How's the Jersey Week crowd?

[AllieV]

For the first year in a while, school here in NJ is out almost the entire week (tue-fri) for Teacher's Convention and some minor holiday, so we're coming down for Jersey Week to Universal Nov 6-11 staying on site. Prior to that (thur-sun) we're staying free-ish at the Hilton Parc Soleil on a junket. We'll hit up Seaworld then.

At Disney, Jersey Week usually coincides with some other events (cheerleading, espn). Is there anything going on at at Universal that week? How is the crowd there usually?

We'll have express pass with the hotel, but do we need to get up early and use the early admission, too?

thanks.

 

[macraven]

That time period in the past has been a decent time to go
No huge crowds

Do EE once and explore potterville without large crowds
You can take picture in that section that won't include every Tom, Dick and Harry during that time period

 

[snoopboop]

That's usually the timeframe of my Universal trips, and though most years have been fairly quiet in terms of crowds, last year was quite busy. In fact, on the water taxi one day we chatted with a family from New Jersey who explained that they thought that Jersey Week might have been a contributing factor in the increased crowds! It was definitely still doable, but it was notably busier than the corresponding week in previous years.