Well, there is alot at either park that my 3 yr old loved.
At Universal, he was absolutely thrilled to be able to hold the hands of Tommy, Chuckie from Rugrats, Eliza and Donny from Wild thornberrys, Curious George, his favorite "SpongeBob" and he really loved meeting Crash Bandicoot because he plays that game on our playstation all the time. He rode on Jaws and ET but that was about all the rides. He was scared of that big green slime machine in front of Nick studios. We tried to see Barney but kept missing him. Universal has a big kids area too, I think Woody woodpecker zone? but we did not go to that.
At IOA, Suess Island is wonderful, one fish, two fish, and the carosuessel are great. There is a play area with water that he really liked too. He loved the fountain last year when the man had a deep voice like the wizard fromwizard of oz. He was scared this year, the fountains voice sounded like a chipmunk.
Not to mention meeting Spiderman, and all the other marvel characters.
It really would be a hard call for me which one to take him to. Could you do both parks?
We ate at Citywalk for most of our meals, went out of park to Fridays and Crackerbarrel a couple of times which were right across from the entrance, almost.
He ate the same thing no matter where we went - PIZZA, luckily most restaurants have that on their kiddie menus.
Either way you go, he will have a wonderful time.......
You have to go through citywalk to get into either park.
Have a great time!
