Considering a day at universal, but have a couple of questions.

[clh2]

Will be doing a couple of park days before a Disney Cruise. In the parks, there will be: 2 grandmas, 1 grandpa, 2 parents, and 3 boys, 6, 4, and 2.

On our first full day in Orlando, we will be hanging at the hotel pool, (Coronado Springs), and then the MNSSHP, and then we have 2 park days. The mom/dad want to do one day at Universal. This doesn’t appeal to me much at all. So I’ve offered to hang back at the hotel with the 2 year old, figuring there won’t be much that he can do (compared to the 4 and 6 year old).

I am A-ok not going to universal. As a matter of fact, I don’t really have any interest in Universal at all.

So, I’m curious, if the mom and dad want all 3 kids at the park, is there even much a 2 year old can do? He is keenly aware that the older brothers do more than he can do, Ie going over to Grandma’s etc, and generally gets upset when he isn’t on the A-list.

Any thoughts on this one way or the other would be appreciated. Thank you!

 

[HopperFan]

Will be doing a couple of park days before a Disney Cruise. In the parks, there will be: 2 grandmas, 1 grandpa, 2 parents, and 3 boys, 6, 4, and 2.

On our first full day in Orlando, we will be hanging at the hotel pool, (Coronado Springs), and then the MNSSHP, and then we have 2 park days. The mom/dad want to do one day at Universal. This doesn’t appeal to me much at all. So I’ve offered to hang back at the hotel with the 2 year old, figuring there won’t be much that he can do (compared to the 4 and 6 year old).

I am A-ok not going to universal. As a matter of fact, I don’t really have any interest in Universal at all.

So, I’m curious, if the mom and dad want all 3 kids at the park, is there even much a 2 year old can do? He is keenly aware that the older brothers do more than he can do, Ie going over to Grandma’s etc, and generally gets upset when he isn’t on the A-list.

Any thoughts on this one way or the other would be appreciated. Thank you!

We didn't go until our youngest was around 10 so that everyone could and would ride. Universal Parks are really not geared for young children overall.

First it matters which park they are looking to go to, and unless you get a hopper you can not ride Hogwart's Express. I think you should look over the Ride Height Requirements to see how many rides your kids can go on to decide if it is worth it for them to go.

https://www.universalorlando.com/we...height-requirements#universal-studios-florida

We did go to EPIC and our first thought was this park is not for young kids at all. Even Yoshi, which is as lame as you can get, requires 34" (and that is with an adult).

 

[clh2]

We didn't go until our youngest was around 10 so that everyone could and would ride. Universal Parks are really not geared for young children overall.

First it matters which park they are looking to go to, and unless you get a hopper you can not ride Hogwart's Express. I think you should look over the Ride Height Requirements to see how many rides your kids can go on to decide if it is worth it for them to go.

https://www.universalorlando.com/we...height-requirements#universal-studios-florida

We did go to EPIC and our first thought was this park is not for young kids at all. Even Yoshi, which is as lame as you can get, requires 34" (and that is with an adult).

Thank you HopperFan…I’m going to send this link to my daughter/son-inlaw. In general, this supports my decision to stay back at the hotel with the 2 year old. But worse, the 4 year old is still not 40” tall, and if he isn’t 40 by the trip, that will be a day of temper tantrums if the 6 year old is continually riding and he is not.

I wonder if a better option is for my daughter/son-in-law to go to one of the Universal Halloween parties, ie have whole group do a Disney day, and then all 3 grandparents and 3 grandsons enjoy an evening at the hotel, while daughter/SIL go to universal.

The best part of this, the decision is not mine to make…I just need to know which tickets to purchase for which tickets/parks.

 

[Skippyboo]

I wonder if a better option is for my daughter/son-in-law to go to one of the Universal Halloween parties

Universal doesn’t have Halloween parties. They have Halloween Horror Nights so haunted mazes and scare zones. Definitely not kid friendly.

Studios side has the Dreamworks kid zone while IoA has Seuss Landing. Not a lot little kids rides plus 3 kids will make it harder to manage since you have odd numbers. If the 4 year old isn’t tall enough for some rides they can do rider swap with 4 yr old staying with a parent as other parent takes oldest one and then parents swap.

 

[clh2]

Universal doesn’t have Halloween parties. They have Halloween Horror Nights so haunted mazes and scare zones. Definitely not kid friendly.

Studios side has the Dreamworks kid zone while IoA has Seuss Landing. Not a lot little kids rides plus 3 kids will make it harder to manage since you have odd numbers. If the 4 year old isn’t tall enough for some rides they can do rider swap with 4 yr old staying with a parent as other parent takes oldest one and then parents swap.

Again, the final decision on which parks/which days/whose going when/where is our daughter’s to make. The park days were an add-on to the cruise we are going on.

But…once the 4 year old will quickly figure out the rider swap screws him out of riding-that will be a horrible day for him, in my opinion! Even worse with the 2 year old.

 

[Mommb]

If you all go to Universal, some of the adults could take the 2 year old and 4 year old to the kid-oriented areas (Dreamworks and Minions in Studios, Seuss Landing and parts of Jurassic Park in Islands of Adventure) while the other adults and 6 year old do the areas with more intense rides. That will make it less obvious which rides the 4 year old can’t do.

That said, most of the areas rely on intellectual property that even the 6 year old is unlikely to be familiar with. The Harry Potter areas are super cool to those familiar with the books or movies, but to those who aren’t, they make less sense. I like the idea of sending the parents to Universal one night, if they want to do Halloween Horror night.