2023 H2O Glow After Hours at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon: Dates, Details, Tips & Review

H2O Glow After Hours at Typhoon Lagoon Water Park is a tough ticket occasion with restricted attendance and quick wait occasions for Walt Disney World’s hottest aquatic points of interest. This publish shares our expertise, information in regards to the occasion, 2023 dates & particulars, and whether or not it’s definitely worth the cash.

Previously often known as H2O Glow Nights, this After Hours occasion returns to the tropical oasis of Typhoon Lagoon for Summer 2023. H2O Glow After Hours at Typhoon Lagoon Water Park will supply distinctive, vibrant décor, high-energy DJ dance events, unique glow-themed menu choices, and extra.

During the 2023 H2O Glow After Hours, widespread water rides and slides at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon Water Park have considerably shorter wait occasions. Whether you’re capturing down Crush N’ Gusher, making a splash within the Surf Pool, or bustin’ a transfer on the dance ground, you’ll expertise this storm-strewn paradise in a complete new gentle. Here’s all the pieces you want to know in regards to the return of H2O Glow After Hours at Typhoon Lagoon Water Park…

Disney H2O Glow After Hours at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon is held on takes place choose nights May 20, 2023 to September 2, 2023, from 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. You can get a head begin on the unique occasion by getting into the water park at 6:00 pm, supplying you with a complete of 5 hours to benefit from the water park.

Here are 2023 dates for H2O Glow After Hours at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon Water Park:

• May 20, 2023
• May 27, 2023
• June 3, 2023
• June 10, 2023
• June 17, 2023
• June 24, 2023
• July 1, 2023
• July 3, 2023
• July 8, 2023
• July 15, 2023
• July 22, 2023
• July 29, 2023
• July 31, 2023
• August 5, 2023
• August 12, 2023
• August 19, 2023
• August 26, 2023
• September 2, 2023

Prices for H2O Glow After Hours at Typhoon Lagoon

• Adult (ages 10 and up): $75 plus tax
• Child (ages 3 to 9): $70 plus tax

Discounts for H2O Glow After Hours

• Annual Passholder or DVC Member – Adult (ages 10 and up): $59 plus tax
• Annual Passholder or DVC Member – Child (ages 3 to 9): $54 plus tax

What’s Included throughout H2O Glow After Hours at Typhoon Lagoon?

All of the points of interest at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon water park will probably be obtainable 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 Adventure Falls
• Storm Slides
• Typhoon Lagoon Surf Pool

Additionally, you may take pleasure in limitless ice cream novelties, popcorn, and choose bottled drinks—all included in the price of this ticketed occasion—obtainable at carts stationed all through Typhoon Lagoon water park.

You also can buy gadgets at choose areas all through the park. Per Walt Disney World, there will probably be particular “glow-themed” menu gadgets obtainable for buy at choose areas in Typhoon Lagoon, too.

Dress Code

• Swim apparel should be applicable for a household atmosphere.
• Inappropriate swim apparel, swim apparel with buckles, rivets, zippers or uncovered metallic, and different sharp objects should not allowed on any of the points of interest.
• Jeans (denim) and wetsuits (neoprene) should not permitted on the next points of interest: Bay Slides, Humunga Kowabunga, Ketchakiddee Creek and Storm Slides.
• For security, diaper-age youngsters should put on plastic pants or swim diapers in pool areas.

Is H2O Glow After Hours at Typhoon Lagoon Worth It?

As with any upcharge providing at Walt Disney World, the reply is: it relies upon. 

The threshold query is whether or not you’d in any other case be visiting a water park throughout the course of your Walt Disney World trip. If so, then presumably. If not…why would you all of a sudden take into account attending one? Even although 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 wouldn’t go to a water park throughout the day, the transfer to nighttime and a tough ticket occasion doesn’t actually change the equation. The highlights listed here are all nonetheless within the water or water-adjacent.

The subsequent query is whether or not you like daytime or nighttime pool time. This can be a matter of private desire, 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 Typhoon Lagoon. Without query, sundown and past is our favourite time to go to the water parks. We’ve executed Typhoon Lagoon within the night a number of occasions, from Glow Nights to After Hours to Moonlight Magic to the now-extinct night Extra Magic Hours manner again within the day.

What we love about nighttime at Typhoon Lagoon is that the present lighting is exclusive, temperatures are extra comfy, the pavement isn’t so scalding sizzling it burns your toes, nor does sunscreen have to be continually reapplied. Like each theme park in Central Florida, it’s merely extra nice at night time throughout the summer season. Although Typhoon Lagoon options lush vegetation in locations, a lot of Typhoon Lagoon is uncovered and the solar might be brutal if you’re standing round in line, within the wave pool, or wandering across the park.

With that mentioned, we’re not sunbathers. We actively search out lounging spots within the shade and do all the pieces we are able to to keep away from getting an excessive amount of solar. (The dorky bucket hat I commonly put on within the parks and Sarah’s solar hats and umbrellas can attest to that!) So in the event you’re the kind 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 totally as a result of our objectives are completely different.

Our objective is having fun with the theme and ambiance of Typhoon Lagoon, and experiencing its water slides and rides with minimal waits. Personally, I feel the primary a part of that–absorbing the ambiance however not the daylight–is greatest achieved within the night. That’s for me true at each Walt Disney World theme park.

The particulars simply stand out extra, the design is extra vivid beneath the synthetic present lighting, and the background music is clearer. I can’t absolutely articulate the why of this, but it surely’s how I really feel about just about in all places in each park at Walt Disney World, from Tomorrowland to World Showcase. Being that that is subjective, affordable minds may additionally differ about when the ambiance at Typhoon Lagoon is the “best.”

The different part of that’s experiencing points of interest at Typhoon Lagoon with shorter strains and wait occasions. This is extra goal, and the sensible actuality is that H2O Glow After Hours at Typhoon Lagoon isn’t essentially greatest for avoiding the crowds. It’s true that wait occasions are shorter, on common, all through this tough ticket occasion.

However, you may beat the crowds–and even come out forward–by rope dropping Typhoon Lagoon. If you 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 Typhoon Lagoon.

So lengthy as you trip the wave of crowds, so to talk, wait occasions for many points of interest at Typhoon 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 Typhoon Lagoon. To ensure, wait occasions are decrease than common throughout H2O Glow After Hours, however they’re extra constant. By distinction, all the pieces is a walk-on very first thing within the morning.

Of course, the caveat right here is that that is throughout the first 2 hours of the day. Wait occasions can get significantly longer throughout the noon hours, and in the event you’re planning on staying all the day at Typhoon Lagoon and doing water rides that complete time, you’re going to expertise larger wait occasions together with the decrease ones. In that case, you’ll nonetheless come out forward doing H2O Glow After Hours at Typhoon 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 have the ability to get low cost admission to Typhoon Lagoon.

If you’re evaluating the price of one-day water park tickets to the price of H2O Glow After Hours at Typhoon 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 Typhoon Lagoon or may add it your admission for under a slight surcharge, it’s robust to justify.

We completely love nighttime at Typhoon Lagoon, however I’m undecided I’d pay $60 to $75 per individual 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.

Ultimately, we love all of Walt Disney World at night time and like water parks after the solar goes down. As such, we love the thought of H2O Glow After Hours at Typhoon Lagoon and would advocate the laborious ticket occasion to anybody with water park priorities that align with ours. That comes with the caveat that we’d solely advocate 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 reasonably go to at night time.)

However, if H2O Glow After Hours at Typhoon Lagoon could be considered one of your few splurges at Walt Disney World or you may have different admission choices, we’d not advocate this. From our perspective, After Hours at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and After Hours at Magic Kingdom are the superior splurges (in that order). Obviously, 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.

Yes, nighttime at Typhoon Lagoon is superior, however, as famous above, night is superb in all places at Walt Disney World. So spending the night time right here comes with the chance price of shedding an evening elsewhere at Walt Disney World.

Equally as vital, there’s one other good technique to beat the crowds at Typhoon Lagoon, and that’s just by displaying up early. You can knock out just about the entire high-demand points of interest with an environment friendly itinerary, at which level you may loosen up within the solar or shade, take pleasure in 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 2023 H2O Glow After Hours at Typhoon Lagoon? If not, what’s conserving you away? Prices? 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 Typhoon Lagoon? Any questions we will help you reply? Hearing your suggestions–even if you disagree with us–is each fascinating to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!