DonAndMikeShow

Holy crap, one of the local tv news station reporters just called me and wants to interview me tomorrow and do a story about the fact they are building this near Baltimore but are forcing locals to buy a nights stay at $250.00 plus in order to visit the park.

I apologize if my message title mislead any of you. I appreciate the input, I was not as familiar with the "water park resort scene" as many of you seem to be on this site. I just got off the phone with the company and they expect prices to start at about $250.00 per night. My dumb ass did not figure into this the fact that you could split this charge with up to three others for each room and also the company stated that a single nights stay grants all four guests admission to the waterpark for both your check in day (starting at 12PM) and the following day (all day.) They also informed me that they do wish to be "a good neighbor" and will be offering residents of local zip codes discounts and during slow periods big discounts. So anyway thanks to the couple of you who were not nasty to me in your responses, I appreciate the info and at least I clued you guys into a cool new attraction! They did say though that there are often delays in completing such projects so we might not get to experience The Crosswinds Resort until 2010, I'll be saving me sheckles...

A massive indoor water park is set to be constructed near Baltimore Washington International Airport (8 miles from Baltimore's inner harbor) but the residents of Baltimore and the surrounding area will not be welcome there. American Resort Management is expected to complete The Crosswinds Indoor Water park Resort in 2009 but the only way to gain admission to what they are claiming will be the "East Coast’s largest collection of water slides and attractions" will be to stay at one of the four attached luxury hotels. From About.Com - "The Crosswinds Resort Indoor Water Park Admission Policy: The water park will be open to registered guests of the resort's four hotels. At this point, passes will not be made available to the general public." Information about this project can be found at the following internet sites http://themeparks.about.com/od/findindoorwaterparks1/p/GrandIsleWP.htm and http://www.thecrosswindsresort.com/ Thank you for any help you might wish to offer and please don't kill/flame me on this, I really enjoy water parks and was quite disappointed to learn of this company's planned policies. I sent this info to all my local newspapers and television news departments. By the way HersheyPark's new Boardwalk area is fantastic and I will put up some images soon (although both times I have visited they had to close down the main play area due to someone going number two in the water...) Adam