Sleepovers?

[SaveTheSeaTurtles]

Can anyone give me information on the Sleepovers? Are these just for families with children? Where are the sleeping areas? Any information is appreciated!

(I was looking specifically at the "Egg-cellent Adventure" for March)

 

[OCEAN LOVE <3]

For that sleepover it says you sleep next to the penguins so you sleep in the penguin encounter exhibit.

 

[Jason71]

I have several friends who work these, every time I've heard about them it's been groups of schoolage kids (usually a school field trip or scout troop), with grown-up chaperones. I don't know that an individual family can't do it, just saying I don't think that's the norm. There's a tour and pizza dinner first, then everyone spends the night in the exhibit. My understanding is that the program is geared toward kids--no offense, but I don't think a lot of adults would volunteer to spend a night in a sleeping bag on a cement floor!

In addition to Penguin Encounter, I know they are also done quite often in Shark Encounter and Wild Arctic. You sleep on the floor, within sight of the aquariums/exhibits. No beds, and if you need to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, you have to wake up one of the SW guides and be escorted half-way across the park. It's not quite the same as a night in Cinderella Castle, lol.

 

[mimefan]

My family did a sleepover last summer in the Manatee exhibit. It was open to families and so we took our two daughters, age 9 and 6. We all loved it. I will admit that I didn't get any sleep that night. Sleeping on the floor was difficult but we all had our sleeping bags and the kids met other kids and had a blast. I would recommend it just for the sheer adventure of it all. They still talk about it.