If you want to have a day at the beach, Disney style, Typhoon Lagoon is a must. Made to look like a tropical storm has recently washed through, Typhoon Lagoon is festooned in detail with palm trees, surfboards, bat caves, dinosaur bones, and a big shipwreck that a storm left precariously perched on top of a mountain. 

The park surrounds a lagoon that has pools for young children and families. Ketchakiddee Creek is the water play area where the little ones will want to hang out. Castaway Creek is an especially relaxing river that flows in a circle around Typhoon Lagoon on which swimmers can float to their different destinations using inner tubes.  

The more exciting attractions include Humunga Kowabunga, which has three slides that take riders on covered speed rides; Crush ‘N' Gusher, which pushes riders along exciting twists, turns, and plunges; and Mayday falls, which takes adventurers down a mountain in inner tubes. The surf pool offers pristine white sand beaches with waves large enough for surfing in some parts, as well calmer waters away from the waves. Shark Reef provides a short snorkeling tour to see fish living in the coral reef. The equipment and snorkeling instruction are free. Visitors who do not wish to snorkel can visit the underwater viewing chamber. 

There is a picnic area and families are permitted to bring coolers that are small enough for one person to carry, however no alcoholic beverages are allowed.

Guests from one of Disney's All-Star hotels and Disney's Coronado Springs Resort are able to walk to Blizzard Beach. Walt Disney World shuttle buses take visitors to the front entrance.

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