Mayan Adventure Water Park

Holiday Inn with Mayan Adventure Water Park

I remember years ago when Holiday Inn used to consider itself a destination, rather than just a hotel, with novelties such as the Holidome. The Mayan Adventure Water Park shows that this concept is still viable.

The water park is small, but large enough to have a toddler play area that includes several slides coming off a large play structure that also has a large overhead dump bucket. In the main area, a lazy river, a large tube slide, a body slide, hot tub, and pool areas round out the offerings.

We stayed on a Saturday night plus Sunday night, and it was definitely very crowded on Saturday. I don't think I'd recommend this for a Friday/Saturday night stay, it just has the potential to be too crowded. However, it was *excessively* well-staffed - I couldn't keep count of how many guards and staff there were walking around. The guards were doing a good job of walking that fine line between enforcing rules, keeping control, without being unnecessarily rough and unpleasant. That's tough in a crowded park. The crowdedness resolved itself on Sunday, and it was very pleasant later in the day.

The rooms were pleasant, what I would consider Holiday Inn standard. The only annoyances we encountered involved the porch. There were other guests hanging out on their porches, smoking and yelling at people in the parking lot below. We also found that a service grate covering access to a compartment where the backside of the HVAC unit sat was missing, and we didn't want the kids poking around in that, so this meant we just didn't use the porch.

Access to the waterpark is not automatically included with all rooms; be careful when booking to verify that you get a package that includes it.

I personally feel that Holiday Inn would do well as a brand to take what they're doing at this location and run with it.

Posted 09/15/09 | Report Abuse

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