Wet 'n Wild Las Vegas to close

Let's hope that they go through with the big ol' wheel. :)

Maybe the Sahara can lengthen Speed: the Ride into that area. :)

Seriously, I always thought the park was closed already. It's always been closed when I've been there anyway (do water parks close in November in Nevada?).

Yes they do! Believe it or not, it can get quite cold in the winter months!

I think I saw this on the travel channel once as one of the best, looked pretty cool, what are they going to do with all of the slides and stuff, seems to me like a shame its being bulldozed...*** This post was edited by P18 8/13/2004 2:30:56 PM ***

sell them to SF for SFGAm? just an idea

From studying the park from the street, it looks like one of the park's slides involved standing upright in a tube, of which the floor would drop out and you'd drop onto the slide. Anyplace else have anything like that?

Wet n' Wild in Orlando has the trap door water slide.

The Bomb Bay, for those who have never seen the commercial in Orlando.

yeah, that looked pretty cool! I saw the special on the travel channel...

I think this is not a good thing. They have some great things there and I think it is going to be a major loss to the Strip.My kids always have liked going there when we have gone to Vegas and there is not alot of things for the kids to do or places to go.I hope most of the rides there get bought by other waterparks in the country.

I was there on 8/9 and the employees said the plan is to re-build it somewhere else in Las Vegas but they did not know where yet. My only hope is that they use something other than concrete for the ground. Maybe Pool Decking or that spongy stuff that they use at some Las Vegas Parks. Even the astroturf at the wavepool was burning my feet.

--RCGuy

I was pretty sure this was *news* when I was in Vegas, that was October '02 I think.

As hard as it is to keep beachside attractions with the (questionable?) need for more condos, I can't imagine being able to keep a place on The Strip in Vega$ that's profitable enough to stave off the developers....

Side note: The cooler *spongy stuff* must be REALLY expensive, my feet were burned beyond belief after Shipwreck Island in PCB earlier this year...:(

Palace Entertainment is too leveraged and their debt service is too high to build another waterpark in LV. If anyone builds, it will be another developer.

The west coast is hurtin' for good water parks. Aside from San Dimas, and Waterworld in Denver there are few quality aquatic, amusement locations. Seems like an open market with little competition.

That's a shame...Wet 'n Wild Las Vegas was my very first summer job! I had so many great times there, from going with summer day camp as a kid to working there...its gonna be missed.

One thing they can't say is that it wasn't making money, especially since it is typically packed everyday once schools let out. The radio stations were also pretty serious about doing promotions in the park. Local companies always had parties there, so where will everyone go now especially since the hotels frown on outside guests using thier pools.

And to think they just added Dragon's Den this year!