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We had our first universal trip in February! 1. Park to park tickets are worth it (and we never park hop at WDW). We all got tired of the screen simulator rides. Taking advantage of park hopping helped us break those up and made them more enjoyable. 2. You can get free water from any of the...

They do shut it down when it gets busy. We mobile ordered one night last month. When we went to pick up I heard the worker telling people that the store was backed up so they shut down mobile ordering to let them catch up. We got lucky and got in before they shut it down.

For us, we couldn’t spend an entire day in the studios. My kids got bored with the simulator rides so it was nice to have the park to park to split those up a bit.

DAY 5 (Thursday, Feb 23): The Kitchen Breakfast, Departure, and Final Thoughts The Kitchen My original plan for check out day was to sleep in a bit, grab lunch at Hard Rock or City Walk, and then head to the airport. However, we decided we wanted a good breakfast instead, so I made a...

DAY 4 (Wednesday, Feb 22): IOA Early Entry, Hard Rock Pool, Universal Studios, and Back to IOA The night before our last day, we discussed how we wanted to attack our final day and what were our “must do’s.” We all agreed that we wanted to wake up early, but not necessarily “rope drop” early...

Thanks everyone reading along! It's been fun to write and makes me wish I would have done this for all of my prior trips. It's fun to reflect on the trip and to have it written down for later.

DAY 3 (Tuesday, Feb 21): Hard Rock Pool, Universal Studios, Antojitos dinner, IOA, and late night Voodoo Donuts Hard Rock Pool After two full days, we decided to take it easy on our 3rd day. We slept in a bit, which was much needed. We grabbed breakfast at Emack & Bolio’s again — Coffee, hot...

We're originally from Thibodaux, but now live in the Baton Rouge area.

DAY 2 (Monday, Feb 20): IOA Early Entry, Universal, Mythos dinner, and more IOA IOA Early Entry Me and the boys decided to take advantage of early entry so that we could get in line to ride Hagrid’s during the day. Today was the last day Hagrid’s would be open during our trip before it went...

That lobby bathroom is amazing! LOL! When I walked in to change into shorts i was shocked! Wasn’t expecting that!

DAY 1 (Sunday, Feb 19): Arrival, Hard Rock Hotel, IOA, and Toothsome ARRIVAL We had an early morning flight into Tampa. We chose Tampa because flights were significantly cheaper than flying into MCO, even with the added expense of a rental car. Our flight landed on time around 9:40am. We...

INTRODUCTION and OVERVIEW I've never done a trip report before, but I couldn't read enough of them while planning our first Universal trip, so thought I'd make a contribution! After going to WDW almost every year since our 2000 honeymoon, including a trip to Disneyland in California a few...

We never waited this long with EP this week. We went on it several times at different times of day Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. So I think it varies. Longest we waited was yesterday when it was delayed while we were in line at the lockers. Otherwise it was usually about 30min or less.

After the lockers in the line.

If it has, It hasn’t been enough to make it noticeable. We did velocicoaster twice after 4, and I just assumed the wait was longer because it was the first day with EP for that one. But I don’t know what it was before that time. The rest all seems the same.

We just finished our second day at universal and EP have been worth it! With the holiday lines have been long. We’ve walked on everything except flight of hippogriff (we were told slow because only using one train?). And today Velocicoaster was about 30min EP (regular line around 90min). It’s...

We saw them out today. Not sure if you could hug them.

We used express pass for velocicoaster several times today. Regular line was 90 and express was 30-ish.

We checked in today and the guy checking us in at Hard Rock said it’ll have express pass starting tomorrow. We shall see!

We dined here in January and really enjoyed it. Our kids wouldn’t like the buckwheat, so I’m glad we tried in on our kid-free trip. The food and service were both great!