3 or 4 day park pass for 1st time at Universal

[footballmom2]

We are surprising our kids for Christmas with a 7 night stay at Royal Pacific and this is our first time to Universal as we typically just go to Disney. I'm trying to decide on 3 or 4 days at the parks. Our sons are 9 and 7 plus huge Harry Potter fans. We also want to go to Downtown Disney a day and are debating Seaworld. Would you recommend 3 or 4 days at Universal? We don't want to feel rushed since we are driving down from Chicago. Thanks everyone for your advice!!

 

[damo]

I'd get the longest tickets you can. It is so easy to just pop into the parks for a few hours since you can just walk over.

 

[kohlby]

Since you have 7 nights at RPR, I'd do 4 days. Longer means you can take your time and do things multiple times. It does increase your ticket expense, of course, but you already are planning long enough at the hotel.

Have you considered doing Legoland? Though my kids do enjoy SeaWorld, we're doing Legoland this next trip for the first time instead. I've heard that Legoland is for a really specific age range mainly so we want to do it before they're too old. (My eldest is a 10 year old boy).

Also, hit up Downtown Disney at opening and head right over to the lego store if your boys like legos. They have a place where the kids build lego cars to race. It's free to do. We normally have to drag out eldest away after two hours. (I mention going at opening since it gets crowded, making it harder to participate).

 

[Metro West]

We are surprising our kids for Christmas with a 7 night stay at Royal Pacific and this is our first time to Universal as we typically just go to Disney. I'm trying to decide on 3 or 4 days at the parks. Our sons are 9 and 7 plus huge Harry Potter fans. We also want to go to Downtown Disney a day and are debating Seaworld. Would you recommend 3 or 4 days at Universal? We don't want to feel rushed since we are driving down from Chicago. Thanks everyone for your advice!!

You can always purchase the three day tickets and if you find you want more time, upgrade and pay the difference.

 

[footballmom2]

Thank you everyone for your replies. We will probably do 4 days since it is an easy walk over. In regards to Legoland, we just did the one near our home in IL this summer and our boys seemed a little too old for it already which we were bummed about but I think the one in Orlando is a lot bigger. So we will check it out when we are at Downtown Disney to see if it looks different. My hubby and I did Sea World ourselves last year since we were in town for a work conference where they gave us free tickets. I'm having a hard time justifying $200 for one day there with our family of 4. It seems more expensive than it should be. Are there ways to get cheaper tickets?

 

[damo]

Thank you everyone for your replies. We will probably do 4 days since it is an easy walk over. In regards to Legoland, we just did the one near our home in IL this summer and our boys seemed a little too old for it already which we were bummed about but I think the one in Orlando is a lot bigger. So we will check it out when we are at Downtown Disney to see if it looks different. My hubby and I did Sea World ourselves last year since we were in town for a work conference where they gave us free tickets. I'm having a hard time justifying $200 for one day there with our family of 4. It seems more expensive than it should be. Are there ways to get cheaper tickets?

Legoland isn't near Downtown Disney.

http://florida.legoland.com/

 

[footballmom2]

Thanks for that info. Obviously I didn't look into legoland. lol. Oops. I could have assumed they were close because of the lego store there. I will have to look into it further to see if we want to go there.