Close Encounter with Fin Fun Mermaids & Sharks
Brooke Goldberg, age 5
A few weeks ago, Jay Goldberg strode into the hotel pool room with his three wide-eyed children to find eight mermaids and four sharks perched on the pool ledge. They watched in surprise as the group dove in to play Sharks and Mermaids amidst screams and splashes.
His children were delighted.
“Family reunion?” he wondered, “Or is this Fin Fun?”
Sure enough, an employee from Fin Fun approached to explain why they had invaded the hotel’s pool—for a product photo shoot. Now it was Fin Fun’s turn to be surprised. Not only had the Goldberg’s figured out their identity, they were customers!
“I had no idea they were based here,” Goldberg said. He and his family, from Utah, were passing through Idaho Falls, Idaho, after a weekend in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
His daughters, Olivia, 7, and Brooke, 5, are currently addicted to the mermaid world.
In April, Olivia had a mermaid birthday party, of course—complete with mermaid cake, beach buckets, and a mermaid tail towel that Goldberg’s mother made. Brooke got one too.
“They love them. They absolutely love them,” he said. “Brooke, she loves it, but Olivia—her life is mermaids,” Goldberg said.
Olivia Goldberg, age 7
Goldberg says they are at the pool three or four times a week. “I swim ten days a week,” Brooke said.
“They’re really rugged,” Goldberg said about the mermaid tails. Though he and his wife don’t let them into the hot tub because it’s more chlorinated, they have been pleased with the product, its comfort, and durability. The girls have had a lot of fun. They usually take them everywhere they go. Goldberg thought it would have been even more amusing if they had walked in on the Fin Fun photo shoot while wearing their own tails.
He says Olivia is hopelessly addicted to the show “H20 Just Add Water.” She pretends she is one of the mermaids and Goldberg says Olivia is often in the corner of the pool talking to her imaginary mermaid friends. She even used her tooth fairy money to buy a locket like the girls have in the show.
“I like mermaids because they swim, and I like to swim,” Olivia said.
The girls were invited to join the mermaids in the pool and they even got in a few of the photos as well!
May 7, 2019 at 1:18 am
Hi! I’m Sophie, I am really obsessed with mermaids..ever since a few years ago, I saw people with mermaid tails at the beach, and I instantly fell in love with them, I looked it up to find this website. And I am currently saving up $234.85 to be able to get a tail and other accessories. Thanks for making mermaid tails, because you guys are making dreams, and daydreams all the time!
Apr 1, 2018 at 6:24 pm
I was born a mermaid. When I was like four, I tried mermaid potions to become a mermaid, but now that I found Fin Fun, I bought an Asian Magenta Mermaid Tail.
Dec 13, 2016 at 7:06 pm
how do i get a merman taeil
Dec 3, 2016 at 6:29 pm
i am adictid to h2o just add water too and im 12
Nov 15, 2016 at 5:49 pm
hi fin fun thank you for an awesome summer but its fall and winter is going to be here soon how do i store and keep my tail safe till next summer
Oct 28, 2015 at 2:35 pm
which tail would look best with the color of my hair i have light brown hair
Aug 26, 2016 at 9:52 pm
aussie green
Jan 5, 2017 at 6:04 am
Aussie Green. Me too, I have brown hair, and I have a Aussie Green mermaid tail.
Mar 13, 2017 at 6:37 am
I think Tropical Sunrise.
Mar 13, 2017 at 6:38 am
I think Tropical Sunrise.
Oct 28, 2015 at 2:31 pm
i am thinking about being a mermaid for halloween do you think that i should be a mermaid for halloween !!
Aug 11, 2016 at 11:43 am
yasss be a MERMAID!!!!!!
Jun 18, 2015 at 11:28 am
my tail was torn by my dog dairy
Jun 18, 2015 at 11:20 am
Hi,I have a mermaid tail from fin fun and it is the best thing I ever have in and it’s easy to use and I love the way the monofin moves and I know my mom didn’t waste her money on something that I wanted for so long.
Thank you fin fun
Jun 16, 2015 at 10:16 am
hi! why are the monofins blue? i thought they were black
Jun 19, 2015 at 11:22 am
One of the monofins used in this video shoot was an older version. The first generation monofins used to be blue. Now they’re all black. Good eye!
Oct 27, 2014 at 5:59 pm
I’m trying to have high confidence in winning a giveaway, but I know millions of other girls will want them too! 🙁
Aug 14, 2014 at 10:39 am
HI my daughter Emmie loves your mermaid outfits. Do you deliver to the UK?
Aug 14, 2014 at 10:58 am
Of course! We love our customers across the pond
Jul 30, 2014 at 6:49 pm
Where do you buy them.Is thar a store?
Jul 31, 2014 at 10:35 am
i dont heve a mermaid tail
Aug 14, 2014 at 10:58 am
Online only at finfunmermaid.com
Jun 3, 2015 at 3:21 pm
I just got my finfun mermaid tail. YAY! I love it so so so much.
Jun 3, 2015 at 3:31 pm
I just got my finfun mermaid tail. YAY! I love it so so so much.It is really awesome! How do you make it? All I can think about is my mermaid tail!