A Day at Disney's Blizzard Beach

 **I was invited to the Disney Social Media Mom's Event, my family was responsible for the conference fee as well as travel costs  **  Review by Mike

Margie had all-day meetings for her conference on our second day at Disney so my daughter and I decided to visit the Blizzard Beach Water Park.  I gave our daughter the choice of Typhoon Lagoon or Blizzard Beach and after my daughter researched it by viewing the Disney DVD and looking at the information online she made her choice. Getting there from our hotel was very easy. The Disney transportation system is very well organized and easy to figure out.  All we had to was walk out of our hotel and get on a Disney bus that took us directly to Blizzard Beach.  

My daughter saw these melting snowpeople and wanted to have her picture with them.  The description of this park from Disney is "Legend has it that a freak snowstorm hit Florida and a ski resort was built, but the sunshine melted it into some of the fastest, longest, downhill thrills and fun for the whole family".

There is definitely something for all ages at Blizzard Beach.  Before we got started we rented a large locker for $15 which includes a $5 key deposit which will be returned to you when you return the key.  I also grabbed a FREE life jacket for my daughter. Blizzard Beach has a multi-person tube ride that is similar to a ride my daughter loves at another amusement park so she decided that is where we should start.  The quickest and easiest way to get up the mountain just like at a real ski resort is the chair lift.  The chair lift is a great way to get an overview of the park and we were able to scout out where we would go next after our ride on Teamboat Springs which is a very long and fun tube ride that can hold up to 6 people.  If you don't have that many in your group, don't worry you will be paired up so that at least 3-4 people will be on your ride. 

 

The big slide in the middle is called the Summit Plummet which is a 120-foot vertical body slide. I was not able to ride it because I was alone with my daughter but both of us watched several people go down it as we rode up the chair lift 3 times total throughout our visit.  There is another fast slide called the Shush Gusher and you can race against family and friends on the Downhill Double Dipper.

The area we spent the most time in and around was the Ski Patrol Training Camp.  We found  two tube slides that my daughter could easily ride by herself as well as a zip line and the ThinIce Training Course which is an area that has ice flows for the little ones to walk over that has an overhead cargo net.  I lost count how many times we rode the tube slides.  My daughter got really competitive and kept wanting to race daddy down to the bottom. 

Another great area for families with little ones is called Tike's Peak which is a scaled down version of the park.  It is designed for kids 48 inches and under.  There are small slides, side by side downhill slides, a small inner tube ride and chutes that actual take the riders through the snow.  As much as she enjoyed the big people areas of the park, my daughter had a lot of fun in this area to and I could sit down and be able to keep an eye on her and know she would be okay.

It would not be a water park without a lazy river which at Disney's Blizzard Beach is called Cross Country Creek.  This literally goes around the entire water park and is 3,000 feet in length and has 7 entrances so you can take your time and ride all the way around or do what my daughter and I did which was get in at the back part of the park and float about halfway around to get to the front. It was a nice relaxing way to get around and it certainly beat walking.

Another area that is a staple of water parks is the wave pool and the one at Blizzard Beach does not disappoint. Our final stop was Melt-Away Bay which is at the base of Mount Gushmore.  Here you can grab a tube and float on the waves or swim and jump the waves or ride them back to the shore.

We spent just a little over 4 hours at the park and I can say we definitely had a great time and left worn out but very happy.  We hopped on our Disney bus and within 10 minutes were back at our hotel.  

Personal photos used in this review belong to My Springfield Mommy and may not be used without written permission from My Springfield Mommy.  

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