Universal Two Parks VIP Tour

[Rich M]

We changed our flight to take a red eye from the west coast so that we can go to the Universal and IOA for our arrival day (12/5) and we are going to EPIC on Saturday. We decided to do the two park VIP tour on 12/5. Please provide any tips or stuff we should know about for the VIP tour. Our flight arrives at 6AM and our tour is at 10:30. We are staying a Helios the 5th so we will plan to drop our bags off since I highly doubt our room will be ready and have them store them for us. There is 5 adults and 1 child (9) in our group. Any and all insights are greatly appreciated.

 

[Minnie1222]

I'm curious on why you still need the VIP tour at UO/IOA since both Velocicoaster and Hagrid's have been included with Express. You would get unlimited express passes to UO/IOA if you switch your hotel from Helios to Hard Rock, Portofino, or Royal Pacific.

I would get VIP or EP at Epic.

 

[Rich M]

We did VIP at UO/IOA and have EP for EPIC. We wanted Helios for the entrance to EPIC and didn't want to change hotels. We booked VIP not really knowing about the EP for the other two parks and also we liked the idea of having reserved sitting for shows and stuff. We saw that it also said that food is included on some VIP tours but couldn't find which ones actually included it. We thought overall VIP would be a good experience. We are also doing a VIP tour for Disney on the 11th.

 

[MamaKate]

We did VIP at UO/IOA and have EP for EPIC. We wanted Helios for the entrance to EPIC and didn't want to change hotels. We booked VIP not really knowing about the EP for the other two parks and also we liked the idea of having reserved sitting for shows and stuff. We saw that it also said that food is included on some VIP tours but couldn't find which ones actually included it. We thought overall VIP would be a good experience. We are also doing a VIP tour for Disney on the 11th.

If you are doing the 2-park tour it will include breakfast and lunch for the non-private tour and breakfast, lunch, and dinner vouchers for the private tour.