Why am I standing in line for lockers? Bday TR *completed*

Last week (April 23rd - April 26th to be specific), I spent some time up in Orlando doing Disney and Universal. You can find the Disney Pre-Trip Here and the actual trip right around here.

For a quick summary:

Me: Corey
Age: 36 as of this trip
People involved: Me, Friend 1, and Friend 2 (anonymous for their preference)
Length of Stay: 3 days, 2 nights

That's the quick and dirty. The trip report is soon to follow.

Day 1 - 4/24

Friday actually started over at Disney. I had stayed at AKL for a birthday trip and did some DHS and Animal Kingdom rides to kill time before checking in at 4pm. I had booked a stay at Floridays resort in a 3br/2ba suite. I knew nothing about this place aside from the reviews online, but it had what we needed. We didn't want to get a small hotel room that would see one person on a bed, one on a couch and one on a floor. We've done those trips before and they're miserable. Having a room for each of us was too good a notion to pass up and the price was very reasonable.

So, at just before 4pm, I rolled into the lobby and was able to check in with no fuss. When I got to the room, I was completely floored. I had seen pictures and looked at the floor plan, but it wasn't what I had expected.

Full kitchen with island? Check. Six person dining room table? Check.


Comfortable living room? Check.


Washer and dryer? Awesome!




Three bedrooms? Exactly what we wanted.


Huge tub and shower? Awesome!

Much better (and bigger) than expected. This was perfect.

My friends arrived a short time later and we headed off to Texas De Brazil for excessive gluttony. Day one was a resounding success!

Day 2: 4/25

I've got an annual pass, and one of the benefits is free valet parking. The valet parking stop off is right next to the entrance of City Walk and is just about worth the price of the annual pass on its own, especially when valet parking is $35. We started by picking up my friend's ticket at the will call window, and then quickly off to Islands of Adventure to ride the Hulk. The Hulk tends to be our first stop on every trip. It's an awesome rollercoaster and early in the morning gets us on relatively quickly. This was the first time going where we had to deal with lockers. They would quickly become the bane of our trip.

If you haven't had to deal with this before, here's the deal:
Nothing can be in your pockets. No phones, wallets, change, keys, or cameras. If you forget, you'll be quickly reminded about it when you are filtered through metal detectors at some point in line. Did you forget to take out your phone? Back to the locker. Loose change? Back to the locker, or you can donate it at a convenient donation box next to the metal detector. It's frustrating. If you're hoping to kill time on a long line by texting or messing around on a phone, it isn't going to happen. The lockers are free for a period of time based on the posted ride wait time. After that wait time, you're charged an amount of money to open the locker. This will be

Back to our ride. We got on Hulk super quick, speeding through the near empty line and hopping on nearly immediately. Since it's a quick ride, we quickly check the wait time. Still 15 minutes. With that in mind, we hop in line again and wait. And wait. And wait. After 45 minutes, we get on the ride again and then head to our locker to pick up our stuff. The problem, though, is that we're now locked out. All we need to do is cough up $3 to open the locker. From our wallets. Which are in the locker. That we can't get to. We hunt down a locker attendant to have him open our locker, but he's flooded with people who are also locked out of their lockers. Since the wait time changed while we were waiting, we just had to wait for him to open the locker for us (and everyone else).

With our crap returned to our pockets, it's off to Doom.

The Fear Fall is way too much fun. The anticipation of waiting to be shot up into the air is manic. The other great thing that the Fear Fall has? No lockers. Sweet! With a 35 minute wait, we just ride once. We want to hit up other areas too.


After Doom, it's Spiderman time! I learned a very important thing on the Spiderman ride: I can't do motion simulator rides. For the first time in a long time, I got sick on a ride. No vomit, just sick. No more Spiderman. Ever. I've tried Spiderman previously and got a little light headed, but this was painful.

Time to walk. It's off to the Harry Potter stuff. Now, none of us are Harry Potter fans. We just want to ride stuff. The line for the Harry Potter ride was obscenely long. The line for butter beer was extremely long. The line for everything was extremely long in Potter land. There's only a 15 minute wait for Dragon Challenge, and that's more than ok. Bring on the rollercoaster! But wait! We need to drop our stuff off at a locker. So we stand on line to get a locker for our crap. This time, I pocket two fives just in case we run into a problem. The wait for Dragon Challenge is quick. Most of that 15 minutes is from walking through where the lines would be. We hop on fairly quickly (red side) and have a fun ride. Time to claim our stuff.

Houston, we have a problem. The fingerprint reader isn't reading my friend's finger. It's not reading anybody's finger. We hunt down another locker attendant to open us up. Problem two: we don't remember our locker number. Locker attendant's solution: use the fingerprint scanner to find our locker. Really? Are you not aware of the current problem that we just told you about? He has us try all of the fingerprint readers, and if it doesn't work, he'd have to call security to do a sweep. After being rejected on all of the other readers, the last one recognizes my friend's print. Thank God. We're 0-2 in lockers. These things are becoming a pain in the butt.

After the frustration of dealing with all of that, we're starting to get hungry. We hop on the Harry Potter train and head to Universal Studios. I've mentioned in a previous report and quickly here: I'm not a Harry Potter fan. Neither are my friends. The Harry Potter train is a quick and convenient way to get to the other park for us. The show itself is fine, but without a frame of reference, it has no sway on any of us. I can recognize that it's a well crafted experience and I'm sure that it's amazing for a Harry Potter fan. For us, it's just a thing.

An odd thing happened on the train. In our little car section thing, we were seated with two girls who couldn't be more than ten years old. No parents. Just these two girls and two other random people of no relation. I'm not a parent, so I don't know how this works, but it seems really strange to see two ten year old girls roaming free without parental supervision. It was kind of uncomfortable. Is that how it works? Are parents cool with that kind of thing?

We arrive at Universal and head straight for Springfield. We may not be Harry Potter fans, but we love us some Simpsons! To the Simpsons ride!
Let's go over two of the most important things that The Simpsons Ride gets spot on: No stupid lockers and plenty of tvs playing excellent Simpsons clips. How long did we stand on line? I have no idea. Did I notice it? Not at all. I watched and laughed at all of the Simpsons clips. That's how you make lines fun. The problem, though, is that we didn't know what we were in for. None of us had any idea what the Simpsons Ride actually was. It was Simpsons related, making it a must do. The problem that we discovered after the ride started was that it was another motion simulator ride. Damn. I will start with the important stuff: it's incredibly well done. The visuals are great and it stays true to an episode of the Simpsons. It's great to see Sideshow Bob again. Unfortunately, half way through the ride, I'm starting to get sick again. It's a struggle to stay moderately composed, but I manage. One of my friends is having the same problem. I see him closing his eyes and trying to collect himself. The ride can't end soon enough.

After nearly puking, we decide to do the responsible thing and eat lunch. Off to Krusty Burger!

Great start. And that is why I properly medicate myself and close my eyes riding the many simulators at USO. I still go on them once though.

Day 2, part 2: Let's eat!

We pop inside of Moe's, deciding to pass on Krusty Burger. The inside of Moe's looks very cool and has a lot of show references all about. It's small though, with few places to sit, and the seating that is available, both at the bar and at the tables, is taken. But we find out that Moe's is just a room attached to a larger food service area. Passing through Moe's takes you to a central food mall type of setup that has various different offerings. Krusty Burger is also attached to this. The line for food is astronomically long, regardless of which kiosk is chosen. We end up passing on it and head back outside. Instead, we head over to Bumblebee Man's taco truck. I choose the carne asada tacos, Buzz cola, and a thing of extra salsa. The tacos are pretty tasty, filled with nice chunks of meat, salsa, guac, and cheese. The chips are crunchy, but bland. The salsa is very watery and has no real flavor outside of a hint of tomato and some celantro. A heavy application of taco sauce and the drippings from the tacos adds a bit of flavor, but the chips remain mostly uneaten on everybody's tray.

After a taco lunch, we wander over to Duff's Brewery for a drink and to take in the views.

My friends go with a Duff Lite and a Duff dry. I'm not much of a beer guy and I'm not feeling alcohol at the time. It's hot, we still have rides to do. I see another tap sticking up though, and that tap has me interested:


You bet your butt I want a Flaming Moe. The bartender informs us that there's no actual alcohol in the Flaming Moe. That kind of sucks, just because of the authenticity of it is somewhat lost, but it's perfect for the moment and fits my needs. One Flaming Moe!



It's more of a slightly smokey Moe. I guess I should have realized Fire is probably a no-no for food products at Universal. It's basically an orange soda with some dry ice and an alka seltzer at the bottom. Since my friend bought this round of drinks, it's also a free Smokey Moe's. It'll do.

Time to do some rides!

We could see the Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit as soon as we hopped off of the Harry Potter train, but we put it off until later. Later had finally come. After spending some quality time in Springfield, we headed towards to the large red beast. First, though, we popped into The Mummy after dropping our stuff off in another locker. The wait time listed at 15 minutes and seemed to be true to our actual wait time. It's not a bad ride, but I oddly don't remember much of it except for the burning ceiling that was really hot. It seemed to be over quickly too. Back at the lockers, we managed to retrieve our stuff without the need to flag down somebody. Score two points for the Mummy just for that.

No more delays, onwards to the Rockit.


With an expected wait time of 45 minutes, we rush to drop our stuff off in the lockers and then head on through the metal detector. For the first time, I get stopped. When they wand me, my pocket lights up their scanner. I forgot to take out change. I'm given two options: put $0.78 worth of change in a locker and lose my spot, or donate the change to charity. Goodbye change, I hope you make a difference somewhere. Lesson learned. They're serious about pockets being empty. Our 45 minute wait time stretches out into closer to an hour and a half. Nothing is moving. It's hot, it smells like body odor, and I'm starting to get annoyed. We finally load up on to the rollercoaster and I get a little concerned by lap-bar only restraint and the fact that it just pushes my tender bits into a very sharp and hard portion of the seat. A little personal adjustment before the ride starts gets things in a more manageable position. I choose ZZ Top's "Gimme All Your Lovin" as my ride song because the other selections all kind of suck. It's not until yesterday that I learn that there are hidden songs that you can get to that are of a far greater quality than the listed songs. I now know for my next visit. The ride is pretty awesome. The straight up shot is really cool, as is the length of the ride. It's an expansive rollercoaster that seems to cover a fair amount of ground. The wait was a little excessive, but I can deal with that. It was still fun.

Back at the lockers we run into a familiar problem. We can't open our locker and get our stuff. We're not the only ones. We're now on line to get a locker attendant to get our stuff. Again. This locker thing is abysmal. After a five minute wait, everything is back in our pockets. We start walking around and decide to start wrapping things up. Now seems as good a time as any to have some dinner.

During the planning of this trip, we all decided we would go to Cowfish for dinner. They serve burgers and sushi. I love burgers and sushi. It seems like a no-brainer. We stop at the hostess to see what kind of wait there is. Unlike the rest of our day, there's no wait. We're seated immediately on the balcony section outside. Initially, I wasn't too thrilled to sit outside. After the heat of the day, I was looking forward to some good old A/C action. As we're walking through the restaurant, though, I'm grateful for it. There's a strange smell inside that is off-putting. I can't place it, but any extended stay inside would kill my appetite. The covered balcony is cool enough, and the breeze is keeping the smells at bay. We all order burgers. I go for a sushi roll as well.

My order:

*GEORGIA ROLL
Tempura shrimp, kani inside, coated with tempura flakes. Topped with yellowfin tuna, eel and sweet eel sauce.
Served with a side of spicy mayo

*BLACK TRUFFLE CHEESE BURGER
Beef burger, black truffle cheese, roasted shallots, sautéed mushrooms, roasted garlic aioli, lettuce, brioche bun

The sushi roll is pretty tasty. It's a fair portion with almost everything tasting great. The noticeable exception is the fake crab. When contrasted with the fresh, bright flavors of the other fish, the fake crab tasted... fake. It was almost overpowering. Still, between the three of us, we managed to polish off the entire roll. Not a difficult feat, really. The burger was fine, if a little generic. The toppings neither added to nor subtracted from the experience. It just wasn't a very memorable burger. How disappointing. After about an hour of just hanging out and eating and chatting, we decide to head back to the hotel. The threat of rain just makes the decision that much easier.

We head back to Floridays, shower up and head to the pool, where we spend the rest of the evening at the poolside bar having a few drinks and watching some playoff hockey. Day two at Universal is in the books. One more day left.

Day 3: 4/26 - The final day

It's another semi-early start. We load up our stuff in our respective vehicles and check out of the Floridays. I'll miss that place. Checkout was smooth and quick. It could have been express, but I don't trust those kinds of things. I'd rather deal with somebody in person in case there's a problem. I'd rather deal with it immediately than discover it days later and try to maintain my cool while being shuffled around a telephone transfer party. Thankfully, no issues to deal with and away we go.

We stop at IHOP for some breakfast before hitting the parks. It's nice to pay reasonable prices for food after having my wallet assaulted at Disney and Universal over the past few days. It smells in the IHOP. The food tastes fine, but the smell is becoming a problem that's only getting worse. We rush to finish our food and head out. There's a crew repaving the parking lot of the shopping center that the IHOP is located in. They just started while we were inside eating. The stuff they're using on the parking lot smells like pure, raw sewage. It's just disgusting. No worries, on to the park.

I drop my car off with Valet again and marvel at what a great perk it is to go with the annual pass. I wait for my friends who have to park in the garage. Security stopped them both on the way through the airport terminal-like entrance and had to check their pockets. Seems odd.

We repeat the morning with a stop at the lockers next to the Hulk. Wait time is listed at 15 minutes. It takes about 30. The wait has me looking at the details for the line. It seems odd that the animation for the videos playing for one of their big coasters is so awful. It's not even 1990's Marvel cartoon bad. It's worse. I find myself wishing they would do an update on the videos at the very least. The ride is excellent, as always, but I've got a headache after we're done. We consider hopping back on for a second go round, but the wait is listed at 45 minutes now. That was quick. We can hop on later if we want (we don't), but first we need to get to our locker and pick up our stuff before we're locked out. No problems this time. On to Doom.

We're generally repeating our previous day. Doom is the next closest ride so we're there. Another 15 minute wait is posted, but as we enter, we notice a lot of people walking back out. That's not a good sign. The line flows pretty smoothly until we're halfway in. Then it grinds to a halt. Our 15 minute wait turns into nearly an hour. As with the Hulk, I start noticing the Doom cartoon stuff playing on all of the screens. There's kind of funny animated skit thing in the vein of the goofus and gallant stuff and old school videos showing the difference between being a good person and being a bad person. The animation is over the top but it works. The actual Doom shorts are just terrible. They suffer the same horrendously overstylized animation that just screams of a poorly done Saturday morning cartoon. Again, this needs an update. But then I find myself just wishing they would play episodes of The Simpsons instead. The ride itself is typical fun and over far too quickly. It seems we were on longer the day before. Maybe my brain isn't working. The headache is still there.

We grab a churro and start making our way towards the Harry Potter stuff. There's a lot of construction being done on one of the Jurassic Park things. I find myself wondering if they're going to incorporate the new movie into this section of the park. That'd be kind of cool. We enter the realm of Harry Potter and fumble our way through. My friends decide to hop on the motion simulator ride. I pass. I've had my fill of those things for a long time. While they stand on line, I head to stand on line for a different attraction:




I take my frozen butterbeer and head over to the exit for the ride they're on. I consider going back and seeing if it'd be possible to get a butterbeer that's mostly cream stuff, but I pass on that notion as my friends exit the ride.

We contemplate lunch plans. The day before, we passed by Mythos and noticed their sign proudly stating that they're the best theme park restaurant for the past six years. That's impressive. I think I remember reading a little about Mythos and how it was one of the few restaurants in the park that a reservation would be recommended for, so I hop on the phone and secure a lunchtime reservation. That was easy. In the mean time, we have time to kill. Time to hit up some Dragon Challenge action. We load our things in a locker once again and then hop on the ride. Wait time is listed at 10 minutes. It's spot on. It also happens that ten minutes is the amount of time it takes to walk through the corridors where the line would be. It's dark. Darker than I remember it being the day before. In fact, I'm having a hard time seeing anything at all in there. My head is throbbing. I mention to nobody in particular that I can't see a damn thing. One of my friends hear me and ask if I have a headache too. Of course I do. He mentions it happened to him the day before after the Hulk. Awesome. I got beat up by a rollercoaster. We hop on the blue track this time and it's another good ride. We consider hopping on the red track but notice that we're about due for our lunch reservation, so we collect our stuff from the lockers (which work this time) and head to Mythos to sample the "best theme park restaurant for the past 6 years". Having spent some time at Disney not too long before and had some excellent food there, my expectations were pretty high. Will Mythos beat those expectations?

Day 3: Part 2 - Mythos

A reservation was a smart move. We arrive a little early to find the waiting area filled with people. Seating times are hovering around the hour mark. We wait ten minutes for our table to be ready. While we wait, the skies open up. It's pouring outside. Seems like a good time to get away from being outside, so the lunch reservation works out perfectly.

It's loud in Mythos. Really loud. I had been semi-used to it from dining at Disney, but it seems louder than normal. Maybe it's the headache. We decide to skip appetizers and just order our meal. I'm torn between Pad Thai and a burger with a lot of stuff on it. I pick the burger and upgrade my fries to ones covered in garlic and parmesan cheese. One friend chooses the Gnocci. The other orders the blue cheese and cranberry covered pork. We wait for the meal to come out. In the meantime, we munch on the bread. It's decent, with an odd flavor that I can't put my finger on. It's not terrible, but nothing about it screams "best theme park restaurant for the past six years", so I wonder if I'm missing something. Our food eventually comes out and it looks disappointing. My burger is obviously a preformed frozen patty. It's still rocking its preformed hard edges, so the quality of meat is probably not that great. My friend's gnocci is swimming in grease. It looks kind of disgusting. The other friend's pork is just blah looking. Visually, everything is disappointing. That doesn't mean it's bad, though. I've had plenty of awful looking food that tastes amazing, so after a quick once over, we dig in.

Disappointing, again. The burger is exactly what I thought it was. It's a cheap, preformed frozen patty that you can buy at a local supermarket. When cooked to medium, as I had asked for and received, the center is just a mushy mess of cheap meat. The texture isn't that great and neither is the taste. The toppings help to mask it to an extent, but it's hard not to be disappointed. The fries are awful. They're lukewarm. The garlic and parmesan do nothing but make them smell terrible too. I have a few but leave most of them on the plate. My friends are similarly disappointed. I'm not sure who gave this restaurant the title of "best theme park restaurant" for any year, let alone six in a row, but remind me to never trust their judgement. I have no real desire to eat there again. Maybe I should have picked the Pad Thai instead.

Back to the rides.

Day 3: Winding down

When we left Mythos, it was beautiful outside. Any hint of rainfall that remained was quickly being dried up by the sun. We were done with Islands of Adventure, so we hopped on the Harry Potter train and went over to Universal. The wonderment of the whole train ride was starting to disappear. The air conditioning was the big attraction now. We departed the train station and hang a left towards MIB. More lockers. This is getting old. The wait is short and shooting stuff is always fun. I manage to get a top score for our car, which is always good for useless bragging rights. It beats the last two times that I've ridden it and my gun wasn't working. It's a different ride when you lose the interaction. After the ride, we do the same song and dance and retrieve our stuff and then trek over to The Mummy.

To our huge surprise, the Mummy is showing a big fat goose egg for wait times. How can we pass that up? We noticed previously that despite the big warning signs about stuff in our pockets, there's no metal detectors on this ride, so we chance it and decide to slip in without depositing our stuff in a locker. Seemed a fair risk to take. It turns out that we wouldn't need to worry. The zero wait time was because the ride was broken. Figures. Oh well. Back to the Rockit.

We quickly find a locker and deposit our stuff and make our way to the line. Indicated wait time is 45 minutes, and this time it's fairly close. The line grinds along. The animations are awful, and I'm noticing that there is a crapload of Fergie music on the ride. Yuck. I set my mind to choosing Sabotage by the Beastie Boys this time. Friend 1 is going with MC Hammer. Friend 2 is choosing Charlie Daniels. When you have time to wait, you have time to plan. We finally reach the ride and hop on in a robotic manner similar to the animations played ad nauseum. I frantically struggle to position my tender bits in a manner where very little damage will be done, but this time I fail. This time through is nearly 2 minutes of sitting directly on my precious reproductive pieces, crushing them on the hard seat. When the ride ends, I have a raging headache and find it uncomfortable to walk for the next half hour. I'm ready to tap out for the day.

We decide to head back to Springfield and sit at Duffs. I order a round of Flaming Moes for us. Three Flaming Moes: $28+. ***? I didn't notice the day before because I didn't pay, but that's a ripoff. Yes, you get to keep the glass, but it's small, and you're essentially getting half a can worth of orange soda with a fancy alka seltzer tablet. I don't enjoy this drink as much as I did the previous day. We sit at the bar and B.S. for a while, eyeing the 2 foot chili cheese dog and lamenting the fact that we wasted precious stomach space on mediocre food when we could be putting tubulated pig parts and plastic cheese in our guts instead. Maybe next time.

After sitting for a while, my headache isn't going away. It's hot, I'm sweating, and I'm pretty much spent. After much discussion, they decide to hop on the Transformers motion simulator ride. I decide to tap out and head home. I've reached my fill and call it a vacation. I head to Valet to get my car. Again, I marvel at how awesome free Valet parking is, especially when it's so close to the exit. I give them a healthy tip, especially since they've got my A/C cranked and it's nice and cool inside my car. And with that, I take the two hour drive home. Vacation over.

Trip Wrap-Up: The Bits and Pieces

I had a great time on my trip, both the Disney and Universal portions. It's impossible to do that kind of thing and not make comparisons. So here we go...

• I love the Magic Band. I really do. It's very convenient. Everything is there where I need it to be. I can get into the parks, my room, and pay with the one band. I really appreciate that. It's greatly missed when going to Universal. Whenever I pull out my paper ticket, I get annoyed. It's not even three months old and it's starting to fray from being in my wallet. I have to pull this dumb thing out to get into the park. I have to pull this dumb thing out to get on the Harry Potter train. It's annoying. How have they not even jumped up to a plastic card yet? The paper ticket flat out annoys and frustrates me.
• Free Valet Parking is awesome. Completely awesome.
• Mythos isn't even in the top ten catagory of theme park restaurants. There are better restaurants at Universal, let alone Disney. Boma is vastly superior. The Plaza is also better. I'm not even counting the restaurants at City Walk, The Boardwalk, or DTD, as I'm not sure if they count for whatever thing they used. Throw those in and Mythos isn't even in the top 20.
• Real Rollercoasters are syperior to Disney rides.
• Floridays Resort was a surprising place to stay. It greatly exceeded my expectations. The two night stay was also just a few dollars more than my single night stay at AKL. It made me reconsider my notion that Disney would be a Disney Resort stay only.
• Mandatory lockers is the stupidest thing ever created. Besides being a massive pain in the butt to deal with, it seems like something that would cost Universal money. Most of these rides have you exit through a gift shop of some sort. So, you've exited into the gift shop, and on the off chance that you see something that you'd be willing to make an impulse buy on, you're out of luck because your wallet is safely in a locker. I don't know that I would have purchased anything after walking through the gift shop, but I know I wouldn't be bothered to go to my locker, deal with frustration and then walk back to the gift shop to buy something I only half heartedly wanted to purchase before. This also seems like a place where a magic band type system hooked up to a credit card would come in handy.

Observations not related to a Disney comparison:

• I mentioned it in a previous trip report: The walk from the parking garage to the park looks like a dreary airport terminal. Valet Parking bypasses 95% of it, but that remaining five percent could easily lead you to your flight to anywhere.
• City Walk is poorly designed. It feels very claustrophobic.
• The Hulk kicks butt.
• I'm changing my stance. Frozen butterbeer is not superior to regular butterbeer. It's more watered down.
• Burgers and sushi didn't turn out to be the dream combination I had hoped for.
• Dragon Challenge is still awesome on both the red and blue side.
• Motion simulation rides suck.
• I still haven't ridden the Harry Potter train from Universal to Islands of Adventure.
• Mythos is the best theme park restaurant for the last six years if you don't count all of the other, significantly better restaurants at other theme parks and Universal itself.

So, that does it for this trip report. If I've learned anything, it's that I have to take more pictures. That's going on the list for next time.

Hope you enjoyed!

Thanks for sharing. Your room looked amazing.

I stay on-site at Universal for the FOTL access, but your room/apartment looks amazing!
I thought it was just me that was dumb-founded by Mythos winning that award...sorry you had a bad go of it there too, but I am glad to feel a bit vindicated! Mythos sucks.

Kivara said:

I stay on-site at Universal for the FOTL access, but your room/apartment looks amazing!
I thought it was just me that was dumb-founded by Mythos winning that award...sorry you had a bad go of it there too, but I am glad to feel a bit vindicated! Mythos sucks.

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Mythos was a total dud. I'd love to know how they figure this place is so great. It's mediocre at best. Our suite was much better than I could have ever imagined. It makes an overnight stay more tempting, rather than quick day trips to Orlando.

Great report. Thanks!

Loved your report. Thanks! I hate motion simulation rides as well but kids love them. And I look after phones, change etc when kids go on roller- coasters so they don't have to use lockers. Bring a firiend who hates roller-coasters next time.......

When we ate at Mythos (twice) our last trip, our food was amazing! Everything was fresh and delicious! Sorry you had a bad meal there.
I also get sick on the motion rides. I plan to take something next time we go!

My experiences at Mythos: items are hit or miss... except the Risotto of the Day. I've always been happy with the risotto.

a lanyard would help with the ticket, or even just the plastic sleeve from a lanyard. We always rent a locker at the front of the park to store anything we might want over the course of the day and only take our lanyards and a bit of cash with us. By the way, universal should sell lanyards with a large zipper pocket for $20 at the front of the ride. You could put your wallet, keys, etc in the and stuff them in your shirt and you're good to go. I agree Mythos is overhyped.