New Year's Week...

[diskids2]

Hi All!

We will be at Universal from 12-27 through 1-2. The last two years, we were at WDW during that week, so I already know it's crazy busy, etc and so on.

My question is what can I do to help ease the crowd burden. We are staying on-site at RPR, so we have Express pass. We are in a club level room, so I can avoid restaurants at breakfast. We are early risers, so getting to the parks and maximizing early entry on one or two days is not an issue. I've made my reservation at Emeril's for NYE through Opentable (yes, I was surprised it went out that far). I will make as many opentable or through the Universal food line, reservations as I can for dinner. After Emeril's we will take advantage of whatever RPR is doing for NYE to avoid traveling around. If we want to do a movie, I'll by the tickets ahead of time that week. Planning ahead is not an issue for us.

I just have to add that we have been to Universal twice before during the summer and I did like the fact that I didn't have to preplan as much as I do at WDW, but I know that would be foolish for me to consider for this week!

Anything else anyone can think of? Anything I am missing in my thought process?

 

[pa. dad]

We did our trip last year over new years- we left 12-28 and came home 1-5-16.

Universal does have a lot more single rider lines than Disney does so you might save some time at some of the rides that don;t have express pass by doing the single rider line.

If you can, try to travel lightly at Universal as many of the attractions have lockers and they can be a pain and a drain on time.

And if theweather is anything like the weather we saw, you'll need to pack a lot of clothes. The first few days, inc. the Universal days, were very hot for us with temps in the upper 80s. Then it rained all day Sunday and we got to use the raingear. Then after the rains, the next few days were much cooler with temps only hitting the mid 60s.

 

[diskids2]

We were at WDW last year and it was hot! Like summer weather....we must have left before the rains though. Thanks for the tips!