And thus why I think Soak City may be the most appropriately named park in the country!

If KI did make you pay separately for Boomerang Bay, I will say right now that me and my kids would buy a Beach pass over a Boomerang pass.

Soak City has always been a seperate charge water park. The park is huge compared to other water parks I've been to. It's body slides have a catch pool at the end and are a little outdated but the water park is awesome. If I lived in Cincinatti I wouldn't pay extra for the water park at Boomerang Bay it's always been included with the park admission price. If they change it to a seperate admission price now I wouldn't go to the water park. I would go to Coney Island Park or the Beach if I wanted to swim.

I do hope in light of the new purchase they change it back to the old "water works" name.

It'll always be Water Works in my heart

I must admit that I'm not a big fan of name changes for the most part. To me, it's still The Beastie, still Taxi Jam, and still Amazon Falls.

However, I was really impressed with the improvement of Water Works as it changed to Boomerang Bay, so it makes the transition a lot easier.. plus Boomerang Bay is easy to spit out.

Usually name changes make a ride's name a mouthful:

Scooby Zoom is less of a mouthful than Taxi Jam which is much less of a mouthful than Little Bill's Giggle Coaster.

Beastie is a lot less of a mouthful than the Fairly Odd Coaster.

X Flight is a lot less of a mouthful than Firehawk.

Just my take...

On the other hand, compare:

Paramount's Kings Island

Kings Island.