Epic Universe VIP experience info

[CAPSLOCK]

Hiccup's Wing Gliders is the roller coaster, and it is included in Express.
The vast majority of people would agree it's "the good one," yes.

 

[shosh1530]

Wanted to update this thread that we ended up cancelling our shared VIP tour for our visit to Epic on May 30. It was easy to do via phone up to 48 hours in advance. I just couldn't stomach the high cost ($2000 for 3 people) for only 4 hours of tour time.

We used that money instead to book at an Express hotel for one night and have Express Unlimited at the other two parks for our two days visiting USF and IOA. We could have also bought the Express pass on our Epic morning as I noticed all week that they were selling them day of (that would have been $900 for 3 people) each day that week. But in the end we decided to not even do that as it was a very rainy day and I was worried it would be a bit waste of money.

In the end we were able to ride everything we wanted over the course of being at the park from 8:30 am-10 pm. We had to walk and back track a lot because different rides were closed at different points. We managed Curse of the Werewolf and Stardust during the last 30 minutes of early entry and had only 20 minute wait for Monsters at opening time. Wait times were very high for things like BatM and MarioKart at opening but went down significantly in the evening. We enjoyed both shows in afternoon when many things were down in the storm.

All in all we had a great day. I'm sure we would have enjoyed the VIP experience, but in the end I'm happy that we saved on the cost.

 

[ofcabbagesandkings]

We've booked one day of the non-private VIP for Christmas week. I think for my mom it will be a bit of a waste of money because I don't think she'll want to go on Monsters Unchained, Stardust Racers, or Werewolf Curse, but I do think she'll be fine on Minecart, the dragon coaster and Mario Kart. And in my view, knocking all the rides out for my kids in the early part of the day means that we'll have the afternoon and evening to watch shows, shop, enjoy the atmosphere and dining, play the games in Nintendo Land and do wand spots in the new HP land. But the main reason I booked it was as insurance for Ministry. Without VQ or EP available for that ride, I can't imagine how long the waits will be during the holidays. We could get extremely unlucky and the ride could go down for the whole day, but I'm hopeful that in six months they'll have worked out the issues that have caused so much downtime. Yes it's a lot of money, but so are the tickets and hotels this year. In the past we've gotten the buy 2, get 3 days free ticket packages and the early saver rates on the hotels, but those days seem to be gone with the new gate.

For those who have gone, does the merchandise discount include UO gift cards? I was hoping to buy a few of those early in the trip and then use them to pay for dining/souvenirs.