I love both water parks. If I was only choose one, it would have to be TL because it has shark reef. They both have the lazy river and have fun water slides. We don't do any of the really steep ones. When we go to the water parks, we usually go from opening to around lunch so I would think 9-1 would work out fine. It may depend on crowd levels though. We are there during the 1st week of March if that helps compare.