First Trip to Volcano Bay at Universal Orlando Resort

Today we have a great update from our first visit to Universal Orlando's Volcano Bay Water Theme Park.

If you haven't seen this park yet, you're in for a treat. If you have seen this park chances are you haven't seen it as empty as it was during our visit.

So pull up some waves and enjoy a look at this next generation water park.

Written by Renée Girard

We’re on the bus to our first visit to Universal’s Volcano Bay water park!

Learning how to use Tapu Tapu reservation system on the bus ride over to Volcano Bay.

Nice view of Aventura Hotel upon exiting the bus at Volcano Bay.

Travel through a few tunnels and walkways to get to the Volcano Bay entrance.

We are here! Volcano Bay looks gorgeous so far!

Got my Tapu Tapu, time to go exploring and ride some slides!

Here’s a map of Volcano Bay. It’s pretty easy to navigate, even if you can’t correctly pronounce the slide names.

Kohola Reef is one of the park’s quick service food restaurants. Haven’t decided where to dine yet but this place looks really good!

Stopping by one of Volcano Bay’s two full service bars, Dancing Dragons.

Got the beer exclusive to the park, Volcano Blossom. Dancing Dragons bar also has the perfect view!

We’re really not using Tapu Tapu at all to reserve rides because there’s no need to! Today is a perfect day to visit Volcano Bay!

Bambu Jungle Kitchen, another quick service restaurant at Volcano Bay.

Feasting Frog and Kunuku Boat Bar at Volcano Bay.

No one is here today! It’s awesome!

The Krakatau aqua coaster is probably the most fun we’ve had ever on a water slide!

Taniwha Tubes is almost like a normal water slide except there are some pretty good g forces on the twists and turns!

Throughout Volcano Bay, you can use your Tapu Tapu to activate different things, like this fountain in the lazy river.

If you walk through the volcano, you’ll find even more fun stuff. This isn’t an ordinary fountain, it actually talks and interacts with you!

It’s fun to find the things you can use your Tapu Tapu for. This one lit up one of the cave walls inside the volcano.

Venturing inside the volcano also gives you some unique things to look at, as well as seeing how huge the structure is!

Seeing these Tapu Tapu stations near the rides made me curious to how the system works on a busy day, but I’d much rather be here on a day like today!!

The wave pool is quite large, and we also enjoyed the smaller pool beside it that overlooks the area.

We almost missed this slide since it’s tucked in the back, but we enjoyed the Ika Moana and Honu raft slides, especially Honu where you get some crazy height going up the wall.

Kala & Tai Nui serpentine slides are intense! We climbed forever to the top of the volcano for these but wow was it worth it. The speed on these takes your breath away.

Ohyah and Ohno slides were probably my least favorite slides in the park, but there’s honestly nothing wrong with them. We still liked it, and the drop off at the end is cool.

Something unique at Volcano Bay is having your photo taken without the need of a photographer. Using the Tapu Tapu, you just stand in front of certain locations, and it takes your photo. On ride photos are automatically added too.

We had such an amazing day at Volcano Bay! Loved all of the attractions, and the park itself is beautiful. Forgot photos of the Fearless River, which was one of our favorites as well. I’m glad we waited till now to visit, it was worth it!

And we had to part with our Tapu Tapu friend before exiting the park. Thanks for a great day!

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