Coming Soon. Opening in Spring 2008 a new water park with a difference for Orlando. See below for the press release from Sea World Orlando.
Sea World Aquatica Press Release.
Plenty of wide, sand beaches, refreshing lagoons and cool shade from towering oaks
and exotic trees create the ultimate water park for guest comfort. Personal cabanas
dot the shoreline for those who desire a private retreat. The entire park is designed
to limit wait times and provide easy access to rides, attractions and even restaurants.
Those who don’t want to leave the comfort of their lounge chair can even enjoy beachside
waiter service. All of this allows more time for carefree family fun.
Aquatica will be the natural complement to a full day’s adventure at SeaWorld Orlando,
and create a trio of SeaWorld parks in Central Florida that collectively provide
experiences found nowhere else in the world.
“In a destination famous for immersing families in fun, the SeaWorld parks offer
the ultimate in family togetherness, connecting guests to the sea -- and with each
other -- in three immersive, interactive, but very different, ways,” said Joe Couceiro,
corporate vice president of marketing.
Guests amazed by the wonders of the sea at SeaWorld. They can then visit Aquatica
to indulge in the playfulness of the sea, as they zoom, float and splash through
amazing animal habitats. For the ultimate in immersion, the company’s Discovery
Cove park offers a completely different experience: an exclusive tropical paradise,
with limited attendance, where guests have up-close encounters with Atlantic bottlenose
dolphins, rays and tropical fish. Whether making wondrous connections, having carefree
fun, or enjoying up-close animal encounters, the SeaWorld parks offer guests an
unmatched Orlando family vacation.
Natural, exotic, untamed, fun … SeaWorld’s new water park, Aquatica, has an attitude
all its own. Offering fun as endless as the sea itself, it’s not what you would
expect from a water park, unless that park is created by SeaWorld.
The park’s signature attraction plunges riders in clear tubes through a crystal-blue
lagoon with black-and-white Commerson’s dolphins. Guests feel as if they are flying
beneath the sea among these beautiful animals. While similar in coloration to SeaWorld’s
icon, Shamu, these dolphins are also distinctly different. In addition to being
much smaller, they are also fast, agile swimmers - making them the perfect inhabitants
for this lively park.
Aquatica’s attractions offer equal emphasis on high-energy thrill rides and immersive
swimming experiences. A colorful mix of racing tunnels, raft rides and rivers offer
crashing surf and high-speed thrills, while pools, lagoons and lazy rivers invite
guests to enjoy slower pace.
Many of the park’s attractions even offer dual experiences within the same ride.
Two immense wave lagoons create the world’s only side-by-side wave pools that can
be operated independently or together. Though side-by-side, each lagoon offers a
very different experience: one with crashing waves and 5-foot swells, the other
with a gently rolling surf. Nine different wave patterns can be created throughout
the two pools, with the ability to generate one immense wave, or even “dueling”
waves.
Winding rivers throughout Aquatica also offer two different journeys from serene
to extreme. One river carries guests through gentle waterfalls, past exotic birds
and into an undersea grotto with thousands of colorful fish. An adjacent river offers
pure thrill, jetting riders through rolling rapids, rushing geysers and racing waters.
Colorful eight-lane racing slides, triple-drop raft rides, double inner tubes, and
a 6-story family ride round out the mix of thrills.
Even the littlest swimmers will enjoy one-of-a-kind attractions at Aquatica. One
of the world’s largest interactive water play areas includes a colorful rain fortress
that towers 60 feet above a 15,000-square-foot pool. The entire family can zoom
together on slides and blast water cannons. In a separate children’s pool, even
those Aquatica guests not old enough to walk can still slide down tubes with Mom
and Dad in specially built rafts.
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