jamesdillaman Posted June 12, 2009 Posted June 12, 2009 Can't wait to get the full report! Good Luck! Â -James Dillaman
COASTER FREAK 11 Posted June 12, 2009 Posted June 12, 2009 Here it goes....Opening today! Â OMG! Good luck Shane!!!!! I hope its a sunny day!
Team Thriller Posted June 12, 2009 Posted June 12, 2009 Best of luck Shane! I cannot wait to hear how it goes! Â --James
ethans_dad06 Posted June 12, 2009 Posted June 12, 2009 Wow what an adventure! I hope you guys are doing well! I would love to see the behind the scenes operations of this place during a normal operating day. I really dig the technical side of things. Â Good luck Shane! Â Â -Brandon
ParkTrips Posted June 13, 2009 Posted June 13, 2009 Congrats on all the hard work coming together for opening. Looks great, best of luck!
coaster1000 Posted June 13, 2009 Posted June 13, 2009 Wow, I just saw this! Looks awesome. Too bad I'm stuck in Europe. Â Can't wait to see it open!
montezooma Posted June 14, 2009 Author Posted June 14, 2009 Thanks everyone for your well wishes. The opening was hectic as they usually are in the amusement industry. But overall things went quite well. Â The park looked great and our employees are the best. Unfortunately the weather didn't cooperate with us. It is never fun to open a waterpark in rainy weather. Hopefully the sun comes out soon! Â More later
montezooma Posted June 14, 2009 Author Posted June 14, 2009 Cowabunga Bay Opening Day...the pictures tell the story. Â Note to self: Never open waterpark in lightning and hail storm. Sunshine, lollipops and Rainbows Well the good news is, we sold a lot of season passes still, people braved the weather for the AWESOME new waterpark the surf Gods were NOT pleased It's like rain...on your wedding day
COASTER FREAK 11 Posted June 14, 2009 Posted June 14, 2009 Though the weather didn't work out for you, im glad to hear that you sold a lot of season passes!
ethans_dad06 Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 I think your going to do great, if people turned out in weather like that then your in good shape! Good luck in the future Shane!
traincrossin Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 Wow, you weren't kidding when you said you had bad weather. I hope everything goes alright in the future! The waterpark looks great btw!
ghost007jas Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 No opening day is perfect, just look at Disneyland! Â It's great to hear that you were able to sell plenty of season passes, hopefully good word of mouth will bring people when the weather improves!
netdvn Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 Is it just me or is it miserable all over the country? Â But seriously, I'm glad you were able to sell a lot of season passes on opening and let's hope the weather clears up soon over there (and over here). Â PS: Are you distributing brochures/maps for Cowabunga Bay? I would really like to know.
coaster1000 Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 Too bad with the weather. Seriously, that sucked. Â But the park looks great!
Airtime&Gravity Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 Sorry the weather was bad, but then as has been said before, all opening days have their problems. At least you sold a lot of season passes, which should mean a lot of non-season pass holders visiting. So your park should be really popular, and it looks great.
Twister II Posted June 15, 2009 Posted June 15, 2009 Looks awesome! Now just come build one down here in Vegas! There aren't any water parks here at all besides a slide at a community pool. It's torture in the summer! Â Also, are the plans for the ProBowl going in? Â I have always dreamed about one day being able to work with a waterslide company and open my own waterpark! I'd love to find a way to get my foot in the door...
montezooma Posted June 17, 2009 Author Posted June 17, 2009 Here is a news story on our stormy opening...  http://www.abc4.com/content/news/slc/story/Continuous-rain-hurts-some-Salt-Lake-businesses/rm6-13ZuMU2Sy23C2nZarA.cspx  I have no idea who Wayne Johnson is???? Well at least we are getting lots of news coverage.
Gav Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 I laughed at 1:30 when they showed a couple of kids running around excitedly, and then cut to a no running sign.
traincrossin Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 How did day 2 go? Was it any better? Â Wayne Johnson is the Salt Lake County Park Operations Director. I think they got your names mixed up in the artivle. At least some news coverage is better than none.
COASTER FREAK 11 Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 ^"We were greeted with thunderstorms on Saturday and hail the size of rock salt on Sunday" - Shane (From his interview) Â But, how have the past few days gone now? Â Also, Shane, I really like the web site. The only thing its missing is a park map! lol.
traincrossin Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 ^Whoops, missed that. I would like a park map as well to add to my miniscule collection!
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