WDW/UO trip - Should I drop Universal altogether?

[toonaspie]

My dad took a huge chunk of money out of my checking acct to go to my annual Roth IRA. The money he took out turned out to be more than I had anticipated as he wanted to put the maximum amt in. I am pretty upset about this because he pretty much took out all of the money that I was gonna use to take my friend to WDW and UO in May.

He said he would cover the trip for me but I may have to cut down on expenses. Originally it was to be a WDW and UO trip. Do you think I should drop UO and save it for maybe a possible trip in 2014? Because the original plan was to try and do UO in one day while staying at Disney. I am thinking maybe do WDW this year and then maybe next year do a short multiday trip to UO. What are your thoughts?

 

[Three cats]

Are there other areas of your trip that you can scale back on? Perhaps switching to a value if you were planning moderate, dropping the park hopper option on park tickets if you had it, that type of thing? Were you planning on renting a car? If not, you'd also have to factor in the cost of getting to and from Universal.


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[TimeforMe]

If you were only planning to go to Universal for one day and not stay onsite, I would probably say skip it this trip and do it next time. I think Universal is definitely worth doing, but you probably won't be able to do it justice in just one day and the added expense/aggravation getting to and from might not be worth it.

 

[ceecee]

I agree with the above poster. Skip it this year, it may not be worth the hassle of getting there and back, if you don't have a car. You didn't say how many times you've been to WDW, but with the four parks there is tons to do. Maybe you could check out and stay at a hotel near Univeral for a night, if you have a car. Are you paying for the entire trip? The bright side, you save on taxes with your ROTH and you have put money aside, very good planning.

 

[MinnieGirl33]

Well, if you are a Harry Potter fan, the HP expansion is targeted for completion in 2014 so waiting to do UO/IOA might not be a bad thing.

 

[toonaspie]

Originally the plan was to hit a few of the major attractions at UO (The Simpsons, Harry Potter). But given the advice on here and due to the fact that I will not have the money in time to do the Disney Spring Sale, I will have to do some even major scalebacks. So yes, I may take UO out of the equation altogether and hold it off for maybe next year as a minitrip.

It was already part of the original plan to stay in a Value Resort btw and use DME since we will have no car. I should've mentioned those things in my original post.

 

[jperrot1]

If you were only going to go for one day, skip it, add one extra day at wdw, and save on the tickets. Do Universal another year.

 

[Keli]

Under the circumstances you've described I would definitely cancel the universal day. Especially since you'll be able to do it next year.