Busch Gardens/Aquatica/Seaworld crowd question

[SnowWhite607]

We will be visiting BG, Seaworld and Aquatica from June 16-26. I have done Disney in the summer....how are the crowds gonna compare to that? I have heard mixed opinions.....thanks!

 

[KBF]

We will be visiting BG, Seaworld and Aquatica from June 16-26. I have done Disney in the summer....how are the crowds gonna compare to that? I have heard mixed opinions.....thanks!

Any Disney park is always more popular than any of the Seaworld parks. Yes, any one of those three will be crowded, but it would not be as crowded as a Disney park or even Universal/Islands Of Adventure now with their new Harry Potter attraction.

The bulk of the crowds don't usually get to SW or Bush Gardens until Noon, so if you go right at park opening, you should be able to enjoy the morning. Aquatica does fill up fast and may stop letting people in early due to the park being at capacity. But thats because capacity is only like 8,000 or something like that. Maybe less i'm not 100% sure. So I would get to Aquatica atleast an hour before park opening just to be assured entrance into the park.

If your planning to have all of those days to spend at the Seaworld parks I would consider spending two days at each park. It would be a very good idea to do Seaworld in two days. Do half of the park in the morning on one day and do the other half of the park the next afternoon. You will then be able to see the Summer "Night Only" shows.

I would do the same for Bush Gardens.

Aquatica, maybe not so much unless you really enjoy it the first time around. Consider going the 2nd time.

 

[stacyp9]

When we went to Seaworld in the summer, the crowds weren't nearly as bad as Disney. Especially since so many of the park's attractions are shows. Busch Gardens was even less crowded then Seaworld last time we went there. Surprisingly, Aquatica was the most crowded of the three.