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Water Country – Portsmouth NH
A letter to Water Country
I went to your park yesterday for the first time, August 6th, for my daughter’s 10th birthday. I have always loved water parks while my wife had preconceived feelings about them and thought they were gross and dirty. Growing up my family would go to Surf Coaster as it was closer to Concord NH so yesterday was supposed to be a great day in which I would sell the idea of regularly going to your park to my wife as we live so close.
We arrived at 10:20 and waited in line to be in early. I rented a locker to secure our belongings at 10:35. At 1:30 I opened my locker (number 2061) to get our lunches. When I returned to my locker at 2:30ish I found my code did not work. I asked for assistance and found other peoples stuff in my locker for which I had a receipt.
Your staff’s response to the fact that my stuff was stolen and my locker rented out to another party was to offer me a 40% discount to your gift shop!!! When I rejected that and asked for a refund for my day I was begrudginly given free passes to come back to Water Country which essentially is giving me less than a 50% discount as it would not cover my parking or food next time and the passes I was given expire this year so I’d have little time to even use them!!!!
Your representative (Holly) at Customer Service, what a joke, told me your park is not liable for anything lost from the lockers and that I should contact the locker rental company!!!! I am beyond disgusted with how this was handled and the insulting manner in which your staff attempted to rectify this gross error. Furthermore, your staff knowingly allowed me to access the locker which you had allowed to be double booked and they were going to allow me to steal all of the backpackes and belongings of the other party. In my rage I did take it all out and go through it to see if they had my stuff (which they did not appear to have) but seeing they had car keys and other important documents I didn’t want to strand a family as maybe it was not even their fault!!! Ridiculous. With management like this I will actively let parents in the NH Seacoast area know what a disgusting place your park is and how callous and unthinking your management is.
John Christie
New Hampshire Family 