Universal - Oct 2018

[Chubster]

Hi All

My family and I have booked a 2 week holiday from 17th October. We are staying onsite in Cabana Bay, so we get the early park hours, Whilst we did some research on the crowd number from mid October onwards, and the levels seemed OK, the more I read about the popularity of HHN, the more I am starting to worry that the parks might be very busy during the day.

We won't be doing HHN so I am really just concerned about the crowd levels during daytime opening hours and the affect that would have on ride wait times. The crowd calendars we looked at had crowds as low to moderate (averaging 5 out of 10) for most of our dates (with the exception of a couple of days). This seems to be around the same as the levels we experienced when we visited in mid November in 2016 and if that was the case I would be happy with that, as we didn't experience excessive lines.

However I just can't shake the nagging feeling that maybe the calendars are wrong, and we are actually booked in at a really busy time, without express passes

Does anyone have experience of mid to late October day time crowd experience?

Thanks in advance

 

[macraven]

Weekends will be busy and the studios close at 5 for all

IOA will stay open for regular hours
If you have p2p tickets, you’re good to go

Monday and Tuesday do not have the hhn events

EE should have normal crowds and you will be fine

Some schools in Florida have their fall break for a few days during your time period

You will find days where crowds don’t exist

Saturday and Sunday if the weather is gorgeous will be when you see crowds in the parks

City walk crowds usually happen on the weekends

 

[Chubster]

Thanks Macraven

Yes, we do have P2P tickets thankfully.

I was worried that I would need to find the money for a one night stay in one of the Deluxe resorts, so we could get a 2 day fast pass, but by the sounds of it, we probably won't need to do that.

Thanks again

 

[schumigirl]

Mac has given you some excellent advice.

On HHN days Studios will fill up later in the afternoon when crowds come in for Stay and Scream.......if you were in the Studios on one of those days simply go over to IOA.......