We were there in April and we saw parents riding with little ones in tubes in the kiddie section (tandem tubes), but on the regular kiddie slides (no tubes) parents were not allowed to go down the slide. Most kids were loving it and they are really gentle slow slides. My DD (almost 5 at the time) quickly grew bored of that section - she had a taste of the bigger slides and those kiddie slides just weren't going to cut it anymore.