I was hoping to read more of your report before I left for my own trip to the dark side on Tuesday. I guess I'll have to take peaks at it while on my trip instead. Can't wait to read about your trip!
Have a fantastic trip and safe travels today!!!
Oh, darn!
Let me try to cliffs note my tips for you.
If you have a AAA card, show it whenever you make a purchase at Universal/IoA or City Walk Stores and restaurants to get a 10% discount. In the WWoHP and maybe some other places, you needed to spend over $50 for your purchase. Learned that the hard way after one boy purchased $30 of goods in one shop, then the other made a similar purchase. Of stuff you could buy all together at the front of the park!!! Bundle your purchases!
Short Cut: Use Zax Bypass to avoid having to go through all of Seuss Landing to get to the WWoHP. As soon as you enter SL, there is an archway to the left of Green Eggs and Ham. Follow that path to the Lost Continent.
Have you preordered Photo Connect? Kind of like Photo pass. For a $40 pre-order you get any in park and ride photos added to your card. You also get a lanyard that was really useful and one 5x7 or 8x10 print. Look up "Universal Photo Connect" on Facebook to find them, but the name of the company is Amazing Photos, or something like that.
Line for Despicable Me was the longest one we encountered in all of Universal/IoA. If you can, do it early. We were always at that park in the afternoon. Transformers was also subject to frequent breakdowns, so catch that one while it is open.
Here's a link to my TOP TEN UNIVERSAL TIPs from my previous TR:
Top 10 Universal Tips
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