My husband's family took him there when he was 7 as a HUGE birthday surprise. it was somewhere he'd been wanting to go ever since he could say the word "swamp" apparently. Dave says he bugged his family to take him there because that's where the Addams Family went on vacations! Dave said he loved it as a kid but was sad that the alligators were so far away. Somehow I imagine his parents were relieved about that!