Water Park and Evening Activities?

[TAKitty]

We are taking two boys (11 & 8) to WDW in Aug. We are planning one day for a water park, but I think we will only stay until 2 or 3. Will we be too tired to do anything in the evening? Should I plan on us just relaxing for the night?

 

[mrsltg]

I find the water parks to be pretty draining. Swimming, climbing stairs, going from one slide to the next... it wears you out! Plan to go back to the resort and rest (they may even nap!) and then head to the parks around 6 or so. This is our plan and we've done it in the past. It really works well.

 

[MATTERHORN]

We are planning on doing DTD for the evening of our water park day!

Andrea

 

[daisyduck123]

We always go to the water parks about 5 times during our 8 day trips.

I have a DD11 & DS8.

We get to the waterpark around lunchtime & stay til 4:00 or so.
We go back to the room - shower & change.
Then go to our dinner ADR.
Then to a park.

The kids are never tired until 10:00 or 11:00 p.m.

 

[TAKitty]

Thanks! Which do you think is better TL or BB? I have only been to TL.

 

[sameyeyam]

TL is great for relaxing and feeling like you are in the tropics. TL has good slides, but in my opinion BB has bigger/better slides. In my opinion both are great, just depends on my mood for the day! If I'm tired from theme parks the day before I try to go to TL.

This year we arrived at both water parks when they opened (1 hour early for resort guests!!). We had the parks virtually to ourselves for the first couple of hours, no lines for slides, virtually no one there!! This was first week of April during spring break. So we rode all the slides we wanted in the morning, then did the Lazy River in the afternoon. By about 1:00 or 2:00 the parks get more crowded. I highly recommend going first thing. I thought the water might be a little cold in morning, but it wasn't. We left both parks by 2:00-3:00 when they started getting crowded.

 

[rlovew]

A great evening activity is mini golf, just do it after a late dinner after 7 or 8 when the weather starts to cool down.