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1. Dolphin Plunge
Aquatica | Amusement Park/Water ParkThanks to the presence of Commerson's dolphins in the broad bay near the base of this attraction, this has become Aquatica's signature experience. The beginning of the ride is similar to that of other slides within the park. You whiz swiftly through an enclosed tube for about 250 feet, a long stretch that immerses you in darkness before the tube suddenly turns crystal clear. This clear shot affords a fleeting glimpse at the water that surrounds you, which happens to be the very same pool where the dolphins (which look like mini-killer whales) swim. You have to look fast to see them, though, because a split second later you're making your splashdown at the end of the line. In fact the best view of the dolphins may be from the walkway outside the ride or through an underwater pane of acrylic glass at the grotto. Keep an eye on the line, and step up when it's light—likely very early or late.
SeaWorld, Florida, 32821, USASight Details
Rate Includes: Duration: 1 min. Crowds: Absolutely. Audience: Tweens and Up. Height minimum: 48 inches. Loose articles must be removed prior to riding. -
2. Antarctica: Empire of the Penguins
Amusement Park/Water ParkSeaWorld's four-acre "continent" centers around an attraction that's a fun-filled Arctic trek. After walking through a realistic ice floe, you leave the preshow and board a circular vehicle that glides, track-free, on a polar journey. Choose mild (no extra motion) or wild (a low-grade virtual-reality ride) as you follow the life of Puck the penguin as he travels through blizzards, past hungry sea lions, and through an ice cave. Eventually, you leave this virtual world and arrive in a massive real-life room where Puck's relations, a colony of approximately 250 always-entertaining Adélie, gentoo, king, and rock hopper penguins, are diving, waddling, and swimming like darts. Unlike the former attraction where the penguins lived behind Plexiglas, now you can step up to a low wall and watch them cavort in their private empire. All in all, this is a thoroughly entertaining educational experience. For people with disabilities: Guests using wheelchairs must transfer into the ride vehicle; a separate line is available if you'd prefer to bypass the ride and just visit the penguin exhibit.
SeaWorld, Florida, 32821, USASight Details
Rate Includes: Duration: 5 mins. Crowds: Moderate. Audience: All Ages. Riders must be at least 42 inches tall; between 42 and 48 inches accompanied by a supervising companion at least 14 years old. Guests under 42 inches may ride the less intense Mild Expedition. -
3. Beluga Interaction Program
Amusement Park/Water ParkFor this program (starting from $119 and up, depending on season) you don a wet suit and assist a trainer in feeding Beluga whales, which average about 15 feet and 2,000 pounds. They're good-natured and well trained enough to respond to hand signals you learn from the trainer. FYI: The wet suits help protect guests from the frigid 55-degree water. Must be 10 or older; 14 and younger must be accompanied by an adult.
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4. Big Surf Shores and Cutback Cove
Aquatica | Amusement Park/Water ParkThese two side-by-side lagoons (aka wave pools) are perhaps the centerpiece of the park. Although the names suggest waves that surfers would fear, the large pool has only modest swells, and the small pool may even be closed if crowds are light. Still, both edge the park's popular white-sand beach and both are exceedingly pleasant locations where you can laze the day away. If you plan on spending a lot of time in the park and need to keep an eye on the kids, the wave pools make great bases of operation. If you're establishing base camp here, arrive as early as possible and stake your claim on the beach.
SeaWorld, Florida, 32821, USASight Details
Rate Includes: Duration: Up to You. Crowds: Vary by Season. Audience: Tweens and Up. -
5. Dolphin Cove
Key West at SeaWorld | Amusement Park/Water ParkDolphin Cove is a huge freeform pool where a few dozen Atlantic bottlenose dolphins skim around and nose up to the edge to be fed fish ($5 a tray) by generous guests. Once or twice a day, trainers will come out to host a scheduled feeding. Often a SeaWorld guide will offer a commentary about the dolphins' behaviors and remind everyone that the pool's residents enjoy having their sides rubbed and petted. Who doesn't? Be sure to walk to the far end of the lagoon where the walkway descends to a grotto to reveal an underwater view of the dolphins, providing an entirely new perspective that is both fascinating and entertaining—it's almost as if you're diving with the dolphins. For people with disabilities: This attraction is completely accessible to guests using wheelchairs. On your way to or from a show, come see the dolphins. If it's crowded, go shopping until the crowds disperse.
SeaWorld, Florida, 32821, USASight Details
Rate Includes: Duration: Up to You. Crowds: Light to Moderate. Audience: All Ages. -
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6. Dolphins Up Close
Amusement Park/Water ParkThey're amazing animals, of course, and on this hour-long tour you'll be able to participate in a training session, touch a dolphin, and use hand gestures to prompt behaviors. From $59 adults, $39 children.
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7. HooRoo Run/Walhalla Wave
Aquatica | Amusement Park/Water ParkOne tower leads to these two attractions, each of which banks on the fact that, after climbing about 10 stories, you'd rather face your fears and slide back down than have to climb back down. At the top is a string of yellow rafts that can hold two adults and a child, though some passengers go solo. Walhalla is on your right, HooRoo on your left. After selecting a side, you and your fellow passengers slip into a raft and are pushed into the current by an attendant. Walhalla sends you circling around corners and banking to the edges of tight curves before sliding you into an enclosed tunnel. HooRoo keeps you out in the open, bouncing you down, down, down over a series of mogul-like slides. Either way you go, you'll want to go again and again and again.... Come early or late—or be patient.
SeaWorld, Florida, 32821, USASight Details
Rate Includes: Duration: 30 secs. Crowds: Heavy. Audience: Tweens and Up. Height minimum: 42 inches; under 48 inches requires a life vest. -
8. Ihu's Breakaway Falls
Aquatica | Amusement Park/Water ParkNew in 2014, this is billed as Orlando’s “tallest, steepest, and only multi-drop tower.” What’s a multi-drop? Well, once you reach the top (80 feet up) there are four capsules to choose from, but no matter which one you select, you’ll step inside and, as at Wet ’n Wild’s Bomb Bay, you’ll cross your arms and legs before a countdown of “3, 2, 1…” signals it’s time for the floor to "break away"—and for you to plunge straight down and into a nearly vertical 40-foot drop reaching speeds of 24 feet per second before you’re pitched into a series of snaking, watery turns. Tips: At 420 feet, the orange tube is the longest.
SeaWorld, Florida, 32819, USASight Details
Rate Includes: Duration: Less than a minute. Crowds: Vary by Season. Audience: Tweens and Up. -
9. Kata's Kookaburra Cove
Aquatica | Amusement Park/Water ParkIf the sight of cool slides and water features finds you wondering who Kata's is meant for, look at the height restrictions. To visit this area, between the beach and Walkabout Waters, you must be under 4 feet tall (or accompanied by someone who is). Yes, the entire area of special pint-size slides, pools, and waterspouts is modified for the toddler set (the "deep end" is a modest two feet), but for them it's a big, fun world. Clear, inflatable floats give them a chance to drift about, looking cool. Plus it gives adults a chance to take a break. Be aware the smallest participants will need to wear swim diapers, available at the gift shop, and the Baby Care center is conveniently close.
SeaWorld, Florida, 32821, USASight Details
Rate Includes: Duration: Up to You. Crowds: Moderate to Heavy. Audience: Small Kids. Height restrictions: Under 4 feet. Adults must be accompanied by a child no more than 48 inches. -
10. Key West at SeaWorld
Key West at SeaWorld | Amusement Park/Water ParkDolphin Cove is within a laid-back area modeled after Key West, Florida's southernmost outpost (famous for spectacular sunsets and a festive mood). And although there are no distinct "lands" within SeaWorld, this Jimmy Buffett–style "island paradise" comes close. It contains individual tropical-style shows and attractions within its loosely defined borders.
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11. Loggerhead Lane
Aquatica | Amusement Park/Water ParkFor a wonderful way to relax, you simply go with the current of this gently flowing stream, bobbing along on a double or single tube that drifts down and around the bend. Along the way, there's a spot where you can exit the river and enter the line for Tassie's Twisters. A little farther, the calm stream flows into a 10,000-gallon grotto filled with thousands of colorful fish and a view of the Commerson's dolphins. This is indeed a lazy river: there's next to no pull so you might have to paddle a bit, especially if you choose the turn that leads into the fish grotto. Guests under 48 inches must wear a life vest. Although there's plenty of river for everyone, try it when most people are at lunch.
SeaWorld, Florida, 32821, USASight Details
Rate Includes: Duration: Up to You. Crowds: Light. Audience: Tweens and Up. -
12. Marine Mammal Keeper Experience
Amusement Park/Water ParkThe daylong keeper experience (from $399) is perhaps the ultimate SeaWorld offering. Your full day includes lunch, a T-shirt, seven consecutive days of park admission, and, perhaps, a lasting desire to become a SeaWorld trainer. After arriving at 6:30 am, you don a wet suit and then go to work with trainers to care for, feed, and train dolphins, manatees, sea lions, and Beluga whales. An unforgettable experience that includes plenty of photo ops and lasting memories.
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13. Omaka Rocka
Aquatica | Amusement Park/Water ParkLike the tentacles on a huge plastic octopus, a series of tunnels and tubes snake off the platform to provide multiple options for different starting points. Regardless of where you start, once you climb into an inner tube and slide into the slipstream you'll be riding and bouncing through some slick tubes, skimming past some half-pipe tunnels, and then sliding over some slippery moguls that splash you up on the side during some high-bank turns. Fast and furious. Keep an eye on the line, and hop in when it's short.
SeaWorld, Florida, 32821, USASight Details
Rate Includes: Duration: 1 min. Crowds: Heavy. Audience: Not Small Kids. Height minimum: 48 inches. -
14. Roa's Rapids
Aquatica | Amusement Park/Water ParkEven though it has "rapids" in its name, this attraction actually has a mild current that winds around numerous curves and "waterfalls" (really just sprays of water from the edge of the channel). Don a life vest and wade right in at either of two entrances (one red, the other blue, so you know where to exit). Then, whether you're traveling solo or hanging onto the kids, you simply go with the flow. Two advantages: there's no line, so you can always just drop right in, and you can go around and around for as long as you'd like. Guests less than 51 inches tall are required to wear a life vest. Like Loggerhead Lane, there's plenty of river for everyone; still, come around lunchtime.
SeaWorld, Florida, 32821, USASight Details
Rate Includes: Duration: Up to You. Crowds: Light. Audience: All Ages. -
15. Sea Lion & Otter Up Close Tour
Amusement Park/Water ParkIf you'd like to spend some time with just about the cutest animals anywhere, this 60-minute tour focuses on the naturally funny sea lions and their svelte counterparts, otters. Snap a souvenir shot with a sea lion (and otter), and then make their day (and yours) by helping to feed buckets of fish to the sea lions and harbor seals at Pacific Point Preserve. From $39 adults, $19 children.
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16. Sleepovers
Amusement Park/Water ParkThese overnight events are arranged primarily for kids, with special programs designed specifically for Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and students from grades 2 to 12. During the summer, sleepovers are mainly geared to families with kids between kindergarten and fifth grade. Where will you bunk down for the night? The sleepovers are held at various locations, but always indoors beside a habitat for sharks, manatees, dolphins, Beluga whales, polar bears, penguins, or manta rays. The evening begins at 6 and includes a pizza dinner, a walk around the exhibit with a trainer, and ends with a continental breakfast. Expect to pay $95 for the experience, and park admission is included in the rate. Call ahead for reservations.
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17. Tassie's Twisters
Aquatica | Amusement Park/Water ParkThis is one of the weirdest attractions at Aquatica. Reaching it from Loggerhead Lane's lazy river, you go ashore, climb a tower, settle into an inner tube, and launch yourself into currents that carry you away at an impressive speed. But that's not the weird part. After that, the enclosed pipe you've been in delivers you to a massive basin, where you and your inner tube circle around and around and around and around like a soap bubble circling a bathtub drain. Eventually gravity takes over, and you slip through an opening in the side of the basin, straight into a short but thrilling slide into the splashdown pool. Strange and exciting. Keep on eye on the line, and head upstairs when it's short.
SeaWorld, Florida, 32821, USASight Details
Rate Includes: Duration: 1 min. Crowds: Heavy. Audience: Tweens and Up. Height minimum: Less than 48 inches requires a life vest, and you must be able to sit upright. -
18. Taumata Racer
Aquatica | Amusement Park/Water ParkIn the aquatic equivalent of a bobsled run, you set yourself up on a blue mat at the opening of a large tube, and at the end of a countdown, you and the seven other racers beside you fling yourselves into the chutes. You then slide through 300 feet of enclosed twisting and turning tubes—but that's not the best part. Things really get going when you enter a stretch that's nearly pitch-black except for a small band of light beside you. After what seems like both an eternity and an instant, you reach the final drop and slide the last few yards into the splashdown pool. If you can't see the end of the line, it's probably short—and it's time to head up. Eight lanes keep things moving along.
SeaWorld, Florida, 32821, USASight Details
Rate Includes: Duration: 30 secs. Crowds: Light to Moderate. Audience: Not Small Kids. Height minimum: 42 inches. -
19. VIP Tours
Amusement Park/Water ParkTwo levels of special tours are offered with Expedition SeaWorld (formerly the VIP Tour) ranging from $59 for children and $79 for adults. With that, you receive instant access to Manta, Kraken, Journey to Atlantis, Turtle Trek, Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin, and Wild Arctic plus reserved seating at the One Ocean, Blue Horizons, and Clyde and Seamore shows; a chance to feed sea lions, dolphins, and rays; and enjoy a meal at an All Day Dining Deal restaurant. Note that you'll be traveling with a group of up to 12. If you invest in the substantially more expensive Private VIP Tour (from $299 or, with park admission, from $349), it will be limited to you and your guests and included preferred parking, reserved seating at shows, and replace the buffet lunch with an upscale meal at Sharks Underwater Grill. Another plus is that the Private VIP Tour can be completely customized (i.e., if there are only adults, you can skip Happy Harbor and other kids' activities; if there are kids, then the tour will add stops just for them).
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20. Walkabout Waters
Aquatica | Amusement Park/Water ParkA colorful 60-foot "rain fortress" anchors 15,000 square feet of family slides, pools, climb- and crawl-through trails, and two humongous buckets that are filling up constantly and, just as constantly, dumping their contents on frolickers far below. This is a fantastically creative play space comparable to Shamu's Happy Harbor at SeaWorld. Kids that are too big for Kata's Kookaburra Cove are at home here—they treat it as the most amazing aquatic playground they've ever experienced. The slides attached to the play structure flow slowly enough for beginners (note that kids aren't permitted to ride on grown-ups' laps on this one), and supercharged water cannons add another level of fun. Save this area for later, when you're worn out but the kids want to play.
SeaWorld, Florida, 32821, USASight Details
Rate Includes: Duration: Up to You. Crowds: Heavy. Audience: Young Kids. Height requirements: 36 to 42 inches for the main pool; over 42 inches for larger slides. Under 48 inches must wear a life vest on the larger slides.
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