My husband was extremely excited to take us to his childhood vacationing spot in Old Forge This summer as we rarely get to spend quality family time together because he travels for work. He wanted to take the kids to enchanted safari, which he hadn’t been to since he was a teenager (he is 42 now) and neither I or the children had ever been.
We looked online and felt extremely excited about the McCauley Mountain suite we booked for three nights at The Waters Edge Inn.. I though it was a little off there were not more pictures of the rooms on the website but I didn’t think to far into it. We spent over $1100 for the room for three nights alone with passers to the water park for two days… which put us in an average of $330 per day just to be there. Arrival at the room was immediately disappointing for me. Neither of the telephones in the room worked, the room was horribly hot no air conditioning had been turned on and it was a very hot day… there is no elevator and I was dripping with sweat after unloading four peoples luggage and bringing them up the stairs. I went to start putting things away and opened the fridge to find it dirty and there was leftover food still inside.

I went to call the front seat and that is when I discovered neither phone worked.
I went to the desk where someone was helpful and came to clean it for us but I was just a little put out considering how much the room cost per evening. I’ve never paid that much for a room without too notch amenities and there was not even a coffee pot of keurig in the room.

Later on my son wanted to take a bath in the jacuzzi tub but we could not get the water much hotter than Luke warm no matter how much we spun the dial or waited.

The following day at the waterpark was terrible we arrived right at the opening of the day (10am) and by 1 pm we had made I through the lines to ride only 2 water slides…. We stopped into a pizza wing joint in the park to have lunch. We put our order in at 3 PM and at 4:15. I went to the counter to ask for our food because many people had ordered and left with their food before us. They had lost our ticket and we spent almost 2 hours just sitting there in the restaurant waiting for our food and then eating losing all of that time at the park as well, I went to the office when I return to the hotel and return the tickets that I had purchased for the following day because we were not impressed with the park…
I spent the entire day at the waterpark, completely dry and hot and annoyed so many people I’ve never seen lines that long and everything cost money if you wanna wait in line for tube and then wait in line once you get it that’s fine But you could rent to so that you could skip the waiting for for a tube line. They offered cups with “free” refills, but three refills were only free every certain amount of minutes if you want to get one and you were very thirsty and drink it right down and went to fill it again it would deny you or refill it would say you had to wait.
I’m not fully impressed with any part of this trip. My husband said He remembered it as a much more magical place, but I guess his children we do remember things differently I would spend my money elsewhere in the future.