Wet ‘n Wild
How do you keep tiny tots and testy teenagers happy on a hot day? Take them to Wet 'n Wild. Tiny tots love the elaborate Kids' Park featuring kid-sized versions of the parks most popular adult rides including the Surf Lagoon wave pool. Teenagers love it all! And what about parents? They'll find it the best place to be a kid again! But if slippery flume rides and water adventure isn't your style, don't worry. Instead, you can enjoy a leisurely trip under the sun down the Lazy River, a gently moving stream, or simply hang out under an umbrella and enjoy a cold drink.
Best of all, Wet 'n Wild, Orlando's most exciting water park, is open year-round (with pools heated seasonally) and it is centrally located in Orlando's International Drive area among a host of hotels and other attractions. It is just a short drive from Walt Disney World Resort, SeaWorld Orlando, and Universal Orlando. It takes 25 minutes to reach the park from the villa - head on I4 East.
In 2003 the popular water park introduced The Blast! This unique two-passenger tube thrill ride experience is sure to leave riders completely soaked. Blasting water thrills, colorful icons and fun sound effects stimulate the riders' senses on this unpredictable journey through twists and turns that lead up to a final waterfall plunge. The new water thrill ride adventure is an excellent addition to the already established collection of world-class rides and signature slides located within Wet 'n Wild:
The Black Hole is a two-person raft for a 500-foot, twisting, turning, space-themed ride through darkness propelled by a 1,000 gallon-a-minute.
Blue Niagara offers the excitement of this slide as you race, turn and splash through one of two 300-foot-long water tubes that twist from six stories above the park.
Bomb Bay! You enter a bomb-like capsule and feel the floor drop from beneath you as you take a heart-stopping plunge down a 76-foot high, nearly vertical slide. Eat your lunch afterwards not before!
Bubba Tub is a six-story, triple-dip slide with a tube big enough for the entire family!
Bubble Up is a large, wet, inflated bubble made just for kids who climb, bounce and slide down into three feet of water.
Der Stuka, if you survive the bomb bay then try this one, this is a six-story speed slide lets you "free fall" down a 250-foot slide, then glide to a stop along a 115-foot water runway. Wear tight swimwear........
Hydra Fighter is the first-ever interactive water ride! Guests seated in back-to-back chairs equipped with water cannons control the water pressure that will launch them into t air and send them twisting and turning throughout the ride!
This park like all the others has a Lazy River that gently takes you on a leisurely trip under the sun.
Mach 5: Choose from three different flumes totaling 1,700 feet that twist and turn over different thrill courses ending in an abrupt splash.
Surf Lagoon a large pool that generates four-foot-high waves roll across this 17,000 square foot wave pool which features a waterfall that splashes off the back wall.
The Flyer is a four-passenger, in-line toboggan adventure ride through 450-feet of thrilling, banked curves!
In the Storm you reach maximum speed as you drop from an elevated chute into a giant open bowl where you spin in circles to a splash landing!
Whilst the Surge experience this exhilarating, five-passenger tube ride down five stories through almost 600 feet of twisting, turning, banked curves!
In addition, Wet 'n Wild brings you Wake Zone. A unique area open from May through September, noon to dusk where you can Knee Ski (A cable-operated ski lets you kneeboard like a pro around a half-mile long lake.) or T he Wild One where two people are sultaneously towed around the lake on big, bouncy tubes for one "wild" ride. ( there is a Nominal fee for these.)
And finally you can enjoy the relaxing art of the Wakeboard, one of the fastest growing water sports is now at Wet 'n Wild! Beginners to experts can show off their techniques on the Wake Zone cableway.