Water Park Questions

[KimWDW]

Do most people go barefoot in TL and BB? Or do they wear flip-flops? I imagine it would be nicer to walk and stand in line wearing sandals...but do they really allow you go to on the slides with shoes on?

Also...kind of an odd question, but...do any of the slides in TL or BB have queues where you can see through the stairs? You know, wooden stairs and you can see the spaces between the steps? It's very strange. I can go on the highest roller coaster in the world, but standing up high on a staircase when I can see between the steps makes me feel like I'm going to faint.

I haven't been to the water parks since the early '90s and I think I remember the waiting areas being concrete and not a lot of those tall stairs like Wet 'n Wild has. Am I remembering wrong?

Thank you for your help!

 

[chartle]

My family usually wears water shoes. They may make you take them off for some rides.

As for the stairs I didn't notice.

Both parks are built around mountains and most of the stairways are kind of "cut" into the mountains not really tall stairways out in the middle of nowhere going straight up like some water parks.

You should try some you tube videos.

I found this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvE74foYOd0

 

[KimWDW]

Both parks are built around mountains and most of the stairways are kind of "cut" into the mountains not really tall stairways out in the middle of nowhere going straight up like some water parks.

Yes! These are perfect for me. It's the ones that go straight up that give me vertigo.

 

[nkereina]

Do most people go barefoot in TL and BB? Or do they wear flip-flops? I imagine it would be nicer to walk and stand in line wearing sandals...but do they really allow you go to on the slides with shoes on?

Also...kind of an odd question, but...do any of the slides in TL or BB have queues where you can see through the stairs? You know, wooden stairs and you can see the spaces between the steps? It's very strange. I can go on the highest roller coaster in the world, but standing up high on a staircase when I can see between the steps makes me feel like I'm going to faint.

I haven't been to the water parks since the early '90s and I think I remember the waiting areas being concrete and not a lot of those tall stairs like Wet 'n Wild has. Am I remembering wrong?

Thank you for your help!

We were just there Friday and we walked around barefoot. The walkways were not hot and we did not wait in line for long. I did notice people wearing water shoes and not having to take them off, however a family in front of me once wore flip flops and took them off right as they got on the rafts and held them the whole ride. I don't know if they just did that or if a CM told them to, but I'd imagine it would be real easy for flip flops to fall off on some of the slides.

 

[chartle]

We were just there Friday and we walked around barefoot. The walkways were not hot and we did not wait in line for long. I did notice people wearing water shoes and not having to take them off, however a family in front of me once wore flip flops and took them off right as they got on the rafts and held them the whole ride. I don't know if they just did that or if a CM told them to, but I'd imagine it would be real easy for flip flops to fall off on some of the slides.

First time at a WP was BB in 1999 in August. Without our water shoes we would have had third degree burns on our feet.

I took mine off for two seconds and got a blister on the bottom of my foot.

 

[nkereina]

First time at a WP was BB in 1999 in August. Without our water shoes we would have had third degree burns on our feet.

I took mine off for two seconds and got a blister on the bottom of my foot.

Never been to BB, at TL we were fine. Temps were in the low 90's but we were there 10am-3pm so not entirely the hottest part of the day. Most of the walkways are shaded with trees and the grounds are light concrete. Not sure how BB is laid out or what their pathways are but if its dark asphalt then shoes are definitely a must.

 

[chartle]

Never been to BB, at TL we were fine. Temps were in the low 90's but we were there 10am-3pm so not entirely the hottest part of the day. Most of the walkways are shaded with trees and the grounds are light concrete. Not sure how BB is laid out or what their pathways are but if its dark asphalt then shoes are definitely a must.

One of the issues at BB in 99 was that it was newer and a lot of the foliage had not grown in yet. They had water misers on the paths but even the white concrete was super hot one of those literally fry an egg hot.

People with out shoes tried to jump from mister to mister.