Busch Gardens Water Country USA Announces Enhancements
Student, performance and band groups are visiting Colonial Williamsburg and Busch Gardens as a tidal wave of change is heading toward Water Country USA. The Williamsburg water park debuts “Rock ’n’ Roll Island” in 2008. Rock ‘n’ Roll Island will feature three slides, a lazy river and a children’s attraction all themed with rock-and-roll culture from the 1950s and ‘60s.
Rock ’n’ Roll Island’s main attraction will be a 33-foot-tall slide tower named “Jammin’ Juke Box.” Three body slides will shoot from the top of the tower, each themed after a popular rock-and-roll dance – the “Funky Chicken,” “The Hully Gully” and “The Twist.” The slides will be nearly 200 feet long and spill riders into a 9,000-square-foot pool. For the little ones, Rock ‘n’ Roll Island will feature a new children’s slide called “Little Bopper,” and the entire island will be surrounded by a 700-foot-long lazy river.
“I think Rock ‘n’ Roll Island will be a guest-favorite in 2008,” said Mark Pauls, vice president for Water Country USA. “The addition of Rock ‘n’ Roll Island continues Water Country USA’s commitment to fun in the sun with new slides, a cool pool and great music.”
Total construction will take several months, and photo-updates of the renovation will be posted periodically on the park’s Web site, www.watercountryusa.com
Rock ‘n’ Roll Island will open when Water Country USA opens for the 2008 season May 10.
Water Country USA is a Worlds of Discovery park. Other Worlds of Discovery parks include SeaWorld parks in Orlando, San Diego, Calif. and San Antonio, Texas; Busch Gardens Africa in Tampa, Fla. and Busch Gardens Europe in Williamsburg, Va.; Discovery Cove in Orlando; Sesame Place in Langhorne, Pa. near Philadelphia; Aquatica, SeaWorld’s water park in Orlando; and water park Adventure Island in Tampa.
For more information on group policies and group travel information at Busch Gardens Williamsburg,
Courtesy of grouptravelblog.com
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