Just Back Loved the HRH no lines in parks

[Claudine]

Just got back 9:00 last night. Did 5 days at HIFS and 3 in HRH. We loved the Hard Rock. I had seen the complaints on this board and we have none. The rooms were great we had 2 adjoining and the beds were very comfortable. As far as housekeeping goes they were knocking on our doors between 9- 9:30 both mornings as we were leaving to clean our rooms. The Bell man told us the hotel was about 50% full but I doubt that . The parks were EMPTY. We went on MIB 4 times half the cars going through were empty. We never used FOTL because there were NEVER lines. Once in Back to the future at 3:00 in the afternoon it said 10 minutes and I showed the card to get to the front but that was it. Alot of the food and merchandise carts were closed and we did not get to see the stunt or Animal planet shows they were only done 2 or 3 time during the day and we were seeing something else. even terminator and nickelodeon were only shown at certain times throughout the day.
It was our first time at IOA and We loved the Hulk and spiderman. The kids loved seeing the Grinch and Seuss landing - again no lines we went on cat in the hat about 4 times my daughter loved it - for those with little ones you can ask them to turn off the spin on the car so they can ride without being flung around. My 2 yr old bumpd her head even though I was holding on to her the next time they turned it off and she enjoyed it much better.
We ate at Nascar and the Sunset Grill for dinner and hard Rock Cafe for lunch they were almost empty. It was kind of strange in the sunset grill there were only 2 other tables besides ours in the entire restaurant at 6:30. The food and service was good.
Sorry so long I have received some great info from these boards and just wanted to contribute back.

 

[pokeysmom]

i'm so excited we will be there for weeks from today and we are staying at hrh. thank you for saying that everything went well there i was a little concerned and because of being at christmas the cost of the room was at a premium, but we wanted fotl so we thought it would be worth it.

 

[goofyfordisney]

I'm glad you had such a great trip! We were there the week before/during Thanksgiving and had a blast too! We also loved HRH!

We did need our FOTL passes while we were there, but it wasn't too crowded--WDW was another story! We were so spoiled with the FOTL pass--it was hard to wait in some of those lines at WDW!

Thanks for sharing!

 

[Claudine]

We did disney first for just that reason we waited on lines first knowing we would be unhappy if we were using FOTL and then had to wait but we did not need it. We were kind of hoping to. Not to be mean but it would have been nice to not have to wait when there was a line - after all that was one of the things I was paying for. But no complaining here no lines is better than real long ones for everyone else.