What Happened to Maui Sands Resort & Indoor Waterpark? (Sandusky, OH)

Maui Sands Resort & Indoor Waterpark was a 306-room, Hawaiian-themed resort with a 45,000-square-foot indoor waterpark at 5513 Milan Rd in Sandusky, Ohio. It was featured on Hotel Impossible's episode "Waterpark Bug-Out" (Travel Channel, aired 2017-11-13), which followed the show's format of documenting operational problems at struggling properties. the original listing used to locate this record initially matched the business to Kalahari Resorts' indoor waterpark at 7000 Kalahari Dr, roughly three miles away in the same city - a separate, unrelated resort operated by a different company. this check corrected the address to 5513 Milan Rd based on Yelp's and HotelPlanner's listings for Maui Sands specifically, and the coordinates recorded here were obtained from the U.S. Census geocoder rather than the mismatched Google Places record. The resort is not operating today.

A Yelp listing for Maui Sands Resort & Indoor Waterpark, updated in July 2026, marks the property as permanently closed, with 273 accumulated reviews. A separate article on 99wfmk.com describes the site as an abandoned water park, consistent with the closed listing. Neither source reviewed here gives a precise closure date or explains the circumstances beyond describing the facility as no longer in operation. No government record, ownership filing, or news article documenting a specific closure date was located in this check. Given the Yelp listing's currency and the corroborating description of the site as abandoned, the property is treated as closed, despite this record originally being paired with an operating competitor resort's information in the original listing.