Typhoon Lagoon or Blizzard Beach

[codylamb18]

My fiance and I will be enjoying our honeymoon this coming August-September. We have a 6 day base ticket with 1 day to visit a water park. This is not the water park and more option. Only 1 water in addition to our 6 day base ticket. With that said which water park!? We have not been to either so I have no clue. I know there was a new raft ride put in at Typhoon Lagoon so maybe that park or it may be more crowded. Any insights? We are not fast body slide types of people. We will do tube slides though. This will be our relaxing day in between the parks.

 

[msdaisy]

My family visited both water parks for the first time this summer. Typhoon Lagoon won us over hands down! We loved the theme and the music playing. It's really pretty. We spent a good part of the day just lounging in chairs in the sand and enjoying the beautiful scenery.

We also really enjoyed swimming across the area where they have the tropical fish and small sharks!

 

[codylamb18]

My family visited both water parks for the first time this summer. Typhoon Lagoon won us over hands down! We loved the theme and the music playing. It's really pretty. We spent a good part of the day just lounging in chairs in the sand and enjoying the beautiful scenery.

We also really enjoyed swimming across the area where they have the tropical fish and small sharks!

Oh wow I did not know they had animals in the water and real sand pools?

 

[msdaisy]

The sand isn't on the bottom of any of the pools if I remember correctly, but they have a beach area that sits next to the wave pool. We spent most of the day in the wave pool or in chairs we claimed that morning in the sand. The chairs were nice and in the shade.

Yes! There is a little tank you can swim across with fish. It has fish and some sort of small sharks. I also think stingrays? My kids really loved that part.

I kept telling my husband that I felt like it was 1950 and we were in Hawaii. It's really nice there!!

 

[elaine amj]

I think the snorkel with sharks and fish area in Typhoon Lagoon is now closed.

BB has better slides in my opinion (we really like their raft rides - although TL's new raft ride looks great). But TL has Crush n Gusher which is AMAZING and the really fabulous wave pool.

I like the snow theme in BB better myself (find it very unique and since I grew up in a tropical country, snow is still a wee bit exotic) but my DH likes the tropical TL theme better (it is so lush and beautiful). My DS absolutely adores the gigantic wave pool in TL (the wave pool in BB is very ordinary).

We go to TL more often because DS is nuts about that pool. The rest of us are happy to go to either.

 

[HopperFan]

My family visited both water parks for the first time this summer. Typhoon Lagoon won us over hands down! We loved the theme and the music playing. It's really pretty. We spent a good part of the day just lounging in chairs in the sand and enjoying the beautiful scenery.

We also really enjoyed swimming across the area where they have the tropical fish and small sharks!

Oh wow I did not know they had animals in the water and real sand pools?

Shark Reef is closed, there is no swimming with fish, fish and water all gone, area walled off.

Sand is all through parks, not in pools.

TL is beautiful, more lush and laid back. The wave pool is very powerful, great adventure fun, not relaxing at all. This was their first park.

BB may be more "themed" but has much better slides (I go with DS who is disabled so we don't do big fast ones), the wave pool has a variety of bobbing waves and enjoyable. Being second park I think this is better planned and laid out. There is also a ski lift to take you up if you tire of climbing stairs for some rides. Family Raft ride is the best!

Both have similar lazy rivers.

 

[msdaisy]

Aw, I guess they closed it after the tragic incident at Grand Floridian last summer.

My kids will be disappointed because they really enjoyed Shark Reef. I am glad we were able to experience it before it closed!

 

[HopperFan]

Aw, I guess they closed it after the tragic incident at Grand Floridian last summer.

My kids will be disappointed because they really enjoyed Shark Reef. I am glad we were able to experience it before it closed!

- They have been talking about shutting down Shark Reef for years.
- The cost to operate probably is more than it's worth due to low capacity.
- The slide that just opened is located right by it and considered it's replacement.

 

[fractal]

I've always been partial to Typhoon Lagoon.