Join Roy as he presents his tips and tricks to beating the summer heat during your trip to the Magic Kingdom in Florida during the hot summer months. [Read more…]
Attractions – The Show – May 1, 2014 – Minus5 Ice Bar, Viva la Musica, plus latest news
Hosts Banks Lee and JeniLynn Knopp bring you this week’s theme park and attraction news. On this week’s episode: [Read more…]
Club Cool at Epcot introduces new soda flavors, keeps Beverly and VegitaBeta
Club Cool at Epcot has updated its selection of free soda samples from around the world, replacing all but two of the current flavors. [Read more…]
Attractions – The Show – Frozen Summer Fun; Springfield; latest news – June 18, 2015
Hosts Banks Lee and Elisa Goldman bring you this week’s theme park and attraction news. On this week’s episode: [Read more…]
Insider Top Tips: Beating the heat at SeaWorld
By Kevin Yee
Like every other theme park in Central Florida, SeaWorld has to contend with excesses of heat and humidity in the summer. There’s no escaping the fact that sub-tropical Florida has tropical temperatures that could turn your trip into less of a vacation and more of a death march.
But that doesn’t mean there’s no escaping of the heat itself. You can, in fact, effectively hide from Florida’s sometimes-brutal environmental conditions, if you plan your day carefully enough. This is very much a park-specific plan, however. [Read more…]
SeaWorld helps two families beat the heat with cool chairs
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 for that period of time, they were the coolest chairs on the beach. Aquatica is SeaWorld’s waterpark.
(From L to R: Brittany Green, Brooke Green, Jennifer Green, Jack Green, Jaclyn Carpenter, Debbie Carpenter, Jack Carpenter).
For more great ways to stay cool in Orlando, don’t miss our Summer 2009 issue featuring the top 10 ways to beat the heat.
And for more on Aquatica, check out our summary video below of the water park’s opening last year. This video has become our most popular video ever with nearly 650,000 views… and counting!
You can also see much more from Aquatica in Volume 1, Issue 3 and in our photo gallery.