Nothing worked for us and we ended up where we were when we started, so needless to say, not having children is kind of a sensitive topic. To make a long story short, my body disagreed and we started a long, unexpected journey down a road of infertility treatments. We like kids but wouldn’t it be weird for two grown adults to go play on their own at a water park? And while we love our freedom to pick up and go to a Catskills water park for a couple of days, we don’t exactly celebrate being childless.Ībout ten years ago, when we decided to move to Inwood and were winding down our vagabond lifestyle, we knew that having children was the next step for us. On the other hand, a resort that calls itself the biggest indoor water park in the state is obviously made more for children and families and that’s where we hesitated. Plus, The Kartrite advertises itself as a “top-notch, stylish hotel” set in the gorgeous Catskill Mountains. Cruising on inflatable inner tubes down steep waterslides actually did, too. Lounging in a heated lazy river sounded fun. Ads promised a simulated tropical environment heated to 84 degrees with a clear roof overhead, allowing Vitamin D-deprived guests to feel the weak winter sun shining in. So when The Kartrite Resort & Indoor Water Park opened, it seemed like an appealing quick winter getaway fairly close to our home in New York City. We wanted to get away but we wanted warmth. Here’s something about not having kids: you don’t get a lot of chances to act like one. So when Matt and I plan our day trips or weekend getaways, they’re usually adult-oriented or at the very least, not planned with kid-friendly activities in mind.īut by March of 2019, in the waning dark days of an endless Northeast winter, we’d already had our cold-weather fun, which included gliding across a frozen lake at the Lake George Winter Carnivaland cross-country skiing in the Adirondacks. I mean, sure, adults are welcome but I think the expectation is that they’ll typically be there as parent or guardian rather than with the sole intention of having kid-like fun on their own.

When designing a new indoor water park, adults are not usually the targeted demographic. Waterslide at Kartrite Resort & Indoor Water Park

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