Hurricane Harbor and Six Flags Theme Park Video - St. Louis

Six Flags Theme Park in St. Louis is a great place to spend time with your family for a vacation with or without a season passé. My family and I live in St. Charles, Missouri and Six Flags is about a 40 minute drive for us, but we get Seasons Passes for the entire family every year and make sure we go enough to really get our moneys worth. This past summer, in 2009, we visited the park at least 12 times just for the water park alone. With your season pass or your daily admission the water park is free. That's right, there is no additional entry fee to the water park and you can enjoy the amusement park or the water park all day long. Six Flags Hurricane Harbor, the water park located within the amusement facility, is "open from late May through early September" for a full season of family fun in the sun.

When it is hot outside, Hurricane Harbor is a refreshing and entertaining way to beat the heat of the Summer. The water park is a "12-acre tropical paradise" featuring a "560,000-gallon wave pool, five-person raft adventure ride, multiple slides, and a children's play area." My teenagers love the big water rides and slides like the Tornado, which spins you on a huge tube shared by up to 4 people and whirls you into a giant funnel that finally plunges you into a small wading pool at the bottom. The Wahoo Racer is a bumpy water slide that makes you feel like you are jumping into the air when you hit each hill in the wavy slide. My husband really likes this ride because he can says he can get "air" under his mat when he rides it (See video of him and our girls on Youtube.)

While the big kids have fun on the big water slides, I could float for hours with my 2-year-old on the Gully Washer Creek, which we call the "lazy river" because you get on a tube and the river carries you in a huge circle around the water park until you arrive back where you started. If the lines are not too long, you can stay on this ride all day or go back and forth from here to the toddler splash pool.

In the toddler splash pool, they have an awesome pirate ship for the little ones that includes a small water slide. If you like to get really wet, you can listen for a big bell to ring and stand under a giant bucket that will pour onto your head once it fills with water and tips over. The wave pool is fun too if you don't mind the crowds of people who are waiting for the waves to start tossing them to and fro. The big kids love it and some little kids are not afraid of it.

The great thing about the park is they provide lockers for save keeping, plenty of food if you need a bite to eat without having to walk very far and life jackets in all sizes for children who are little are can't swim. Lifeguards are also on duty at all times, although I don't know how they could possibly see everything that is going on with the large number of people that are crowded in the water areas. Once I went and it was so crowded, I became anxious and had to leave. The noise level alone was enough to make me crazy. But I only had this problem one day out of the entire year. The weekdays are the best days to visit because the crowds are not as bad. Saturday and Sundays on very hot days were the worst.

I made a video of clips from several of our visits to the theme park and you can view it on Youtube.com (CLICK HERE TO VIEW VIDEO). We always have a lot of fun at the Six Flags, Hurricane Harbor Water Park as well as the Amusement Park.

The Park is actually selling its 2010 season passes already. You can purchase them early for $49.99 (just $10 more than the regular price of admission for one day) on its Web site, or you can purchase them on your first visit when the park opens in April.

Six Flags St. Louis is actually located in Eureka, Missouri, about 40 minutes west of St. Louis. It was established as the St. Louis Park because it is a major city that draws tourists.