Although with this weather who would know!? So the weather has been uber nice, which has helped us do quite a bit in our efforts to get ready for 2013. Pirates of the Wildwoods is getting a new floor. Boat Tag is getting an overhaul, so much so that it sits in nice little rows of parts…
Prestigious “Employee of the Season” award Presented to Kevin Ebner in Las Vegas
Immediately after the excitement of the WipeOut! Race, we took the festivities down to Raging Waters for the grand opening of River Adventure. Creative contestants built cardboard boats to race (and in some cases, SINK!) in the new river. Check out our video and photo gallery! …
On June 14th, we held a grand opening race on our brand new waterslide, WipeOut! at Ocean Oasis Beach Club and Waterpark. We reached out to our Facebook fans and Season Pass Members to help us celebrate this incredible new slide with an afternoon of fun, food and of course, one wet and…
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It's that time again! Ladies and Gentlemen, are you hungry? Our annual Curley's Fry Eating Contest is returning to Joe's Fish Co. on July 4th at noon. At last year's event, the fries flew as contestants consumed over 150 pounds of Curley's Fries before Dave…
To showcase our NEW River Adventure at Raging Waters we are hosting a little adventure of our own! On Thursday, June 14th join us for the Cardboard Boat River Regatta! We’re challenging up to 20 fans to build their own cardboard boat and put it to the ultimate test for a…
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Thank you to everyone who came out over the weekend to celebrate with us! We hope you had a wonderful Easter and took advantage of the gorgeous weekend weather! If you couldn’t make it to the pier, don’t worry! There is still time to take advantage of our Spring Sale. Take…
We have been collecting applications for several weeks now and we are about the begin setting up interviews. During my professional career, I have interviewed literally tens of thousands of applicants and have a few tips for those of you looking for employment with Morey’s…
At the end of Last summer TripAdvisor rated Ocean Oasis and Raging Waters among the Top 5 Waterparks in the country, and this is all thanks to all of you who have reviewed the waterparks on the site. I don’t think it’s a secret, we love to hear from you guys! When you let us know…
One of the cool things about waterslide construction is that the assembly process goes by relatively quickly. Don’t get me wrong, a lot goes into the construction process and we have a talented and skilled team assembling Wipeout. But just about every day you can see some real…
See Morey’s Piers from an entirely new angle. Follow us on Instagram for beautiful, vibrant photos from all over our parks. If you take an Instagram shot here this summer, be sure to tweet it and tag it with #moreyspiers so we can find it and add your photos to our Facebook gallery!…
With summer approaching, Christmas is a distant past. However it sure felt like Christmas today at Ocean Oasis when we were treated with a “little” delivery!It doesn’t take a lot to get a waterpark manager excited this time of year which is why it was a wonderful sight…
Jack stops by Ocean Oasis Waterpark + Beachclub to see the status of WipeOut. In Episode 3, Jack visits Billy Walters as he works with his team to drive the deep piles for the foundations that will support the WipeOut Racer Slide.http://youtu.be/0DXsDMiSS8E
Take a ride with Jack Morey and see what we’re working on here at Morey’s Piers & Beachfront Waterparks. In Episode 2, Jack visits Pete Bieling and Son as they work on the Wiki Kiniki Waterworks at River Adventure.
Take a ride with Jack Morey and see what we’re working on here at Morey’s Piers & Beachfront Waterparks in the first episode of Jack’s Construction Blog.
It’s hard to imagine what Raging Waters and Ocean Oasis will look like for the 2012 season with dust and bulldozers everywhere. To help inspire our engineers and architects, Jack commissioned Neal McPheeters, an accomplished local painter, to create high quality painted renderings of…
After many months of research, planning, and preparation we have finally started to construct the walls and rockwork for the new River Adventure.The research started with a visit to Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon (still one of my favorite waterparks in the world) and literally walking the…
Just a few weeks ago, the air was filled with Christmas tunes and the warm scent of gingerbread. Alas, holidays have waned and workdays returned with the sounds of buzz saws and the scent of progress (or dust, but aren’t they the same thing really?).At Raging Waters, crews are…
If you’re like me, you do your Christmas shopping in waves:Wave 1- Before Christmas for the people you’re actually going to see on the days surrounding December 25th.Wave 2- As needed after the holiday, but before New Years for the sprinkling of gatherings that may occur.…
Without a doubt I can tell you most of my colleagues fell into this profession. I’m pretty sure the general public does not sit in a statistics lecture when they are 20 years old and dream of working at an amusement park (I’m sure I do know one or two of them though). My plan?…
It’s a poorly kept secret that the Holiday Sale is the best time to get your Season Passes, waterpark tickets, MOR-EZ cards and more. Today, we’re helping our guests save even MORE on summer memories that will last a lifetime! Buy your tickets today and enjoy FREE shipping!…
The crowds! The noise! All those heavy shopping bags to lug around! Who needs it? Our annual Holiday Sale begins on Monday with fantastic savings, FREE shipping (on purchases made Monday only) and you don’t even need to leave the comfort of your jammies!Save up to 45% on Season…
Ok, so there has been a little mystery about why we have so many cranes, bull dozers and concrete trucks on the beach recently. Well, there are a lot of moving parts to this jigsaw puzzle… oh, and did I mention that money does not grow on trees?So from the beach to…
Jack Morey has been back at Raging Waters just about every day during the past few weeks directing the “mystery” project that is taking place. This is killing me! What is going on?So I decided to investigate a little and take a walk up to Jack’s…
To the shrieking of my brother’s and our CFO’s voice, I just gotta tell you how much I love a design build project.Pictured here is Pete Bieling, part of the infamous father and son team that successfully helped us to re-position the old Raging Waters at Surfside Pier into…
I took a walk through Raging Waters Waterpark today while Jack Morey was on his lunch break and there is definitely something going on. From what it looks like, there is major demolition work taking place in and around the Lazy River. Some areas look like a wrecking ball hit…
Something is definitely happening at Raging Waters… Jack and I took a walk back the other day and the sounds of saws and hammers greeted us. Between all the noise and sparks flying everywhere, it was hard to hear him explain what’s going on… but he was very animated…
Raging Waters closed for the season this past Sunday, so I was looking forward to a nice quiet week at work. But when I arrived at Raging Waters this morning, there was a full construction crew already hard at work throughout the waterpark.I also…
Ocean Oasis Waterpark + Beach Club closed for the season this past Monday. As the manager of that facility, the days following a “closing-day” are always met with mixed emotions. On one hand, walking into an empty waterpark today provided an…
All native Pittsburgh area folk like myself know that Heinz products may have 57 varieties. In the early 1890’s, they did carry over 57 different types of products. Today, the Pittsburgh-based food production company now makes over 5,700 products.Raging Waters is proud to serve…
Normally it takes about two weeks to put away all waterpark deck items such as lounge chairs, trash cans, umbrellas and signs…basically anything that is “on deck” during operation. On Friday August 26, both waterparks were prepped for Hurricane Irene in less than three…
“Ding Dong”….. nope, that’s not someone at the door for dinner. It’s the sound you hear about every 5 minutes in Raging Waters and Ocean Oasis Waterparks. When guests ask me what “that sound” is for, I like to have a little fun…. I have used…
One of my best friends (and an absolute waterpark groupie) recently asked me, “Why do the lifeguards bob their heads? Is it to see the water from different angles?”This was a very good question, and a pretty good guess at the answer. A few weeks ago my colleague Maggie,…
Tomorrow is probably the most anticipated holiday of the summer (right after Independence Day, of course)- it’s National Ice Cream Sandwich Day!How are you going to celebrate? Traditional ice cream sandwiches? Chipwiches? How about a Rice Cream Sandwich?Why, yes. Yes,…
One of the many perks of working for Morey’s Piers is that when my day is over, I can slip into a swimsuit and step into paradise, which is just outside my office! The other day, I decided to melt away some stress in the sun at Ocean Oasis Waterpark and Beach Club. It was a gorgeous…
What’s new at Wreckers Beach Grill? Located oceanfront inside Raging Waters waterpark, Wreckers is serving up some new dishes for the 2011 summer season.New items include a Mediterranean Salad with goat cheese, mixed greens, romaine hearts, grape tomatoes, cucumbers, sliced red…
Communication is pretty darn important when working with over 300 waterpark staff across two Beachfront Waterparks. So each morning before we open, and each evening after we close, we conduct brief staff meetings.Most meetings are…
At least once a day I am asked the question, “Why are the lifeguards doing that thing with their heads?” I have also heard this referred to as: head bobbing, head nodding, shaking their heads, acting like robots, and saying yes over and over again. Trust me…
The other day was the first day of summer, both Ocean Oasis and Raging Waters are open in full force. Saturday marks the beginning of our full season schedule. So what’s new and exciting up at the piers? Over the past couple of months we’ve told you about our paint shop, new…
I myself lost my Father in 1998 and since then, Father’s Day has just not been the same.But this Father’s Day was different. I got into work about 10AM and it was no different than any other day until we opened. There were Dads laughing and having fun with their children.…
Having to open not one, but two beachfront waterparks presents a unique challenge for Team W.A.V.E. Just about any other amusement facility in the world has to only get one waterpark open each season. At Morey’s Piers, we have two!As you would imagine, opening Raging…
I have often wondered, or challenged would be more accurate, the generally accepted definition of fine art. It can be quite a testy little conversation based on who you have it with. Below is the official dictionary definition followed by some comments on Wikipedia. Definitionnoun…
With a new season almost in full swing here at Moreys Piers, we are starting to see some familiar faces. Each day, we are reconnecting and re-friending those we have lost due to the long cold winter. It’s these kinds of faces we see every single day from Memorial Day Weekend till Labor…
Our annual waterpark orientation proved to be a great success once again this season. The day started at 9 AM, greeting the newest faces as they made their way onto the pier. Some looked excited, others anxious, and a few nervous. But the nerves soon subsided as packed house of…
Another great day at Raging Waters….the first slides are running!!! These are the Rocket Rafts and they fired up without skipping a beat. Opening weekend for Raging Waters is a week away and everything is starting to fall into place. All of the hard work is paying…
With a few days of decent weather finally upon us, pool painting at Raging Waters is well underway. And the best part of painting a pool, or a lazy river, is that you really need to go out of your way to mess it up. This is “down and dirty” mass painting with…
Long after Percy the Pelican and shortly after Safe Sam, came this cheerful duo.Hydro and Bubbles were introduced in the early 90’s as part of an advertising and marketing campaign. Hydro represented speed and intensity while Bubbles was all about fun and happiness. They used to…
Our waterpark maintenance crew takes their jobs pretty seriously. And today was a great day for Raging Waters as our crew was able to celebrate a small milestone in our pre-season opening process. Our first pool at Raging Waters is now filled, filtered and…
After Percy the Pelican‘s tragic demise and the Morey’s dissolution of their Raging Waters partnerships in Salt Lake City, which Morey Development of New Jersey operated from the early 1980s until December 1992 along with yet another Raging Waters in San Jose, our Raging…
We play hard but we work even harder and the Platinum Safety Award, recently presented to Morey’s Piers & Beachfront Waterparks, is a testament to that. In 2010, only the top 10% of the 400 eligible waterparks worldwide received this distinction. This prestigious safety award is…
Today is a momentus day for our two beachfront waterparks, at least for 2011.This morning, at 7:00am sharp, our all-star waterpark maintenance team reported to Raging Waters to begin the eight week process of getting the waterparks ready for the 2011…
This February is a special time for me as it marks my 14th anniversary working at Morey’s Piers. 14 years….and what A Wild Ride it has been….My journey started all the way back in the fall of 1996. I was fresh out of college, the job market…
One of the cool things about working in park operations is that you get to travel a little during the off-season. A couple of conferences here and training symposiums there and you get the opportunity to “hit the road” a few times each winter. It’s a nice privilege.…
Over the past few weeks, the waterpark maintenance team has been hard at work getting both waterparks ready for opening day! One of the large jobs done every spring is the cleaning and painting of all of the Splash Pools and Lazy Rivers. Overall, it takes about three months to prepare each…
Well, we’ve finally made the jump. About time, eh? We all know what a blog is… nothing special, right? Wrong! This one will be special because it’s your pass to backstage at Morey’s Piers! We’ll be updating this blog regularly with stories, thoughts,…