Indoor water parks and resorts are popular winter retreats for families and those seeking a break from the cold. Ohio is home to a number of hotels that feature a variety of amenities and excitement at these indoor water parks.
The Kalahari Resort is located the northwestern Ohio city of Sandusky. It has guestrooms and suites and offers visitors a number of on-site restaurants, a family arcade, spa, and indoor mini-golf course. It promotes itself as America's largest indoor water park, with 173,000 square feet of excitement and two 50,000 gallon FlowRiders® for surfing or boogie boarding on simulated five-foot ocean-like waves, a wave pool, a number of waterslides and raft rides, a spa, a lazy river and other water rides.
Kalahari Resort
7000 Kalahari Drive
Sandusky, OH 44870
(877) 525-2427
kalahariresorts.com/oh
Great Wolf Lodge in Mason is the sister resort to the Great Wolf Lodge in Sandusky, Ohio. Located next to Paramount's Kings Island amusement park, this north woods-themed resort has 401 suites and offers a fitness center, restaurants, arcade and spa. The 79,000-square-foot indoor water park offers a four-story interactive treehouse water fort with 12 levels of fun, tube slides, a lazy river, wave pool, water park agility course, water slides and an outdoor water park open during the summer season.
Great Wolf Lodge
2501 Great Wolf Drive
Mason, OH 45040
(800) 913-9653
greatwolf.com/mason/waterpark
Located in Columbus, Fort Rapids Indoor Waterpark Resort offers 277 guestrooms and 60 suites. It offers restaurants, a gift shop, arcade, fitness center and banquet hall. The indoor water park has 12 water rides that include water slides and tube rides, a crooked river, interactive tower and a 1,000-gallon tipping bucket.
Fort Rapids Indoor Waterpark Resort
4560 Hilton Corporate Drive
Columbus, OH 43232
(877) 337-7527
fortrapids.com
