A Wet, Wild & Wonderful Alternative to the Typical Great Lakes Naval Base Hotels

Located ten miles from Great Lakes Naval Base in Gurnee, Illinois, KeyLime Cove Indoor Waterpark Resort offers guests superb resort-style hotel rooms and suites at an exceptional value. Blending exhilarating waterpark thrills with loads of other family-friendly action, this Florida Keys-inspired hotel is the perfect destination for a splash-a-minute vacation within an easy drive from Chicago and Milwaukee.

Come take a break, relax and have a little long-overdue fun.

When visiting Great Lakes Naval Base, make KeyLime Cove your first choice for lodging. Choose from among 414 rooms and suites, sleeping up to eight comfortably or twelve in connecting rooms. Enjoy complimentary admission to our 65,000-square-foot Lost Paradise Indoor Waterpark at KeyLime Cove — which is kept at a tropically terrific 82 degrees all year round.

This means you can take the plunge on all of the slides and rides and soak up as many live entertainment acts and attractions as you wish during your stay. Just to name a few, there's the RipTide Reef Arcade, the Leapin' Lizards adventure spot, Pinki's Pet Palace, and many more fun-tastic pleasure pursuits listed in our daily "Fun-tivities" guide - including photo ops with real live parrots or iguanas.

When waves of hunger strike, KeyLime Cove Resort outranks all other hotels near Great Lakes Naval Base with a half-dozen onsite restaurants – from The Crazy Toucan Margarita Grille and Anna Chovy's Pizzeria to D.W. Anderson's, a cozy old-timey soda fountain.

And while it might be hard to pull yourself away from the waterpark, there are plenty of fascinating Gurnee, IL attractions only minutes from the hotel, including Six Flags Great America, Gurnee Mills Mall and the Great Lakes Naval Museum. Why not dry off and take a look around?

Among Great Lakes Naval Base hotels, you won’t find a better, or more entertaining, place to drop anchor than KeyLime Cove Indoor Waterpark Resort.