You can learn to surf at Typhoon Lagoon.
Over at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon, visitors can sign up for an early-morning surf lesson before the park officially opens for the day.
The class, which is not included in a regular ticket, features one-on-one coaching in the park’s giant wave pool.
The fastest Disney World water slide is at Blizzard Beach.
Blizzard Beach is home to quite a few water slides, but none are as fast as Summit Plummet.
The water slide sends people flying almost straight down at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour. According to the Disney World site, it’s the “tallest, fastest freefall body slide” on its property.
The slide’s main drop is 12 stories tall — about 120 feet — which is only about 10 feet shorter than the 13-story drop on the Tower of Terror at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
The lazy rivers at both parks are huge.
If traveling around the lazy river sounds like the best way to spend the day at the most magical place on Earth, then you’re in luck. Both lazy rivers at the Disney World water parks are huge.
Typhoon Lagoon’s Castaway Creek is 2,000 feet long, and Blizzard Beach’s Cross Country Creek is 3,000 feet long.
Blizzard Beach has a fun backstory.
Blizzard Beach is one of the most uniquely themed water parks in Florida, and little details keep the story alive throughout the park.
The fictional backstory is that there was a freak snowstorm in Florida that instantly put the ski resort in business. When the weather returned to normal, however, the resort began to melt away.
That’s when Ice Gator stepped in to save the resort by allowing guests to slide down melting snow slides.
There’s a secret character from the Society of Explorers and Adventurers at Typhoon Lagoon.
Mount Mayday is the focal point of Typhoon Lagoon, and on top of the mountain is Miss Tilly, a boat that was thrown around during a fictional storm that “created” the water park.
If you ride Miss Adventure Falls you might notice that it’s “owned” by Captain Mary Oceaneer.
This character is part of the Society of Explorers and Adventurers, a fictional group that has storylines throughout the Disney Parks, including at Magic Kingdom’s Skipper Canteen restaurant, Tokyo Disney Sea’s version of Tower of Terror, and even AbracadaBar at Disney World’s BoardWalk.
Captain Mary Oceaneer is also prominently featured on the Disney Cruise Line.
Disney World used to have another water park, and it was left abandoned for nearly 15 years.
Disney opened River Country, its first official water park, in 1976. But after the park closed for its yearly refurbishments in 2001, it never reopened.
River Country was nestled in the land between Disney’s Wilderness Lodge Resort and Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort and Campgrounds, and the property stood stagnant until around 2016 when the company began working to put a new Disney Vacation Club hotel there.
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