Fun Plex

I am going to split this review into two. I am going to review Fun Plex and then review The Park After Dark — I kind of feel like it should be split up as the experiences are completely different. The Park After Dark is essentially the water park being open at 8:30pm until 1 am certain nights a week for 21 and older crowd.
Fun Plex — I honestly hadn’t been here since I was probably 14 years old. I am now in my mid-​twenties, so it has definitely been a while. I brought my partner here as he had never been there before. We went on a Tuesday where you got to enjoy the waterpark and rides for a cheap $ 14.95 per person. We stayed all day except for when we went to a nearby Subway to grab lunch (no way I’m paying those kind of prices for mediocre food). They open at noon and honestly the waterpark aspect of it was very enjoyable when they first open. It didn’t really start to get crowded until around 2:30 to 3pm. But once it starts to get crowded its literally not very enjoyable. The motion ocean is entirely too small. The owners of Fun Plex should seriously considering upgrading and at least doubling the size of the motion ocean. On hot summer days, it gets packed and you can barely move without bumping into someone. I don’t find that kind of experience to be fun at all. The rides are pretty much ones you’d find at your typical city fair. I do love the Tilt-​a-​Whirl though. It seems as if almost all the rides are extremely dated and don’t really add much to the park. It seems hit or miss whether or not a particular ride will be broken down. The day I went there were 2 rides not working. Even back when I went there as a teenager, it seemed as if not all the go-​karts and karts for the slick track worked. The same goes still.
All in all, I didn’t have a horrible time, but even on discount Tuesdays and Thursdays I don’t think the money was worth what we got. If I did decide to go again, I would not pay full price and go on the discounted days. Honestly, I had more fun swimming in my apartments pool than being at Fun Plex. It’s just too small. If you are going to go on the non-​discount days you might as well make the 2 hr drive to Adventureland where they have a gazillion more rides and their water park is probably 4x as big as Fun Plex for just about 10 dollars more. It’s a much better deal.
The Park After Dark — I only went to this because some of my friends really wanted to go. At the beginning of summer it was $ 5 to get in and you got a coupon for a drink. Then some things happened (I think a lot of rowdy, drunk people started fights) and Fun Plex upped the price to $ 8 and no drink voucher (to improve security), the same crap went on and Fun Plex cancelled it. The drunk people rallied and got Fun Plex to change their minds. It’s now $ 10 to get in and once again no drink voucher.
My friends, partner, and I got there shortly before 9pm. It was not crowded at all! Praise Jesus! We rent our tubes and take to the motion ocean… and there were literally gobs upon gobs of hair and debris EVERYWHERE. It was incredibly, incredibly disgusting. I assume the pool was not cleaned after they closed down and re-​opened for the night. Really? They couldn’t make one of their employees go through the motion ocean with a skimmer? I am literally not talking about some hair and debris here and there. it was literally everywhere. It was so gross that we went to the lazy river. At that point my friends and I bought a drink. We set our tubes (4 of them) down and literally walked maybe 20 feet to the area where you buy drinks. We were gone from our area approximately 5 minutes. In that 5 minutes, some asshole decided to jack one of our tubes. Luckily, we told someone who worked there and they gave us another tube. but so much for their security.
So we are floating in the lazy river and it was nice. There were no kids and it wasn’t particularly crowded. My friends apparently enjoyed their drink and wanted another. So to keep our tubes from getting jacked again, my partner and I stayed in the pool with our friends’ tubes so they wouldn’t get jacked again. At this point some extremely intoxicated girls came up to us and literally tried to start a fight with us. Once again. so much for security.
I would never go back to The Park After Dark. I like to drink and have a good time as much as the next person, but I don’t particularly enjoy swimming in other peoples hair or being harassed by belligerent drunks.
I would just recommend to avoid Fun Plex. Sure, it might be the only water-​park in Omaha, but it’s definitely not worth the money. You’d be better off at a city pool or making the trek to Adventureland or Worlds of Fun.

You might be impressed if you are under ten years old, but having already gone to some of the best amusement parks in the world, this place just doesn’t do anything for me. I think Nebraska should’ve already become the roller coaster capital of the world by now, it’s the perfect geographic location for a record-​breaking amusement park. Everybody has that one lame nearby park that they always go to, I can just see the rest of the nation noticing a new park and saying «hey, we’ve never been to Nebraska before». There are plenty of people who’ll drive across the country just to ride a roller coaster (myself included, went all the way to Jersey for Kingda Ka a few years ago), and I see it as a highly sustainable investment. Until then, I will continue to drive to Worlds of Fun or Cedar Point when I want to ride coasters, and I’ll drive to Iowa when I want to gamble. If Nebraska could fulfill any of my entertainment needs, I wouldn’t have to spend all of my money elsewhere!

Thankfully, I’m a faithful Unilocal user, so my expectations were set appropriately before going to Fun Plex. It is what it is– an aging amusement park, but the single-​best option of its kind in Omaha. The rides are old and many of them look like they belong at a pop-​up carnival but the (young) kids love them and the lines are pretty short.
The ‘water park’ is small but has all of the essentials– lazy river, wave pool, kiddie pool and waterslides.
On the day we went there was a HUGE corporate event so the place was absolutely packed. Lines for the rides remained short (probably due to the extreme heat) but the water park side was packed.
We paid about $ 20 per person for an unlimited all-​day pass (had a $ 6 off coupon from
) and stayed for 4 hours. If the waterpark hadn’t been so crowded we probably could have stayed another hour or so.
Overall, you’ll have a great time if you go with an open mind and ready to have fun. If you’re expecting something that rivals major water/​theme parks you’ll be sorely disappointed.

I hadn’t been to Fun Plex for something on the order of 10+ years, and while some things were the same (standing in line for the go-​karts and breathing the exhaust still made me nauseous, steps for the slides are slightly rusty, and the roller coaster broke down while we were there), it ultimately ended up being way more fun that I remember.
The initial reason for our visit was the water park — motion ocean, lazy river, water slides. For some reason they don’t open until noon, and I’d recommend getting there right then, because after 3pm it was much more packed with lines for the slides, and no spare chairs to be found. Note for adults, there is alcohol available for purchase, but it comes at a premium. Speaking of which, you have to rent tubes for $ 5 each (though you get $ 2 back if you return it). Also, the lockers cost $ 0.75 — unless you know the special one (s) that are $ 0.50.
You can bring in water bottles, thankfully, but no outside food or drink is allowed (we have a couple Gatorade’s that had to go back out to the car). Oh and you can leave and return in the same day with a wristband.
It’s an atmosphere not really conducive to relaxation, what with the noise, crowd and kids everywhere. But ultimately it really hit the spot on a 90 degree day and there aren’t a whole lot of alternative water parks around Omaha. For those reasons, we’ll definitely make a return trip.