Tips for Disney's Typhoon Lagoon Water Park

 

We recently spent an afternoon at Disney's Typhoon Lagoon Water Park.  We don't go to the water parks on a regular basis, so there were a few things we forgot about from our past visits. We made sure to remember the details this time so we could share our experience and hopefully help you to plan a day at the water park.

Disney has two water parks, Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach. We have been to them both, but this post is about Typhoon Lagoon.

In the past, you use to be able to purchase one water park ticket and it got you into both water parks. I can remember buying a water park ticket and starting my day off at Typhoon Lagoon and then going to Blizzard Beach later in the day on the same ticket! 

We haven't been able to do that anymore. Since the pandemic closures,  Disney seems to only have one water park open at a time.  During our visit at Typhoon Lagoon, Blizzard Beach was closed. 

Tickets- If your park hopper ticket does not include the water parks, you can purchase the ticket separately for the day you want to go. You can purchase water park tickets from your Disney resort hotel, purchase them online, or purchase them right at the gate of the water park.  If you or someone in your party is an annual passholder, there is an annual pass holder rate and I believe you can purchase up to 4 discounted tickets.

Getting there- If you are using Disney Transportation you will have to take a Disney bus from your resort. The water parks open at 10 am.  Most times the water parks share a bus with Disney Springs.  Be sure to check the bus schedule sign located at your resort's bus stop.  Typically this is the route: You'll have to get on a bus to Disney Springs.  You will get off at Disney Springs and walk to the bus stop that picks up. The drop off spot and pick up spot at Disney Springs is different.  Find the pick up bus stop for Typoon Lagoon.  Typhoon Lagoon is not far from Disney Springs, so it is not a long bus ride.

When you get there- Towels are provided  for those staying at a Disney resort, and you can pick them up at Singapore Sal's, which is also the only merchandise shop at the park.

 We've been to both water parks several times, but this is the first time we ever rented a locker. We normally feel safe just keeping our beach bag on our chair, but on a previous trip to a local water park ( not Disney), I got my shoes stolen, so I was a bit hesitant to leave things out. Also, we planned to go to a dinner reservation after the water park, so we did bring some nice clothes and had our wallets. 

Lockers-Locker rentals start at $10 a day for the small ones. We rented a small one and it was big enough for 2 Lounge Fly bags, a packing cube, and a few other small items.  Large Lockers could be rented for an increased price. The kiosk where you rent the lockers takes cash or cards.

Now for the fun! Our plan was to not come to the water park till later in the day because we knew it would be less crowded, and we were right! We showed up about 2:30 pm.  

We started off on the lazy river, which is called "Castaway Creek". Here there are single inner tubes,  double inner tubes, and floating chairs.  You can float in a complete loop around the park or there are several stations along the way where you can get out.

Then it was time to do the slides! We knew right away that we were not doing the steep body slide that was a straight drop down. That was called "Humunga Cowabunga". We would be passing on that.

We headed for the raft slides.  The first one we were in line for was "Misadventure Falls". This is one of those family raft slides. When it was our turn to board, we didn't realize that you had to have more than 2 people in your raft. Luckily there was a mom with a small son who were able to ride with us.

Disney Tip:  We thought this icon raft photo spot was near the entrance of the park but it is not. It is near "Gangplank Falls"  which is on the left hand side of the park.

Right next door was "Crushin Gusher", which is a set of three tube slides.  These are either one person or two people to an innertube. My sister and I chose to ride together on all three of them.  The three different slides are "Pineapple Plunge", "Coconut Crusher", and "Banana Blaster".   They each require you to get in a separate line.  These are really mild slides. We thought they remined us of the "Aqua Duck" on the Disney Cruise Ships.  All three slides deposit you into the same pool at the end.

We then walked to the other side of the park to do all the raft rides over there.

"Keelhaul Falls" and "Mayday Falls" are both single rider tube rides.  After conquering those on our own, we were able to ride another multi person raft ride, "Gangplank Falls". Unlike "Misadventure Falls", we were able to ride this raft with just the two of us. This raft ride was the shortest ride of them all! 

We saved the body slides for last. We actually went back to our lockers and grabbed our swim shirts to wear on these slides because we wanted our backs covered. 

Besides "Humunga Cowabunga", the only other body slides were the "Storm Slides".  There is one line for the "Storm Slides" and when you get to the top, you have your choice of three different body slides to choose from.  There were no lines when we were on these slides, so we did all three!  They were all pretty similar. Oh, but one thing about the body slides, you can not wear your water shoes. You have to either take them off and hold them in your hands as you are sliding, or leave them at the exit area of the slide, ( what I did). 

And last, but not least, we had to take a dip in the Typhoon Lagoon Surf pool and catch a wave! This wave pool is why I love to come to Typhoon Lagoon! 

I mentioned we arrived around 2:30 pm and we had made our way through the park and went on every attraction ( except for the steep body slide and the child slides) and we were finished by 5:30 pm.  It definitely helped that we went during the week.

There is an adorable splash pad area and little slides for younger children.  This is called "Ketchakiddee Creek", how clever! 

Food- We had already ate lunch before coming to the park so we didn't eat anything here, but there were a lot of options for snacks, drinks, and meals. They also sold a variety of Dole Whips here at a place called "The Snack Shack". During our visit the flavors were Pineapple, Strawberry, or Green Matcha Tea.

Changing Rooms- Typhoon Lagoon has a men and women's dressing room area and showers. In preparation for our dinner reservation,  we thought we would save time and just get ready here. In the showers they do have the shampoo/conditioner/ bodywash combo in one of those dispensers on the wall. There are private areas to change in, and there is a hair dryer provided! 

On this day, Typhoon Lagoon closed at 6:00 pm.  On certain nights there is an after hours event called H2O Glow nights. This is a separate ticketed even after the park closes.

Typhoon Lagoon will close for the year on November 4th and at the time Blizzard Beach will then open. 

Have you ever been to a Disney Water Park? If so, which one is your favorite? 

Till next time! ~ M and L