Terrified of timing to coincide with Diagon alley opening!

[tinkerpea]

Ok

 

[tinkerpea]

Ok

Ops! My phone sent before I was done sorry!

Anyways I'm really worried now, we have booked to stay at RPR from 17th till 24th June!

I've never given much thought to WWOHP as although we visited and loved it 2 years ago my boys was too young and not into the films,plus it wasn't busy and we had express pass and the GAC.. that changed when we came home from seeing the park!

So I've now been checking out videos of the opening days and I'm terrified!!! This was the only time of year we could come due to deployment, and I'm worried our universal trip will be ruined by the opening!

Seeing its in both parks and not just one due to Hogwarts express, I feel we Wont get to do hardly anything as getting into the park alone with be hard enough,

I knew it would be busy but wow.....
There was 12 hour lined to get in to Hogwarts lol and 2 hour lines just to get in the park!

 

[Metro West]

Anyways I'm really worried now, we have booked to stay at RPR from 17th till 24th June!

There is no definite opening date as of yet but I think it could be when you are visiting. Since you are staying onsite make sure you take advantage of all available perks while there. Do early entry whenever possible and the unlimited Express will make the other lines very short.

I don't think Diagon Alley will have quite the lines that WWoHP had but it will still be bad. Just wait and see and try to make the best of it.

 

[atricks]

This could potentially work in your favor. The only day lines were snaking around the park all the way to the movie theaters was the actual grand opening day, days after were really bad too, but just to get into Potter.

What's not usually mentioned is the days leading up to it (although I think media only stuff existed the day or two before grand opening) was the soft opening previews where they let *just* the onsite guests in first, and then maybe just a few regular guests that happened to be at the right place at the right time.

Two weeks before grand opening we hit one of those moments, and since they closed it up to guests pretty quickly it was actually not crowded at all in the preview.

I'd expect another huge line for Diagon Alley grand opening, particularly for Hogwarts Express journey from London to Hogsmeade. That will be a dream for many hard core Potter fans. It may not be as huge as the original Potter line, (or at least a lot more dispersed)

We did go to the potter grand opening too, but gave up trying to actually get into Hogsmeade. We did make it inside IOA though before they closed the gates. It looks like the people that actually made it in to the land, close enough to see the opening ceremony, before they started limiting the people got in around midnight to 1AM to wait. (Based on going up along the line asking people when they got there)

Universal's grand opening ceremonies are pretty impressive though, the Transformers opening was awesome.

So my guess with the perks you get from staying on site, the only day that could possibly be affected by it is the grand opening date itself. So if you have a chance to preview it, by all means do it then before it gets too crowded, and enjoy the rest of the park on the day of Grand Opening (IOA, although there may be a few taking the back trek on Hogwarts Express there)

 

[tinkerpea]

I was going to ask if people started Queing from really early in the morning!

My mum is coming too and to be honest I would not mind being in the Q at midnight as long as I was warm and had a pillow lol,
We could Q and then have my mum bring the kids down to join us in the morning just before the park opens! " could that work?"

I'm really hoping though that we get a soft opening so we can avoid HP and Diagon alley after it opens!