Water Parks w/ 2 5-year olds - Kiddie Areas?

[NJFabFour]

Am trying to decide whether or not to visit T.L. or B.B. - I know they both have a place for small children - is one park's better than the other? Is it even worthwhile to go with little ones? Are there any slides suitable for this age (children can not swim)? Does anyone know of a site with pictures? Also, with our weekdays occupied at the theme parks, am I nuts for considering going on a weekend?? Thanks!

 

[sha_lyn]

here's my "standard " answer for the water parks

Skip TL ... the place is boring, boring, boring Zzzzzzzzz.......
The kids areas in BB are great and very tame. One is for preteens/young teens, the other for the younger kids. then there are several family slides that everyone in the family can do.

just to compare to see which has more tame rides. I've listed the tame and slightly agressive slides together, with an explination of the slightly agressive ones. Agressive slides are listed at the end


Blizzard Beach....

Melt A way Bay (wave pool)
Cross Crountry Creek (lazy river)
Slush Gusher (48in+)
Teamboat springs
Toboggan racers
Snow stormers
Runoff rapids
Downhill double dipper (48in+, 25 miles per hour)
Ski patrol camp (contains at least 4 slides/activities)
Tikes Peak, several slides and a play area

and one very agressive slide ... summit plummet



Typhoon Lagoon ....
Surf Pool ( wave pool)
Castaway Creek (lazy river)
Gang Plank falls
Keelhaul falls
Mayday falls
Storm sliders (30+miles per hour )
Shark reef (must be a good swimmer, and be able to snorkel across constantly moving without kicking)
Ketchakiddee creek ... several small childrens activities (bored my DD silly at 2 1/2)

one very agressive slide ... humunga Kowabunga (30+ miles per hour, 48+ in to ride)

Correct. also the kiddie area at TL wouldn't entertain an older child, say over 6 or so depending on the child. DD even at 2 1/2 was bored because it was much tamer than what she is use to at the local water park. She however loved BB's Tikes Peak at 4 1/2 and said it was her favoirte thing to do at WDW, jsut a few days ago (and this is 10 months after our trip)

We found a nice covered picnic table and a few trees at the top of tikes peak. all the chairs, tables etc at the bottow were packed. However there was no one at the top. The top also gave "granny" (my mother) a birds eye view of all of tikes peak. DD was able to ride all the slides, play in the water etc as long as she checked in with Granny each time she came up. usually the checkin was just a quick wave, but it insured that they both kept track of each other

all the lazy rivers seem to be running together in my mind. The TL seemed to be more shady and longer I think.

 

[gshoemate]

I would say the BB Little Tike area is better. There is a raft ride (life guard catches the raft when it comes down), a water slide (you can stand at the bottom and catch them, the water is not very deep), 3 more straight body slides and then at the top of all the slides there is an area for little little kids. I'm not sure about going during the weekend, we haven't been there since May. I have read on here that some people get there an hour before the park opens, thats if you want to get a spot with a chair. Have fun!

 

[slp87]

Our family loves both water parks because they are so different and we enjoy different things at both. My DD loves the wave pool at TL and we could spend a day playing there. But as far as a kiddie area, I have to agree that BB is better. Here is a link to a site with some pics.

http://www.wdwig.com/bz_05a.htm