Orlando Guide - CAT WATER PARKS
Blizzard Beach - Disney Water Park
Disney Blizzard Beach is one of two water parks at Disney World. This is a great place to spend a relaxing day away from the other more traditional Disney parks. The park is themed as a ski resort in the North Pole with ski lifts and, fake snow! This park can get very busy, especially during hot sum...
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Typhoon Lagoon in June
This was the first time we had visited our villa in the month of June and although it was wonderful to see so much blossom on the trees and flowers on the plants it was hot and beginning to get humid as the summer advanced.
We had only been at the villa for a couple of days when we decided w...
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Riding the Wave in Orlando – Yes! Surfing!
Ever wondered what it felt like to surf but never had the courage to try it? Or perhaps you haven’t wanted to compete with the athletic surfers usually showing off their amazing skills…or perhaps you’ve not been to a beach with waves tall enough to be able to ride on top of a wave. Or are you are al...
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Seaworld - Aquatica
Aquatica waterpark is located right next door to Seaworld as part of the Busch parks experience. You can get Aquatica as part of a Busch Gardens or Seaworld park ticket combo, which makes good sense if you want to save on the standard entry rate.
We went to Aquatica as one of our slip da...
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Typhoon Lagoon Refurbished part 6
It was the afternoon of our visit to the newly refurbished Typhoon Lagoon and having had already had lunch and a ride on Gang Plank Falls my parents had gone for a drink whilst the rest of us decided to go on some more of the rides.
Although you are given a map when you enter the Park bu...
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Typhoon Lagoon - 2011
It’s been a while since we visited Typhoon Lagoon as a family, and we left it to the very last day of our holiday to visit on our August/September 2011 trip.
The first good thing about Disney water parks is that it is Free parking! We were worried that as we had picked a Saturday, the pa...
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Typhoon Lagoon Refurbished - Part 5
When you all leave your loungers together it is always advisable to leave some non valuable items on them to ensure you do not come back and find someone sitting on them!
We like Leaning Palms for lunch and sometimes when Typhoon Lagoon has extended opening hours in the evening we arrive...
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What can we do on a rainy day in Orlando?
What can we do on a rainy day in Orlando? Even in the Sunshine State it does rain sometimes! Especially when one of those tropical storms occasionally passes through during the summer months.
Well fortunately there is still plenty to do…. . visit one of the superb shopping malls, catch t...
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Typhoon Lagoon....a history.
River County was the original Disney water park and I well remember visiting this low key attraction in the early days and how sweetly old fashioned it was and also how BUSY! ! !
Well, Disney noticed as well and when you could not gain entrance after 10 a. m. on some days it was time for...
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Blizzard Beach...a history.
Disney opened Typhoon Lagoon in 1985 as a sister park to the rather more homespun (and now defunct) River Country.
Despite the extra capacity that this second water park created the public were still hungry for more and on high days and holidays you had to arrive very early indeed to get...
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Typhoon Lagoon Refurbished Part 1
Over recent years we had always gone to Blizzard Beach as our favourite Water Park but when we visited in March it was closed for refurbishment so we decided to go to Typhoon Lagoon.
We had a late flight back on a Saturday night and as my parents were staying on at our villa for another ...
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Typhoon Lagoon Refurbished Part 2
Lockers are available for rental at Typhoon Lagoon and are a good idea particularly if all the family want to go on rides together this will avoid your leaving items unattended by your loungers. We always take our own towels but I know you can get these at the Park. I thought they used to charge for...
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TyPhoon Lagoon Refurbished Part 3
Once we get to our seating area we organise ourselves and then go straight for a leisurely ride on the Lazy River which goes around the outside of the Park, this is a very safe area with lifeguards situated all around.
Lazy River never loses its Magic and is such a relaxing way to start ...
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Typhoon Lagoon Refurbished Part 4
After our visit to Shark Reef the girls and Grandad decided they wanted to go to the Wave Pool. At the very edge of this little ones with their parents can paddle but of course the girls wanted to spend time further in bobbing about in the waves and waiting for the siren to blast and the giant waves...
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Try a Water Theme Park
For a cooling day away from the theme parks why not try one of the many Water Parks in Orlando. It is a great way to spend a day and is great exercise climbing up all the steps to the top of the slides. If you are more into a relaxing type of water theme park, have no fear, they all have a “Lazy Riv...
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