Abandoned Maui Sands Indoor Waterpark & Resort 🏝️🌊😎

Welcome back everyone 😇 I am back with another unique abandoned video! 🏚️ Last weekend, I drove to Sandusky, Ohio to explore the abandoned Maui Sands Resort 🌴 Opened in 2008, this resort and waterpark included multiple water slides to go down, a lazy river to steadily float down, and hot tub areas 💧The hotel portion came with 300 rooms, along with Hawaiian themed art and furniture in each room 🌺🛌 Sit back, and enjoy this video 👏🏼💙

[@Sherlyxzs]

people definitely had fun there

[@urbanexplorer260]

Plenty of fun times that unfortunately came to an end 😞

[@partycats.]

I went here a couple times when i was younger. We also went just a little bit before they closed, a huge part of the building had water damage, and there was an arcade in the back that was completely ruined. If i remember right, the water park was actually pretty decent apart from the nasty water. I remember the rooms were pretty bad. But it was still loads of fun to 9 year old me 😢

[@OGCatDJM]

I went to Kalahari and I saw this place, made me sad how a staple of childhood and nostalgia is just abandoned and sitting there.

[@urbanexplorer260]

Waterparks bring back so many fun times for a lot of people 🌴 it is sad to see such a once thriving spot just rotting

[@Barnubedaboi]

Same

[@NikkiAdamsHer3littlethinkers]

Hotel impossible came to help get this place back to normal- the crew and staff stayed at Kalahari 😂😂

[@urbanexplorer260]

I’ve been hearing that lol, where can I find the episode?

[@PinetopJackson2]

Ah you got to Maui Sands! I scoped it out on my way back from Cleveland last month, but didn’t try to get in…THIS time…

[@urbanexplorer260]

This was a very unique place 🌴

[@AmericanXplorers]

Awesome vid, we now have this place on our list of places to visit soon

[@urbanexplorer260]

Thank you 😄 good luck when you go 🏚️

[@AmericanXplorers]

@@urbanexplorer260 thank you! Did you recently go here?

[@UptownWatta]

@AmericanXplorers make it fast, they are applying for demo permits now

[@BrittanyLonardo6516]

Thats wild i took my son there once we stayed there as well. The room was such a turn off it wasnt clean at all. I never knew their water was not properly cleaned thats wild. We went once and never went back

[@urbanexplorer260]

I’m sorry to hear that! The previous owner of the building was running a shady and dishonest resort 🌴

[@kennethwise7108]

Wow

[@urbanexplorer260]

Wow indeed, this place was massive 🌊

[@kennethwise7108]

@urbanexplorer260 such a shame. I only learned about this place by accident. We've staying at a motel adjacent to it and I wanted to see what that place was. Such a shame. What kind of laundering were they involved with?

[@Loggie20]

Went here in 2014. It was our first indoor water park experience that we purchased off Groupon. We had such a good time. Came with pizza and drinks, tokens and a breakfast buffet for great price

[@urbanexplorer260]

That’s awesome bro! It sounds like you truly did enjoy yourself 😎

[@OGCatDJM]

How? It closed in 2009

[@Loggie20]

@@OGCatDJMit was purchased by another company and reopened in 2012. It shut down for good in 2019 after another company purchased it again in 2018

[@OGCatDJM]

@@Loggie20 oh ok. Thank you for clarifying

[@dopeexplorers3133]

I’d say me and my group were the first to expore in 2018 had power on in some areas still was insane went down hill after u didnt even see how it used to look lol

[@the_bean1421]

it’s amazing how different this place looks now abandoned!i went here winter break of 2016 💀

[@urbanexplorer260]

Oh my gosh what a coincidence 🤯😱 how was your time there?

[@the_bean1421]

@@urbanexplorer260 it was pretty good as i remember! i honestly think it was a super underrated water park! it was considered the “budget” water park of sandusky and i definitely understand that cuz compared to kalahari, this place is tiny.

[@BrittanyLonardo6516]

This olace was definitely better in the budget for taking family there i think everynight you stayed youngot four passes for the water park (the day you checked in and the dat you checked out) it wasnt the most horrible hotel ive been too but it wasnt great let me tell you

[@exploringwithbrody]

🔥🔥

[@urbex_coasters]

Went here in 2014. While I enjoyed it something just felt "off" about the place. In retrospect I'm surprised it took as long as it took for the place to get shut down. And when I say it felt off I'm not just talking about the internet not working. Maybe it's that I'm naturally suspicious of cheap tacky theaming you can see right through but the place was run so bad even back then. Being that I've seen the entire video from the interview and videos of what opening day looked like on here, it now makes sense being that it was a shell of itself even back then. I wouldn't rule out a Breaking Bad type situation having happened here (after all, it opened around the same time Gus explaining the mechanics of his lab with the Chlorine hiding everything in the show was first aired). On a more positive note, I do hope Great Wolf looks at relocating that bowl slide, it would give their Sandusky waterpark the star attraction it desperately needs.

[@urbanexplorer260]

It was really eerie to be inside, it felt like a waste town, it seems all the abandoned resorts and indoor water parks are all closing due to deceit and bad practice. I mean heck, there was Caribbean Cove in Indy, Fort Rapids in Columbus, and now this! Cowabunga 🌊

[@urbex_coasters]

@@urbanexplorer260 Don't forget Coco Key. Of these tacky theamed places, Splash Lagoon in Erie is the last one I know of. And even so that place focuses more on the slides and less on the tacky theme (although the same could've been said of Fort Rapids looking at how many slides come out of that building so who knows-surprised Kalahari hasn't tried to buy Fort Rapids. Great Wolf wouldn't since they have the Kings Island Great Wolf but Kalahari might) but it's under contract with multiple hotel chains so the departure of Holiday Inn from Carribbean Cove is unlikely to repeat itself there, for example.

[@NobodyGoodEnough]

How recently was this recorded? Been scouting the place and there has been constant security.

[@urbanexplorer260]

Just go right before the sun rises, and park at the indoor tennis court next door and walk around to where your next to the highway, there is an easy way in, any questions you can hit me on insta @urbanexplorer260

[@NobodyGoodEnough]

@@urbanexplorer260 awesome! Thanks for the reply.

[@NikkiAdamsHer3littlethinkers]

Be careful getting there- there’s been over 113 trespassing incidents since it shut down

[@NobodyGoodEnough]

@@NikkiAdamsHer3littlethinkers source?

[@UptownWatta]

Wish you could've got into the arcade or the section they remodeled in hotel impossible

[@urbanexplorer260]

I did not know they were involved with that show? Which episode was it? That’s crazy 😳

[@masterking3979]

And FYI the city of Sandusky didn’t shut the place down Perkins Township did

[@urbanexplorer260]

Ok thanks for the update!

[@kelpps707]

man I went here with my fam in like 2014

[@urbanexplorer260]

I’m glad you were able to go! Did you and the fam have a blast?

[@Nascarfanchris99]

I just was at the hotel at the front and i wanted to get really close but I did not want to get in trouble so i stayed little far

[@urbanexplorer260]

That’s awesome bro, you should have ventured inside!

[@Nascarfanchris99]

@urbanexplorer260 is there a easy way to get in?

[@urbanexplorer260]

@@Nascarfanchris99 yeah there is, hmu [e-mail]

[@UptownWatta]

Got the worst case of food poisoning off a pizza there smh

[@urbanexplorer260]

Oh my gosh! Hopefully it wasn’t overpriced 🍕

[@UptownWatta]

@@urbanexplorer260 yep per usual lol