About Holiday World & Splashin' Safari
Specialties: Holiday World & Splashin' Safari is a family-owned theme park and water park combo, located in Santa Claus, Indiana.
Home of Thunderbird - America's only launched wing roller coaster, Holiday World celebrates Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving and the 4th of July with roller coasters, family rides, a huge water park, live entertainment, games, attractions - and Santa Claus, himsel...
Specialties: Holiday World & Splashin' Safari is a family-owned theme park and water park combo, located in Santa Claus, Indiana.
Home of Thunderbird - America's only launched wing roller coaster, Holiday World celebrates Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving and the 4th of July with roller coasters, family rides, a huge water park, live entertainment, games, attractions - and Santa Claus, himself! Splashin' Safari, ranked one of the nation's Top Water Parks by TripAdvisor and USA Today, includes the two longest water coasters in the world, numerous family water slides, two wave pools, plus water activities for children. Both parks have been voted the World's Cleanest for more than a dozen years by the readers of Amusement Today magazine. In 2016, Guinness World Records certified Mammoth as the World's Longest Water Coaster and in 2013, TIME magazine named The Voyage the nation's #1 wooden roller coaster. Live entertainment includes musical shows, a country band, high dive show, and Santa's Storytime. Both parks offer guests free soft drinks, free parking, free inner tube usage, free sunscreen and free Wi-Fi.
New for 2018! Tembo Falls, a water slide complex with eight junior slides, including twisters, a helix, a mini-bowl, and two racing slides and Tembo Tides, a junior wave pool plus spray features for younger children. Established in 1946. Evansville industrialist Louis J. Koch created the world's first theme park as a retirement project. Santa Claus Land opened August 3, 1946; included a toy shop, displays, themed children's rides, a restaurant, and Santa. When Koch's son Bill returned from World War II, he soon became the head of Santa Claus Land. In 1960, Bill married "Santa's daughter," Patricia Yellig; he remained active in the business until his death in 2001. Bill and Pat had five children; the eldest, Will, now runs the park. In 1984, Santa Claus Land's name was changed to Holiday World. In 1993, Splashin' Safari was added; it now includes 27 acres of wave pools, rivers, family raft rides, water slides, plus family-waterplay complexes, free sunscreen and free use of inner tubes. In 2000, Holiday World became the first park in the world to provide free soft drinks. In 2006, a recording-breaking wooden coaster, The Voyage, was added; it helped catapult the park's seasonal attendance past one-million.
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