PHOTO TR: Wet ‘n’ Wild Phoenix! Fun in the hot desert sun!

[PirateTinkerbell]

As a celebration of my last “free” Saturday before I started Grad School (Pharmacy School), my boyfriend Andrew and I went to Wet ‘n’ Wild Phoenix for the day! I’ve wanted to go since it opened last summer and finally got the opportunity to go! Wet ‘n’ Wild Phoenix is located north of the main city off the I-17, so it’s about a 45 minute drive for us but it was well worth it! We had tons of fun, got to ride some awesome slides, and luckily kept from getting sunburned! I thought it would be fun to take a waterproof camera along with us so I picked up a cheap disposable one to go along. To see any of the pictures in their full size you can find them in their set on Flickr which you can get to with this link: Wet ‘n’ Wild Phoenix. To check out some more of my pictures from other fun expeditions you can see them on my photostream. So, without further ado, onto the pictures!

 

First off, the obligatory entrance sign picture:

 

For the first slide of the day I wanted to go on Raging River (the red one), but I ended up picking the wrong side of the line so we started the day on the biggest / most extreme slide in the park, Mammoth Falls (the yellow one). TONS of fun!!! You sit in a 4 person raft, go through a couple turns, head down a super steep drop, up a vertical wall, back down, and splashdown! We had 3 people in our raft so we went up nice and high on the wall! Here’s my pictures of the slide:

 

 

Another set of slides I was super excited to go on were the Desert Racers! On Desert Racers you go down the slide head-first on a racing mat. Starting out you pick a color, go through some dark turns, only to be shot out of the dark tube into the daylight and onto the final straightaway! It’s confusing the first time you go on it because the lane you pick to start out in is not necessarily the one you end up in! Andrew started to the right of me and ended up on the left… These slides were great fun and an awesome new experience for anyone who has never been on a slide like this!

 

 

 

 

Next onto Monsoon Bay! Just a regular old wave pool, so nothing particularly special, but still fun! Word of warning: the water is FREEZING cold!!!!

 

This next shot is a broad view of part of the waterpark. It’s looking over Cactus Cooler (lazy river), Tornado, and in the distance Desert Racers.

 

Wet ‘n’ Wild also has one of the Super Bowl (aka Toilet Bowl) slides! I thought this was going to be just ok but it was really fun! We even got dumped out of the bowl backwards

 

 

Inside the bowl:

 

The little water play area for the kids was so cute! I wanted to go on the little slides but alas I am too tall For once my short height is too tall for something!

 

Now up, Tornado! I have lots of pictures of this since it was nearing the end of the day and I wanted to use up my film Tornado, like everything else was tons of fun! At the beginning of the slide I tried to sit on the correct side of the tube so I would get to go down the drop forwards instead of backwards… Well, that didn’t work out too well for me… Somehow the tube turned putting me backwards down the drop and Andrew (who is bigger than me) forwards. NO FAIR! lol I thought being the lighter of the two of us I would end up going forwards with gravity pulling Andrew’s side of the tube first, but I was wrong. Anyways, I still had fun and I got a cool picture on the slide!

 

 

 

 

 

ON-SLIDE ACTION! Yup, again I was sideways…

 

Thought this looked cool

 

For our last ride of the day we finally went on Raging River, the first slide I intended to go on… This, like everything else, was tons o’ fun! Much more so even than I thought. During the ride we had multiple tidal waves crash over us and tons of sideways slide time! And yes, the picture that is at an angle / sideways was taken from my vantage point, SIDEWAYS! Enjoy the on-slide pictures

 

 

 

Overall, we had a great sunburn-free day at Wet ‘n’ Wild Phoenix! I can’t wait to go back again and I would definitely recommend someone to go there over the other waterparks in the Phoenix area. I hope everyone has a safe, fun and enjoyable summer!

[ArizonaGuy]

Nice TR and Photos. This is my home water park but I haven't been to it since it was WaterWorld. It definitely looks like they have had some very nice improvements to the park.

[J man]

^I went last summer. I'm not much of a water park person, but Wet 'n' Wild is a drastic improvement over Waterworld.

[Sir Clinksalot]

Nice. We are going out to AZ in September to visit some friends and have plans to visit Wet n Wild.