Do you need water shoes for the water parks?

WDW Alphabet · Mar 20, 2005

|I would love any help...I'll a first timer :hyper2:

CarolA · Mar 20, 2005

Yes!

The parks are paved in concrete and without something to walk around on you feet will be raw by the end of the day.

caitycaity · Mar 20, 2005

you odn't technically need them, but i would never go without. some of the ground is rough and they give you added traction too.

WDW Alphabet · Mar 20, 2005

sneaks, sandles, or watershoes :scared1:

DVC Jen · Mar 20, 2005

I would recommend them too. That pavement gets really hot even with the water being sprayed on certain locations.

gshoemate · Mar 20, 2005

And at TL there are some wooden bridges that you can walk across and they get very very foot burning hot.

CarolA · Mar 20, 2005

You need shoes that can get wet. Otherwise I don't know how you are going to get around. I mean you hike to the top of the slide if you leave your sneaks there then you have to hike back.....

The one time I went without water shoes about 30 minutes into the visit I was at the store there buying expensive Disney waters shoes

katallo · Mar 20, 2005

Our Teva Sandals work great!

Barbday62 · Mar 20, 2005

Im of the opposite school of others here. I bought some water shoes and they were so uncomfortable so I never wore them over 20 minutes. I have brought sandles in the past too but every time i go I end up going bare foot. I have been in July, May and August twice and mostly Typhoon Lagon and I always go barefoot and never have a problem. (Ive only been to Blizzard Beach twice and never wore them there either) I wont say it isnt hot in spots but I never felt too hot to walk anywhere.

nataliesdaddy · Mar 20, 2005

WDW Alphabet said:
|I would love any help...I'll a first timer

I always wear water shoes because my feet are gross ...hahahahaha...othe rthen that I have no idea if they are required or not

WDW Alphabet · Mar 20, 2005

do you have to remove them before the rides???

BraveMom3 · Mar 20, 2005

Water shoes are not required, but I wear them. I have some Nike Straprunners, that are very lightweight. As previously posted, some areas of the parks can really make your feet raw. I cannot wear the enclosed water-sock type shoes as they make my feet raw, too. If you go on any of the big slides, you have to remove everything, except your swimsuit!! :laughing:

You can take off your shoes and hold them in front of you on the way down.

luvmarypoppins · Mar 20, 2005

Dh and I always use our water shoes especially in the lazy rivers, we are tall and typhoon lagoon really scrapes the bottom, in the wave pool there he takes them off. Our 3 ds however, just go around barefoot.

jimmytwotimes · Mar 21, 2005

Do I have to remove my sandles?? :rotfl2:

pezpam · Mar 21, 2005

DD wont' go to any water park or such w/o pool shoes any more. If the cement is at all rough, and it usually is somewhat rough just for traction, her feet get rubbed up pretty fast - NOT what I want to have happen if we've got park days left and will need to be walking. :flower: