Blizzard Beach

[123SA]

This will be our first trip. We plan to go on our arrival day, Sunday 8/30, for just a few hours before check-in. We will be there at rope drop.

Can we finish:

Summit Plummet
Slush gusher
Down Hill Double Dipper
Runoff Rapids 3x (2 person tube, 3 kids = 3 rides to get all the combinations)

in 2-3 hours?

I have no sense at all of how long it takes to climb to the ride, wait in line and ride these rides. Maybe the better question is how many rides per hour do you generally accomplish?



If you have a whole day to devote to to devote to the water park, do you usually get to experience all of the attractions?

Thanks for your help.

 

[Corndog88]

I would try to take the whole day for a water park. In addition to the lines for the slides, a water park is supposed to be relaxing. In my mind, I just want to chill-ax at the water park, and not have to worry about a hard schedule. We plan on 6 hrs or so at a water park. On our park day, we will have to worry about supper reservations...a day of fun in the sun. Summit Plummit can have a line of 60min depending on crowds and time of day.

 

[123SA]

I would love to do the whole day, but I can't.

I do have a whole day the following week for Typhoon Lagoon. I have 2 partial days for Blizzard Beach -- our arrival day, we arrive at 830am, having driven through the night. We have Chef Mickey at 500pm. I will have time to use at this park, but I don't want to leave us exhausted. I don't think water parks at relaxing at all, but rather tiring - -all of those steps, and your body being tossed around. Kids are 15,12,9 they won't be interested in relaxing. DH & I plan to find shade and semi-sleep; no slides for us. So I was thinking just a few hours at rope drop and do what we can -- I just haven't any idea what that is.

The second day is Saturday 9/5, we'll have from rope drop until we need to leave to get ready for our 3:30 reservation.

We have all day Tues 9/8 for Typhoon lagoon.

 

[MsLady]

I think that if you go when it first opens you should be able to accomplish all of that within 3-4 hours! I would definitely recommend hitting summit plummet first though!

 

[MatzoBelle]

Is there anything at those parks for aging non-thrill-seekers besides the lazy river and a beach chair? Thanks.

 

[rlk]

We were at Blizzard Beach 2 years ago in early August. At rope drop we managed to get 3 rides on Summit Plummet and 1 on Slush Gusher in less than an hour. The first 2 rides on Summit Plummet had very short waits. It was only on the third time did the wait grow to about 15+ minutes. We accomplished everything we wanted to do, included most of the other slides, Teamboat Springs x2, Ski Patrol area for the kids and a short time in the wave pool. We also had lunch there. According to my notes, we left a little before 1:00.