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Wet n Wild Orlando: The Best Water Park in Town!Wet n Wild Orlando is often voted the best water park in Florida! It has a whole host of things to do, whether you're into thrill slides or not, Wet Wild water park has whole areas devoted to kids' slides and activities. There's also a large wave pool, a lazy river and plenty of areas to chill out. Located right off International Drive Wet n Wild Orlando is close to Sea World and many other nearby attractions and hotels. Many Florida water parks open throughout the year, with the summer season being the busiest time to go. Often in winter some slides may be closed for renovation. For ticket info and location please see Wet n Wild's official site. Thrill Slides Der Stuka, Bomb Bay & Blue Niagra are pictured here, you can see Blue Niagra as the two twisting slides, Bomb Bay on the left and Der Stuka on the right. Both Bomb Bay and Der Stuka are nearly vertical drop water slides over six storeys high - 76ft is the vertical drop, then the remainder of the slide continues for 115ft into the landing pool.The difference between Bomb Bay and Der Stuka is that in Bomb Bay you enter a capsule standing up, the door closes and then at some unknown point, the floor is dropped from under your feet and you drop straight down the slide! With Der Stuka you have to sit on the edge of the slide and launch yourself over the edge - I'm not sure which is worse! From the picture, Blue Niagra looks tame - well believe me it's not! It's really fast! You're not in a raft or anything, you just shoot down feet first and once inside the tubes it's almost pitch black - great fun if you're too chicken to try the other two! TOP TIP You Can watch friends and complete strangers entering the Bomb Bay capsule on a video camera located at the landing pool area underneath the canopy. Its very amusing watching people inside the capsule - sometimes chickening out altogether! See for yourself in this video of Bomb Bay below. The Storm Another great thrill slide! Here you launch down a steep slide a drop into a giant bowl of rushing water. You're lying down flat as you spin around and around the bowl until finally dropping through the bottom into a plunge pool. (It's likened to being in a giant toilet bowl!) Kids Slides Pictured here, Bubble Up is a huge inflated bubble which kids can pull themselves up and then slide down into three feet of water. Also in this area are many other kid friendly versions of the bigger rides, including a giant bucket of water that gradually fills up and tips over everyone beneath!Slides For All The Family Mach Five is a flume ride where you can choose from three different slides. Each one has a different path. You grab a mat at the bottom of the ride - you have to take use a mat to go on this. Once you get to the top you choose which slide you want to try - you can even go head first! This is one of a number of more gentle flume rides at Wet n Wild Orlando. Look out for Disco H2O and The Black Hole, which are multi-person slides similar to Mach Five. Bubba Tub is a firm family favorite allowing up to four people to ride together in a raft down a long three drop slide. From the ground this looks like its pretty tame - well it is compared to the vertical drop slides! Bubba Tub's drops are bigger and steeper than they appear! And the slide is quite fast. The only downside are the long wait times and the shortness of the ride.Even More Activities! Wet n Wild Orlando also has many activities such knee boarding, waterskiing and wakeboarding which take place on a large lake within the park. There may be extra charges for some these activities.More Exciting Water Parks:-Aquatica by SeaWorldDiscovery Cove Disney's Blizzard Beach Disney's Typhoon Lagoon Back To Top of Wet n Wild Orlando Page.
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