Single Day or MYW Fun Option for Water Parks

[temple4]

Thanks in advance for any replies to this post. This will be our third trip to DW. Past trips were in 2002 and 2004. We go to Disneyland in California the in between years. We will be staying at the Animal Kingdom Lodge for 9 nights (Jul 5-14). We are flying red eye from California and arriving early on July 5 and leaving very early on July 14. So we will have 9 full days. Two days we will spend at Universal/Islands of Adventure and the rest at Disney. We try to go to parks the day after early entry. Works better for my DH and DD's. There will be 9 in our party altogether (My mother, sister and her kids will be joining us). My question is regarding the water parks. We have never been to the water parks on either of our previous trips and I promised the kids we would do at least one this trip. I was thinking to get the 5 or 6 day passes (promised DH we would spend one or two days resting, swimming and enjoying the resort). Should I just buy the park hopper tickets and single day water park tickets (I really can't see us going three times or more to a water park - twice at the most maybe) or should I go for the Premium Tickets with park hopper and water parks. Park hopping may not happen, but we would really like the flexibility. My DDs are 5 and 8 and we are very good at coming back and resting. If we do a water park it would be for the first half of the day, so we may not go into a theme park on that day. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Here is my planned schedule:

July 5 - rest and enjoy resort after red eye flight from California

July 6 - Universal Studios/Islands of Adventure

July 7 - Blizzard Beach and/or MK

July 8 - (Sleep In) Studios

July 9 - Typhoon Lagoon and/or AK

July 10 - Universal Studios/Islands of Adventure

July 11 - (Sleep In) EP

July 12 - MK

July 13 - AK

 

[sameyeyam]

If your kids like swimming and the water they will love the waterparks! My family would rather do the waterparks than the themeparks. They are completely uncrowded in the early morning for the first few hours, they beat standing in lines at a hot crowded park anyday!

I would go for the waterpark options! But if your family really doesn't love the water than I would probably just do 1 day only.

Truly I think they are one of Disney's best kept secrets. Everyone concentrates on the 4 big theme parks and seems to kind of ignore the waterparks.

 

[isis151miu]

I agree- it depends on how much y'all like the water. If you're big into swimming and water slides like I am, the water parks are fantastic! I reccommend going to both, definitely, especially if you have the time to do it. But if you have to pick one, do blizzard beach. A day at the water park can be more relaxing than you think. It is possible to do both in one day, but I'd just go ahead and get the premium tickets for the flexibility. Example: you can go to a water park during the day and another park at night. Plus with premium tickets you can do Disney Quest and Pleasure Island.

Don't forget to swim with the sharks!

 

[TheRustyScupper]

1) Cost determines your path.
2) If you go only once, pay the day-rate
3) If you go more than once, by the option

. . . one-day price is $37.28 per adult
. . . multi-day option price is about $53.25