Hi all - just back from a great trip & wanted to share our experience from Sat. 7/13. We are a family of three, myself, DH & DD13, traveling with another family of three. None of us have ever been to the water parks (we spend all our time in the parks & use the WL pool). To put it into one sentence - we had a blast!
After reading about the situations with the buses in previous posts, we decided to drive our cars. So I can not comment on where buses were running to at the end of the event.
We arrived approx 7:00 (spent all day at AK). Very easy check in process, as the tickets were on our Magic Bands. We each received a light up wrist band at the gate. Being we had never been to TL before, we needed a map to find our way to get towels...lol...then headed to find beach chairs near the wave pool. The park was still open to the day guests & at first the wave pool seemed crowded. but by 8:15, most of the day guests had left the park. In all, we went on all of the slides the girls wanted to go on & raft rides with no wait time. DD13 & her friend 10 loved the slides. Myself & the other mom loved the lazy river (after a long humid day at AK).
We did not try any of the food or drinks, as the girls were in the pool or on the slides the full time. They spend the last 30 minutes in the wave pool with their dads. While walking around, the girls did meet Woody, Jessie & Buzz (Bo Peep was only for passholders I believe). There was even a spot for Forky (he was a blow up prop, but fun to see!) Photopass photographers were at each location. On the way to the exit, there was another photopass location with the H2O Glow sign behind you - nice memory of the event.
The DJ was great, he played a good mix of music.
If offered again next summer, we will definitely go again. It was a great way to spend the evening. It was not crowded, there was no sun or humidity to deal with & everything was a walk on.