Typhoon Lagoon and the Wave Pool Floor

[Tom]

I don't go anywhere without shoes, so I haven't felt the bottoms of those pools with my bare feet, but I have felt them with my knees and elbows. My technique is to stay out of the pool when the waves are going, and then as soon as they stop bolt to the deepest water possible to avoid injury.

My technique is to stay out of public pools while other human beings are in them.

 

[relots]

My technique is to stay out of public pools while other human beings are in them.

I agree. I wouldn't mind visiting the water parks one day just to say I was there but me and "public" water don't like to mix very well. I'll go and visit but forget getting in the water... I don't care how filtered it is, I have a hard time getting over the thought of everyone else's bodies being in it.

 

[TinkandCrew]

I haven't been to WDW in years and we have a upcoming trip this year. This post brought back memories....fear and joy all at the same time.

 

[Tom]

I agree. I wouldn't mind visiting the water parks one day just to say I was there but me and "public" water don't like to mix very well. I'll go and visit but forget getting in the water... I don't care how filtered it is, I have a hard time getting over the thought of everyone else's bodies being in it.

With many of them using it as an opportunity for that day's bath

 

[Laura]

With many of them using it as an opportunity for that day's bath

Can't be worse than swimming with the remains and fecal matter of sea creatures in the ocean.

 

[Tom]

Can't be worse than swimming with the remains and fecal matter of sea creatures in the ocean.

Which I also do not do

 

[Tom]

A 1,000 dirty butt checks all in the water for a good bath what could be better. LOL.

After lunch at Boma, with lots of curry.

 

[luv]

I could easily be completely off my rocker, but it feels less rough to me since the refurb. Still bumpy, but not like little shards of glass.

I keep thinking it's much more smooth now. I totally swear I didn't go in wondering if it would be better or thinking about anything but swimming. I just noticed it.

I've been waiting for someone to post something saying they noticed it, too, but nobody has...so maybe I'm wrong.

 

[MarkTwain]

Yeah, I stay out of that wave pool... it can rough you up, in a couple of different ways.

 

[luv]

I've been in the wave pool at Typhoon Lagoon at least 100 times (probably 200 or more) and have yet to catch any disease.

So water shoes are recommended?

Absolutely. Even without the pool issue, the pavement gets HOT in the summer! They have water that sprinkles on some sections of the sidewalk but those sections aren't close enough together (or everywhere.)

Even if you just buy cheap water shoes, it's a smart thing to do.

You could wait and buy them at the water park, if you want. You can buy every single thing you'd need in the water park in the gift shop.

 

[TinkandCrew]

I am a germ-a-phob on a normal day, but it hasn't stopped me from going to waterparks yet. The posts on here are traumatizing me....ick! Typhoon Lagoon day may turn into Animal Kingdom day instead.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Just to show you what I mentioned before..Here's a pic showing what the tread of what my watersocks look like after being in the wave pool..

You can see how smooth the front part of the shoe is due to applied pressure from the waves as it pushed me back and grinded the soles of the shoe...

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Typhoon Lagoon wave pool -- a rough and dangerous place...but good God is it awesome.

That bottom of that wave pool has produced scars that everyone in my family members has had the pleasure to point at some faded mark on their body, smile and say..."ouch..Yeah I remember that"

I completely get why it's there and prefer it to the alternative. Having said that, I am almost 30 years old now and I still have light scars on my toes and knees from damage sustained at the wave pool at Typhoon Lagoon when I was about 10 years old, hahaha. It was rough!

I just saw this and thought of this post..

 

[flynnibus]

J
You can see how smooth the front part of the shoe is due to applied pressure from the waves as it pushed me back and grinded the soles of the shoe...

You should try this thing called 'swimming'

There, you don't stand on the bottom trying to fight the wave...

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

You should try this thing called 'swimming'

There, you don't stand on the bottom trying to fight the wave...

Oh I swim...But, after the wave starts whipping you like a ragdoll you want to at least grip on to something...

 

[luv]

Blizzard Beach has no big wave that tosses people around! It's a great water park, too. . If Typhoon Lagoon scares you, head on over to Blizzard. Lots of fun stuff for kids there, too.

You should try this thing called 'swimming'

There, you don't stand on the bottom trying to fight the wave...

People who are in the right spot for it will get tossed onto the floor of the pool whether they try to swim or not. That part of it is always crowded, too. Lots of people were getting cuts.

I never have a problem because I stay in the deeper water and time my entrance/exit so that the wave doesn't hit me in that area. But I know that wave pool so well now. I got a little scuffed once upon a time.

I did lose a huge chunk of skin on my first water slide at Typhoon. Took forever to heal. Still have the scar.

I really do think they tended to the pool floor. I'm going to walk around a bit next time I'm there and see if I'm convinced.

 

[flynnibus]

People who are in the right spot for it will get tossed onto the floor of the pool whether they try to swim or not.

No, that's when you dive under or through the wave. You never win standing 'against' the wave. Anyone who has ever spent any time in the surf knows this. Plus, it's much more fun

It's always fun to watch those who are scared to get their head wet get clobbered as they are looking the wrong way or try to stand up against a real wave.

When you wear fins in the surf, you can never walk or stand in the surf. You actually have to stand or walk backwards.. so you always float/dive.. even in water less than 1ft deep. Every wave you can't float over, you dive under.

 

[jlsHouston]

Ahhhh...I let the kids do this park this summer....I brought a friend with us to keep the kids busy during the day when I had to work and they decided to do the water park on a weekday and I couldn't go with, some jobs I had going...of course for some reason the first thing they go on when they enter the park is this wave pool...Now CiCi and Jayce have always considered themselves great swimmers even when they were quite small sinking underwater...so the last thing I say to my friend is don't let them go on or in anything that looks like you can't stay right with them...
The story I got when they returned to the resort was those two ran off from her into the wave pool and she was going after them yelling with her 4 year old by the hand when she saw the big wave come towards them...she panicked and kind of huddled down over Evan with a death grip on him and when the wave receded 4 large men were standing over her holding her up and she was scanning the water for Jayce and CiCi and they were bopping around on the surface of the water and my granddaughter was hollering she was bleeding...she had scraped her knee/shin bone.
So they made their exit from this wave pool and found the less intense water activities to enjoy the remainder of the day. That wave was so powerful it broke her necklace right off her neck.

 

[whitney37354]

Yeah, it's rough! DH was out in the deep, next to the big wave, & lost his Oakley's. He looked around & saw another man grab them & was able to get them back. DD & I stayed in the shallow part. We both ended up with scraped knees & the top of my one piece suit was pushed down. I'm sure someone got a surprise!

 

[ShookieJones]

I just saw this and thought of this post..

perfect!