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 brief wait occasions for Walt Disney World’s hottest aquatic sights. This submit shares our expertise, information concerning the occasion, 2023 dates & particulars, and whether or not it’s well worth the cash.

Previously often called 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, fashionable water rides and slides at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon Water Park have considerably shorter wait occasions. Whether 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 a complete new gentle. Here’s every thing it’s good to know concerning 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, providing 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 sights at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon water park might be accessible throughout H2O Glow After Hours (topic to vary 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 possibly can get pleasure from limitless ice cream novelties, popcorn, and choose bottled drinks—all included in the price of this ticketed occasion—accessible at carts stationed all through Typhoon Lagoon water park.

You may also buy objects at choose places all through the park. Per Walt Disney World, there might be particular “glow-themed” menu objects accessible for buy at choose places in Typhoon Lagoon, too.

Dress Code

• Swim apparel have to be applicable for a household setting.
• Inappropriate swim apparel, swim apparel with buckles, rivets, zippers or uncovered metallic, and different sharp objects usually are not allowed on any of the sights.
• Jeans (denim) and wetsuits (neoprene) usually are not 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 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 through the course of your Walt Disney World trip. If so, then presumably. If not…why would you instantly contemplate 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 through 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 subsequent query is whether or not you favor daytime or nighttime pool time. This can be a matter of non-public choice, primarily based on how you are feeling about warmth, humidity, scorching pavement, sunshine, and so forth.

From my perspective, nighttime is one of the best time at Typhoon Lagoon. Without query, sundown and past is our favourite time to go to the water parks. We’ve achieved 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 means again within the day.

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

With that stated, we’re not sunbathers. We actively search out lounging spots within the shade and do every thing we are able to to keep away from getting an excessive amount of solar. (The dorky bucket hat I repeatedly put on within the parks and Sarah’s solar hats and umbrellas can attest to that!) So for those who’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, you need to take these opinions with a grain of salt–or ignore them totally as a result of our targets are completely different.

Our aim is having fun with the theme and environment of Typhoon 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 particulars simply stand out extra, the design is extra vivid beneath the unreal present lighting, and the background music is clearer. I can’t absolutely articulate the why of this, nevertheless it’s how I really feel about just about in every single 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 environment at Typhoon Lagoon is the “best.”

The different element of that’s experiencing sights 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 is just not essentially finest for avoiding the crowds. It’s true that wait occasions are shorter, on common, all through this tough ticket occasion.

However, you possibly can 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 seemingly be shorter than throughout H2O Glow After Hours at Typhoon Lagoon.

So lengthy as you experience the wave of crowds, so to talk, wait occasions for many sights 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, every thing is a walk-on very first thing within the morning.

Of course, the caveat right here is that that is through the first 2 hours of the day. Wait occasions can get significantly longer through the noon hours, and for those who’re planning on staying your entire day at Typhoon Lagoon and doing water rides that total 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 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’ll in any other case be buying a single day water park ticket versus Park Hopper Plus tickets–or for those who 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 might add it your admission for less than a slight surcharge, it’s powerful to justify.

We completely love nighttime at Typhoon Lagoon, however I’m unsure I’d pay $60 to $75 per individual further for this expertise above the baseline price of visiting a water park. There are numerous 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 concept of H2O Glow After Hours at Typhoon Lagoon and would suggest the arduous 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 reasonably go to at night time.)

However, if H2O Glow After Hours at Typhoon Lagoon can be one in all your few splurges at Walt Disney World or you have 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). 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 every single place 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 strategy 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 sights with an environment friendly itinerary, at which level you possibly can chill out within the solar or shade, get pleasure from a leisurely day on the water park, or depart 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 holding 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 might help you reply? Hearing your suggestions–even once you disagree with us–is each fascinating to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas beneath within the feedback!