Switching hotels every few nights?

[bigmama67]

Hi,

I'm in the beginning planning stages for hopefully going to Orlando in August of '10. We did Disney a few years ago and want to make this a separate trip. When we go our son will be 7 and our daughter will be 22 months.

While there we also plan to hit Sea World, Aquatica, and Busch (we will get in free to those parks because we'll have premium Sesame Place passports next year.)

I was thinking of spending 2 nights at RPR, 1 or two nights at Nick Hotel and the other 3-4 nights somewhere further south on I-Drive. Does this make sense? Has anyone hotel-hopped and is it a good plan? I was thinking we wouldn't need FOTL access for the days we're not at Universal, so we'll get the 7-day unlimited and just do whatever. Input welcome.

We're thinking of driving down from NJ so we'll have our own car, btw.

RPR looks SO NICE!!!

Thanks,
Rachel in NJ

 

[taliategan]

I would think two hotels should do, unless you want to try another one. RPR will give you three days of FOTL at the 2 Universal Parks for the 2 nights you stay there. There are hotels very close to SeaWorld - Renaissance, Hilton Garden Inn, Residence Inn and the two new ones which Marriott is opening in July. There are also a lot in the Convention Center Area which is only a 5 minute drive to SeaWorld. I would assume that you plan on driving to Busch Gardens for a day, since that it is the Tampa area.

 

[wen8jr]

If you did decide to stay longer at RPR, Sea World is very easy to get to from the Universal Resort area especially if you take Turkey Lake Road.

 

[ADisneyQueen]

Personally, I hate packing everything up to switch hotels. We do it sometimes, but it's hard with kids. I would only switch once if I were you. I would skip the Nick hotel, as it gets bad reviews on here.,

 

[cap'njack.]

Personally I wouldn't want to be swapping hotels that often with my kids in tow. Once would be more than enough for me

 

[jmpellet]

If the deal is right we definitely do it. Did it last summer. I think it was 13 nights between Horizons (4), Vistana Villages (4), Nick (3), and Tampa (2) for the Red Sox v. Rays game. I disagree that Nick is a waste - we probably would never go back but its worth doing once, just for the sliming. My kids were 7,6, and 4 at the time and loved it. We had the premier pass for Universal which includes FOTL after 4 pm so it worked for us. We also had annual passes for SeaWorld, Aquatica, Busch Gardens at the time. No Disney for this trip.