Both parks in two days plus pool time?

[sand2270]

I am planning a trip in Oct with my DD who will be 10. We are going to stay at Hard Rock, moving over from WDW. Right now I have us doing two days at the Universal parks and I notice they close kind of early (5pm, 7pm) based on the recent Oct hours.

I also want to have time to take advantage of the pool during the day. We will avoid any major roller coasters. I have never been to either park so wondering if it is possible to get through one park a day and still have time for the pool during daylight hours without feeling like we are rushing the entire time? This could also mean going to the park, leaving and than going back. I am trying to decide if we should move over one day early or not.

 

[macraven]

if you want to take in pool time, move over to the hrh a day early like you mentioned.

once your kid is in the pool or doing any of the pool activities with the TM's, he won't want to leave to go back to the park.

 

[sand2270]

Thanks. I should have clarified. I am talking about an hour maybe two of pool time. We usually don't stay longer than that.

 

[donaldduck352]

You should have no problem at all.But like macraven said it will be hard to get your DD out of the pool..

 

[donaldduck352]

Also forgot to add the pool dont close till 10PM and certain nites they have the dive in movie..

 

[U2_rocks!]

I am planning a trip in Oct with my DD who will be 10. We are going to stay at Hard Rock, moving over from WDW. Right now I have us doing two days at the Universal parks and I notice they close kind of early (5pm, 7pm) based on the recent Oct hours.

I also want to have time to take advantage of the pool during the day. We will avoid any major roller coasters. I have never been to either park so wondering if it is possible to get through one park a day and still have time for the pool during daylight hours without feeling like we are rushing the entire time? This could also mean going to the park, leaving and than going back. I am trying to decide if we should move over one day early or not.

How funny, I was just wondering the same thing! We are also planning Oct at HRH after WDW, and I will have a 10 year old DS with me (and 9 & 7 yo DDs). We were going to do 2 nights, which will give us almost 2 full days (need to leave early the last morning, so we won't get 3 days). I don't think I'll do 3 nights at HRH, because our accomodation near WDW is free (parents' timeshare) and adding another day to the total length of the trip just isn't possible. But we were thinking of driving to Universal from the timeshare during a weekday, at park opening, to do what we can so that our onsite days aren't rushed. So we'd end up with 1 day without FOTL and 2 days with FOTL. I may leave that decision until I see what the crowds are like when Oct comes around (because of HP) i.e. I will leave room in the WDW itinerary for venturing up to Universal (we'll have a car) if we think it will be OK without FOTL. We can always use that day to enjoy the theming, ambience etc. after the lines start to build (around 11?), and save the rest of the headliner rides for when we have FOTL. Or we may do Universal on that extra non-FOTL day, as most people will be at IOA for HP.

 

[sand2270]

How funny, I was just wondering the same thing! We are also planning Oct at HRH after WDW, and I will have a 10 year old DS with me (and 9 & 7 yo DDs). We were going to do 2 nights, which will give us almost 2 full days (need to leave early the last morning, so we won't get 3 days). I don't think I'll do 3 nights at HRH, because our accomodation near WDW is free (parents' timeshare) and adding another day to the total length of the trip just isn't possible. But we were thinking of driving to Universal from the timeshare during a weekday, at park opening, to do what we can so that our onsite days aren't rushed. So we'd end up with 1 day without FOTL and 2 days with FOTL. I may leave that decision until I see what the crowds are like when Oct comes around (because of HP) i.e. I will leave room in the WDW itinerary for venturing up to Universal (we'll have a car) if we think it will be OK without FOTL. We can always use that day to enjoy the theming, ambience etc. after the lines start to build (around 11?), and save the rest of the headliner rides for when we have FOTL. Or we may do Universal on that extra non-FOTL day, as most people will be at IOA for HP.

That's funny...we should get our girls together if we are there at the same time LOL.

I am going to change it...I don't want to have to rush around especially with Harry Potter opening. Thanks for the input everyone.

 

[kirbsam]

if you are avoiding roller coasters you can easily do both parks in 2 days. more likely, you can do each park in about 4 hours.