Which WDW waterpark is the BeSt ??

[Rebecca12345]

Hi everyone Please give opinion on which waterpark is the best - I have not been to either & need to choose just ONE! many thanks

 

[sha_lyn]

here's a copy and paste from a past post of mine

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.

 

[Rebecca12345]

sha_lyn thanks for the post! that is exactly the info I needed.

 

[BevS97]

we also preferred Blizzard Beach, and I have to say, I wasn't expecting too - i didn;t like the snow theme and thought it would be cold and concrety, but it's was brilliant. Tykes Peak is superb, my dd absolutely loved it, she hated the equivalent at TL because there was so much water being sprayed around (that seems to eb the main focus there).

We also loved the family raft ride at BB, and were really disappointed with the equivelant at TL, it was very short.

My 4 year old, also enjoyed the Ski Patrol area towards the end of the day, it was great that once she had gotten used to the slides in Tykes Peak there was something suitable for her to move up to.

Bev

 

[grinningghost]

While both parks are excellent, I like TL better. I like the whole tropical island getaway feel of it. I live in a snowy state, so I get a little sick of all things "snowy". I also like the wave pool at TL better than BB's. If you really want something daring though, go to BB and do Summit Plummet. That slide is definitely something to write home about.

 

[kylie&haley'smom]

are the water parks open in nov?

 

[Rebecca12345]

(bump) - anyone know if water parks open in NOV??

 

[nicholas 25]

yes they are but ,one or the other is closed during the winter for maintenance