Country Water Usa Tips

If you have been reading for some time, you may have resumed the fact that I am not a big fan of themed parks or water parks. This is partly because I don’t like crowds, but largely because I am a chicken that does not like rides, especially those with large drops. However, when we headed for Williamsburg for our Road Trip in Virginia, I knew that a visit to Busch Gardens Williamsburg or Water Country USA would be a great addition to our lively route on tour of local historic sites and museums.

After looking at the websites for both, we decided that Water Country USA was more in our alley, because many of these mountains acquired from Busch Gardens look downright frightening (or fabulous, depending on your point of view.)

Decision made, I was then faced with the question of how to prepare a day for Water Country USA. Before going there, I had a ton of questions about what to bring, where to store my things and what to expect when I arrived. So I decided to write my own Water Country USA advice for other beginners. Based on my experience, here are my recommendations.

Country Water Usa Tips

Go early! I cannot insist enough. Trust me. If you head there with a hot day in summer, expect crowds and in the afternoon, the wave swimming pool may look like this:

Arrive even earlier. The park opens at 10:00 am or 10:30 am in summer, but the parking lot opens earlier. Not that you need to get there 45 minutes in advance, but it’s a good idea to get there a few minutes earlier to be one of the first people in the park.

Buy your ticket in advance. You can buy online tickets, then scan printing or digital ticket at the door for quick access.

No food or outdoor drink (except water). I suggest bringing a bottle of reusable water filled with cold water to at least start the day. Not all other foods and outdoor drinks are allowed. If you are in a road trip and you have brought a cooler (gee, it would have been intelligent!), You can leave the park and eat in your car, on the shaded bands in the parking lot or at the picnic tables outside the park.

Get a locker. This will give you the peace of mind to have a safe place to store your valuables. The lockers are near Hubba Hubba Highway, Jet Scream and Daddy O’s Eats and there are regular and large lockers for use throughout the day. If the lines are long in first place, try another.

You are still your ppot. Even with a locker, it is always nice to have a place to sit and relax or dry. Two good places to do it would be some of the many long chairs around the wave pool, more around some of the children’s play areas, and others by the Lazy river. You can also rent a cabin but, in my opinion, unlike a hotel vacation pool, you will not spend much time in a single area and it seems to be a little wasted with money. The huts cost $ 299 and adapt up to six people and include meals and a locker.

Know before leaving. Water Country USA does not distribute paper cards and the screens of the card do not give a description of each trip. It is a good idea to download the application and look at it with your children before your visit to extend the most interesting attractions.

Been to the Big Guys. Some of the most popular rides, such as Vanish Point, Colossal Curl and Aquazoid Amped have long lines, so go for a walk or two before the rest of the crowd. In the early afternoon, the wait often lasts 45 minutes for these rides.

Quick queue? Like Disney has the Genie + Lightning Lane option, Water Country USA offers an addition of quick queue tickets from $ 29.99 per person, which allows you to access the priority route. There is also the quick + queue and the unlimited quick queue. Each option includes additional rides. As you can imagine, you pay the most to get access to the unlimited quick queue on the most popular rides. Honestly, most of the lines were not so long if personally that I could not justify this expense, but it depends on you.

Deal Meal? Speaking of personal choices, Water Country USA also offers a day restoration offer, which can be worth it if you plan to spend the whole day in the park and plan a lot. The restoration offer includes an entrance, one side, a drink and a dessert every 90 minutes in certain restoration locations. We do not tend to eat a lot when we are hot and active, so the meal offer would not work for us.

Reduce your food expectations. There are tons of places to eat in the park. In fact, I had the impression that there were as many food stands as water walks. You can get fried shrimp, pizzas, salads, hot dogs, chicken fajita sandwich, steak sandwiches, ice cream, dipping points, nachos, smoothies and more. Do not expect it to be fast or so good. And, of course, as an Anheuser-Busch company, there is a lot of Budweiser.

Water shoes are useful, but not necessary. One of the questions I had before going to Water Country was what to do about my feet? My sensitive tootsies do not kindly take a walk on a hot sidewalk. So there are two answers. 1) Aqua type water shoes are authorized on slides; or 2) there are cubbies outside the slides to store your shoes. It is an honor system but it seems to work.

Pros are not cool. I guess our Go Pro was something that I should have left home because I saw at least one panel saying that no video cameras / video cameras was authorized (harness, helmut, selfie-bâton, whatever) on the slide. There are a few slides that allow cameras if they are attached to a chest harness or a wrist strap, so plan in advance. You should also not have swimsuits with zippers, rivets, pimples or other things that might be stuck in cracks or scrape the rides.

Wild Thang you make my heart sing. Wild Thang seems to be a slightly older ride hidden in his own corner and perhaps for this reason, is it not so crowded? Anyway, I appreciated it as much as some of the other rides, but the line was generally quite short.

Hubba Hubba Highway is not so lazy. When they say that the Hubba Hubba Highway is better appreciated when it wears a lifestyle, they mean it. (The life vests are complementary and available throughout the park.) There are no tubes and the water moves to a good clip, so it is easier to relax and float in the vest.

So there are my Water Country USA advice – from one beginner to another. Now, on what to pack …

What to do for a day at the water park

• Solar screen – Preferably by spraying and good for wet skin
• Sunhats – Preferably those who have a Mire -Cistrap so that they do not fall. If you don’t have one, at least spray the sunscreen on your scalp. Here are my favorite emblarable Sunhats for women.
• TROVES – You dry mainly in the sun, but it can be pleasant to stretch on a towel for a break and it would be a must for the cooler days
• Sunglasses – also better with a strap but I wore mine all day without problem (and without strap)
• Waterproof for your phone – I used my waterproof case, but that didn’t solve the problem not to drop it, so I always locked it. I would have liked to remember my waterproof pocket.
• Goggles – Otherwise for slides, children might prefer to have them in the wave pool
• Water shoes – I touched this earlier but wear or bring Aqua socks if you have them
• Uninstable for the hands – it’s a water park after all
• First -hand tite – I never like going to a place like this without a little neosporine and bandaids at least
• Swimming layers – If someone in your group is not trained in the pot, bring a lot more
• Swimming shorts / skin guards – I don’t know about you but I don’t like to walk in my swimsuit. I found that a pair of swimming shorts was just the thing to get comfortable and covered. A jurisdiction or swimming shirt is also a great way to avoid sunburn!
• Money – Even if you keep it in your locker or use a bracelet without species, you will need money in the park, no matter how you plan
• Change of clothes? It depends on you and where you go after. There are family bathrooms, changing rooms and I think that even showers (??? not completely sure of that one). Personally, I felt so disgusting after all the entrance and outside of the swimming pools that I just wanted to return to our hotel and take a shower, so we did not end up using the brush or the change of clothes we brought.

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Note: Our visit was organized by Busch Gardens Williamsburg and Water Country USA. All opinions are ours.