We’re starting summer with a splash at Kings Dominion’s Soak City.
Call me old-fashioned, but I’ve raised my kiddos on the belief that summer fun runs Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend. There’s also my thinking that every great summer must include water, which is why this weekend, we’ll be floating on the gentle current of a quarter-mile river. The kiddos will most likely opt for something a little more wild, like splashing and jumping through the surf, funneling through a Tornado, and adding to their “I did it” by taking on the world’s tallest enclosed dark tube slide.
Kings Dominion’s Soak City is 20-Acres of Water Fun!
We’re packing the car and driving to Soak City at Virginia’s Kings Dominion, about 75 miles from DC, just a few miles north of Richmond.
We are talking more than 20 acres of ways to get wet.
Admission is included with entry to Kings Dominion Amusement Park. An excellent opportunity to take a break from the heat! Yep! Roller coasters and wave pools, some of Summer’s best offerings. In fact, Kings Dominion is the ONLY Virginia destination offering two parks for the price of one!
My kiddos are already bragging about the Night Slider. Seventy-Five feet of total blackout. Once you commit from the top of the 77-foot tall wooden platform, you’ll go down as summer’s bravest. I’m calling “no-way” on my daughter and putting all my chickens on my son. It’s part of Hurricane Heights. They could each prove me wrong. It’s happened.
Then, again, maybe I should tell the kids about the Skybox waterslide where riders stand in a capsule and the floor drops out, sending them into a high-speed, almost vertical free fall and through a series of loops and s-curves in a translucent flume. Or maybe I’ll just let them find out on their own.
Without a doubt, my kiddos will spend a lot of time in the 650,000-gallon wave pool, with giant 4-foot waves.
I plan to spend time with them in the giant water-powered play house featuring more than 50 water-filled attractions that parents and kids can enjoy together, including a swinging bridge, water slides and the 40-foot-high bucket that tips a boatload of water every few minutes.
Our big surprise is since it’s a long drive, we’ll be spending the night at the amusement park in King’s Dominion’s Camp Wilderness–they have air conditioned cabins!
It’s opening weekend and the beginning of summer. We can’t wait to get wet and share the fun! Join me at the water park this weekend or any weekend until June 10–and then Soak City is open daily from June 10-September 5th!
If you live near Kings Dominion, consider a season pass for a season of fun!
Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company in conjunction with Blog Meets Brad, and I have been compensated for my participation. All opinions are my own.