Is it just you and your daughter? You will have to be with her the entire time. Climbing stairs for slides, being wet, in the crowds. |
Just us. Do I have to climb the stairs for all of the slides, or can I wait at the bottom? She's 8. |
You will get sick there no ones leaves there well. |
No, you can wait at the bottom for her as long as she is not scared to go herself. |
We've never gotten sick there. We don't go during peak times, though. Go midweek off-season at opening and it will be extremely clean, no lines for slides, no crowds. |
My two boys and I would go Sunday night into Monday - 24 hours was enough of everything and they were ready to go by Monday noon. Cheaper, fewer people and cleaner. |
We went for years and years. Never came out sick. Hand to God, not even once. |
No, my 7 year old can do all the slides by himself without me. |
Same, no illness of any sort. |
Every kid is different. For my kids, at the Williamsburg site, I was comfortable standing in line with him till he got to the top of the stairs, and then going over to wait at the bottom of the slides, by the time they were about 6 or 7. I wasn't comfortable with them being out of my sight in the water, unless it was the super shallow water by the climbing structure, so I'd move from place to place and watch from the side, and I wanted to be in the water with them in the wave pool and the lazy river. |
I would not do this unless you're going on a Wednesday of a week that has five full days of school. Even then, it might still be crowded. Also, there are SO MANY STAIRS for the large slides (the ones that require tubes, and some of them you have to carry your own heavy tube). My kids had a great time, but it's a lot. Definitely sensory overload if you go on a weekend. |
The larger slides have height limits. |
Bedbugs always |
Bedbugs never in 6 visits for us. In our “rookie” visit, affected by DCUM people like you, I even asked for a bedbug inspection of our room before we entered, as we watched, and they happily complied. No bedbugs for us. |
OP, you could try showing your dd some Youtube videos of it. My 10 yo dd, who is autistic, watched some and said, No. LOL at least she could get an idea of the noise and crowds. |