DreamWorks Water Park – American Dream Mall, NJ April 8th, 2022

Spring Break 2022

With everyone a little hesitant to go back to the mall after the shooting and lockdown the night before, we went back. This was also important because it shows the kids that even when in a stressful and scary situation you have to face your fears and cannot live by fear.

We checked in for the waterpark, had our picture taken and then walked into the changing room. Once you walk in, the area is separated into family changing room, men’s changing rooms and women’s changing rooms. Once guest finish in the changing rooms, you can get a locker if you want and then you are separated by men and women. This area contains showers and bathrooms. Then you walk into the water park.

As soon as you get into the water park there is an attendant that will height check the kids and give them a wrist band and a life vest if needed. The wrist bands are supposed to help when you get on rides but clearly that was not the case because poor Arianna couldn’t get on half of the rides because she was showing too short for some and 48 inches for others. Thankfully she did get to ride everything. It just depended on the lifeguard and how they held the measuring stick.

Being this is a water park, we didn’t get as many pictures as I am used to getting. Oh well, we had so much fun.

DreamWorks Water Park is the largest indoor water park in North America. Such a fun and vibrant waterpark with natural light. Meaning you have to wear sunglasses because it gets bright in there.

Blake got the seats together for the day and I went off with the kids to ride rides. Isabella and I headed straight for Thrillagascar & Jungle Jammer. These 2 body slides are the world’s tallest trapdoor capsule slide that is 14 stories high. As we are climbing the stairs, we keep climbing and climbing and climbing. We finally reach the top and I felt that I was going to die. So much so that the lifeguard asked if I needed water. Izzy and I get into the capsule and down we went. This ride is very intense. I was very proud of her for doing it.

The next ride we went on was Toothless’s Trickling Torpedo. The world’s longest hydromagnetic rocket coaster. This water coaster went around the entire water park. We had such a blast on it. The only downfall is that when going up hill on the coaster, water blast you in the face and it makes it hard to keep your eyes open.

We also raced down Dragon Racers before I went back to switch with Blake to watch Taylor. Dragon Races uses a mat to get down the water slide. The slide starts with dark tunnels and then opens as you get closer to the finish.

Blake and I kept taking turns riding rides with the kids and watching Taylor. The park is massive but unfortunately does not have much for toddlers. In order to ride the kiddie slides you have to be a min. of 36 inches. We kept playing with Taylor in the Wave Pool and Lazy River. Taylor had a blast in both of these. In the Bubbly Lazy River, Taylor enjoyed going under all of the bucket drops and fountains.

We spent a lot of time playing in the wave pool. The waves are awesome. After the water park is closed for the day, it turns into Skudin Surf, an indoor freshwater surfing time.

We continue to rides all of the rides the park has to offer.

Shrek’s Sinkhole Slammer – a family raft rides that plunges into a funnel.

Swamp n’ Splash – a family raft ride that also has multiple funnels and lots of twist and turns.

Dragon & Donkey’s Flight – a family raft ride that opens into a large spiral bowl with lots of drops and zero-gravity moments.

Lemur Leap – 2 person tube ride with a giant bowl and lots of drops

Tube It – 2 person tube ride

Speeding Frenzy – 2 person enclosed flume tube ride.

The Carnivortex – Trapdoor capsule horizontal loop body slide.

Surfari Slider – World’s tallest indoor speedslide that includes a trapdoor.

Mad Flush– body slide that has a bowl and then drops into water. (I have been on one of these slides at Ocean Breeze Water Park and it was very smooth. This one hurt, I cut my foot and hit my heal hard when making the turn to the drop).

Kungfu Panda Temple of Awesomeness – multi-level play area with a tipping bucket, multiple body slides and splashing fun.

Forbidden Waters – hot tub

Zany & Zanier Zigzag – Body slide (Poor Arianna got stuck and had to inch her way down)

Penguin Plummet & Majunga Jump – 2 high speed body slides that drop 5 feet into 10 feet of water. All of the kids (with the exception of Taylor) did the slides. We were very proud of them for being able to drop into the 10 foot water and not have any issues.

The park was fairly empty and we got to slide as many times as we wanted. The kids had a blast.

We didn’t expect to stay at the water park from open until close but we had so much fun that we ended up staying until they closed. The park closed at 7 and the mall closed at 9. We were going to try to go back to Nickelodeon Universe but everyone was tired and we just walked around to the mall until it closed.