First trip to US/IOA 4/8 -4/15

[ssdowning]

My wife, I, and 4 kids girls 13, 10,8 and boy 6 are gonna be in orlando 4/8-4/15. 4/9-4/14 will be open for park days. We are buying 4 day passes for Universal and will do magic kingdom on Thurs 4/13. It is a bad week based on crowd calendars. We are definitely doing both parks for Harry Potter on Sunday 4/9. Monday and tues 4/10-11 are listed as a level 10 for crowds. level 9 for sunday wed and Fri. We are thinking with four days of passes, we will do two full days with plenty of Harry Potter and whatever else we can squeeze in. My younger two still like younger stuff and we figure the other two days we can do the play areas and younger geared rides. May split up so older ones can do bigger thrills. We will do some child swapping on rides. Would love any advise. We are staying offsite in a condo about 15 min away from US. We are very comfortable planning for our disney MK day but are pretty clueless for Universal/IOA. We appreciate any advised/ suggested iteneraries or suggested sites. I do have the touring plans membership for both disney and US.

Thanks,
Clark

 

[damo]

Tough week! The best times of day are morning and evening. Try to get to the park before opening to get the main things done. The play areas never seem to get too busy, so perhaps plan those for the afternoon, along with lunch and then rides again in the evening.

 

[julie2750]

We just went this Monday and Tuesday. Monday was a 10 crowd and Tuesday an 8. It was really not bad with the Express passes. We did both Harry Potter rides early in the morning and used Express for anything else.