Hi, Katherine! Welcome to the Disney Parks Moms Panel.
You and your little one will love both
Disney’s Blizzard Beach Water Park and
Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon Water Park. Both Water Parks have lots of
options for kids of any height, and both have a dedicated area just for little ones 48” tall and under.
At Blizzard Beach you’ll find
Tike’s Peak and at Typhoon Lagoon there’s
Ketchakiddiee Creek. Each of these areas has lifeguards on duty, various attractions for kids to explore and lots of seating available for parents. In addition to these dedicated kids’ areas, you’ll find multiple attractions your son can enjoy along with you.
Few of the smaller slides are “body slides,” so each of you would ride on your own tube for attractions like Cool Runners in Blizzard Beach’s
Ski Patrol Training Camp or
Keelhaul Falls at Typhoon Lagoon. In those cases, I typically like to go first, so I’m already at the bottom of the slide when my daughter comes through. (There’s a lifeguard at the top of each slide who will make sure riders are properly seated in their tube before they launch.) You can also have your son wear one of the complimentary life jackets available at both of the Water Parks as well, but in my experience none of the “Any Height” attractions have been intense enough for a rider to flip. When my daughter was younger and first visited the Water Parks, I was concerned about her going under water in the pools at the bottom of each slide, but the ever-watchful life guards set my mind at ease.
If this is your son’s first Water Park experience, I would definitely recommend walking around the Parks and watching Guests as they come off of the slides. Once I saw kids who were almost half my daughter’s height exiting slides with huge smiles, I knew they would be good to try.
Hopefully these tips will help you and your son have a fabulous visit to the
Water Parks at
Walt Disney World Resort, Katherine! Please let us know if there are any additional questions we can answer for you.
Amy