Best Pools/Splash Pads for Toddlers

Kidani Village, HANDS DOWN! The splash pad area is huge and so much fun! My kids absolutely love it!!

I would not recommend Stormalong Bay for your group. You have to exit the pool area to use the slide, and there are blind spots. Unless you have a 1:1 ratio of adults to kids or better OR you’ve got older kids (9-10+ years and STRONG swimmers), I would be uncomfortable the whole time!

From my family's experience i would recommend either Polynesian or AKL kidani village. The main pool at poly can be busy but watching the fireworks from the beach is hard to beat after a night swim. My kids were 11 and 6 when we stayed at BCV and stormalong bay was alot of walking back and forth to the waterslide. Kidani has alot of shade for the little ones as well. Hope this helps and enjoy your trip let me know how it goes for your welcome home trip.

I agree with the above advice! We have gone to Disney multiple times the past 4 years but most recently we went this May with a 3.5 year old and 18month old. Polynesian is our favorite splash playground hands down! It is slightly larger than the other splash playgrounds and would probably be a hit for all 3 kids! The only downfall for us was that its open to the big pool and I did worry about if they ran off without me seeing (we watch closely and stay with them but still a worry as a parent). Kidani village at Animal Kingdom has a large splash area that was really fun for the 18month old but just not as exciting for my adventurous 3 year old. Although it did have a lot of shade over the splash area which was nice! Both kids loved Riviera’s splash playground and Port Orleans French Quarter (although not DVC) which are both fenced in and not many blind spots so no worry about them running off and we actually got to sit and watch them just play for a bit which is rare at our kid’s ages! We haven’t stayed at Wilderness or Grand Floridian but the splash playgrounds there look similar and a lot of fun! For your 4 and 7 year old, there are also bigger slides that go into the main pool (my 3 year old loved them but he wore a complimentary life jacket since he only recently began swim lessons). All DVC resorts have some sort of water slide in the main pool but some are better than others. resortsgal.com/pools/water-slides/ has a good article on each of them if you want to look yourself! Lastly, I will agree with other’s comments above that the entry to the slide for Stormalong at Beach Club is outside the main pool area and the lazy river is 9 ft deep in some places so some parents don’t feel comfortable with those things. We haven’t been but don’t plan to until the kids are older. We really haven’t had a bad pool at any of the DVC resorts so whichever you pick is sure to be fun!