A Day at Universal in Orlando (Tips por favor)

Are you staying at a universal resort and if so, which one?

Staying at the “Loews Royal Pacific Resort at Universal” for three nights.

Going to have one complete day for visiting the Universal Park.

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Staying at the “Loews Royal Pacific Resort at Universal” for three nights.

Going to have one complete day for visiting the Universal Park.

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Perfect...that resort level will give you free express pass which is going to help you. Also, as a resort guest you will get early entry with Universal Early Park Admission

The two most popular rides are not inlcluded in the express pass (Hagrids Motorbike and Velocicoaster) and both of them are MUST DO's and luckily, both are located in Islands of Adventure.

So, this is your best bet.

Plan to start your day at Islands of Adventure and if early admission begins at 8am, you will want to be in line at the park by about 7:15 am so check the early admission times when you check into the resort. Hagrid is not currently running during early admission so your plan should be to head to Velocicoaster first. Some people wlll go directly to Hagrid to line up BUT you have time to knock out Velocicoaster first IF you are really at the turnstyles to the park 45 minutes before adverstised park opening.

As soon as you get off of Velocicoaster, make the short walk to the lost continent area to line up for Hagirds. The line does not start at the attraction but does line up near Poseidon's Fury.

We just did this less than a week ago for an 8 am Early Admission and here was our results.

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We got in line at Islands of adventure about 715. Entered the park went directly to velociicoaster and was off of that by 8:09 AM. Walked over to lost continent and got in line for Hagrid’s at 8:12 and will report back what happens as the plants develop

8:28, line started moving from Lost Continent.
8:45, dropped bags off in locker
Was off the ride and drinking cold butter beer by 9:15

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Once you get off off Hagrid, check the wait time to Velocicoaster because it will often peak at park opening, but then immediately drop so you may want to go jump back in line. From then on, for the rest of the day almost everything else you do will have Express Pass so your wait will be mimimal.

My advice would be knock out the rest of Islands of Adventure, lunch at Thunder Falls Terrace (near Kong) then go back to Hoggsmeade using Hoggwarts Express and knock out Diagon Alley (again, using express pass for Escape from Gringotts, etc) and everything else worth a damn. Rip Ride Rock It is on the way out so make sure you do that a couple of times as well to end the day.

A one day park hopper for Universal and Islands is about $200 per person and with express pass and early entry (if you're really there 45 minutes before early entry), I have no doubt you can knock out everything you want to do in both park, including lunch, beers and Hogwarts Express by 4 or 5 pm pm

Literally just got back. We stayed at Disney and drove to universal that morning. Got there right at 9, left the park at 7 that night. We did almost everything (velocicoaster, King Kong, hulk coaster, and the dr doom drop thing way to scary for the kids). Obviously you’ll need the park hopper for both Harry Potter parts, but if you only have one day, the express pass is a no brainer. No way you’ll do everything you want in one day without it. Hagrid was the only ride that wasn’t covered that we were interested in so you need to prioritize riding it if you want to avoid an hour wait. Also going on the weekend is going to make things that much worse so getting there early could help. We had lunch at The Three Broomsticks. It was decently priced compared to Disney and actually pretty good

Last, if you and your girlfriend are relatively fit like you say, and don’t have kids you are going to have to carry around, avoid the prime parking which is like $35 more. It was worth it for us at end of day, but without my little ones and all of their paraphernalia I’d have been mad at myself for buying it

Yeah shrek and the mummy were closed when we went. My gf was pissed she had been hyping the mummy to me for months lol

Thanks to you all, this information is going to make me look like I actually cared to her.

Now we have to hope for good weather as we have exactly only one day to visit.

Express passes if they still have them are worth the money. We passed the same people 3-4 times that were standing in line on rides. Harry Potter rides are impressive.

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Rockit poppit roller coaster

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Rip ride rockit?

The Mummy is one of the best rides in the park. Since you're staying at a Resort tied to Universal you get free fast passes, use them.

For the ones you can't use a fast pass on, just ride single rider (velocicoaster) For Hagrid...the bike is cooler than the cart. Outside of that with the Fast pass you can hit pretty much everything in a day.

The minions and shrek shows are funny, they pick on someone in the crowd so wear something obnoxious and it will be you.

Last advice I have is ride the Hulk at night. I just think it's such a better ride this way.

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mummy is closed

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That's unfortunate, hands down one of the better rides in the park. Went over thanksgiving as well at it was open...I didn't know they closed since. When we went they were so busy they closed the regular line and only had virtual que for two days.

Never again will I let my family convince me to go over Thanksgiving. It was just too crowded. They were periodically shutting rides down as well. The Hagrid ride line stretched all the way inside the old Poseidon's Fury auditorium and down the stairs. We went straight there as the park opened too. I'm sure OP won't see that many people during this time of the year.