Aquatica Orlando celebrated its fifth birthday on March 1, 2013 with animals, singing, dancing, cake and more. In light of the theme, $5 merchandise specials were offered all day that included clothing, Aquatica-themed glasses, and more. There was a special birthday party held in the afternoon with animal ambassador meet and greets and special treats, [...]

Aquatica is hosting the 4th annual Special Olympics Florida Polar Plunge on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013. Individuals and teams, alongside Special Olympics athletes, families, sponsors and community members, will be able to take a plunge into the cold Aquatica wave pool to raise money for Special Olympics Florida. Hundreds of “Plungers” are expected to participate, [...]

SeaWorld San Antonio recently introduced its guests to Aquatica Water Park. Like its sister park in Orlando, it’s a whimsical aquatic park with up-close animal experiences, high-speed thrills and relaxing, sandy beaches. Aquatica is the single largest capital project in park’s history. The park’s signature ride, Stingray Falls, takes four-seat rafts down twists and turns [...]

How many people can say that they learned to swim at Aquatica in Orlando? Now offering lessons for every skill level, there’s no better place to learn than at SeaWorld’s one-of-a-kind water park! Aquatica’s “Learn to Swim” lessons are 45 minutes long and are taught by American Red Cross certified instructors. Unintentional drowning is the leading cause of [...]

Heading to SeaWorld for their Summer Nights events? They’ve debuted a new Florida resident combo ticket, that gives you one visit to SeaWorld and one visit to Aquatica. Play all day splashing side-by-side with the sea one day at Aquatica, then visit SeaWorld another day for a day of shows, coasters and Summer Nights adventures. [...]

Discovery Cove is offering the ultimate vacation for Orlando visitors with the introduction of a new, all-inclusive package. A day at Discovery Cove now includes unlimited admission to SeaWorld Orlando and Aquatica water park for 14 days. “This new offer is incredible for guests because it allows them to explore Discovery Cove for the day [...]

Within the next year, the 10 theme parks of SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment will be going green by eliminating plastic shopping bags and replacing them with paper shopping bags. Park gift shops will offer paper bags made from 100 percent recycled paper or guests can choose to purchase reusable bags. This move will keep an estimated [...]

Aquatica is usually a warm and tropical waterpark near SeaWorld, but on Jan. 21, 2012 they will be chilling down their wave pool. This drastic temperature change is to benefit the Special Olympics Florida for the third annual “Polar Plunge”. Anyone who raises a minimum $100 (per person) earns the right to come to …

It was a year dominated by The Wizarding World of Harry Potter opening and musical performances. So instead of only looking at the most viewed videos uploaded this year, we’re going to look at the top 2010 videos a couple of different ways. Yesterday we presented the Top 10 most read theme park stories for [...]

Fans of SeaWorld, Aquatica, Discovery Cove and Busch Gardens can now follow all their latest offical news via the new SeaWorldParksBlog.com. Redesigned with social media in mind, the blog features the company’s Tweets, Facebook posts, Flickr photos, YouTube videos and more. “SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment has a rapidly growing following of engaged, social media-savvy fans,” [...]

Overseas guests stuck in the area because of the Icelandic volcanic ash don’t have to just sit at the airport. They can take a ride on the new Omaka Rocka slide in Aquatica, fly on Manta at SeaWorld or check out the new Sesame Street Safari of Fun area at Busch Gardens for free. SeaWorld [...]

Orlando’s newest water park has another new slide. Aquatica recently opened Omaka Rocka – a waterslide with high-speed tubes and half-pipe funnels that’ll have guests splashing and sliding frontward, backward and climbing the walls. Omaka Rocka is a water slide version of a half-pipe. Guests brave enough will experience near-vertical thrills previously experienced only by [...]

A new family water slide is coming to Aquatica in spring 2010. Omaka Rocka will feature high-speed tubes and half-pipe funnels that’ll have guests splashing and sliding frontward and backward and climbing the walls. This is the first water slide of its kind in the world. Riders will speed down flumes into massive funnels, sliding [...]

It was nearly two months ago that the sale of Busch Entertainment Corp. and its theme parks to The Blackstone Group was made public. Now a new name for the company has been revealed. “SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment” replaces “Busch Entertainment Corporation” with the closing of the sale announced jointly today by Anheuser-Busch InBev and [...]

It’s become an annual tradition around Central Florida’s theme parks to raise ticket prices by a few dollars. However, SeaWorld is now making an enticing offer for Florida residents to keep them coming back all year. Florida residents can now purchase SeaWorld or Busch Gardens 2010 Fun Cards for $69.95, which is $5 less than their most [...]

Anheuser-Busch InBev and The Blackstone Group announced today that Anheuser-Busch InBev will sell its entertainment business to Blackstone Capital Partners V L.P. for up to $2.7 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, Blackstone will acquire Anheuser-Busch InBev’s wholly owned subsidiary, Busch Entertainment Corporation (BEC), the second largest entertainment park operator in the United States with approximately 25 million annual visitors The [...]

The Carpenter family, from Richmond, Va. and Green family from Durham, NC kick off the first day of summer on icy lounge chairs at Aquatica in Orlando.  Crafted from a solid block of ice and weighing more than 2,000 lbs each, the lounge chairs lasted for only a few hours in the Florida sun.  But [...]

The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that the SeaWorld, Busch Gardens, Discovery Cove, and Aquatica parks to be built in Dubai have been indefinitely postponed. They’re saying a scaled back version isn’t being considered and they will resume with their plans when the economic conditions allow them to. The parks were first announced at the end [...]

Santas from all over the world visited Aquatica to unwind before a busy night delivering presents. The Santas spent the day floating down a tranquil river next to black and white Commerson’s dolphins and enjoying the Florida sunshine.

Aquatica, SeaWorld Orlando’s first water park, officially opened today, March 1, 2008. Aquatica brings colorful (and wet) entertainment to Orlando with South Pacific flair. With a wide variety of water slides, splash zones, and plenty of places to relax, Aquatica is a must-see for water park fans. There are water slides for …