If you're looking for a special place to take your family on vacation or you are a water enthusiast and can't make it to the beach or want to beat the winter blues with a little bit of water, the Grand Harbor Resort, Dubuque, Iowa, is the perfect place to visit. It features a 25,000 square foot indoor waterpark, with a variety of water activities, located inside the grand harbor hotel that is perfect for families of all sizes and for individuals just wanting a fun place to relax.
The Grand Harbor Resort Dubuque, Iowa, is the home of Iowa's first themed indoor waterpark. It features a variety of waterslides, water cannons, squirt guns, and a lazy river to float in. It also includes several pools, two grand whirlpools, tube rides, rope ladders, water spouts and water chutes. Located in the waterpark is a four story high replica of an old-fashioned steamboat called the Huck Finn II, which is named after the famous Huckleberry Finn character created by author Mark Twain. Located on top of the Huck Finn II is a giant bucket that dumps 800 gallons of water on people below every nine minutes.
The Grand Harbor Hotel is located along the Mississippi river and contains 193 rooms, raging in size from singles rooms to king suites. Each room does come complete with a mini-refrigerator, microwave, ironing board and iron, speakerphone, coffeemaker and 27" television. Each hotel room offers a waterpark package with it available for purchase when making reservations. In select rooms and at certain points throughout the hotel wireless high speed internet is available to hotel guests. The Grand Harbor Resort and Waterpark also houses a gift shop, fitness center, a huge arcade with redemption center for earned tokens, and the River Wall Restaurant, which offers guests superb dining with a fabulous view overlooking the river. For those enjoying themselves and too busy to pull themselves away from the waterpark, the hotel offers the Lunchbox Waterpark Café which offers beverages and snacks to its guests.
The Grand Harbor Resort Dubuque offers weekend activities for kids age 5-12. Some of these activities include ice cream night, movie night, create your own pizza and pottery and airbrush tattoos. Also for kids, the resort offers the Watersquirts Kids Club, which offers official membership, free tokens to the arcade upon your visit to the park, and other special features just for members.
For those wanting to venture away from the Grand Harbor Resort, Dubuque, the city, offers a variety of activities. Some of these include casinos, riverboat cruises, tours through the National Mississippi river museum and aquarium, golf, shopping, fine dining, an active nightlife, and a greyhound park.
With the variety of activities offered at the Grand Harbor Resort, Dubuque is a great travel destination for families looking to spend quality time together and have fun. Even adults will enjoy all the features of the Grand Harbor Resort and Waterpark, as well as the variety of activities and attractions available in the city of Dubuque.