The water parks down there is one thing I didn't get a chance to do and was wondering about the quality of them vs others throughout the country.
Volcano Bay is probably the best water park I've ever been to. The raft water slides are tops and let you get tons of hangtime, their Aqua Coaster is tons of fun, and their body slides are soooo good. They have two trap door ones at the top of the volcano where you're going so fast and it just plunges you in at the end with tons of speed and force. It was sooooo fun. They have a top tier lazy river (in which I somehow got stuck under a waterfall for 15 seconds) and a turbulent river where you just put on a life vest and go through a wavey, rough river that forces you along that was really fun too. There's also a wave pool that is fun for a wave pool, and the way they have it set up is that there's a mini-beach in front of the wave pool that comes from the volcano, but they have the sight of everything set up so that if you're just hanging out and laying on a lawn chair, it's like you're just laying on the beach.
It's really, really good and well done.
That's so tempting to make another trip for lol.
I've been there twice, didn't get to go as a kid but went twice in my twenties (currently 34 now), about five years apart. I like giving them a few years to update stuff rather then just going every year, but it has been awhile, maybe I'll go sometime in the near future. ---
"Lower your guard and you will allow the enemy in." - Frog from Chrono Trigger (the original alt frog). https://imgur.com/hSc6hOs