Roa's Rapids is a little stronger, a little more "rapids" due to the islands in the river. But the Fearless river has occasional 2' or so waves (like a wave pool deal). They are both pretty darn awesome. You are required to wear a life jacket in the Fearless river.Can someone compare the fearless river to Roa's Rapids at Aquatica?
It just takes a few minutes to get there. 7:00 Will be plenty of time.Early Entry for July is 7:30am, with park opening at 9am.
Does 645am at the bus stop at HRH sound right? Or is 7am okay? Thanks for your help
We are visiting Columbus Day weekend (oct 4-7) and plan on going on Saturday.. is volcano bay an all day event type of park or will we have seen/done everything by mid day? We’re staying at cabana bay so can utilize early entry
We’ve never been to the Disney parks but most water parks we make a day of. Thank you for your reply!Volcano Bay is at least a 3/4 day park. You really need to get there before early entry during the busy summer months. I don't know if Columbus Day weekend will be busy at the water park though. I am assuming it will be fairly busy. We will be there too. I am planning Friday, since I think that will be the least crowded from Friday-Sunday. Even when it's not busy, it's a big boon to do the early entry. Water parks really poop me out, so I am usually exhausted by 5pm at the very latest, especially if I do early entry. The amount of time you spend depends upon how busy it is, if you purchase the Volcano Bay specific Express Pass, how many times you want to do each ride, and how much time you spend in the lazy rivers. I think it can pretty much be a most of the day park. They have a decent amount of slides. They also have 2 different types of lazy rivers. The park hours seem to be pretty short for that weekend. Regular opening is at 10am, and the park closes at 6pm. Early entry will probably be at 9am, but it could be as early as 8:30am. The shorter time and a busy holiday weekend will not help with the crowds. Have you been to the Disney water parks? If so, do you usually spend all day?
Hi, does anybody know how the express pass works for VB. I understand it’s loaded on to your Tapu. I just want to know if a ride has a ten minute wait can I still tap in and take the ten minute wait time or do I have to use my express to ride that ride? TIA
I don't know exactly how that's working. The problem is that the EP for VB is one ride per attraction. So, if you tap in, it might register that as your EP ride. Some have suggested that you wait until the wait times get long to have the EP put on your tapu.
That kind of stinks. I was hoping to tap in right at park opening for some ride. Seems like I'm being denied the regular benefits of the ticket in that scenario. I thought I would have all the benefits of a regular ticket, plus the add-ons I paid for.
Do you think I have to wait for ALL of my express rides to be done or for example, if we ride the body slide at park opening, as soon as we're done we can tap in?
Your best bet for non-beach seating is to go left of the Volcano when you walk in. There's a small seating area between Bambu and Ohyah/Ohno slides that doesn't fill up fast and isn't on a beach if I'm remembering correctly. It still sits on sand but you won't be in an area where people are getting in and out of the water around you.2. Do you have any advice on seating? I have an unusual request probably. I don't want to be on a beach. I'd like shade, but not a deal breaker. I'd prefer a chair, not a low lounger which is why I'm not going for the reserved seating. I'll have a bag with towels, the kids shoes & shirts, & sunblock. I'll keep everything of value with me. I am mostly looking for a place I can leave the bag and tell the kids if you haven't seen me recently, if you feel lost, head to this spot and wait for me. Mostly I just follow them to the slides and try to find a place a take a photo. If I get bored, I'll sit at this spot and read. Looking at the map, all of the seating looks like it's on a beach.
Thanks for trying to help. I do appreciate any bits of advice you have. The advice about waiting a bit until the lines grow seems like a good plan, but it will not work for us I think since we need to be leaving by 2pm at the latest, so I think we need to start right at regular park opening in order to actually use all of the passes, have lunch, and spend some time in the rivers and wave pool.
I have two more questions tonight:
1. Earlier in this thread somewhere, I think it was you that mentioned that I need to go to the concierge hut to get the express pass loaded onto the Tapu. I won't be doing any slides, so I'll take care of this during the early hour while the kids are sliding. On the map I see a concierge hut near the park entrance and one near Bambu (food place). Does it matter which one I go to? I guess the one further in the park is not likely to be open during the early hour.
2. Do you have any advice on seating? I have an unusual request probably. I don't want to be on a beach. I'd like shade, but not a deal breaker. I'd prefer a chair, not a low lounger which is why I'm not going for the reserved seating. I'll have a bag with towels, the kids shoes & shirts, & sunblock. I'll keep everything of value with me. I am mostly looking for a place I can leave the bag and tell the kids if you haven't seen me recently, if you feel lost, head to this spot and wait for me. Mostly I just follow them to the slides and try to find a place a take a photo. If I get bored, I'll sit at this spot and read. Looking at the map, all of the seating looks like it's on a beach.
Hi, does anybody know how the express pass works for VB. I understand it’s loaded on to your Tapu. I just want to know if a ride has a ten minute wait can I still tap in and take the ten minute wait time or do I have to use my express to ride that ride? TIA
We had EPs at Volcano bay on June 20th. My plan was to get the Regular EP, not the EP-plus. The regular EP only allowed you to ride SOME of the rides and the Plus would've allowed us to ride them all. It does only work one time for each ride, but it is NOT attached to your tapu tapu. When you check-in at the concierge desk, you are given a wristband with a picture and name of each ride on it. When you approach the ride to tap in, your tapu will light it up red, which means it's not your turn to ride. You tell the attendant that you want to use your express pass and they will enter an override and now the tapu thing lights up green. The attendant then takes a marker and marks out that ride on your wristband so you can not use it again on that ride.
So, yes, you can be tapped into one ride and use your EP on another ride without losing your place in the first ride. Also, if the ride has a no wait time aka 'ride now', then you don't have to use your express pass to ride. You can save it until later in the day when there are wait times.
The EP does not shorten your line, it just turns every ride into a 'ride now' ride.
But, really, most of the slides on the regular EP were 'ride now'for most of the day anyway. We rode Krakatau right when we got there at 9am and there was no wait. We went on a Wednesday in June. We stayed the entire day! The crowds were bad from 12-6. We used that time to eat and relax. My kids love digging in the sand, so they did that for awhile. We rode every slide once and a few slides more than once. We spent a lot of time in the faster river.
At first, I reserved a Cabana for $450. Then, I decided that I wanted the Express Passes and I couldn't afford both. So, I cancelled the cabana and got the Express Passes and 2 sets of Premium Seating. As I mentioned, the EP's really weren't that much benefit since we spent the whole day there anyway. And, the premium seating didn't offer any shade in the afternoon because those covers are not adjustable. The afternoon sun was SO hot! So, in retrospect, I wish I had just kept my cabana and not gotten express passes. But, we still had a great time! I think it was my favorite day of our 4-day trip!