Maui Sands to stay closed indefinitely.

I bet they end up auctioning everything off and tearing it down. Kind of sad, they really never had a chance. They ran out of money and never finished construction on everything.

http://www.sanduskyregister.com/articles/2...ont/1028562.txt

Seems like terrible planning to run out of money.

Well, I`m sure that when the resort was being planned they did not predict the economy faltering as it has. However, they should have been more cautious upon entering the already saturated Sandusky market. I mean, the largest indoor water park in the country (the Kalahari) is located in Sandusky, as is a Great Wolf Lodge and the Cedar Fair owned Castaway Bay.

The real unfortunate result of that article is that the receiver of the Maui Sands property is not authorized to pay the employees their back pay. In other words, the employees cannot immediately get pay for hours which they`ve already worked and earned pay for. They will have to fight with the former owner of the resort with hopes of getting their back pay.

Somewhere, the ghost of Charles Darwin is smiling!

back in '07 when i went up to ceder point i stayed here, except they were like in their first week of converting it into a waterpark.

It sounds like it will never reopen in this update from today.

http://www.sanduskyregister.com/articles/2...ont/1029326.txt

No huge surprise. As mentioned before how many indoor water parks does one area need? Especially an area that dies in the winter because it is a warm weather tourist area. Makes no sense.

No huge surprise. As mentioned before how many indoor water parks does one area need? Especially an area that dies in the winter because it is a warm weather tourist area. Makes no sense.

exactly how many are there? i know that there is a gwl, that forcast rain thingy, castaway bay, and thats it.

^As CoastersRZ said in post #3 of this thread, there's Kalahari, Great Wolf and Castaway Bay. Maui Sands would have made four. Much too many for the burb of Sandusky. I'm suprised they have more than two.

When it was only GWL, actually Great Bear. That place was dead during the week in winter months and was busy on the weekends. Not sure how 2,3, or well not 4 are to survive.

^ Not to mention that when it was Great Bear, that was pretty much it for indoor waterparks in all of Ohio (not just Sandusky). I knew of lots of local groups that would have winter meetings at GB to work in a mini-vacation at the same time, but now they're all over Ohio. Most of the major markets (Cleveland, Columbus, Cincy) all have at least one (if not more) local indoor waterparks now.

It's a market niche that went from "hot" to "saturated" in no time!

I was there when they were building the waterpark. It looked tiny.