Summer is here and you got all these parks out there. Any to which you would say you had a good time at, ones you just gotta go to.
I'm more of a water park guy to be honest, I just think it's more fun to me but I won't rule the roller coaster stuff. It's just I have a hard time trusting the crazy guy with the eye patch in charge of my life. And I just feel like have way more agency, way more of a chance on a water slide with a tube or just myself than locked into a rollercoaster. If your fucked, your fucked on that thing.
Water parks: Not to sound like homer but Splish Splash in NY is really good. I've been to a lot of them and it's really one of better ones. Also Six Flags Hurricane Harbor in Jersey is pretty good too.
Universal Volcano Bay, I think in the abstract it's one of the better ones but the crowd gets so crazy in the summer I cannot recommend it. You get in line electronically and sometimes the wait is 2 hours. Fuck all that. You'll get three rides in all day. Go but don't in the summer.
I went to the other universal spots, it's sort of meant for kids I think. I haven't been to Disney anything yet but I imagine it's the same thing.
Future: I'd like to Cedar point in Ohio one of these days, I hear good things. But I'm not going July/August, fuck that. Too crowded.
And also I just have it my head I want to take a stripper to Disney Land. I wouldn't do it alone. I ask sometimes with a couple girls if they'd be interested and they all seem super stoked and down to do it (could be totally bsing me though) The whole thing would be some G rated foreplay to me.
Volcano Bay is the best water park I've visited. But, as OP mentioned, avoid it in the summertime. The heat and crowds are unbearable.
The Kalahari resorts are also good. I prefer the Poconos site, but Sandusky is also okay. They have both indoor and outdoor portions.
The Disney water parks are a bit outdated, especially compared to the exceptional Volcano Bay nearby.