We most likely will be back, but we may utilize the bathroom of the hotel lobby as that was quite a bit cleaner to the eye, and there were no moths in that restroom.