How wet on Splash Mntn?

[undertheseaforme]

We will be at MVMCP this Friday! Yay. The weather is supposed to be a bit nippy in the 40's. (for a Texan) I'm not sure if we should ride Splash if we will get soaked and be cold all night. How wet are we talkin?

 

[Doxycycline]

I've never been soaked on it, maybe just a few drops here and there. However, I've never ridden towards the front of the log, so I'm not sure if position has anything to do with it. You could always ride with ponchos on.

 

[3Gsandme]

We got pretty wet last week and my oldest daughter was soaked. She ended up stopped by the waterfall and the water rolled down the side and all over her.

 

[T00dles]

Ive gotten soaked and not soaked. Cheapo ponchos would be a good investment

 

[Doxycycline]

I guess not knowing if you're going to get super wet is an added thrill. I would bring a towel and those little hand warmer packs for after the ride if it's too cold.

 

[kayteekt]

We have gotten wet to soaked every time we've ever ridden. You get a lot wetter in the front, esp first 2 rows right hand site...that's the side the waterfall is on. Personally, I would not ride at night with temps in the 40s.

However, we are doing the Christmas party later this month and as long as it's not too cold, we'll plan on doing splash around 4-4:30pm. Have a fo for it. We will all poncho up

 

[JessyP]

We have always found if we sit in the last row we don't get very wet, maybe a few splashes

 

[kcjaye87]

Rode in the back just last week -- the CM confirmed the last row is where you get the least wet! My parents and the rest of my family wore disposable ponchos, but I braved it without -- and came out with only a few drops. I was in the second-to-last row. Beware, though, the person sitting on the right could get stopped by the waterfall after the drop!

 

[fifthdimensiondweller]

I don't think I have ever gotten soaked, but if you're worried but really want to ride it what we've done in the past is either bring ponchos or a change of clothes or make it our very last ride of the night, that way if you do get wet you're headed back anyways.

 

[Klayfish]

This will depend on your definition of "getting wet" and "soaked". To me, soaked means getting pretty much as wet as I would if I jumped in a pool. So in that sense, you will never get soaked on SM. Can you get a decent splash of water? Sure. But on my 1-10 scale, you'll be anywhere from a 2-5 depending on where in the boat you are. Front tends to get wetter, and the right side even more so...there's a spot after the big drop where the boat stops and there's a tiny waterfall on the right side that splashes some water in. I do think they lower the water level in winter, as the splashes seem smaller.

 

[Dan Murphy]

A lot depends on the temperature. If warm, the splash effects are enhanced, if cold, much less. The water cannon is also much less powerful, or even completely turned off.

 

[Robo]

The splashes that generally get guests the most wet are actually added by artificial means.
(Water cannons, water spray nozzles, and that little waterfall near the end of the ride.)

The CMs can turn off those effects when the weather is chilly. (Whether they will do that or not is an unknown.)

 

[kevind2112]

We rode it last year, and I got absolutely drenched. I mean to the point where I swore I'd never ride it again. LOL

We sat about in the middle, and I was on the right side. No one else but me even got wet!

Of course, we have it fast passed in a couple of weeks

 

[Ametista]

Just bring cheapo ponchos from the dollar store. It's not worth being cold all night over if you do get wet. Like others, I have been soaked and also barely splashed at all. Actually Splash Mountain is a really WARM ride on cold nights because inside the mountain stays warm. We were there on a miserably cold night last winter and we rode Splash 4 times in a row because it was the warmest ride we could find, and of course there was no line at all.

 

[mikeyg1479]

You get the equivalent of being spritzed with a spray bottle a few times. Never anything approaching "soaked" and nothing that won't be fully dry within 30 minutes. I guess its possible you can be unlucky and the all the water just converges on one spot due to weird physics, but I'd never taken more than a light splash after about a dozen rides on the thing.

 

[kevind2112]

You get the equivalent of being spritzed with a spray bottle a few times. Never anything approaching "soaked" and nothing that won't be fully dry within 30 minutes. I guess its impossible you can be unlucky and the all the water just converges on one spot due to weird physics, but I'd never taken more than a light splash after about a dozen rides on the thing.

I think that's what happened to me, just an unlucky convergence of waves and the boat. But trust me, I DID get absolutely soaked! Luckily it was a warm day, but it still took a few hours to dry off. Good times...

 

[Robo]

You get the equivalent of being spritzed with a spray bottle a few times. Never anything approaching "soaked" and nothing that won't be fully dry within 30 minutes. I guess its impossible you can be unlucky and the all the water just converges on one spot due to weird physics, but I'd never taken more than a light splash after about a dozen rides on the thing.

There are (normally) in the warmer months some very likely opportunities to get wet.
THE spot is when they purposely shoot gallons of water into the air from a powerful water cannon.
Those gallons are designed to rain down onto the logs of guests waiting to go up the second lift hill of the attraction.

 

[Hagrid xox 65]

I think the person on the right hand side of the log has potential to get the wettest. As you pass around the main drop the person on the right is closest to the splash, then toward the end there's a waterfall on the right and sometimes the logs get backed up and if you're stuck there the person on the right will get the most wet.

 

[Robo]

The water that gets "splashed" onto guests from the actual log they are riding is actually very small.
Its the "intentionally provided" water effects that can get guests wet.

 

[Ciao Mickey]

We will be at MVMCP this Friday! Yay. The weather is supposed to be a bit nippy in the 40's. (for a Texan) I'm not sure if we should ride Splash if we will get soaked and be cold all night. How wet are we talkin?

I wasn't thinking the last time I rode it (11/9/16) and didn't realize we were going to be in the first row (too busy talking to my son) until it was too late and I was too embarrassed by that time to ask to be moved. Never rode in the first row. Will never again ride in the first row...I got soaked going down the big drop. I mean water dripping down my face soaked. Hair plastered on my head soaked. Water puddled on the seat so my pants in the back were soaked. Yuk! Luckily it was warm out so I didn't feel too bad.

If it's going to be in the 40's just wear a poncho, tuck it around you, and sit in the back.