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athurstance
 United Kingdom
1816 Posts
Joined: 13 Feb 2002
Status: offline |  Posted - 14 Feb 2002 : 19:52:20  
| | Wet n Wild has some great family water rides. I like the ones like Fuji Flyer where all 4 of us can go down together.The lazy river isn't as nice as the Disney Water parks though not as scenic. They have some pretty neat thrill slides too. |
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roger
USA
4703 Posts
Joined: 21 Jan 2002
Status: offline | Posted - 14 Feb 2002 : 22:25:32
| We like Wet and Wild for the good slides, but find we can't spend the day there like you can at the Disney water parks because the surroundings are not as nice. The good thing is that everything is close so you don't have to walk miles between slides. The black hole is good!
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porky
United Kingdom
1006 Posts
Joined: 11 Feb 2002
Status: offline | Posted - 15 Feb 2002 : 19:18:44
| Wet and Wild is my favourite of all the water parks. We find it's best to go in the afternoon after a trip to Universal. On a Flex ticket you don't have to pay to park here as you've already paid at Uni. Nobody gets too bored either if we go that time.
Jacqui
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floridadreamvilla.co.uk
 United Kingdom
18940 Posts
Joined: 21 Jan 2002
Status: offline | Posted - 15 Feb 2002 : 20:41:06
| I've not been to Wet 'N Wild since 1979 (I think!!) when I went as a child with my parents. Seemed to remember it being great fun - a massive water slide was the best memory  .
In those days Disney only had River Country which we did not like as much as Wet 'n Wild, although we did enjoy it there too.
Must visit Wet 'N Wild again now I have children of my own.
John
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athurstance
United Kingdom
1816 Posts
Joined: 13 Feb 2002
Status: offline | Posted - 16 Feb 2002 : 10:13:51
| The kiddie area is particularly good - a large expanse of fountains, water guns and stuff.
We went on the flex-ticket too. A couple of hours is enough - too much concrete but the rides really do rival Disney IMO. |
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Carla
 United Kingdom
9921 Posts
Joined: 13 Feb 2002
Status: offline | Posted - 18 Feb 2002 : 08:00:01
| There is very little shade at Wet'n'Wild, which makes it very difficult to stay there for a day. When it is very hot you have to have pool shoes otherwise you'll burn your feet on the concrete pathways which are everywhere. Either go first thing in the morning or early evening otherwise you could fry waiting for your turn on the slides.
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rodders
United Kingdom
26 Posts
Joined: 20 Feb 2002
Status: offline | Posted - 23 Feb 2002 : 13:56:35
| Have not been to W&W for some time now - last time was quite a few years back.
What does stick in my mind is that you pay for the lockers to store your valuables etc. However, everytime you wanted to get something from the locker, you had to pay again. I am not sure if this is the case now.
Antother thing that I remember is the main pool with its wave facility. You need to watch the kids as the waves can be quite forceful. For that matter if you are in the pool you need to watch out and be prepared for each wave surge.
I agree about there not being much shade around, so you need slippers or such to walk around. Good idea to go early morning or early evening and avoid the mid morning to early afternoon.
We found the black hole a lot of fun. We did not try the STUKA (the highest and almost perpendicular slide) - we chickened out. However, we were amused at the looks of the faces of the folk who tried it.
Rodders
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porky
United Kingdom
1006 Posts
Joined: 11 Feb 2002
Status: offline | Posted - 23 Feb 2002 : 14:47:15
| Rodders,
You only pay once now for the lockers a price which included a deposit. They give you a key and a token and you give both back to get back your deposit. I've got both a key and a token home here, couldn't find the token to take back so my son decided to keep the key as well to see if it would work this year!!
I like the way they spray the ground there to cool it down a little bit.
I agree about the black hole and as for Der Stuka, I'm the only one in the family that hasn't ridden it. My excuse - I had my enema when I had my son
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fiona
 United Kingdom
6699 Posts
Joined: 21 Feb 2002
Status: offline | Posted - 23 Feb 2002 : 18:29:21
| We found W&W great fun (or those that like the scary wet rides did!) but too hot in the summer. Both Catriona and I got prickly heat which lasted about 5 days, and we didn't go for more than a few hours!
So we now stick to the Disney water parks where there is plenty of shade. However since managing to burn the top of my head last summer I now always wear a hat even in the shade.
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orlandobabe
United Kingdom
4600 Posts
Joined: 12 Feb 2002
Status: offline | Posted - 23 Mar 2002 : 20:46:06
| Haven't been for 12 years.
Is it still very concrete-y?
Orlandobabe |
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Nigel Edwards
United Kingdom
236 Posts
Joined: 25 Jul 2002
Status: offline | Posted - 31 Jul 2002 : 20:43:47
| There is rise 4 every one at wet n wild. There is now a new ride called "the storm" which i didn't ride because it looked really scary!
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Edited by - Nigel Edwards on 30 Dec 2002 13:02:48 |
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Lakul
United Kingdom
1182 Posts
Joined: 22 Apr 2002
Status: offline | Posted - 30 Dec 2002 : 13:10:53
| | My hubby and our boys did The Storm and they said it was great. Just be careful that you don't bang your head. |
Kerry |
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Kissyme
United Kingdom
678 Posts
Joined: 19 Aug 2002
Status: online | Posted - 30 Apr 2003 : 15:41:59
| | can relate to the head banging thing at storm my son Tom went on the ride and cracked his head thankfully he was ok (15 years old so sence to loose ha ha) |
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Oliver
23 Posts
Joined: 16 Mar 2004
Status: offline | Posted - 01 Jun 2004 : 16:25:46
| For the real brave, I think you should try "Bomb Bay"
It's a very high slide but unlike a normal one where
you sit down and push your self away, You get into a
capsule about half a phone box in size, your told to
stand up with your back and feet stright, door locks!
and seconds later the floor opens up and down you go
very very fast
Makes Kraken a walk in the park
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