Monykalyn
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Since this is a review of a party and not a trip report really-will try to keep it short and sweet.
Background:
Family of 4 traveling Christmas 2018 from SWMO. Kind of a last minute planned trip (ie less than 6 months out LOL). My husbands oldest daughter invited us to spend Christmas with them in Jacksonville, and since we had purchased premier AP to Universal, we added on days in Orlando.
We stayed offsite at Hyatt House across from Universal in a 1 bedroom suite (loved this place) Dec 26-30.
We knew crowds would be crazy, so as we were driving down to Florida I was browsing the sites and saw the Christmas dessert offering. We have the AP with the Express after 4, so we were planning mostly later days anyway.
I didn't pull the trigger until 12/24 for the 12/27 party. $49.99 each, plus tax, no AP discount.
For the first part-parade viewing area-was outside the theater where the Hollywood makeup show was.
It was uncrowded and offered good viewing as the parade came out of the gates.
The performers would come right up to our roped off sections.
While waiting for the parade to start we had a couple "private" character meet and greets
Plus drinks: soda, water, coffee, tea, hot chocolate (my pics are blurry) but it was as much as you wanted. We all enjoyed the beverages. After the parade we had some time until our reserved area dessert party for the Cinematic Spectacular showing.
We did a few more rides and then wandered into the dessert party area.
Just one side example
so cute! and good too
Plenty of tables and good view of the show
There were TM's replenishing drinks (soda, sparkling wine for over 21) and taking pictures. I know this was dark but it is more to show the table than us (he took one with a flash too that is much better lol)
There was plenty of room for everyone to fully stretch out and watch the show unobstructed.
Was it worth it? For us yes. It was nice to have reserved areas for parade and evening show with crazy crowds. My two complaints: for the parade viewing-we caught the parade another night, from the park area by the Macy's building (next to Mummy) and it snows there! Our party night it was also too windy for the balloons (why we tried to catch some of it another night). We never felt rushed out of the viewing area after the show, and indeed-the kids took full advantage in eating more! I felt the price was reasonable. Number two-would be nice to add some savory items even if fruit and cheese. For comparison we have done Star wars dessert party (back during SWW) and a terrace dessert party at MK on Dec 30th. I'm not a huge fan of dessert parties but with high crowds it is nice to have space!
Background:
Family of 4 traveling Christmas 2018 from SWMO. Kind of a last minute planned trip (ie less than 6 months out LOL). My husbands oldest daughter invited us to spend Christmas with them in Jacksonville, and since we had purchased premier AP to Universal, we added on days in Orlando.
We stayed offsite at Hyatt House across from Universal in a 1 bedroom suite (loved this place) Dec 26-30.
We knew crowds would be crazy, so as we were driving down to Florida I was browsing the sites and saw the Christmas dessert offering. We have the AP with the Express after 4, so we were planning mostly later days anyway.
I didn't pull the trigger until 12/24 for the 12/27 party. $49.99 each, plus tax, no AP discount.
For the first part-parade viewing area-was outside the theater where the Hollywood makeup show was.
It was uncrowded and offered good viewing as the parade came out of the gates.
The performers would come right up to our roped off sections.
While waiting for the parade to start we had a couple "private" character meet and greets
Plus drinks: soda, water, coffee, tea, hot chocolate (my pics are blurry) but it was as much as you wanted. We all enjoyed the beverages. After the parade we had some time until our reserved area dessert party for the Cinematic Spectacular showing.
We did a few more rides and then wandered into the dessert party area.
Just one side example so cute! and good tooPlenty of tables and good view of the show
There were TM's replenishing drinks (soda, sparkling wine for over 21) and taking pictures. I know this was dark but it is more to show the table than us (he took one with a flash too that is much better lol)
There was plenty of room for everyone to fully stretch out and watch the show unobstructed.
Was it worth it? For us yes. It was nice to have reserved areas for parade and evening show with crazy crowds. My two complaints: for the parade viewing-we caught the parade another night, from the park area by the Macy's building (next to Mummy) and it snows there! Our party night it was also too windy for the balloons (why we tried to catch some of it another night). We never felt rushed out of the viewing area after the show, and indeed-the kids took full advantage in eating more! I felt the price was reasonable. Number two-would be nice to add some savory items even if fruit and cheese. For comparison we have done Star wars dessert party (back during SWW) and a terrace dessert party at MK on Dec 30th. I'm not a huge fan of dessert parties but with high crowds it is nice to have space!
