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#31 |
Grand Villa
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Edmonton
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![]() Personally, I think the key to enjoying a trip to Universal is to avoid making comparisons to Disney. It’s something I have trouble doing.
We absolutely LOVE the Harry Potter areas. I mean - they are truly immersive, top notch, beautifully created and so much fun. The rest of Universal though, I kept inadvertently comparing to Disney. So many attractions seem to want to be like Disney (for example, their plume ride) but when compared to the Disney equivalent (ie Splash Mountain) it comes across as very substandard. Ditto for their shows, jerky 4D attractions, and rides. It’s like Harry Potter world was created by an entirely different company (one as good, if not better, than Disney). We’ve been twice with the kids now; once when they were around 9/10 years old and once when they were 15/16 years old. We stayed at the Portofino Bay so had the Front of the Line passes and extra time at Harry Potter. Each time, the kids loved HP but then wanted to return to Disney (as each time we also had DVC bookings and Disney passes). That’s despite the fact that the kids have already done Disney so much that I would have expected them to prefer staying with something different. But again - it’s the comparison. If Universal were in Canada and nowhere near Disney, maybe we wouldn’t have compared and enjoyed it more as a result.
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Bay Area, CA
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#33 |
Grand Villa
Join Date: Nov 2007
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![]() Disney has always been more expensive than Universal. I’m still sitting on tickets from US 12 years ago, we are not park people, but DVC is our vacation home.
That’s why we purchased DVC. DVC will save us money on a vacation that is rarely discounted. US offers good deals most times of the year as do most other attractions and cruise lines. DVC is in proportion with other lodging, the ticket prices etc are not. DVC made Disney vacations more affordable for my family, discounted cash will always work for everywhere else. To me it’s not an either/or, it’s a do what you like and can afford. |
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Southern PA
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Arkansas
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#37 |
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: biloxi ms
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![]() we love universal in my family, but we've never been to uni without going to disney. usually 4 days at uni 7 at dis. it helps us being dvc for rooms at dis. we always stay at hrh at uni and that is a little pricey, but location for us is worth it. there is still an off season at uni and our worry is that one day soon it will always be as crowded as disney, so for now we enjoy it every chance we get. sorta like sometimes i like a coke, sometimes a dr pepper, sometimes moonshine. dis and uni, same but different.
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: New Jersey
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Touringplans.com has reduced crowd levels for all of WDW and for each park at least twice in the last 3 months for our upcoming August trip. For reasons we can only guess at since we don't have access to date, it may well be that people aren't going to Disney in droves, at least this summer. Dirk |
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: OH
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![]() "I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent!"
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Arkansas
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I’m tired and I’m bored and I’ve kinks in my legs. From sitting. Just sitting here day after day. It’s work! How I hate it! I’d much rather play! I’d take a vacation. Fly off for a rest if I could find someone to sit on my nest. If I could find someone, I’d fly away. Free! Then Horton the elephant passed by her tree...”
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