Derby Rock River Rapids Aquatic Park

It was a hot day and I brought my kids here and they had a blast. It was our first experience. Now the bad. The life guards are really rude and I understand if the job is stressful but you knew what you signed up for prior. If you hate the job that bad quit and find a less stressful job.

What happened to this place? If you want to go somewhere with never-ending rules this is the place to be! We were told we couldn't hold our breath underwater, I wasn't allowed to go down a slide without a bandaid over my nose ring... (because it might damage the slide?! Am I going face down it?!?) The diving boards and all slides have ample room but they insist only one person at a time so lines are soooo long. Just in general you can do nothing except stand in the pool. No splashing, no laughing, no swimming. 0/10 experience. You know it's bad when a public pool beats out a water park.

Very reasonably priced, clean water park. Oodles of kind lifeguards, everything is sparkling clean. The ticket purchase/wait in line process at opening was a bit confusing and staff weren't helpful with organization of that but this is a minor thing. Wish they had a wave pool but other than that, no complaints.

Don't go here if you're looking for fun. Whistle-happy teenage lifeguards ruin any chance of a good time. The rules at RRR are enforced more than those of 1940's Nazi Germany. I went for a 1 hour and 45 minute period and was berated by 4 different life guards.1. I apparently only crossed my ankles when I came out of the slide and not my legs. WHAT?!2. I had to argue with someone half my age that the tips on my draw string were plastic and not metal.3. I touched the wall in the lazy river with my hand when I floated into it...4. I walked too close to the pool with my shirt on and was lectured how there's no cotton allowed near the water. I hadn't even gotten in yet. I don't even swim with a shirt on.It's one thing to have them try to pick on me as an adult because I can take it but watching the way some of them spoke to the children there was cruel. The management needs a clear overhaul. I wish I could say that this was the only time I've had a poor experience there. This place sucks. Save your money and go anywhere else.

A place where the teenage lifeguard gestapo can be on a powertrip by yelling at adults for proper pool etiquette. Rough housing and obvious unsafe practices are understandable and those should be called upon. But if I'm not sitting in a rubber tuber in a certain manner with my legs bent at a certain angle, and my chin is not upright and the expression on my face is wrong - my 40 something year old self will have gotten chastised by whistle-happy teens as if I was a little rugrat in his terrible twos. It's an awkward feeling for sure. Oh, and you better not have anything other than fabric on your swimwear. They'll treat that like you're packing a loaded weapon. I'm surprised they don't have a metal detector to walk through before going on any of the slides. The most fun thing about the park though is getting doused by the large water bucket up above. You don't have to do anything but just sit there. As long as you're not really moving, you won't get in trouble.

Very clean water park. Probably the cleanest I've ever been to. They are crazy with the amount of rules they have there though. Kids can't wear their life jackets off their slides or diving boards. If you have metal rivets on your swim shorts you have to pay 75 cents per rivet to purchase one of their plastic rivet covers they sell at the gate. They say the metal rivets scratch their slides. You can't wear your wedding ring down the slides. You have to have a tube and stay in it to float the lazy river. Stuff like that. My kids were disappointed they couldn't do the slides. I don't trust their swimming skills completely yet so I make them wear a life jacket. They don't allow you to bring in your own food and drink. They do have a concession stand. I fed the kids before we went so we had no need to use it so I can't review. Overall though the kids had a blast. We will definitely return. Price is very reasonable to get in.

Policed by a teen for a cotton shirt while playing with my small children during "tot time" a Saturday morning session for parents with kids under 5. I was forced to get out. I get it, that's their policy. But I was super unhappy that neither the whistle brigade nor the management had any words to say about a mom parading her bare backside all over the kiddie pool in a thing bikini.

I had a great interaction with the person doing the tickets and a lady took a picture of me and my siblings. In between this time, the life guard one in particular was nit picking. We couldn't do the "see who can stay under the water the longest" I literally seen two teenagers on each others neck in the pool (like the chicken fight) and the girl was grinding on the boys neck. Oh that's appropriate and totally safe but the lady got onto us and we were the problem. I literally argued with her and we did it anyway because none of the other lifeguards seemed to care. Then when we first got there we went on the lazy River. We all held onto each others tubes and again went around one time and no one said anything but this one guard said we couldn't. My brother had in a shirt because again none of the other people said anything and the guy who came up told him he could and he apologized no one else said anything in which I am happy he wasn't an ass about it but then there was like 2 other people with shirts on not even swim shirts and they kept it on the rest of the time in the pool. If you're gonna have rules, enforce them for EVERYONE and not just certain families because at this point I feel like we were targeted. This place is ridiculous.

How bout let people get know you're having a "training day" and closing at 4 before people show up it's the beginning of summer why are you closing anyway?!? And the employees barley could explain what was going on.

Won't go because of Bad rating, haven't been in years and don't plan on it, I don't care how clean your water is, if the rules are gonna take the fun out of everything, I could have more fun for free at the lake!