My family (me, husband, 3 kids age 16, 14, 11) have been planning to do a resort only trip 3/24-4/1. We are staying at the Wilderness Lodge in the Bolder Ridge DVC villas.
Just yesterday, we started to think about going to Universal. We’ve done Disney dozens of times but have never been to Universal. The kids love roller coaster and we’re all big HP fans.
We can’t change our hotel reservation to one of the Universal hotels that offers Express Pass as we’d lose DVC points. If I buy 1 day / 2 park tickets with Express Pass the cost is $2,204 (yikes!). Universal has a deal to buy a 3 day / 2 park ticket with 2 free days for a total of $1,634.
For you Universal experts, I have several questions:
1 Am I better off buying the multi day ticket and going during the less busy times of the day over several days rather than shelling out $$$ for the one day Express Pass option?
2. Is Universal like Disney in that if you get their way before park opening you can beat the worst of the crowds? We have been the first family on FOP, TT, 7DMT many times so we know how to bust it in the morning.
3. Or, would we be better off going in the evening each day in the hope the crowds will die down?
4. We are good with using single rider lines whenever that is an option. Knowing we’ll be there during a busy time, would we be okay relying on single rider rather than getting Express Pass if we did a single day at Universal?
Thank you in advance for any help!
Just yesterday, we started to think about going to Universal. We’ve done Disney dozens of times but have never been to Universal. The kids love roller coaster and we’re all big HP fans.
We can’t change our hotel reservation to one of the Universal hotels that offers Express Pass as we’d lose DVC points. If I buy 1 day / 2 park tickets with Express Pass the cost is $2,204 (yikes!). Universal has a deal to buy a 3 day / 2 park ticket with 2 free days for a total of $1,634.
For you Universal experts, I have several questions:
1 Am I better off buying the multi day ticket and going during the less busy times of the day over several days rather than shelling out $$$ for the one day Express Pass option?
2. Is Universal like Disney in that if you get their way before park opening you can beat the worst of the crowds? We have been the first family on FOP, TT, 7DMT many times so we know how to bust it in the morning.
3. Or, would we be better off going in the evening each day in the hope the crowds will die down?
4. We are good with using single rider lines whenever that is an option. Knowing we’ll be there during a busy time, would we be okay relying on single rider rather than getting Express Pass if we did a single day at Universal?
Thank you in advance for any help!