Moody Gardens Palm Beach Offers Refreshing Summer Family Fun

Contact Information Mariauna Hernandez, 409-683-4256 Cell: 409-771-3891 [email protected] Jerri Hamachek, 409-683-4249 Cell: 409-789-2607 [email protected]

MOODY GARDENS PALM BEACH OFFERS REFRESHING SUMMER FAMILY FUN Visitors Can Enjoy White Sand, a Lazy River, Live Music, Fireworks GALVESTON, Texas – Moody Gardens is offering some new entertainment and traditional favorites at Palm Beach as this popular private beach attraction opens for the summer.

Guests are invited to sink their toes in white sand, lounge beneath palm trees and splash amongst a variety of beach attractions. Visitors can even enjoy concerts and fireworks. Palm Beach will open weekends beginning May 21, including Memorial Day before opening daily for the summer season June 4 through August 21. As the summer season comes to an end, Palm Beach will be open weekends only August 27 through September 10, including Labor Day.

Visitors can enjoy the interactive 650-foot lazy river, wave pool and two 18-foot tower slides. Other attractions include beach volleyball on regulation courts and the Aquarium Adventure play area. The Splashpad automated aquatic water feature offers interactive dump buckets, spray arches and fountains for a day of fun at the beach. Palm Beach admission is $23.95 for adults, $17.95 for children and seniors, or $55 for a season pass. Children ages three and under are free.

Visitors can make it a weekend of entertainment with the popular Bands on the Sand summer concert series at Palm Beach. Beginning June 4, this live music series runs throughout the summer following each show with fireworks over the Moody Gardens pyramids and Offatts Bayou. Admission to each concert is $15 and free for kids three and under. Bands on the Sand will be held from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. every Friday and Saturday through August 13.

Some of the area’s top local and regional bands will perform at Bands on the Sand:

June 4: Gary Michael Dahl (Variety/R&B) June 10: The Mockingbirds(Variety) June 11: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Variety) June 17: Yelba (Variety/Latin) June 18: Mid Life Crisis (Variety) June 24: A Sure Thing (Rock) June 25: Line Up (Variety) July 1: Intercoastal Pirates (Variety) July 2: Space Monkeys (Variety) July 8: Kaos (Variety/Rock) July 9: Cody Hodges (Country) July 15: Velvet Punch (Rock) July 16: The Relics (Rock) July 22: The Slags (Variety/Rock) July 23: Intercoastal Pirates (Variety) July 29: Leannasaurus Rex (Variety) July 30: Vertigo (Rock) August 5: Line Up (Variety) August 6: Rat Ranch (Rock) August 12: DJ Dio (Variety) August 13: The Relics (Rock)

For more information about Palm Beach and Bands on the Sand, please visit moodygardens.org or call 800-582-4673.

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