• Indoor water parks are popular, specially during the winter months.Children's water park with sun beds and slides on the seashore image by Supertrooper from Fotolia.com
  
  Indoor water parks continue to gain popularity as a form of year-round entertainment, as most outdoor water parks are closed during the winter. Near Butler, Ohio, a nationally-branded hotel recently (2010) opened an indoor water park, even as a number of other indoor water parks are available in and around the Butler area.
  
  

Comfort Inn Splash Harbor Indoor Water Park

• The 100-room Comfort Inn South, 5.7 miles and 10 minutes from Butler, has a 6,000-square-foot Splash Harbor indoor water park with retractable roof. It features a 49-foot looping water slide, spray-ground with dumping buckets, shooting geysers, an adult hot tub and a tub for families, two water basketball hoops, a floating raft, and a 6 inch to 13 inch kiddy pool area. All hotel room rates include water park passes. Day passes are available for non hotel-guests. Hours of operation are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. for guests, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for non-guests. Birthday packages are available. The hotel and water park are smoke-free facilities.
  
  Comfort Inn Splash Harbor Indoor Water Park
  
  855 Comfort Plaza Dr.
  
  Bellville, OH 44813
  
  419-886-4000
  
  splashharbor.com
  
  

Conley Resort Water Park

• The Pirates Cove indoor water park at the Conley Resort has two slides, a pirate ship with cannon, a sauna, hot tub and a party room. Entry fees (as of 2010) vary from $12 to $16, depending on the day of the week and the number of people in a group. The park opens at 4 p.m. weekdays and 12 noon on weekends, and closes at 9 or 10 p.m. Times may vary in accordance with school hours prevailing in the area. Guests are advised to bring beach towels as these are not supplied by the park. Children's parties have a 3-hour limit and reservations are required. A fixed menu is available, and only a birthday cake and ice cream are allowed to be brought in.
  
  Conley Resort
  
  740 Pittsburgh Road (route 8)
  
  Butler, PA 16002
  
  724-586-7711
  
  conleyresort.com
  
  

Kalahari Resort

• This resort has locations in Wisconsin, Virginia and Ohio. The Ohio resort is in Sandusky, less than an hour away from Butler. All locations have water parks, rooms and suites, dining and convention facilities, but Sandusky (with 173,000 square feet) boasts the biggest indoor water park in all of America. The Sandusky indoor park has private indoor cabanas with a safe, chaise lounges, refrigerator and table. The park has stand-up surfing and boogle boarding, a transparent roof, a 12,000-square-foot wave pool, a 60-feet-diameter bowl raft ride, an uphill water rollercoaster waterslide, four-lane mat slides, raft rides, indoor spas and a swim-up bar.
  
  Kalahari Resorts
  
  7000 Kalahari Drive
  
  Sandusky, Ohio 44870
  
  877-525-2427
  
  kalahariresorts.com