Lottawatta Lodge at Blizzard Beach

I don't like water parks all that much. For the most part, they consist of waiting far too long on narrow, shadeless staircases, all leading up to a ride experience that provides an adrenaline rush lasting only a few seconds. And in regards to the content of this blog, I've found that water parks also have horrible food in most cases.

For someone's birthday, they wanted to go to a water park. The choices were narrowed down between Sea World's Aquatica and Disney's Blizzard Beach (my choice would have been Typhoon Lagoon). Although Aquatica is relatively new and nobody had been there before, the park's website made the park seem really small, so it was decided that we were going to Blizzard Beach. I was at Blizzard Beach once years ago, back when they were the new water park in Orlando, so I didn't remember very much about the park.

Once at the park, we went around the park’s lazy river a few times and rode several of the slides on Blizzard Beach’s purple and red slopes. As far as the lazy river goes, it was far too shallow and the current was very weak. I’m not a person that enjoys sitting in a tube floating around. Instead, I enjoy actually being in the water swimming, but it was kind of hard in here with a depth of less than 3 feet. All of the slides I went on were fun and most had a pretty short wait. Soon, everyone started getting hungry so we at the biggest restaurant in Blizzard Beach called the Lottawatta Lodge.

I had a Chicken wrap with French fries. Disney food is generally good, and I liked this wrap, especially when compared to much worse foods that I’ve ate at water parks in the past. It was filled with grilled chicken, cheese, lettuce, and tomato. The fries were good, but I made them even better by doing the British thing and poured several packages of malt vinegar all over them.


Once lunch was finished, digestion was aided with a few rides down the more intense slides at Blizzard Beach, like the near vertical, 120 foot drop of Summit Plummet.


I still don’t like water parks all that much. I’d much rather spend money on other types of theme park experiences rather than water slides, but I did have a good time at Blizzard Beach. As far as water parks go, you can’t beat Blizzard Beach with it’s whole ski resort theme. And the whole day, not one person understood my joke that you have to be careful at these water parks so you don’t get sick from ingesting dihydrogen monoxide. Figures…