Universal am, IOA (HP) pm was fantastic!!!

[fa mulan]

Just want to report that we went today, and I had to RESTRAIN myself from racing my family right over to IOA and Harry Potter (for our first visit since it opened)... but followed the advice of someone here (I think) and went first to US. What great advice!!! We were in line before park opening, and headed straight to the Rockit 2x, then Mummy 2x, Simpsons 2x, MIB (would have ridden that one 2x too, but it broke so we got out of line), Twister, Animal Actors, Terminator, Hollywood Makeup, Disaster --- and ate lunch at Louie's-- all without waiting more than 10 (maybe 15 for something once, I can't remember...) minutes for anything. It was WONDROUS and the shows were great!!! We finally got to IOA at about 4:45 and ate an early dinner at Confisco's, and got to HP World at about 6:00. There we rode FJ 3X, Dragon Challenge 2X and Hippogriff 1x, plus had a quick Butterbeer and a stop into Honeydukes. Did all this without FOTL or ExpressPass. The only thing that was JAM packed was Ollivanders. So we will start out there tomorrow

HP World was AMAZING overall , and just unbelievable silhouetted by a full moon and wispy clouds.

I don't know if this was a light day, but US felt pretty empty in the a.m. I hope this helps another HP newbie Oh, and the bag advice is "spot on". Avoid bags and lockers if at all possible!!

 

[the Dark Marauder]

November is the new May. Not too busy, not too slow. Mornings are always slow at USF, since everyone is checking out WWOHP, especially onsite hotel guests.