bumbershoot
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 5, 2007
I've never been to a Universal hotel and I've never been to IOA. If I have a child who doesn't like scary rides and is mainly interested in playing in water, how much time do you think we will need inside the park? I want to go see the Harry Potter area. And what is the short cut?
also, what is the mini bar key and how much does it cost? I read many pages and can't figure out why people are so opposed to it.
I would look at a map of all of IOA, figure out what *else* you might want to ride, and what your child might also like (Suess!), and go from there. It's not *just* Wizarding World that you might like.
The problem with minibars is that sometimes you get charged when you haven't taken anything from it. And with a child, they don't always understand that it's not "yours", that you will have to pay a ton for it.
The key is free. It's the items inside the minibar that aren't free. And, when we stayed at RPR our first time in Dec '10, there were also boxes of things (cookies, and maybe popcorn?) out, near the coffeemaker, that were exorbitantly priced, that we had to warn DS about multiple times.
I typically just turn the key down at checkin, because we're NOT going to use any of the items in the minibar, and don't want to deal with the hassle if they think I've used the minibar.