Six Flags Over Georgia: Hurricane Harbor review

Summer 2014 brings the biggest expansion in the history of Six Flags Over Georgia to the theme park.  Hurricane Harbor offers over 7 acres of new water rides that can provide parents a needed break in these final weeks of summer.  In total Hurricane Harbor has three new attractions and one very large renamed one, Paradise Island that was simple annexed into that area.

Six Flags Over Georgia has lots of roller coasters spread out over a massive area that teens love while pregnant women and people with back injuries avoid.    As a child I vaguely remember visiting the park with my cousins.  Most of the park has been remodeled since then but I could still remember the overall landscape.

Entry to Hurricane Harbor is included with main park admittance into Six Flags.  The biggest thing you’ll notice about Hurricane Harbor is the Calypso Bay Wave Pool.   It’s a massive wave pool that has two main entry points.  The area is sand-free, but the ground is a surface that is also slick proof, so you don’t have to worry about kids slipping when they run (and they will) out of the pool.

The deepest area of the wave pool is ideal for teens and adults because the waves can get up to a couple feet high.  If your children are younger they’ll enjoy just walking through the shallow end of the wave pool.  It also has a fountain area near the rocks that’ll keep them entertained while they look at everything going on around them.

On one side of the wave pool are a series of cabanas.  If you plan on spending much time in Hurricane Harbor these are worth renting.  They’re shady and quiet, for a small fee it could be worth your sanity to simply relax while the kids go about their manic ways.

Tsunami Surge is the world’s first hybrid zero-gravity water slide.  That’s a fancy term that means that’ll be like the quarter that goes around and around in circles before being dropped into the donation bucket.   In this case, the donation bucket is a moment of zero-gravity and you are the quarter.   Children have to be 48” or taller to ride.

The Bonzai Pipelines three water slides that are on top of a 41 foot tower.  Each one has 180 and 360-degree curves and will let cool off the kids at the same time.  Children have to be 42” or taller to ride.

If you’ve been to Six Flags Over Georgia before then Paradise Island will look familiar to you.  Paradise Island is a massive area with six smaller water slides and multiple water buckets that dump about 2,000 gallons of water a minute into the area.  It’s has areas to climb, things to slide and you are guaranteed to get wet and have fun here. Children under 36” have to be accompanied by an adult.

The new renovations at Six Flags Over Georgia are nice and will certainly entertain children 3 and up.  Be advised that Hurricane Harbor is at the very back of the park, so you will need to walk all the way through-and back.  It’s worth the walk, but the approximate .75 mile walk may be taxing with small children.   Six Flags Over Georgia is open daily until August 10 and then on weekends until late October.