![]() ![]() “People coming in with families and traveling groups and it wouldn’t be much different from going to a beach and experiencing the outdoors.” Mountain Creek Resort ![]() Wojdyla called the news “disappointing” and said that she believes the water park can “safely” open up. “It’s hard to open a water park in a regular year, and all of this on top of the COVID guidelines we’ve been working on and the different aspects of our business outlooks for this summer.” “It’s extremely frustrating,” said Wojdyla. Katie Wojdyla and her sister Kelly Greene, the owners and operators of the Enchanted Forest Water Safari Resort in upstate’s Old Forge - a popular Adirondack town - were also among those proprietors dismayed by the news that they won’t be allowed to open the park in the near future. “Beaches can be open, pools can be open, zoos can be open, all these outdoor places can be, we just are trying to understand what the difference in venue is,” Chafatelli said as he explained that the park has suffered hundreds of thousands in lost revenue. The water park’s chief operating officer, Andrew Chafatelli said, “We’ve been on the phone every week, searching for answers and just haven’t gotten them.” This is our livelihood, and we’re in pain. Turk said it has taken “several million dollars” to get the water park “where it is now,” and feels he has been left in the dust. “We’re an outside water park only, and it’s a small park,” said Turk, noting that he had hoped to have been open before Fourth of July weekend. The Cuomo administration broke the news to local officials across the state in a conference call earlier this week that amusement parks and water parks, as well as gyms, shopping malls, and movie theaters won’t be permitted to open in Phase Four - believed to be the final stage - of the state’s reopening plan. “Now our neighbors in Connecticut 20 miles away are open, New Jersey is open … and Ohio is open and we’re crushed right now in this state of limbo - with this much staff, this much capital outlay and no answers,” Steve Turk, the owner and operator of SplashDown Beach Waterpark in Fishkill, NY, griped to The Post. New York water park owners say it’s not fair that they can’t open for business anytime soon under the Cuomo administration’s coronavirus reopening plan, yet their counterparts in neighboring New Jersey and Connecticut - the state’s “regional partners” - have been given the green light. How NY Dems used the COVID crisis to waste YOUR money Hochul's back to signing poorly vetted deals using 'emergency' powersĪdams' medical team backs reparations to boost health for black NYers Feds hired NY health czar who defended deadly nursing-home order ![]()
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