I'm another one of the new visitors. My first and only trip to Florida was about 7 years ago with my parents. At that time, we chose to only do Disney. If anything was made abundantly clear when reading up in preparation for that trip, it's that there was no way we were going to see everything even just at Disney in the amount of time we had available. My parents aren't exactly energetic, so we figured it would be easier to concentrate on Disney World which was the main reason we'd decided to go to Orlando anyway.
While I was planning for that trip, though, I ran across info about the Universal area (which I'd heard next to nothing about up until that point) and thought it sounded like it would be fun. I decided that, if I ever went back, I'd take the time to see Universal.
So now, due to an excessive amount of accumulated vacation time and a new vacation policy requiring that all vacation time be used up by the end of the year, I've decided it's time for another trip to Orlando. I'm going alone this time, which I'm really looking forward to. I take a solo ski trip every winter, and the occasional business trip, so traveling alone isn't anything new for me. I enjoy the chance to get away from everything and just do my own thing for a while.
This time I'm doing 5 days at Disney and then 3 days at Universal (with one of those days likely being spent at Wet 'N' Wild, since I did the Disney waterparks on my last trip), staying on site at each place while I'm there. I'm doing Disney first because, from everything I've read, I think I'll have the most fun at Universal. It also sounds like it will be more relaxing with the free Express access as a resort guest, and that will be a nice way to end the vacation.
I figure, whenever I end up going back to Orlando for a third time, I'll try to fit in some of the other attractions in the area such as Sea World and Busch Gardens.
JibberJabberer