Need Advice on How to Best Do WWOHP

[maybeecatlady]

Not yet sure exactly what day we will be going to Universal but our trip is from June 14 thru 21. Want to know the best way to do WWOHP. The things we really want to do are FJ, Ollivander's, and Flight of the Hippogriff. My daughter is tall enough to ride Hippogriff but not FJ. Should we still do FJ first with child swap or should we do Hippogriff first since we all can ride? Or should we go to Ollivander's first? We are staying offsite so will not have early entry. Any advice is appreciated!

 

[Jazzabelle508]

If you and your party don't mind splitting up then I HIGHLY reccomend doing the single riders line for forrbidden journey. I seriously saves sooooooooo much time! I was able to ride that ride 7 times total on a fairly busy day. I wuld reccomend going through the regular line once since single riders goes around the majority of the ride. The gift shop also has a special entrance for those who just want to shop. In the gift shop there is a passage way for people to get to the lockers after they ride the ride. if you cut through the locker room you can just hop into the line from the point that is beyond the locker room. That way you save 30-40 minutes outside and you get to see everything inside the castle (which lets face it is WAYYYY more intersting than the stuff outside the castle. The staff at universal does not do a good job of managing there lines (at least they didn't when I was there) so yoou could easily take that short cut. I also am going to reccommend just putting everything you absolutely need in you pockets when you go to the WWOHP. The locker rooms are very unpleasant if you actually have to stand around and wait for a locker. That will make traveling that day alot easier on you. I also am going to reccomend buying souveniers at the airport gift shop. Everything that you could take home is sold in the Universal shop at MCO. The aslo tend to have more stuff in stock. Also, when you want to get Butterber GO TO THREE BROOMSTICKS. Every trip blog I read before the trip told people just to go to the carts and avoid three broomsticks due to crowd control. I think everyone must have read that offical advice because Three broomsticks had little to no wait to get your food while the carts were like a half hour wait just for butterbeer. Even hogs head had a fairly long wait. I was amazed at how empty it was so close to lunch time. The service here was very good and organized as well, I was extremely impressed. I found three broomsticks the perfect spot to just take a break. My last piece of advice is to get the FROZEN BUTTER BEER!!!! I know it seems less harry pottery but it was sooooooo much better than the regular butter beer. i also highly reccomend the cauldron cakes. That was seriously one of the best treats I have had in a long time. I LOVE that stuff. With all that being said hope you enjoy everything there is to enjoy about Harry Potter Land!!!!!!