Vacation time for the Brown family and we decided to stay relatively close to home and go to the Kalahari Resort in Sandusky, Ohio! Waterpark fun for everyone!
So, since we would be spending most of our time in the waterpark, we opted to get the basic, no frills "Hut" room. It was perfectly nice, your average hotel room. Unfortunately, we got a room with a view of the parking lot. Boring.
But, our first night, the air conditioner didn't seem to be working. By the time we got back to our room and noticed, it was getting pretty late but the service people were very prompt and came right up to the room. The guy looked at the air conditioner and decided that it was a dirty filter and quickly changed the filter. Unfortunately, that was NOT the problem and our room continued to be stuffy. Thank goodness it wasn't too hot outside because by now we had a sleeping boy and it was nearly 11 p.m. So, we slept in the stuffy room and decided to call again in the morning. So, Ken calls in the morning and very politely asks to either have the air conditioning fixed or get another room. (We were secretly hoping for a new room with a view of the pool) Imagine our surprise when the wonderful woman on the other end of the phone says that not only will they get us another room, it has a view of the pool. As a matter of fact, it is the Presidential Suite. She says she's sending a bellman up to take us to our new suite - yippee! So we pack up already happy as clams not knowing what really lay ahead.
The bellman comes and takes us up one floor and across the resort to our new room, playing with Mark at the elevators and telling us about his years as a teacher. A very sweet man. Then he gets to the new room and opens the door and . . . . .
Here is our NEW view . . .
and the wet bar and dining room (with the "guest" bathroom on the left) . . .
and the view from the entrance into the bar/dining/living area with a peak of the master bedroom
another angle into the dining/living room with a peak into the second bedroom
the view from the doorwall outside the master bedroom onto our private balcony with a hot tub and TWO other doorwalls, one into the living room and one into the second bedroom!!!!It was so over the top crazy and beautiful. We got one of only 3 of these rooms at the resort which go for about $1,000 per night for the rate of their most basic room for 2 more nights. All I can say is, I LOVE the Kalahari Resort in Sandusky!
We kept telling Mark to not get used to staying in rooms like this because this is not what we can afford! LOL Although, Ken is now thinking of carrying some tools with us on future trips. He's pretty handy and figures he can certainly disable another air conditioner!
Besides the great upgrade in our room, we really had a great time. Mark absolutely loved all of the waterparks, inside and out. We are thinking of going back in the winter when the winter blues set in. It would be a great reprieve from the weather. We highly recommend it.
Here is Mark doing some slip-n-sliding on the front lawn. He considers this to be his own personal waterpark. He's lucky his Daddy loves him enough to do this to his lawn!
