ArwenMarie
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 10, 2013
For the first time ever, our family will be spending time at Universal (the tail end of our vacation). We were going to spend 10 days at WDW for DD 16th birthday with one of her friends. When we told her about the changes to fast pass she voiced concern. Well long story short, I told DD to do a little research on Universal. She came back asking if we could go for a few days and stay at the HRH. It's her 16th so I let her decide as long as it was within budget. To be honest, I never thought of this as a strategy, but after reading your post, one could definitely see this as one. We are looking forward to a different way of spending our day; no adr's, no rushing or clock watching, no reservations at all. This could be the beginning of split vacations for us in the future! (we'll spend some of our days at our DVC resort). So glad I came across your post!
Yes, this was the part that was the best part. Staying there was actually...relaxing. Since we we were onsite, we could go over whenever and then because of Express Pass, we could do what we wanted, when we wanted. The fact that the hotel was very nice was the final part that swayed me (the food at the hotel was very good too).
Have fun planning your trip, what a great 16th birthday present!