Which water park is more HA?

[disneyobessed]

We have been to BB with my son who is in a wheelchair but not typhoon. He really likes the watersides. Which park is more accessible to wheelchairs to get him to area of water slides?

 

[disneyobessed]

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[OrthoDad]

I'm probably not the best source, but happy to help. We have 2 sons with cerebral palsy who use wheelchairs. Each park has some plusses for WC accessibility.

Typhoon lagoon has the water roller coaster, with an elevator up to the top of the platform. That was easy for us. One of us would go up with him and ride the slide, and then another in our party would take the chair down to get him. Plus, they have the wave lagoon, which our sons really liked. The other slides at TL have stairs/hills that are not chair accessible.

We didn't think that the ski lift would work very well for our son, since he needs a good bit of trunk support, so we did TL and we had a lot of fun. I'd love to hear your experiences with the BB ski lift with a wheelchair.

 

[SueM in MN]

Blizzard Beach is the more accessible of the 2 parks as far as the waterslide access. You can check out the park maps for accessibility:

Typhoon Lagoon (top) and Blizzard Beach (bottom) park map link:
https://wdpromedia.disney.go.com/me...park-overview/Water-Parks-March-2016-comp.pdf

 

[SueM in MN]

This article doesn't give a lot of specific information, but has some interesting pictures:
http://www.bestoforlando.com/articles/disney-world-water-parks-pool-wheelchairs/

These are past disABILITIES Board threads that might be helpful; even though they are not recent, they have good descriptions of things that are not likely to have changed (listed oldest to newest):
http://www.disboards.com/threads/wheelchair-accessibility-at-disney-water-parks.1788320/

http://www.disboards.com/threads/is...ney-water-park-for-a-wheelchair-user.2511287/

http://www.disboards.com/threads/so...ssible-features-at-disney-waterparks.3369563/

 

[PatMcDuck]

The water parks are tricky to navigate with a WC. One issue is that the slides end up at various places, not always obvious from looking at the structure. My son can walk, but has bad balance, bad depth perception, weak muscles, takes stairs very slow etc (Downs and autism). Uses a Convaid chair at the parks. For a time we would get him to the top for one slide ride (2 man tube or family raft ride), then my husband would take him over to Lazy river for the rest of the morning, or wave pool, while I did slides with siblings. Then I would take him back to room after lunch, other kids would stay with DH. We had multiple issues trying to use the lift at BB, then get a WC brought over at the top to wait in the line up top, then leave that WC with a confused CM. Get to the bottom and try and figure out where we left the Convaid chair. Got to be a struggle.

DS is now an adult, but of course still loves water slides. We stick with the hotel slides now, BW clown slide is really good, it is big, and one of us can wait near the bottom and watch him come down. (Beach Club is not as good for him, with that long walk across the public sidewalk, plus it is long and straight and sort of slow, vs the twisty one at BW.) The hotel slide allows him to ride several times, vs the one ride down at the water park.

This is just our experience, it will be a different choice for other folks.

 

[disneyobessed]

Thanks for the responses... We tried BB a few years ago when my son was 14. He also has Cerebral Palsy and can walk with AFO's but barefoot is a nightmare. My husband feels it is too much work to bring him to waterparks this year but I thought maybe Typhoon might be easier.. Boardwalk pool might be just fine for him.