Blizzard beach

Eten en drinken

Cooling hut

Thaw out in the heat with a frozen treat that’s nice and sweet, like a Mickey’s Ice Cream Bar. Or, head off your hunger with something much warmer, including soft pretzels and popcorn. Beverages both hot and cold are also available.

Nachos with cheese
Popcorn

Fresh fruit
Hummus and chips
Pretzels

Frostbite Freddy's Frozen Freshments

Don’t get stranded without scrumptious snacks and treats! Make tracks for this snow-capped chalet and chill with an orange Dole Whip® —before washing it all down with a soft drink or icy alcoholic beverage! 

Orange Swirl Cone

I.C. Expeditions

In search of something sweet? Cool off with frozen treats that include sundaes, floats, bars, waffle cones and other frosty desserts at this ice cream stand in Disney's Blizzard Beach.  

Lottawatta Lodge

Get a lotta grub at this alpine chalet—cheeseburgers, sandwiches, flatbreads, wraps, salads and more—while chilling out with a draft “brew-ski.” All-day refillable mugs and hot and cold drinks are also available.

Cheese flatbread
Fresh fruit cup

S'Mores bites

Mini Donuts at Disney's Blizzard Beach Water Park

These mini treats are big on taste! Dip in by the dozen or half dozen with raspberry, chocolate or white chocolate sauce. Soft drinks, frozen lemonade, coffee, tea and hot chocolate are also available from this stand near Lottawatta Lodge. 

Polar pub

Get frosty at this full-service beach bar after making waves at Melt-Away Bay! Chill out with a cold one—including cocktails like the Angry Snowball as well as the icy Piña CoLAVA or Blue Blizzard, along with bottled and draft brew-skis.

Strategy

You want to arrive slightly BEFORE Blizzard Beach opens. Once it opens, top priority should be grabbing lounge chairs in the shade–I would recommend not wasting any time having to search and instead immediately going to the area by The Warming Hut. This area is slower to fill up because it’s a bit deeper in the park and guests are lazy and go to spots that they see as soon as they enter the park. There are three distinct advantages to this area: 1) it’s heavily shaded; 2) The Warming Hut is the best restaurant at Blizzard Beach, making the walk short for carrying your food to your chairs at lunch; and, 3) this area is centrally located to the main pool and the stairs to the top of Mount Gushmore. The first advantage is the most important.

Top priority at Blizzard Beach after that should be Summit Plummet. In fact, since not everyone in your party will want to do this, Summit Plummet should be done simultaneous to grabbing lounge chairs. Send someone who doesn’t want to do Summit Plummet to grab chairs, and whoever wants to do Summit Plummet should do that. Summit Plummet forms lines quickly, and it’s low capacity. On our most recent wait, we saw its wait time hit 45 minutes by 10 a.m., and peak at 60 minutes later in the day. It’s not worth that.

After Summit Plummet, hit Slush Gusher. From there, head to the Purple Slope and do Downhill Double Dipper, followed by Toboggan Racers and Snow Stormers. Toboggan Racers technically has higher capacity than Snow Stormers, but for whatever reason, we’ve noticed Toboggan Racers’ line move slower. Adjust your plan on the fly if this is not the case. Round out your first hour at Blizzard Beach by doing Runoff Rapids and Teamboat Springs. The first three attractions are really the ones that matter here, and those are definitely Summit Plummet, Slush Gusher, and Downhill Double Dipper.

At this point, your first hour should be about over. Repeat any attractions you want to do again, as lines will get longer later in the day. Follow this up with maximum relaxation in the lazy river and eating.