New to Universal, in 1 day and weather to stay on site?

[disneyfan2]

So i need help on how much time to give to Universal. We have 2 families going down and it will be 5 days where we hoped would spend 4 days in disney and 1 in Universal.

Now my family has done all in Disney in previous trips but our first time in Universal.. I would like to do Universal for my youngest, but my older DD wants to do the rides in IOA? We are not big HP fans but the other family i am with are huge HP fans.. It will also be there first and last time to Disney, so that is why we wanted to devote 4 days there.

So here is question 1, can we do both parks in 1 day? I know we won't see everything, but at least to get some of the key things in each park. or should we just do IOA & HP??? Would there be rides for younger kids ie 7yrs old that don't like the scary rides.

OR should we cut Dsieny to 3 days and and do 2 days in Disney, would we be best to then spend one night at Universal to stay on site?

Any suggestions is appreciated.

 

[damo]

When are you going? In low season you will be able to get more done and it won't matter if you stay onsite or not. I would do three days Disney and 2 days Universal.