Gillian’s Island Water Park

This place is great. New owners have made some improvements that have been mentioned in other reviews. We always rent a cabana since we come with a large group. The food is good here too which is usually not the case at water parks. They strung fishing wire across the top of the sitting areas to keep the gulls out. It seems to be working good.

The new owners really have spruced up the place. Added a rock climbing wall, and a cool food truck. Affordable water park with a lot to do for the kids and the whole family.

I visited with my my 2 children as well as my daughter’s 7 year old friend. I was shocked when the admission person REFUSED to let me bring in a bottle of water — she made me leave my bag outside the park; even when i said I’d put into locker and purchase water.
I get into the park and saw tons of people with outside food and water.
After paying $ 85.00 to get into the park (1 adult and 3 kids); I wasn’t able to bring in a lousy bottle of water?
Last time we go there. RIP OFF.

My wife and I have been going to Gillian’s for years. Today (7÷7÷11) I was on a ride I have been on hundreds of times before. My tube seemed to get a little stuck as I first descended and then my body swung wildly on the tube. I went way too far up on the right side of the tube and BAM my head landed on the bottom of the tube and I was out of my inner tube. My head and neck were in pain and I slid down to the bottom where there is a pool that a lifeguard stands in before pushing you down one last slide.
I told her what happened. She asked my name. I knew it. I asked if there was a way off not involving the slide. There wasn’t so I had to go down that. Talk about a design flaw! What if I had lost consciousness? How would they have gotten me out of there? As it was, I really did not enjoy the fast slide with a throbbing head.
So I decided to talk to the manager to tell them what happened. The manager could not have cared less. Then I went to the first aid station. There was a buzzer there. I rang and the teen in the main office came. No medical professional. He gave me an ice pack and told me they sell pain pills by the lockers.
This situation raises many red flags about this place:
*Their overall not caring about what happened.
*The fact that no one seemed trained on how to handle a guest with a head and neck injury. The lifeguard I first encountered asked me what my name was and because that worked, sent me down a slide at high speed. Neither the manager nor the kid in the office wrote down what happened. Any place with proper safety measures documents this stuff.
*There is no nurse at a place where I was inches from a serious head/​neck injury. That is the the ultimate corner cut at a place that makes money hand over fist.
I wound up going to the ER and the CAT scan showed no major damage. Thank goodness.
I just wish I had my $ 20 admission, hours in the ER and $ 100 ER bill back.
If they don’t care when someone properly uses their equipment injures themselves, why on Earth would I ever go back?

Very small but very clean and well run. Plenty of lifeguards and they are actually watching the kids, not goofing around. We took kids age 2, 5,8,9,and 13. The only one who didn’t enjoy it was the 8 year old. The little kids area was to juvenile for her but the bigger stuff was to scary, so she got bored quickly. The other kids and the adults enjoyed it. We packed lunch and ate at the car, but food prices in the park weren’t that bad. I only gave it 3 stars instead of 4 because of it’s size. Waterworks in Seaside charges the same fee and is much larger.