H2O Glow After Hours at Hurricane Lagoon Water Park is a tough ticket occasion with restricted attendance and quick wait occasions for Walt Disney World’s hottest aquatic sights. This submit shares our expertise, data in regards to the occasion, dates & particulars, and whether or not it’s well worth the cash. (Up to date March 14, 2024.)
Beforehand generally known as H2O Glow Nights, this After Hours occasion returns to the tropical oasis of Hurricane Lagoon for Summer season 2024. H2O Glow After Hours at Hurricane Lagoon Water Park will supply distinctive, vibrant décor, high-energy DJ dance events, unique glow-themed menu choices, and extra.
In the course of the H2O Glow After Hours, in style water rides and slides at Disney’s Hurricane Lagoon Water Park have considerably shorter wait occasions. Whether or not you’re taking pictures down Crush N’ Gusher, making a splash within the Surf Pool, or bustin’ a transfer on the dance flooring, you’ll expertise this storm-strewn paradise in an entire new mild. Right here’s every thing you might want to know in regards to the return of H2O Glow After Hours at Hurricane Lagoon Water Park…
Disney H2O Glow After Hours at Disney’s Hurricane Lagoon is held on takes place choose nights from late Could to early September, from 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. You may get a head begin on the unique occasion by getting into the water park at 6:00 pm, providing you with a complete of 5 hours to benefit from the water park.
Visitors of choose Walt Disney World Resort accommodations, Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Accommodations and Shades of Inexperienced should purchase occasion tickets early by calling (407) 934-7639 starting March 19, 2024. Everybody else should purchase tickets on-line beginning March 22, 2024.
There’s completely no rush to purchase tickets. Barring a viral Hurricane Lagoon TikTok pattern or another freak incidence, there’s no likelihood any dates promote out in March 2024. It’s additionally unlikely any dates will promote out in April and even the primary half of Could 2024. Many (if not most) of those After Hours dates received’t promote out in any respect. So purchase tickets at your leisure, however earlier than June simply to err on the facet of warning.
Disney H2O Glow After Hours at Hurricane Lagoon takes place on choose nights from Could 25 to August 31, 2024. Right here’s a full record of dates and costs for every celebration:
What’s Included throughout H2O Glow After Hours at Hurricane Lagoon?
The entire sights at Disney’s Hurricane Lagoon water park might be out there throughout H2O Glow After Hours (topic to alter resulting from inclement climate or different causes), together with the next highlights:
- Bay Slides
- Castaway Creek
- Crush ‘n’ Gusher
- Gangplank Falls
- Humunga Kowabunga
- Mayday Falls
- Miss Journey Falls
- Storm Slides
- Hurricane Lagoon Surf Pool
Disney H2O Glow After Hours at Hurricane Lagoon will even function leisure. Specifically, there might be a dance celebration with a DJ spinning sizzling beats all evening. This spirited celebration is bound to dazzle—with glowing equipment and décor including to the celebration ambiance.
Moreover, you may get pleasure from limitless ice cream novelties, popcorn, and choose bottled drinks—all included in the price of this ticketed occasion—out there at carts stationed all through Hurricane Lagoon water park.
You too can buy objects at choose areas all through the park. Per Walt Disney World, there might be particular “glow-themed” menu objects out there for buy at choose areas in Hurricane Lagoon, too.
Gown Code
- Swim apparel have to be acceptable for a household surroundings.
- Inappropriate swim apparel, swim apparel with buckles, rivets, zippers or uncovered metallic, and different sharp objects will not be allowed on any of the sights.
- Denims (denim) and wetsuits (neoprene) will not be permitted on the next sights: Bay Slides, Humunga Kowabunga, Ketchakiddee Creek and Storm Slides.
- For security, diaper-age kids should put on plastic pants or swim diapers in pool areas.
Is H2O Glow After Hours at Hurricane Lagoon Value It?
As with every upcharge providing at Walt Disney World, the reply is: it relies upon.
The edge query is whether or not you’d in any other case be visiting a water park in the course of the course of your Walt Disney World trip. If that’s the case, then presumably. If not…why would you all of a sudden contemplate attending one? Though it’s an ‘After Hours’ branded occasion, that is completely dissimilar from its counterparts at Magic Kingdom, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and EPCOT. If you happen to wouldn’t go to a water park in the course of the day, the transfer to nighttime and a tough ticket occasion doesn’t actually change the equation. The highlights listed below are all nonetheless within the water or water-adjacent.
The following query is whether or not you favor daytime or nighttime pool time. That is additionally a matter of private choice, based mostly on how you’re feeling about warmth, humidity, sizzling pavement, sunshine, and so forth.
From my perspective, nighttime is the very best time at Hurricane Lagoon. With out query, sundown and past is our favourite time to go to the water parks. We’ve executed Hurricane Lagoon within the night a number of occasions, from Glow Nights to After Hours to Moonlight Magic to the now-extinct night Additional Magic Hours manner again within the day.
What we love about nighttime at Hurricane Lagoon is that the present lighting is exclusive, temperatures are extra snug, the pavement isn’t so scalding sizzling it burns your toes, nor does sunscreen should be continually reapplied. Like each theme park in Central Florida, it’s merely extra nice at evening in the course of the summer season. Though Hurricane Lagoon options lush vegetation in locations, a lot of Hurricane Lagoon is uncovered and the solar will be brutal if you’re standing round in line, within the wave pool, or wandering across the park.
With that mentioned, we aren’t sunbathers. We actively search out lounging spots within the shade and do every thing we will to keep away from getting an excessive amount of solar. (The dorky bucket hat I recurrently put on within the parks and Sarah’s solar hats and umbrellas can attest to that!) So in the event you’re the sort who visits Florida to get a tan and enjoys lounge within the daylight, clearly you’re going to have a special perspective than us. Accordingly, it is best to take these opinions with a grain of salt–or ignore them solely as a result of our targets are completely different.
Our objective is having fun with the theme and ambiance of Hurricane Lagoon, and experiencing its water slides and rides with minimal waits. Personally, I believe the primary a part of that–absorbing the ambiance however not the daylight–is finest completed within the night. That’s for me true at each Walt Disney World theme park.
The main points simply stand out extra, the design is extra vivid below the factitious present lighting, and the background music is clearer. I can’t totally articulate the why of this, however it’s how I really feel about just about all over the place in each park at Walt Disney World, from Tomorrowland to World Showcase. Being that that is subjective, affordable minds might also differ about when the ambiance at Hurricane Lagoon is the “finest.”
The opposite element of that’s experiencing sights at Hurricane Lagoon with shorter traces and wait occasions. That is extra goal, and the sensible actuality is that H2O Glow After Hours at Hurricane Lagoon will not be essentially finest for avoiding the crowds. It’s true that wait occasions are shorter, on common, all through this difficult ticket occasion.
Nonetheless, you may beat the crowds–and even come out forward–by rope dropping Hurricane Lagoon. If you happen to arrive proper at park opening, have a savvy technique, and are diligent about hitting the headliners, your wait occasions will possible be shorter than throughout H2O Glow After Hours at Hurricane Lagoon.
As long as you experience the wave of crowds, so to talk, wait occasions for many sights at Hurricane Lagoon are shortest within the first two hours of the day. In our expertise, these have been even decrease round park opening than throughout H2O Glow After Hours and different nighttime occasions at Hurricane Lagoon. To make certain, wait occasions are decrease than common throughout H2O Glow After Hours, however they’re extra constant. In contrast, every thing is a walk-on very first thing within the morning.
After all, the caveat right here is that that is in the course of the first 2 hours of the day. Wait occasions can get significantly longer in the course of the noon hours, and in the event you’re planning on staying all the day at Hurricane Lagoon and doing water rides that whole time, you’re going to expertise greater wait occasions together with the decrease ones. In that case, you’ll nonetheless come out forward doing H2O Glow After Hours at Hurricane Lagoon. For decrease wait occasions, your window actually is that first 2 hours (give or take, relying upon crowd ranges and climate).
The ultimate query or consideration is whether or not you’d in any other case be buying a single day water park ticket versus Park Hopper Plus tickets–or in the event you in any other case would be capable to get low cost admission to Hurricane Lagoon.
If you happen to’re evaluating the price of one-day water park tickets to the price of H2O Glow After Hours at Hurricane Lagoon, it’s simpler to justify the slight premium pricing (the occasion ticket solely prices a bit greater than common water park tickets). If you have already got entry to Hurricane Lagoon or may add it your admission for less than a slight surcharge, it’s powerful to justify.
We completely love nighttime at Hurricane Lagoon, however I’m unsure I’d pay $60 to $75 per particular person additional for this expertise above the baseline price of visiting a water park. There are lots of different issues at Walt Disney World I’d first prioritize with that cash.
In the end, we love all of Walt Disney World at evening and like water parks after the solar goes down. As such, we love the concept of H2O Glow After Hours at Hurricane Lagoon and would suggest the exhausting ticket occasion to anybody with water park priorities that align with ours. That comes with the caveat that we’d solely suggest this upcharge providing to those that don’t have already got free or deeply-discounted entry to one of many water parks. (Or to those that have limitless budgets and would somewhat go to at evening.)
Nonetheless, if H2O Glow After Hours at Hurricane Lagoon could be one in every of your few splurges at Walt Disney World or you’ve got various admission choices, we might not suggest this. From our perspective, After Hours at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and After Hours at Magic Kingdom are the superior splurges (in that order). Clearly, that’s like evaluating apples to orangutans, however that’s how I’d allocate my restricted ‘TREAT YO SELF’ funds if I needed to rank these particular occasions.
Sure, nighttime at Hurricane Lagoon is superior, however, as famous above, night is superb all over the place at Walt Disney World. So spending the evening right here comes with the chance price of dropping an evening some other place at Walt Disney World.
Equally as necessary, there’s one other good strategy to beat the crowds at Hurricane Lagoon, and that’s just by exhibiting up early. You possibly can knock out just about the entire high-demand sights with an environment friendly itinerary, at which level you may chill out within the solar or shade, get pleasure from a leisurely day on the water park, or go away early and do night elsewhere.
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YOUR THOUGHTS
Will you be attending the 2024 H2O Glow After Hours at Hurricane Lagoon? If not, what’s conserving you away? Costs? Lack of curiosity in water parks? Some mixture of the above? Or, would you not attend regardless? How does this rank for you as a Walt Disney World splurge? Do you agree or disagree with our evaluation of daytime v. night at Hurricane Lagoon? Any questions we may help you reply? Listening to your suggestions–even if you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!
