Gma and Gpa Adventures goes to Volcano Bay. Right lane says Volcano Bay.
Okay, so just stay in the parking. Follow the blue signs with the white lettering.
Prime Parking is $30. General would have been $20, and after 6:00 pm is free.
And that's the only way to get to Volcano Bay.
You can't drive there directly and park in their parking lot. You park in the
big parking lot by City Walk and shuttle over. So, Donna's crazy about going,
even though it's not the greatest weather. We're here already. It didn't
take very long, just five or six minutes to shuttle over. And they do bag check
right before you go in. There's a walkway to Volcano Bay or you can take the
escalators. The Waturi. This is the Waturi culture here. Volcano Bay - we made it!
During the off-season Volcano Bay is open from 10:00 to 5:00 .
Hi! Hello! Ok, Stanley, put your finger on the scanner. There you go. I have to put a little Island Magic in here. There you go.
Your TapuTapu, sir. Thank you. Yes, it really is called TapuTapu!
Thank you. Appreciate it. What Stan's doing right now is he is linking his credit card
his TapuTapu which is like the app for Volcano Bay. It kind of looks
like Disney's invention of the MagicBand. And on it right now it says,
"Visit a ride totem to get a return time". So, I guess you go to the different rides
and then it gives you a time to return to each one. And there's a set of lockers to
the right or left as you come in. We're going to the ones to the right. Because
of the kind of day it is all of these say, "Ride Now", which is good. Pretty much
everything is a walk on today, so that's the advantage of going during the winter,
on an off day where it rained this morning and it's going to be overcast. That's a
pretty amazing sight. And here we found the restroom, showers, and lockers to rent.
To rent one, hold your TapuTapu to the tap point below.
And it says, "Insert credit card to make purchase". Locker 26 opened, and it gave us an all
day rental. So when you come back to get your stuff out of your locker, you're
gonna take your TapuTapu and touch the locker, the tap point, and it opens. Pretty easy!
There's Krakatau. We're trying to figure out how to get to it. And they
said it makes a circle. Okay, so you just keep following the circle around like
they said at the very beginning of the park and then probably look for the
signs that say where to get on at. Okay, the sun is trying to shine. Stan's gonna
be my guinea pig today, because I don't do water slides, right Stan!
Krakatau Aqua Coaster.
Here's the backside of Krakatau with some of the water slides coming out
of it. OhYah, OhNo drop slides.
Are you a strong swimmer? Yes. Ok. The six foot is on this side.
And if you wanted to try the four foot one, it's on the other side. Yeah ,we wanted to try all of them.
Well, he does. Okay, so he had to touch his TapuTapu.
There he is! And then he swam over here. Okay, so which one did you do, Stan?
The six foot. The purple one. And that was the six-foot? What does it mean by six foot? You have a
six foot drop from the edge of the slide to the water.
Okay, what do you think about it. It says this pool is ten foot deep, so you
definitely have to be able to swim to get up out of it. You go under pretty far
when you land. So now he's going to do the four foot one.
Okay, I think this is him coming because I can see his swim shirt. And there he
comes. And that pool again is 10 foot deep and he had a four foot drop on this
one. And then you swim over to the steps. What'd you think?
It was fun!
Now what was the name of it that one - OhNo? Yeah!
And this is the Kala and Tai Nui.
Two more drop sides that come out of the volcano.
And we're going out to the one that goes at the very beginning, Ko'okiri.
We saw you drop. So, how did you actually get up into that volcano? It's a lot of stairs!
Okay, so now he's going to do these two water slides. And they're
called Kala and Tai Nui.
What did you think about that one? It was fast. Even faster than the Krakatau body slide one, Ko'okiri?
No, I don't think that fast! It twists and turns, and let you go straight out, you know. Wow! So, it kind of shoots you out instead
under. So, go do Tai Nui. See how you like it. We're making Stan really burn
off some calories today. This is the one he's coming down now. It's called Tai Nui.
And there's Stan! He made it! So, what did you think?
Did you like it? Was Tai Nui as windy as Kala? It seemed a little faster.
And there's a hundred and ninety-one steps going up there. Oh, that's a lot!
That's probably why your heart is beating hard. Yeah, yeah. That one had I think more
water in your face than Kala, the blue one.
And he's been wearing goggles, which they allow, right? Yeah so I
can see better. That way I don't have to worry about my contacts. But all those
big ones are thrill rides, you know. But a lot of steps. So you're gonna get a work out.
You just lift it up, and it will ask you for your four-digit pin number.
Ok, it;s approved, and you get this nifty receipt with my name on it!
So, Stan, how much did the cup costs for the where you get the you get free refills all day? Free drink refills and free Icee's.
It was $14.99. I think that's pretty good.
Just one drink is $3.51.
And you can use it at the other parks, too.
Stan, how's your Coke? Refreshing!
She said something about you could use machines - Coke Freestyle - that have over a hundred
different sodas or drinks. There's the refillable mug. Really it's a cup.
You can use it here. It's free refills on the day you buy it.
Then you can use it in all the parks. You can use it anytime, I guess. You get
like cheaper refills.
And it's a good souvenir, right? Yeah! Cheers!
There's Stan out there.
This is a beautiful volcano. It looks like a real volcano. We've seen Volcanos in
Hawaii, and this looks like an actual real volcano.
There are several restaurants in Volcano Bay. This is the Kohala Reef. It's just
straight out from the volcano, from Krakatau. And it says it's a restaurant
and social club. Tastes of the islands. Coconut Curry Chicken. Mango Barbecue
Pulled Pork Sandwich. A Pepperoni Pizza. Looks good. Has a little bit everything.
Plenty of souvenir and gift shops.That's Krakatoa Katy's. Can get sunscreen, and
t-shirts, and hats. Beach towels. Water shirts, rash guard. And there's this guy.
He kind of runs the place. Yeah, I think it looks good.
This is really a good time to go. I mean it's decent weather really. It's in the mid-70's, the water is
heated to 80 degrees, and there are no crowds!
It's really hard work. You have a hard job. It's not busy today, so we're not needing our TapuTapu to reserve
a place in line. But if we did, when our ride time came up we would be alerted on
our TapuTapu. And you can reserve your place in line using your TapuTapu by
walking up to the ride kiosk and holding it up to it. We've been here a couple
hours and all the rides are still, "Ride Now". Dancing Dragons is an outdoor bar.
It gives you a good view of Krakatau and the wave pool. So it's gonna give you, I think,
a photo of you in front of Krakatau. Okay, so use it on the reverse side of the
totem to start taking it. So, I think we're gonna get a photo of us
in front of the volcano. Donna used TapuTapu so it's blinking. Good, so you're ready
to pose. Then you put in an email address and that activates your photo account.
I'm sure you can buy those.
Here we are in front of the volcano. The volcano is going off. There it is! The waves are about to start
in the wave pool. See...Volcano!
That's cool!
Hello! Which way is the bathroom? I don't know.
Hey you, kid? Yeah. Yeah, you, kid! Yeah.
He must mean her. She's the young one!
Scooby Doobie, bah doobie hoobie.
We're gonna check out the Ice Cream Kona. A Waturi Beach Blend. Ice cream served in a cup.
And a waffle cone, toppings. There's a Waturi Fusion with banana blue raspberry, orange, and
strawberry. You were gonna share, right? Yes, we'll share. I hate to share, but I guess I will. We're gonna get one with chocolate, banana, and coconut in it.
This is our lunch. This is called the Waturi Beach Blend. You can have up to four
choices of flavors of your ice cream. Oooo, looks good. Yum! yeah and so then it just swirl the
It just swirls the flavors up in layers. Chocolate, banana, coconut, chocolate, banana, coconut. Oh, awesome, that is so cool!
Alright, so that'll be $5.85.
I'm making Stan take the first bite. This is a blend, it's like
chocolate, coconut, banana; chocolate, coconut, banana.
Good! Yeah, I like that!
What do you think about it Donna? It's really good. You're not getting it back! Hey!
There's several beach areas with real sand you can sit in and relax
and get some sun. You can see Krakatau from about anywhere. These are the
two-story cabanas. This is off-season. It was $250, but it's a
higher price for the higher cabana. It's just a beautiful area around here. And
coming in the winter, it's just so not busy. It's still a lot of fun if you
pick the right day.
This is the Bambu Jungle. It's a restaurant. Rain forest flavors.
Island Chicken Salad. Karika Chicken Sandwich. Chicken Tenders. You can get a
Quinoa Edamame Burger, Belly Burger, different burgers. Bambu Burger.
This is the Maku Puihi ride entrance. Looks like a family raft slide.
There's a couple of slides here.
Like they told us at the front, the park just makes a circle. You just keep
walking in around either direction, and you'll see everything. Here's part of the fast
lazy river. Don't know if you'd really call it a lazy
river, but it keeps you moving. This one has rapids and waves, so not
your average lazy river. But they do have a lazy, lazy river. This just isn't it.
And you have to wear a life preserver. There are no tubes on this one. So Stan's gonna
go on it and then at the end of this we're gonna interview him and see what
he thought about the not so lazy river. It's called the TeAwa Fearless River.
Well, they do have a handicap chair, where handicapped kids could get down in it.
A pretty good clip!
So what did you think? You just got off of it and I told them you were gonna
ride it, so what do you think? That's fun! Really strong jets that pushed you.
So should you not do it unless you're a strong swimmer?
Oh, no. It doesn't matter because you have the vest. You can bob along.
And it just pushes you along. There was one place where
over by the wall, it shoots out a big wave of water. A big gush of water, you
could get it in front and get pushed. It's fun. It's pretty fast.
This is Whakawawai Eats. And it features Tastes of the River. Hawaiian Pizza, Jerk Shrimp, Mac and
Cheese, and Foot Long Hot Dogs. And Coca-Cola Freestyle machines. So I
interviewed the lady at the counter and she said they're more known here for
having hot dogs and mac and cheese. The other places more that we last went to
is was known for their burgers, and then the very first place we went to she
said they have the biggest variety of food on the entire park.
And so that's the only place you can get their famous barbecue. Good to know!
Here we have Taniwha Tubes. And it's nice because you don't have to carry your tubes up to the top.
They have a conveyor belt and of course the tubes are free. You don't pay extra
to get tubes.
Of course, it's nice and tall, so there's a lot of steps to get up there. But that's
about any waterpark.
The ride is worth the climb.
I mean it's 73 degrees right now but the wind is blowing which makes it feel like 63 so,
yeah, it's doesn't feel really hot.
There he is - yay!
What did you think? These are really good. On this side, were the more intense ones.
Faster, I guess. That blue one, especially, I've never ridden one like that.
It has really tight turns. I actually feel like G-forces.
You know pushing you around! That would scare me to death.
It's totally enclosed. The green one, it's open air for part of it. They're fun.
Oh, and it takes your picture on the ride too. Oh, that's cool! You can look at it at the front of the park at the kiosk to see if you want it.
It says remember to smile on TaniWha.
So it reminds you if there's going to be a photo taken on that ride so you remember to smile.
Are you cold now? Yeah, I am now! The water is warm though.
This is the actual real lazy river ride right there. Okay, watch this thing. It sprays people. Oh, cool. That was happening on the other
one, and I didn't know what they were doing. You can make it do that with
Your TapuTapu. That's cool, that you could spray people. I like those eyes! I could do that all day!
Let's wait for some people to come. So there's where you press your TapuTapu on it.
It shows like people are coming by in the inner tube and you're spraying them.
Get this kid down there. I think he wants it. Yeah, I don't think he knew how it happened but he was happy.
Where you going next? The real lazy river.
Kopiko Wai, The Winding River. So we're gonna see what he thinks about it.
I think you can wear a life jacket or you can get on a tube. So what do you think?
Oh, I like that. He said it's only about a quarter of a mile. Yeah. It's nice, and wide; relaxing. But there's there's no way that
you won't get wet on that. You will be like sprayed on.
Okay. There's different fountains and a waterfall. They said something about a cave. Yeah, the cave
is really cool. It's darker in there. There's some mist and music, lights.
Cool. When you come out of it then there's a big waterfall that you have to go
through. You're gonna get wet. Yeah, I like all the waterfalls. The theming and stuff.
Yeah this is a little kids section. Okay this is the Tot Tiki Reef and Runamukka Reef.
And swim diapers required for diaper aged children. So we're gonna go
over to Tot Tiki first. So I don't see any tots here but this would be age
where it would be toddler. So as soon they could walk, to like three or four he
said. There's little fish that spray the water and they can run in between
the lights. If they do, it makes the fountains go higher. So that's a really
cool area. And there's a tiny waterslide for them to come down. And a
little pool at the end of it. And then it looks like stairs up here where they can
actually just go up and do some water slides
up there too for kids.
There's some of them playing over here today.
Cool, it's like a big rock that has water like there's maybe it's a tiny little volcano.
And they can run up there and dump water on people. So here's their little waterslide area.
Cabana guests only. So there's the refrigerator back here. Ceiling fan. Checkerboard table. This would be a long couch.
So they can sit with their kids and take a nap. That's really convenient. There's some little tiny
beach chairs. And then there's the TapuTapu thing over there that they could
actually order food and they bring it to their cabana. So that's really cool. Honu ika Moana. That's probably not right. We know Moana - we got that part right.
We're gonna see if you can do
single line rider because I am not getting in the water today.
Will they put him with somebody? Of course.
Okay so they're gonna put him with some other riders cuz yeah you can't ride by yourself.
He's gonna do this blue one now. So now he's busy climbing the stairs again. Bless his heart.
Well he's coming down smiling so it must have been fun. Was it fun? I was like I
wonder how much height they're gonna make on that first really big one right
there, but you only went maybe half way up. Yeah it feels like you're going
really high. Yeah that's a lot of fun. There's two of them like that. Wow!
How many slides are in the volcano?
Well there's three drop slides, you know where you just get in the tube, kind of
and they shut the door, and you cross your arms, cross your ankles, and then the
floor drops out. And you know the one you go just straight down and it's only
about ten seconds. And then there's two other slides and they crisscross and turn.
But the entrances to those are more or less towards the front of the volcano.
Which would be on this side, the end the entrance side of the park.
So if you have problem doing stairs would you not want to do it. No! There's no
elevators. You can rent a towel for the whole day and then you would put it
right back here. And then for the cabanas it says it includes a lockbox, a
refrigerator, upgraded furniture, a limited amount of water bottles, small snacks,
towel service and a server. We're gonna do our photos.
And do the TapuTapu there. It shows the ones we took at the kiosk and some
of the ride photos. Pretty cool that it does those automatically. Catches you
right as you coming off a slide. Okay this is the end of our day at Volcano Bay.
It was fun! This just goes to show you can do a waterpark in the winter in
Florida. Just pick the right day and the right weather and it's not that bad.
A little cool maybe when you're not in the water but it's still fine. When you leave
you turn them in right here to someone like this nice lady.
TapuTapu return. Have a safe trip home. Thank you. Have a good day. Bye. I had a great time.
Slides were fun. So if you're in this area at Universal
or even Disney, try out the waterpark. Find a good day and come and enjoy it.
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