The Essential Guide to SeaWorld Orlando's Aquatica
An amazing, state-of-the-art water park – SeaWorld Orlando’s Aquatica – boasts a unique blend of thrilling water rides, interactive animal encounters and white-sand beaches. Aquatica opened in the spring of 2008 to overflow crowds. Guests who visit SeaWorld’s 59-acre Aquatica water park will discover a lush, South Seas Island-style landscape, complete with refreshing waterfalls and fountains, sparkling blue rivers, hidden grottos, intricate rock formations and colorful flowers.
Aquatica Highlights
Highlights of SeaWorld Orlando’s Aquatica include 36 thrilling waterslides, side-by-side wave pools (that operate independently or together), raft rides, more than 80,000 square feet of sandy beaches, and six rivers and lagoons. Aquatica’s signature attraction is the Dolphin Plunge, a 300-foot-long waterslide, which features a clear tube that plunges riders down a 42-foot drop and through a crystal-clear lagoon full of black-and-white Commerson’s Dolphins (variously described as “baby Shamus”).
Two rivers wind their way through Aquatica – one that provides a relaxing, lazy river ride past waterfalls, exotic birds and an undersea grotto full of colorful tropical fish and the other that features whitewater rapids full of sharp twists and turns. Aquatica also offers eight-lane, slalom-style racing slides, which provide guests with the perfect opportunity to race their family and friends.
Interactive Water Play Areas
In addition, Aquatica boasts one of the world’s largest interactive water play areas, which includes a 60-foot-tall “rain fortress” and 15,000-square-foot pool, as well as several smaller slides and water cannons. Private cabanas and beachside waiter service are also available for those guests who would simply like to relax on the white-sand beach.
Aquatica, which cost more than $50 million to build, lies along International Drive – just South of Sea Harbor Drive and across the street from its sister theme parks, SeaWorld Orlando (the world’s most popular marine adventure park) and Discovery Cove (an interactive water park). In fact, Aquatica is the first theme park to open in Orlando since Discovery Cove in 2000.
One of Central Florida's Premier Water Parks
For more information about SeaWorld Orlando’s Aquatica, visit Orlando, Florida Guide’s comprehensive Aquatica Guide, which includes up-to-date details about SeaWorld’s Aquatica and additional Aquatica videos.
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