Kalahari Round Rock Water Park was a fun escape from the Texas cold!
This is the largest indoor waterpark in America, all 223,000 square feet of it.
So lets break down the water park.
You have a giant rectangle of a room with different rides and slides split up into different sections as you can see on this map.
There are waterslides and attractions all along the edges of the room with the seating, chairs and Zulu grill in the middle of the room. We were there on a pretty quiet friday and it was pretty easy to find some chairs.
So its somewhat organized by age group, with the little kid stuff off to the left, so if you have kids, I’d say 6 or so and under, I would head to the left as soon as you walk in. Over there you’re going to find the splashdown safari which has some fun sized slides, my 6 year old daughter and 7 year old niece really liked that area. One thing to not is they actually have a height restriction on some of their slides, as its ONLY for the smaller kids. This made it a little awkward for us as some of my other nieces were too tall and we had to split up. I can see why they do it, but its something that definitely has its pros and cons.
Past that you’ll find coral cove which is a really cool area for the smaller toddlers. We didn’t have any with us that small, but its definitely a great area for the littler kids.
Now onto the fun rides. There are TWO main areas for slides, theres the group of slides near the lazy river with the big stingray water slide. This stingray has their biggest funnel and is a must do at least one time. When you go up the side of the funnel you definitely get a little bit of air time which is quite fun. There are a few other tube rides on that side that are fun as well and we did all of them with the few hours we were there on our first day.
They also have some single rider slides, like the zig zag zebra and the Tanzanian twister. Now I have to note, these were a lot of fun, but they are FAST! They are definitely NOT for little kids, but if you’ve got some that like fun, these definitely are. I would also make sure you pay attention to the ones that have the strong swimmer warning. I’m a pretty strong swimmer, but dropping into the pool off the Tanzanian twister was a little disorientating! So a lot of your most fun slides are going to be on that side of the park, so if you walk in and go to the right, its over on that section.
Now personally, my favorite section of waterslides is back behind the wave pool. The slides over here probably aren’t as good, but when we were there, there was no one there and we could just go up and down riding on the chetta racers as much as we wanted. Our kids also really liked the wave pool, so being over on that side made things a lot easier. This side still has some good tube rides, and they have the fastest single rider slides. I did them both, and I gotta say, it was fun but it was mostly getting a whole bunch of water splashed in your face.
The next thing to cover is the lazy river. The lazy river goes around the Lost Lagoon pool and our kids had a lot of fun there. Its relaxing to just get pushed around on the current and the kids had fun playing with each other while going around the loop. Definitely one of their favorites.
The Lost lagoon is a popular pool with a bunch of basketball hoops. We didn’t spend too much time there as the girls weren’t really interested, but I could see it being fun.
The other area is the grotto area which I didn’t really see much of. I did the water slide that was over there which was cool, but we were busy watching the kids, so we never got to go to the “adults only” area.
The other thing that we didn’t do was the Flowrider, but it looked like a popular attraction.
And the one other thing to note that we almost missed was the hot tub! The indoor/outdoor hot tub is over by the little kids section, near coral cove, and it goes outside. On this cold Texas day, it was amazing to be able to sit in the hot tub outside, this was definitely one of the highlights for me.
