News Runoff Rapids water slides at Blizzard Beach closed for refurbishment

[wdwmagic]

Any word on this park now that it's refurb is over? I'm heading to the world in 10 days with plans on being at blizzard beach on the 26th and I"m very curious to know how the refurb went, and more importantly if by some miracle runoff rapids is back open

It is back open

 

[Mathew h]

It is back open

The water park, or those slides? Trying to temper my excitement.......

 

[wdwmagic]

The water park, or those slides? Trying to temper my excitement.......

Both

 

[Disney Analyst]

Both

Finally!!!!

 

[davis_unoxx]

Is there any videos online of new slides yet?

 

[THE Monorail Lime]

YAY!

 

[ToTBellHop]

Why did they get rid of the double and triple tubes?

 

[Mathew h]

Both

Excellent! So excited!

 

[davis_unoxx]

Why did they get rid of the double and triple tubes?

Did you see photos or a video where they did that?

 

[ToTBellHop]

Did you see photos or a video where they did that?

I went myself. Typhoon removed them, too. Sucks if your kids aren’t strong swimmers yet.

 

[davis_unoxx]

I went myself. Typhoon removed them, too. Sucks if your kids aren’t strong swimmers yet.

Good point! Also cuts back on capacity a lot, does not seem like a good idea by Disney!

 

[Mathew h]

Is this for on the slides or in the lazy river?

 

[ToTBellHop]

Is this for on the slides or in the lazy river?

Slides.

 

[Walt d]

FWiW, all Water Park tickets are hoppers, so you could visit both.

EDIT: Spelling

Go to you tube put in kelly slater wave pool, thats what they need, but i no disney would never do it. I would never leave..

 

[wdwmagic]

Slides.

Is that across the board? Including Crush n Gusher?

 

[ToTBellHop]

Is that across the board? Including Crush n Gusher?

No. Just tube slides that used to have the option of doubles and triples. They’ve physically scratched off the labels in the queues where you used to line up for a double or triple and have completely removed mention of the option from disneyworld.com. Not sure of the reasoning. We were more than a little frustrated though as our kids are too old for the toddler area, too young for the tween area, and too little for most of the other slides. They were daring enough for the downhill body slide, but otherwise it was the (awesome) family raft ride for us, wave pool, and lazy river. We had fun, but with the splash pads at many resorts now, we aren’t eager to return until the kids can swim well.

 

[davis_unoxx]

No. Just tube slides that used to have the option of doubles and triples. They’ve physically scratched off the labels in the queues where you used to line up for a double or triple and have completely removed mention of the option from disneyworld.com. Not sure of the reasoning. We were more than a little frustrated though as our kids are too old for the toddler area, too young for the tween area, and too little for most of the other slides. They were daring enough for the downhill body slide, but otherwise it was the (awesome) family raft ride for us, wave pool, and lazy river. We had fun, but with the splash pads at many resorts now, we aren’t eager to return until the kids can swim well.

That's very unfortunate that they decided to do this!

 

[HauntedPirate]

My son and wife were at Blizzard Beach on Thursday. He said that only two of the three tubes at Runoff Rapids are open. Can anyone else confirm or deny this?

 

[Obobru]

Does anyone know if the third slide will be fixed this winter? They never removed it when they fixed the other 2 and just left it overgrown and visible like they ran out of time.