PBH - Children's Program

[rlduvall]

Okay, here's the deal. I am a 40 year old (at least on June 17th I will be) woman who loves to be a kid, ride rides, not carry fanny packs, hustle from ride to ride, etc., thus why I love Universal. We are taking my two older stepsons, 16 and 23, to Universal this July, staying at PBH. BUT, I am starting to get guilt feelings about leaving our "almost 5" year old at home with grandma and grandpa. Trust me, I firmly believe parents need time away from their children, but we are taking the other two, so it's not like it's a romantic get-away. I can take the little one for basically nothing because we are driving and I can get the Mastercard 5 for 4 deal. BUT, I want to hit some of the incredible wild rides that he can't even consider going on, with no slowing down, lol. Loews talks about their children programs, but I can't find any definitive information on them. Do they have a "camp" I could place him in for a couple of hours at a time during the day, because I would enjoy taking him to many of the children's attractions? (I'm not totally ruthless, lol) If so, does anyone know the cost? Am I a horrible mother or what? In all fairness, though, we did take him to WDW just last October so when he gets a little older he will go on the majority of the vacations. Or should I just let him stay home, out of the intense heat, getting spoiled rotten by grandma and grandpa. FYI: He has seen the Universal commercials and has told me he wants to go there and would probably be more than angry if he knew we went without him (ouch).

 

[Motherfletcher]

My parents left me with Grandma at 5 years old when the rest of the family went to Disneyland and I never did forgive them.

 

[anitad]

Have you considered doing the child hand off at the adult rides? It has been many years since we had to do this that I can't remember the catchy name that the theme parks have for this. I know at Disney is used to work as follows: Everyone in the party gets in line (and if you are at PBH, with FOTLA you won't have much of a line to speak of) and you tell the first attendant that you see, that 2 of you will be riding, with 2 waiting with the child, then the 2 that waited will ride when the first set finishes. It worked great when the children were small. We will be doing it again in July when my two very young nephews will be traveling with us.

 

[zaxmom]

If you do the babyswap, I think on some rides they let up to 3 people re-ride with the kid. You might be able to ride the ride twice! They do have a kids camp, but I think it may only be after 5:00 or 6:00 pm, though. He would probably love this as much as the parks. I'm thinking, you better take him. He will remember and guilt you about this. If he was 3 it would be a different story.

We are going in July when the parks are open late and are going to leave the kids in the camp one evening and ride some of the bigger rides and have dinner by ourselves. They are 6 and 4 and have been to Universal a few times and LOVE it.