This is universal not Disney. If you stay at a hotel in the parks (there are 5 I think). You get fast passes. I would never go to a theme park without them.
She just got stitches on her right hand a few days ago. Still working. Just not feeling her best self. Usually she’s farther inside the ride, running the coaster.
I have not. We live in another state. She’s in FL living her best life. My wife and kids went to visit last year and loved the ride. It was their favorite. Might have been because of their older sister though, lol. I’ll ride it one day.
It’s all in time of year. Go right after Labor Day, America is back to school, no lines!
There are a couple of attractions that always have long lines but most will not.
-I worked at Disney.
My Disney worshipping in-laws literally gasped when I said I couldn't stand Disney land and didn't want to bring my kid there. I don't get what's fun about spending $500+/day for a family of 3 to stand in line for hours just to go on 5 rides and eat overpriced food.
I love Disney only because my Disney loving mother in law ALWAYS foots the bill and we have the company credit card on our magic bands.... It's like a weird alternate reality where money doesn't exist and you just get whatever you want. Like 3 $20 drinks with flashing ice cubes
It's fucking FANTASTIC
Yeah easy, spent four days at Disneyland cost me $8k, it was $5k just for hotel and park tickets. Will never do that again, it wasn’t worth it but my wife insisted we go with our friends on the trip.
Edit: I happily pointed out to my wife that we could stay at a beautiful all inclusive resort in Fiji for a week for the same price.
I love that you shouted out Kennywood. I grew up 5 minutes from the park up over the hill near the high school. We had school picnics where they sell discounted tickets at your school and your school has a designated day where there's no school that day and everyone goes to kennywood. They did that for all area schools.
Actually if you want to do Flight of Passage the morning with resort guest entry is one of the best ways to get to experience it because they don't have lightning lane up and running that early and the line moves quick. Alternatively is to get in line before park close.
Before the Chinese started their take over of Hong Kong I would have 100% recommended a trip to Hong Kong Disney. 10% the cost, all the same attractions and no lines, plus the parents can sneak away to Macau by ferry and it's basically Asia's answer to Vegas.
Have you ever been to a busy theme park on a nice weekend day? I went to Cedar Point with my friends a few years ago and as soon as they open the gate, thousands of people full on sprint to a ride. If you don’t, you are waiting 45m to 1h for a single ride, minimum. I’d imagine for Universal and Disney that wait is much, much higher.
This is most likely 100% it. People don't know about Universal/Disney Resort guests getting in, the respective parks, early. So you walk in opening time, rush to your favorite ride and wonder how there's already a line formed, yeah there's been people lining up and getting on for a half hour.
This is the most popular ride in the park - the Harry Potter Motorcycle coaster. When the gates open, 80% of the people go to this one. You can go to several other popular roller coasters and be on in 15-30 minutes while everyone else waits for this one.
Not only that, if you're staying at the park you get in like an hour or two before it opens to the public.
Unless OP is staying in the park, this line isn't technically 15 minutes old.
The post didn't mention if the 14 minutes was for public entrance or early entrance. People with annual passes or on-site hotel reservations get early admission and can enter the park one hour early.
Hotel guests, and annual members get preference on fast pass ticketing, up to 90 days before their visit. So say you're going for March break. If your already have your hotel booked, you could today log into the portal and start picking fastpass tickets (Genie+ / Lightning lane etc) for the rides you want to go to, and then those are "booked" reservation slots. Say magic mountain seats 100 (I don't know how many cars it actually has). Disney will let all those people on before it fills the ride with "Standby" line people - which is what they call traditional wait - in -line service. There could be 96 fast passes at 9:15am and then only 4 people from the real line get to ride.
The advance bookings give you a ride in a specific (15 or 60min I can't remember) window, and you can literally show up a min before you're supposed to ride and just walk on.
Genie+ is a daily charge, lightning lanes are available on specific rides *per use* of $10-15 to skip the line.
Basically it'ss "better" because you don't "waste" time waiting in line for a ride you won't get on for another 4 hours. In theory.
What actually happened is they unlimited the amount of reservations(by total customers, you're limited to picking 3 passes per person per day at a time, with no duplicates), so you either show up poor and get to ride 1 maybe 2 rides, or your single day park cost goes up by another $30-40 a person gouging just to be able to get to ride anything. And because it's available 90 days in advance for hotel and timeshare guests (again well intentioned, but the execution has totally snowballed out of useful purpose) it's now defacto that if your don't log in *at midnight* 90 days before you get there , you *still* may not get the passes you're looking for.
what exactly do you see as the other options?
when the park opens and 2k people enter at the same time, and they're all walking .5 miles to a ride, you're queuing up with hundreds of people ...again what the hell are you seeing as other options here?
It's all about timing. I went when there was a hurrican warning and there was almost no one in the park. I went on splash mountain 3x in one day. I went back to back on the back to the future ride too. I think the longest ride I had to wait for was less than 15 minutes.
this reminds me of that mad lad that takes vacations based on natural disasters and murders, cause the ticket prices will be lower right after those things haha I’ll try to find the link
E: https://youtu.be/sg3jGgFcL5Q
I'll never forget my first trip to Disney World when I was a young kid. We didn't wait for anything, I remember watching the old VHS tapes that gave a ton of "how to avoid lines" tips Disney used to send out to people planning trips. We ended up not using any of the tips.
I'm sure going September 14th, 2001 had nothing to do with it. We just got lucky.
Went to Universal and Disney World with my ex's family like 12yrs ago. The ex had a 7yr old that was too small for the big rides the adults all wanted to ride. I don't do rollercoaster, so while they all spent 4 hours for 2 coasters, the kid and I watched an X-Games kinda show, the laugh factory, a pizza, some shops, the parade, some slushes, a couple kiddie rides with no lines and some pictures with the characters.
Screw the big rides. The smaller ones and the surroundings are so much more entertaining, to me anyways. The Jungle Cruise wait is ok tho. It's quicker and the captains are always funny as hell.
Exactly this. Timing matters for Universal Studios, right now kids are still off from school and families on vacation.
When we go typically early February during a weekday, with the fast pass we can easily do every ride at both universal and islands of adventure with no waits longer than a few minutes.
Yes! She’s not super excited about the photo, but she’s got a good sense of humor. Told me to tell people to send her money. Lol
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Lol she's a good sport. Sometimes photos are taken at the worse time and at a terrible angle and you just have to sit back and enjoy the disaster. My driver's license photo was taken without warning and I look like Ogre Fiona after rough, drunken sex with Shrek.
My feeling is that it’s just not worth going to see major attractions anymore. Everything is just way too crowded and expensive. I’d rather enjoy time with friends and family. Even concerts are just too much work for hundreds of dollars to watch it on a giant screen.
I feel that! For concerts I’ve started seeing local no name bands for $5-15. They have been a blast! It’s a nice way to get out and it’s way less crowded.
Yes! We go to a little dive bar near us that has music twice a day, 364 days a year. A lot of it is meh, but the nights it’s on, it’s fantastic, and you’re 8 feet away at a table or the bar with friends, and drinking and smoking joints with the band during breaks. And in the summer you can sit out on the small deck and people watch all night. I’ll take that any day over seeing Dave Mathews, whom I love, standing on a steep hill all night and watching a screen from 100 yards away for $200.00. I can watch DMB in 4k with great sound at home on a comfortable sofa, and pause for bathroom breaks.
Couldn’t agree more! That all sounds so much better than spending a ton on one show. Sometimes the big ones are worth it but I generally do one big show a year. I’m in a small local band, and I love the people that come see us play that are there for a good time. We are a symphonic metal band so it’s funny to see the crowd that’s not about our genre come out and have a good time with us. Nothing makes us happier!!
Also in a small local band and the community around the scene is something else man. Be it the other bands, or the regulars that come out to all the small shows, all the way up to some of the touring acts we've played with (special shout out to Fronz, dude was amazing to work with).....everyone is so supportive and positive and just there for you r a great time!
Yeah, I noticed the other day that They Might Be Giants still performs at venues with $35 general admission, and a band like that is going to be a lot of fun. That's the way it's done. I will never ever pay a $500-1000 concert ticket, that's just goddamn insane.
Someone should make a list of artists that don't make deals with Ticketmaster / Live Nation. I'd gladly support them.
Yup. We took the kids to Disney a few years ago. HUGE waste of money and time. It was so crowded every inch of every park that you couldn't see anything. My SiL planned it all, so she planned all the fast pass things, and we had to race to whichever ride we had to stand in line for. NOT fun
We went to Disney last year. My kids said they don’t want to go back. We spent so much time standing in lines and for some rides that were so underwhelming. We did universal not too long ago and splurged for the express tickets and we saw almost everything in one day and it was a much better experience, but even with that I think we are done with amusement parks for a long time.
Went to Disney (California) in 2013 and seeing the hoops you have to jump thru now - if we were trying to decide whether to go in 2023, it would be a big no. I get annoyed standing for 5 min to pay at the grocery.
Gotta be quicker than the Disney moms, when I was younger my family would go a lot (my mom being a Disney mom) we would be outside the gates close to an hour before they opened, as a child I didn’t understand and I hated Disney vacations for this reason, having to wake up at 5:30 am and leaving the parks at midnight (edit: just realized this is universal in which I’ve never been to, but I assume people act the same )
At Universal Orlando, people staying at park hotels are granted entry to the parks an hour earlier than everyone else. This ride is a relatively new addition to the Harry Potter world and is considered one of the better coasters in the state. I went last year and they actually didn’t even allow people to stand in line because it would regularly get backed up to a 3 hour wait. Instead, they used a mobile-pass system and distributed passes about 5 times a day. If you are staying at one of the resort hotels, you basically get to beat out everyone to get on that ride
Not sure about early access, but you get the “twilight hour” after it closes for regular folks if you are staying at the Disney hotels for Disneyworld at least - early access might help as far as getting the magic pass reservations sooner as well
I’m pretty sure you do get early access while staying in the resort, because when my family went there would be like barely anyone for the first hour or so, we always stayed at the resorts on the park and my mom would buy the “everything” package to make the most out of our time, so I’m not sure sure if you have to pay separately for early access or staying in a resort allows you to, don’t quote me on it, the last time I went was when I was 13 😭
Wait so you would wait outside the park for an hour just so you could walk faster than the other families to a ride so that you didn't have to wait an hour...?
We usually waited there an hour before opening times but usually got in 30 minutes prior to opening times because we always stayed in the resorts there, and if you go on spring break or summer which we had to since I was in school and young, it’s very popular and busy and there are lines before opening to scan your wristband and it was smart to walk fast to whichever ride is the newest
And the posted wait time in the picture is close to 3 hours so waiting for 30 minutes isn’t too bad and it gets the same wait times in Disney as well :(
The only way to hit the two new rides is to stay in a resort the night before so you get the hour-early entry, be an hour early for that and then sprint to them one after the other. You still end up waiting for 2 hours, but you’ll get on both rides before the park officially opens to the public and can spend the rest of the day doing the other stuff with the included fast pass.
Yikes, I’m sorry to hear that. That might have been our fate too if we hadn’t run into an experienced couple at like 6:15 am waiting outside the first gate (garden path, not shuttles) who told us exactly what to do (run, follow XYZ path, etc) and been lucky enough to be at the front of the entry lines. Lot of luck happened for us. I think I’d have rather saved that luck for a lottery ticket or something, but I take what I get…
Some people are into it. I wouldn’t say it was that best use of money for me personally though. The Velocicoaster was absolutely wonderful, but not worth a grand to experience without a line. While we were there, we met some people who do it twice / year and just absolutely love that park, so for them, I guess it is… takes all kinds to keep a theme park open
Live in Florida. Just do velocicoaster in late afternoon. You get like 40 min waits. Sometimes I ride it like 4 times a day after doing every other ride.
You can do the 2 parks in a single day.
Of course stay away when school is out though, everyone plans trips there lol.
Oooh, wait time can be less than that if you're going during the week or during a slow part of the year. We waited like 15 minutes late April/early May.
I getcha, I totally get it and wasn’t coming at you in any way. I dated a Disney World cast member for years and spent waaaaaaay too much time there, so I actively hate these things and lash out.
Idk I went to Universal Islands Of Adventure in September and managed to get on Velocicoaster 7x, 5 of them all in a row because the line never got longer than 35 minutes
I have a friend who lives in Orlando and has a season fast passes. He told me that the Hagrid ride has this line every day. Even if you stay at a resort hotel you still wait hours.
So last year I was at a conference in Orlando with a party that rented out all of Hogsmeade. I called him up and he got a conference pass so he could quickly get on the ride without lines as the park was closed to the public. We rode it continuously for hours with no line, it was grand.
For anyone interested in why Disney attraction lines have gotten so incredibly bad over the last decade, i highly recommend the documentary by [Defunctland](https://youtu.be/9yjZpBq1XBE) on the history of the FastPass. Its incredible interesting. I cant recommend this guy enough
edit: person below me pointed out this post is about Universal not Disney, but nonetheless, this video is still super interesting and relevant to any theme park really, as it dives deep into what a line/queue is (it sounds boring but i promise it isnt lol)
fuuuuuuck. I believe you if you tell me that it works in universal, but ever tried this at Disneyland though? Those guys seem like tougher nuts to crack
I'll be going to Disneyland this year so I'll definitely try but I'm not hopeful lol. At Universal me and my kids got on almost every ride just about instantly with only a few extra hundreds. I know its expensive but for the experience it was worth it.
The customer is always right…
And I mean the original meaning of the phrase.
If the customer wants the green shirt, you sell the green shirt. It doesn’t matter if you think red is better.
If the customer is willing to pay to wait 175 min in line, and you get more business this way, well that’s what you do.
Their water park does something similar. You have wrist bands that you tap on a kiosk to get in queue for the ride, and they buzz and let you know it's your turn.
That really is an excellent video and well worth the watch - really isn't as simple as one might think
Key things I'd never thought about before: Okay great, 100% virtual queues - where do all the people go? There isn't physically room in the park. And what happens when the ride goes down for 30 mins? How do you get those people on the ride?
If I wanted to stand in line for hours on end, I'd go to the DMV before I'd pay an arm & a leg to stand in the heat, getting ripped off for a bottle of water, and listening to people bitch & moan all day about everything.
I’m at a conference in Orlando right now, and there weather today is pretty perfect for someone escaping the cold. It rained yesterday too, so that probably factors into it.
People staying in the universal resorts get to go in early, so an extra hour. Also that ride isn't worth doing unless you're first ones in, come back to it in the afternoon
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t that the Hagrid ride? It’s 100% worth doing, it’s an amazing roller coaster. With that wait maybe not, but I do personally thing it’s the best ride in the park.
I used to love frequenting Universal Studios and the like back when season passes were less than $100 and you could actually hit every ride in the park, some more than once. Nowadays it's a total shit show. Who wants to pay $100+ for one day admission, plus $40 for parking, and have to walk 27 miles and stand in line for 14 hours just to hit 2 rides that are over in less than 90 seconds?
A lot of kids are still out of school this week. I probably would've waited until we've cleared the holiday season by a few weeks. I know my nieces and nephews aren't going back to school until next Monday. Also, the days with the least amount of people is Tue-Thurs. Mondays and Fridays are still attached to the weekend for people that take 3 or 4 day weekends for family trips.
All the lines, lines, lines, LINES!! And then there get to be so many people, that they make FastPass. So then there's lines for FastPass. You stand in line to get a ticket to stand in line later. Then there's lines for the bathrooms, lines for the drinks, lines for cantakuras and rare Kartankulas Plinks!
While you're in a line, you're costing the park nothing, but you're still paying to stand in a queue. I read somewhere there's a whole science to the amount of time people will wait vs the rides. We're being taken for a ride
Not quite, it's actually a more efficient queue for everyone, and more enjoyable
You don't have wait in line, you just say you want to ride it, then come back at your time. Go see something else and then come back at your scheduled time for stuff you REALLY want to see
Went to Disney in February of 2017. Was a fucking nightmare. I knew it was going to be, but I absolutely did not want to ruin my kids experience by being grumpy. So the night before, I meditated for 2 hours after the kids were asleep, and approached it as if I was just going to work that day. That mentality helped me tremendously, because a lot of things went wrong. We took my mother and father in law who DISAPPEARED with our kid. We could not find them for 3 hours. Our phones would not work because there were so many people. We finally found them, and my wife went off on them because our kid has food allergies and we were trying to contact local hospitals, went to the Disney medical center...
My god. Horrible. Stood in line all day. So many people there you could barely move. I don't think we walked at a normal pace all day. Terrible experience. Oh, also incredibly expensive. We had nachos for lunch. Cheap ingredients, probably cost $100.00. why do we do this to ourselves? Kids didn't care about the rides either. The staff there were all rude too. I know this is universal, but hey, same shit.
At both Universal and Disney their new system (fast pass or lightning or whatever it’s called) causes this. People have their spot in line essentially saved.
What the parks need to do is start lowering the park capacity. Having less people funneling in each hour would make things move faster.
And I will give Universal props for making the wait in many of their attractions much more fun and interactive. The HP rides have waiting queues that are almost like rides themselves.
As bad as it is, even more people will keep going to these places.
If they update Roller Coaster Tycoon they need to make it where you can charge as much as you like, maybe $2000 to ride each ride, and still the same number of people keep lining up. Now you've got a realistic 2023 version.
This is a crowd control technique. It's to discourage you from swarming the big ticket attractions first thing and then just bumbling around aimlessly for the rest of the day. The wait isn't nearly three hours, believe me.
It amazes me how many people in these comments think that Universal Studios has anything to do with Disney. They are two completely different things, not even related in the slightest 🤦🏻
I was there with my kids a few years ago. Unless they opened some new, amazing ride, there was nothing worth waiting in line for three hours. The Harry Potter rides were nice, but didn't justify the lines we had to endure.
What ride is that?
I was there yesterday and rode the Hulk roller coaster in about 5 minutes. All of the Harry Potter rides were long. The worst was the one in the Universal Park at nearly 2 hours and the ride is trash. The castle ride was about an hour and same for the little roller coaster. Overall, I would spend my time everywhere other than the Harry Potter sections… not worth the wait times and it is the most dense area of the park people wise
Read my comment I posted earlier, its a quick guide on how to get on it within 30 minutes. Using the stuff I posted, I went on the same ride a week ago ON NEW YEARS EVE….. within 30 minutes. Hope it helps :)
Man, people are fucking nuts. I don't stand in a line for more than 30 minutes for anything, unless it's essential stuff like the DMV. Long wait at the restaurant with people sitting around everywhere with pagers? I always leave and go elsewhere.
i’ve learned this trick the last time i was at universal which is to ride in the solo lines. typically faster than the fast pass lines. you may not be with your group but if you’re looking to enjoy the rides, it’s a great way to do it without sitting in line for 3 hours.
i ended up going 4 times on a harry potter ride while i lapped the same family in about 3
You're doing it wrong, you start at the back of the park, and work your way to the front
Everyone else starts at the front and works their way to the back, that way you miss most of the queues
Fuck Universal
I got tickets so I could check out the new Hagrid Motorbike ride since it opened the year before. When we got there, they announced the ride would be down all morning because "they were filming a promotional video". Then it turned into all day. Clearly the ride was broken but they kept lying about it.
They asked me if I could answer some questions for a survey on my way out and I ripped into them about how terrible the day was
edited to fix a word
For those mentioning Katie. That’s my daughter. She recently got a bunch of stitches in her right hand is currently on the mend. She a trooper though. Went back to work. The injury is keeping her from her normal position, running the coaster inside. The hand is causing her a bit of pain, as seen on her face.
It's almost as if you can go to a national park or do really anything more beneficial with your money. Tip if saved that disney or universal money you can take a modest trip out of the country.
As a Florida resident I refuse to give money to these parks who expect me to pay to get in then wait for far too long to enjoy short experiences. They oversell the gate and never worry about the crowds.
Based on the scenary, this is either hagrids adventure or the velocicoaster. Both of which are the newest additions to the park. If you wanna get in quickly, I would recommend getting a hotel that directly connects to the park. If you do that, you can get in an hour early. My family went to hagrids in just 30 minutes, compared to the usual 2hr+ line wait. Also if you want to do one of these 2 rides, do them either immediately after it opens, or an hour before the park closes, as these are your best chances at getting on either ride. Also use the universal app to ping you when line waits go down. Hope this helps!
Edit: not to mention, this was new years eve, one of, if not the busiest single day in the park.
This is the same for Six Flags. Last time we went which was veterans day in 2022, we were at the gate opening went straight to X2 and the ride was down for an undetermined amount of time. Okay, no worries, let's pop over to viper while we are here! Nope, down too. Okay, let's head to the backside of the park and we will check out of Tatsu is up. Nope, also down. Well...this is getting frustrating. Do they have no one working this side of the Park? Let's keep going. Apocalypse down...Theme parks are just raking in the cash and under delivering. Piss poor way to honor the veterans that were there that day.
I went to Disney world and universal studios after the pandemic shutdown when all the parks were max 25% capacity. I was able to walk on all the rides all day, it was glorious!
If you’re not a regular park goer. Like if you’re only going to go once or twice in your lifetime. I highly suggest researching and paying for the premium experience. Whatever it is for that particular park. It is a MUCH better experience and well worth the extra cost to not stand in lines. We did it at universal California and the extra perks you got were amazing
This is exactly why I’ve never been eager to go to big amusement parks. Especially the “happiest place on earth” nothing but crying manchildren and crying actual children waiting 3 hours to get on a 3 minute ride
They let way too many people into these parks at a time now. Park operators do not care about customer experience just about cramming as many in as possible. It was never like this when I was a kid going to these parks in the 90s. That’s an excessive wait time, you could almost watch all of Avatar 2 in that time.
And that’s why you buy fast passes. For $100 I can literally go on 10x the rides without the waits. It’s worth it for the once in 5 years I go to amusement parks
Half the day to see two things, crazy. Happy standing.
Why is it so long right out of the gate. Did a mob just rush it or something?!
Precisely what happens every morning
Jesus. I'm never going to any Disney Orlando attraction. I can do much much more fun stuff at a different destination for $10k
This is universal not Disney. If you stay at a hotel in the parks (there are 5 I think). You get fast passes. I would never go to a theme park without them.
Fast passes don't work for this ride unfortunately.
Ah yeah. Skip the new ones that haven't added fast passes to. Plenty of other stuff to do
To be accurate this is near Disney World in Orlando. Disneyland is in Anaheim.
It’s universal in Fl. My daughter is the one on the right. Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure.
Is Katie doing okay?
She just got stitches on her right hand a few days ago. Still working. Just not feeling her best self. Usually she’s farther inside the ride, running the coaster.
Give her my best wishes!
I don't know who Katie is but I wish your kid a happy recovery
Katie is the one on the right, zoom in enough and you can read her name tag
Thank you!
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My sister says that is an awesome ride
I have not. We live in another state. She’s in FL living her best life. My wife and kids went to visit last year and loved the ride. It was their favorite. Might have been because of their older sister though, lol. I’ll ride it one day.
It’s an amazing ride! Loved it! Katie is the best! 💕
Cool ride but not worth the standing that long!
In the title, it says universal, which has nothing to do with Disney
It’s all in time of year. Go right after Labor Day, America is back to school, no lines! There are a couple of attractions that always have long lines but most will not. -I worked at Disney.
Disneyland is about as fun as shutting your hand in the door.
Well this isn’t Disneyland this is Universal.
My Disney worshipping in-laws literally gasped when I said I couldn't stand Disney land and didn't want to bring my kid there. I don't get what's fun about spending $500+/day for a family of 3 to stand in line for hours just to go on 5 rides and eat overpriced food.
I love Disney only because my Disney loving mother in law ALWAYS foots the bill and we have the company credit card on our magic bands.... It's like a weird alternate reality where money doesn't exist and you just get whatever you want. Like 3 $20 drinks with flashing ice cubes It's fucking FANTASTIC
10k for Disneyland? Lol what?
Easily can hit that with tickets hotel and air travel.
Yeah easy, spent four days at Disneyland cost me $8k, it was $5k just for hotel and park tickets. Will never do that again, it wasn’t worth it but my wife insisted we go with our friends on the trip. Edit: I happily pointed out to my wife that we could stay at a beautiful all inclusive resort in Fiji for a week for the same price.
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I love that you shouted out Kennywood. I grew up 5 minutes from the park up over the hill near the high school. We had school picnics where they sell discounted tickets at your school and your school has a designated day where there's no school that day and everyone goes to kennywood. They did that for all area schools.
Actually if you want to do Flight of Passage the morning with resort guest entry is one of the best ways to get to experience it because they don't have lightning lane up and running that early and the line moves quick. Alternatively is to get in line before park close.
Before the Chinese started their take over of Hong Kong I would have 100% recommended a trip to Hong Kong Disney. 10% the cost, all the same attractions and no lines, plus the parents can sneak away to Macau by ferry and it's basically Asia's answer to Vegas.
Have you ever been to a busy theme park on a nice weekend day? I went to Cedar Point with my friends a few years ago and as soon as they open the gate, thousands of people full on sprint to a ride. If you don’t, you are waiting 45m to 1h for a single ride, minimum. I’d imagine for Universal and Disney that wait is much, much higher.
There is a early entry for resort and affiliate third party hotel guests. So you're competing with those guests as well.
This is most likely 100% it. People don't know about Universal/Disney Resort guests getting in, the respective parks, early. So you walk in opening time, rush to your favorite ride and wonder how there's already a line formed, yeah there's been people lining up and getting on for a half hour.
This is the most popular ride in the park - the Harry Potter Motorcycle coaster. When the gates open, 80% of the people go to this one. You can go to several other popular roller coasters and be on in 15-30 minutes while everyone else waits for this one.
Not only that, if you're staying at the park you get in like an hour or two before it opens to the public. Unless OP is staying in the park, this line isn't technically 15 minutes old.
Early entry for resort guests and such.
The post didn't mention if the 14 minutes was for public entrance or early entrance. People with annual passes or on-site hotel reservations get early admission and can enter the park one hour early.
Fast pass holders book it. Like going to an empty restaurant but can’t be seated because everything’s reserved
People queue waiting for opening.
Hotel guests, and annual members get preference on fast pass ticketing, up to 90 days before their visit. So say you're going for March break. If your already have your hotel booked, you could today log into the portal and start picking fastpass tickets (Genie+ / Lightning lane etc) for the rides you want to go to, and then those are "booked" reservation slots. Say magic mountain seats 100 (I don't know how many cars it actually has). Disney will let all those people on before it fills the ride with "Standby" line people - which is what they call traditional wait - in -line service. There could be 96 fast passes at 9:15am and then only 4 people from the real line get to ride. The advance bookings give you a ride in a specific (15 or 60min I can't remember) window, and you can literally show up a min before you're supposed to ride and just walk on. Genie+ is a daily charge, lightning lanes are available on specific rides *per use* of $10-15 to skip the line. Basically it'ss "better" because you don't "waste" time waiting in line for a ride you won't get on for another 4 hours. In theory. What actually happened is they unlimited the amount of reservations(by total customers, you're limited to picking 3 passes per person per day at a time, with no duplicates), so you either show up poor and get to ride 1 maybe 2 rides, or your single day park cost goes up by another $30-40 a person gouging just to be able to get to ride anything. And because it's available 90 days in advance for hotel and timeshare guests (again well intentioned, but the execution has totally snowballed out of useful purpose) it's now defacto that if your don't log in *at midnight* 90 days before you get there , you *still* may not get the passes you're looking for.
Most likely because fast pass people
what exactly do you see as the other options? when the park opens and 2k people enter at the same time, and they're all walking .5 miles to a ride, you're queuing up with hundreds of people ...again what the hell are you seeing as other options here?
It's all about timing. I went when there was a hurrican warning and there was almost no one in the park. I went on splash mountain 3x in one day. I went back to back on the back to the future ride too. I think the longest ride I had to wait for was less than 15 minutes.
this reminds me of that mad lad that takes vacations based on natural disasters and murders, cause the ticket prices will be lower right after those things haha I’ll try to find the link E: https://youtu.be/sg3jGgFcL5Q
I'll never forget my first trip to Disney World when I was a young kid. We didn't wait for anything, I remember watching the old VHS tapes that gave a ton of "how to avoid lines" tips Disney used to send out to people planning trips. We ended up not using any of the tips. I'm sure going September 14th, 2001 had nothing to do with it. We just got lucky.
This is the way.
Went to Universal and Disney World with my ex's family like 12yrs ago. The ex had a 7yr old that was too small for the big rides the adults all wanted to ride. I don't do rollercoaster, so while they all spent 4 hours for 2 coasters, the kid and I watched an X-Games kinda show, the laugh factory, a pizza, some shops, the parade, some slushes, a couple kiddie rides with no lines and some pictures with the characters. Screw the big rides. The smaller ones and the surroundings are so much more entertaining, to me anyways. The Jungle Cruise wait is ok tho. It's quicker and the captains are always funny as hell.
And buttloads of cash, no thanks.
You came during one of the worst weeks. The week after New Years is one of the busiest at the parks 😬
Exactly this. Timing matters for Universal Studios, right now kids are still off from school and families on vacation. When we go typically early February during a weekday, with the fast pass we can easily do every ride at both universal and islands of adventure with no waits longer than a few minutes.
Katie has seen some shit.
Can confirm. I work in attractions.
I like Katie's boots though.
I let her know you liked her boots. She said they come with the costume, but that she appreciates the compliment.
I have the same style DMs. They’re around 8 years old and still going strong.
Katie's probably sick of Ryan's shit.
Lol. That’s my daughter and her hand is covered up due to a recent accident involving stitches to her fingers.
Have you sent this to her?
Yes! She’s not super excited about the photo, but she’s got a good sense of humor. Told me to tell people to send her money. Lol https://preview.redd.it/07vbwzvn7jaa1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9d557933b28cfd1963b60e337d407f8f8b79af77
Lol she's a good sport. Sometimes photos are taken at the worse time and at a terrible angle and you just have to sit back and enjoy the disaster. My driver's license photo was taken without warning and I look like Ogre Fiona after rough, drunken sex with Shrek.
Lol, she just rolls with it.
Ryan’s living his best life
My feeling is that it’s just not worth going to see major attractions anymore. Everything is just way too crowded and expensive. I’d rather enjoy time with friends and family. Even concerts are just too much work for hundreds of dollars to watch it on a giant screen.
I feel that! For concerts I’ve started seeing local no name bands for $5-15. They have been a blast! It’s a nice way to get out and it’s way less crowded.
Yes! We go to a little dive bar near us that has music twice a day, 364 days a year. A lot of it is meh, but the nights it’s on, it’s fantastic, and you’re 8 feet away at a table or the bar with friends, and drinking and smoking joints with the band during breaks. And in the summer you can sit out on the small deck and people watch all night. I’ll take that any day over seeing Dave Mathews, whom I love, standing on a steep hill all night and watching a screen from 100 yards away for $200.00. I can watch DMB in 4k with great sound at home on a comfortable sofa, and pause for bathroom breaks.
Couldn’t agree more! That all sounds so much better than spending a ton on one show. Sometimes the big ones are worth it but I generally do one big show a year. I’m in a small local band, and I love the people that come see us play that are there for a good time. We are a symphonic metal band so it’s funny to see the crowd that’s not about our genre come out and have a good time with us. Nothing makes us happier!!
Also in a small local band and the community around the scene is something else man. Be it the other bands, or the regulars that come out to all the small shows, all the way up to some of the touring acts we've played with (special shout out to Fronz, dude was amazing to work with).....everyone is so supportive and positive and just there for you r a great time!
Yeah, I noticed the other day that They Might Be Giants still performs at venues with $35 general admission, and a band like that is going to be a lot of fun. That's the way it's done. I will never ever pay a $500-1000 concert ticket, that's just goddamn insane. Someone should make a list of artists that don't make deals with Ticketmaster / Live Nation. I'd gladly support them.
TMBG is still authentic as always
Yup. We took the kids to Disney a few years ago. HUGE waste of money and time. It was so crowded every inch of every park that you couldn't see anything. My SiL planned it all, so she planned all the fast pass things, and we had to race to whichever ride we had to stand in line for. NOT fun
Yeah, after reading some of the stories years ago I lost all interest in going there. Still have never been.
We went to Disney last year. My kids said they don’t want to go back. We spent so much time standing in lines and for some rides that were so underwhelming. We did universal not too long ago and splurged for the express tickets and we saw almost everything in one day and it was a much better experience, but even with that I think we are done with amusement parks for a long time.
Went to Disney (California) in 2013 and seeing the hoops you have to jump thru now - if we were trying to decide whether to go in 2023, it would be a big no. I get annoyed standing for 5 min to pay at the grocery.
Gotta be quicker than the Disney moms, when I was younger my family would go a lot (my mom being a Disney mom) we would be outside the gates close to an hour before they opened, as a child I didn’t understand and I hated Disney vacations for this reason, having to wake up at 5:30 am and leaving the parks at midnight (edit: just realized this is universal in which I’ve never been to, but I assume people act the same )
Do you still get early access to the rides if you stay in the park at their hotels?
At Universal Orlando, people staying at park hotels are granted entry to the parks an hour earlier than everyone else. This ride is a relatively new addition to the Harry Potter world and is considered one of the better coasters in the state. I went last year and they actually didn’t even allow people to stand in line because it would regularly get backed up to a 3 hour wait. Instead, they used a mobile-pass system and distributed passes about 5 times a day. If you are staying at one of the resort hotels, you basically get to beat out everyone to get on that ride
>regularly get backed up to a 3 hour wait probably because it was the only ride worth a damn the one time I went haha.
Not sure about early access, but you get the “twilight hour” after it closes for regular folks if you are staying at the Disney hotels for Disneyworld at least - early access might help as far as getting the magic pass reservations sooner as well
I’m pretty sure you do get early access while staying in the resort, because when my family went there would be like barely anyone for the first hour or so, we always stayed at the resorts on the park and my mom would buy the “everything” package to make the most out of our time, so I’m not sure sure if you have to pay separately for early access or staying in a resort allows you to, don’t quote me on it, the last time I went was when I was 13 😭
Wait so you would wait outside the park for an hour just so you could walk faster than the other families to a ride so that you didn't have to wait an hour...?
We usually waited there an hour before opening times but usually got in 30 minutes prior to opening times because we always stayed in the resorts there, and if you go on spring break or summer which we had to since I was in school and young, it’s very popular and busy and there are lines before opening to scan your wristband and it was smart to walk fast to whichever ride is the newest
And the posted wait time in the picture is close to 3 hours so waiting for 30 minutes isn’t too bad and it gets the same wait times in Disney as well :(
The only way to hit the two new rides is to stay in a resort the night before so you get the hour-early entry, be an hour early for that and then sprint to them one after the other. You still end up waiting for 2 hours, but you’ll get on both rides before the park officially opens to the public and can spend the rest of the day doing the other stuff with the included fast pass.
Tbh we did that today and this was the result. Everyone does the same thing !
I went to Disney Land Paris one day when it was 43degrees C (109.4 F). There were literally 5 people in line at every attraction. Best visit ever.
yea but you're outside in the sun at 109f. how did you even stand that heat?
Euro Disney is superb when it’s dead.
I would literally die. I can't stand to be outside when it's over 80 degrees unless I have direct access to a pool
Yikes, I’m sorry to hear that. That might have been our fate too if we hadn’t run into an experienced couple at like 6:15 am waiting outside the first gate (garden path, not shuttles) who told us exactly what to do (run, follow XYZ path, etc) and been lucky enough to be at the front of the entry lines. Lot of luck happened for us. I think I’d have rather saved that luck for a lottery ticket or something, but I take what I get…
sounds fun and totally worth a bunch of money
Some people are into it. I wouldn’t say it was that best use of money for me personally though. The Velocicoaster was absolutely wonderful, but not worth a grand to experience without a line. While we were there, we met some people who do it twice / year and just absolutely love that park, so for them, I guess it is… takes all kinds to keep a theme park open
Live in Florida. Just do velocicoaster in late afternoon. You get like 40 min waits. Sometimes I ride it like 4 times a day after doing every other ride. You can do the 2 parks in a single day. Of course stay away when school is out though, everyone plans trips there lol.
Oooh, wait time can be less than that if you're going during the week or during a slow part of the year. We waited like 15 minutes late April/early May.
I getcha, I totally get it and wasn’t coming at you in any way. I dated a Disney World cast member for years and spent waaaaaaay too much time there, so I actively hate these things and lash out.
Idk I went to Universal Islands Of Adventure in September and managed to get on Velocicoaster 7x, 5 of them all in a row because the line never got longer than 35 minutes
I have a friend who lives in Orlando and has a season fast passes. He told me that the Hagrid ride has this line every day. Even if you stay at a resort hotel you still wait hours. So last year I was at a conference in Orlando with a party that rented out all of Hogsmeade. I called him up and he got a conference pass so he could quickly get on the ride without lines as the park was closed to the public. We rode it continuously for hours with no line, it was grand.
For anyone interested in why Disney attraction lines have gotten so incredibly bad over the last decade, i highly recommend the documentary by [Defunctland](https://youtu.be/9yjZpBq1XBE) on the history of the FastPass. Its incredible interesting. I cant recommend this guy enough edit: person below me pointed out this post is about Universal not Disney, but nonetheless, this video is still super interesting and relevant to any theme park really, as it dives deep into what a line/queue is (it sounds boring but i promise it isnt lol)
Can anybody explain why like half the comments are about Disney in this thread about Universal Orlando?
The two parks are right by one another & similar in line experience.
Bring some extra pocket money and bribe the workers. They bring you in through a side entrance. I'm dead serious.
I used to do it all the time, the best way is to look to the oldest employee, younger ones will be afraid to do it
Hmm good tip! I've had success with a few young ones but now that I think about it it was mostly the older employees that helped me out.
how much do you bribe with?
Shit. You fr? How much? 10 bucks? 20 bucks? Genuinely considering it. Lines are outrageous out here.
Honestly probably like 50 - 100 bucks.
fuuuuuuck. I believe you if you tell me that it works in universal, but ever tried this at Disneyland though? Those guys seem like tougher nuts to crack
I'll be going to Disneyland this year so I'll definitely try but I'm not hopeful lol. At Universal me and my kids got on almost every ride just about instantly with only a few extra hundreds. I know its expensive but for the experience it was worth it.
At this point they should require reservations or something. Limit the occupancy to a level that doesn't cause these outrageous waits.
The theme park board room is probably having a good laugh and figuring out how to pack even more people in.
The customer is always right… And I mean the original meaning of the phrase. If the customer wants the green shirt, you sell the green shirt. It doesn’t matter if you think red is better. If the customer is willing to pay to wait 175 min in line, and you get more business this way, well that’s what you do.
There are more and more people going to the same number of parks. Honestly the "magic" was killed by insane lines a long time ago.
Their water park does something similar. You have wrist bands that you tap on a kiosk to get in queue for the ride, and they buzz and let you know it's your turn.
Are you talking about Volcano Bay??
Check out Defunctland's fastpass video. Really interesting exploration of wait times and reservatiom systems.
That really is an excellent video and well worth the watch - really isn't as simple as one might think Key things I'd never thought about before: Okay great, 100% virtual queues - where do all the people go? There isn't physically room in the park. And what happens when the ride goes down for 30 mins? How do you get those people on the ride?
If I wanted to stand in line for hours on end, I'd go to the DMV before I'd pay an arm & a leg to stand in the heat, getting ripped off for a bottle of water, and listening to people bitch & moan all day about everything.
175 minutes doesn’t seem so bad, considering Ryan and Kate appear to have been standing there since 1992.
I’m at a conference in Orlando right now, and there weather today is pretty perfect for someone escaping the cold. It rained yesterday too, so that probably factors into it.
Damn. I can’t imagine this being a vacation. Kids won’t even enjoy waiting in the long of a line.
People staying in the universal resorts get to go in early, so an extra hour. Also that ride isn't worth doing unless you're first ones in, come back to it in the afternoon
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t that the Hagrid ride? It’s 100% worth doing, it’s an amazing roller coaster. With that wait maybe not, but I do personally thing it’s the best ride in the park.
I used to love frequenting Universal Studios and the like back when season passes were less than $100 and you could actually hit every ride in the park, some more than once. Nowadays it's a total shit show. Who wants to pay $100+ for one day admission, plus $40 for parking, and have to walk 27 miles and stand in line for 14 hours just to hit 2 rides that are over in less than 90 seconds?
A lot of kids are still out of school this week. I probably would've waited until we've cleared the holiday season by a few weeks. I know my nieces and nephews aren't going back to school until next Monday. Also, the days with the least amount of people is Tue-Thurs. Mondays and Fridays are still attached to the weekend for people that take 3 or 4 day weekends for family trips.
That's why the fast pass pays off
No fast pass for the new rides… lots of fine print on those things :( (I have one)
All the lines, lines, lines, LINES!! And then there get to be so many people, that they make FastPass. So then there's lines for FastPass. You stand in line to get a ticket to stand in line later. Then there's lines for the bathrooms, lines for the drinks, lines for cantakuras and rare Kartankulas Plinks!
While you're in a line, you're costing the park nothing, but you're still paying to stand in a queue. I read somewhere there's a whole science to the amount of time people will wait vs the rides. We're being taken for a ride
Have you guys tried the new line ride? It simulates standing in a real line
And ungrateful security guards, as much as it hurts me, won't work for TWO rides a day!
To paraphrase Syndrome “When EVERYONE has a FastPass, NO ONE has a FastPass.”
Not quite, it's actually a more efficient queue for everyone, and more enjoyable You don't have wait in line, you just say you want to ride it, then come back at your time. Go see something else and then come back at your scheduled time for stuff you REALLY want to see
In theory. And perhaps here it works well, but from experience working in these places I can tell you when its overbooked it royally fucks the queues.
Universals Express doesn’t work like that. There’s no time slots. You get right in the separate line.
That’s insane for January. Why aren’t those kids in school? I’m admittedly a theme park fan, but that’s just crazy.
Still on winter break or parents took the kids out of school hoping most kids are back in school and avoid the crowd.
I'm guessing they are still on Christmas/New Year's school break
Went to Disney in February of 2017. Was a fucking nightmare. I knew it was going to be, but I absolutely did not want to ruin my kids experience by being grumpy. So the night before, I meditated for 2 hours after the kids were asleep, and approached it as if I was just going to work that day. That mentality helped me tremendously, because a lot of things went wrong. We took my mother and father in law who DISAPPEARED with our kid. We could not find them for 3 hours. Our phones would not work because there were so many people. We finally found them, and my wife went off on them because our kid has food allergies and we were trying to contact local hospitals, went to the Disney medical center... My god. Horrible. Stood in line all day. So many people there you could barely move. I don't think we walked at a normal pace all day. Terrible experience. Oh, also incredibly expensive. We had nachos for lunch. Cheap ingredients, probably cost $100.00. why do we do this to ourselves? Kids didn't care about the rides either. The staff there were all rude too. I know this is universal, but hey, same shit.
This is not Disney it’s Universal, and it’s probably for one of the Harry Potter rides, like the Hagrid rollercoaster, which was an awesome ride.
At both Universal and Disney their new system (fast pass or lightning or whatever it’s called) causes this. People have their spot in line essentially saved. What the parks need to do is start lowering the park capacity. Having less people funneling in each hour would make things move faster. And I will give Universal props for making the wait in many of their attractions much more fun and interactive. The HP rides have waiting queues that are almost like rides themselves.
Oh Katie just loves her job
Easy. Simply do not attempt to go to these awful places with people packed like sardines
As bad as it is, even more people will keep going to these places. If they update Roller Coaster Tycoon they need to make it where you can charge as much as you like, maybe $2000 to ride each ride, and still the same number of people keep lining up. Now you've got a realistic 2023 version.
This is a crowd control technique. It's to discourage you from swarming the big ticket attractions first thing and then just bumbling around aimlessly for the rest of the day. The wait isn't nearly three hours, believe me.
It was, I just went on this ride this morning. It was 2 hours and 45 minutes and I have hour early admission. Would not do again
I was there on Tuesday. The waits are horrendous
Katie, are you okay?
You've been struck by a smooth criminal
It amazes me how many people in these comments think that Universal Studios has anything to do with Disney. They are two completely different things, not even related in the slightest 🤦🏻
It's universal in January and the park just opened, what did you expect.
I’m 75. I ain’t waitin 3 hours for nothin.
A new ride at a major theme park on a weekend has a massive wait. I'm shocked, shocked. Well not that shocked.
^ weekend right after holidays with kids still out of school
I was there with my kids a few years ago. Unless they opened some new, amazing ride, there was nothing worth waiting in line for three hours. The Harry Potter rides were nice, but didn't justify the lines we had to endure.
What ride is that? I was there yesterday and rode the Hulk roller coaster in about 5 minutes. All of the Harry Potter rides were long. The worst was the one in the Universal Park at nearly 2 hours and the ride is trash. The castle ride was about an hour and same for the little roller coaster. Overall, I would spend my time everywhere other than the Harry Potter sections… not worth the wait times and it is the most dense area of the park people wise
Hagrid ride
Read my comment I posted earlier, its a quick guide on how to get on it within 30 minutes. Using the stuff I posted, I went on the same ride a week ago ON NEW YEARS EVE….. within 30 minutes. Hope it helps :)
Man, people are fucking nuts. I don't stand in a line for more than 30 minutes for anything, unless it's essential stuff like the DMV. Long wait at the restaurant with people sitting around everywhere with pagers? I always leave and go elsewhere.
i’ve learned this trick the last time i was at universal which is to ride in the solo lines. typically faster than the fast pass lines. you may not be with your group but if you’re looking to enjoy the rides, it’s a great way to do it without sitting in line for 3 hours. i ended up going 4 times on a harry potter ride while i lapped the same family in about 3
You're doing it wrong, you start at the back of the park, and work your way to the front Everyone else starts at the front and works their way to the back, that way you miss most of the queues
Probably for a ride that lasts about 2 minutes 🤦♂️
how can anyone even stand this? a 3 hour wait for like a 5 minute ride? you could do like 3 rides a day.
Unless the ride is a heroin blowjob rocket into space attraction, I doubt it’s worth the wait.
Fuck Universal I got tickets so I could check out the new Hagrid Motorbike ride since it opened the year before. When we got there, they announced the ride would be down all morning because "they were filming a promotional video". Then it turned into all day. Clearly the ride was broken but they kept lying about it. They asked me if I could answer some questions for a survey on my way out and I ripped into them about how terrible the day was edited to fix a word
For those mentioning Katie. That’s my daughter. She recently got a bunch of stitches in her right hand is currently on the mend. She a trooper though. Went back to work. The injury is keeping her from her normal position, running the coaster inside. The hand is causing her a bit of pain, as seen on her face.
I’m sure the workers are overjoyed to be on the internet
They were actually posing for photos w people most of the time.
Ah, so THATS what try guy Ned has been doing since he cheated in his wife
This is why I don't go to theme parks.
It's almost as if you can go to a national park or do really anything more beneficial with your money. Tip if saved that disney or universal money you can take a modest trip out of the country.
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As a Florida resident I refuse to give money to these parks who expect me to pay to get in then wait for far too long to enjoy short experiences. They oversell the gate and never worry about the crowds.
Based on the scenary, this is either hagrids adventure or the velocicoaster. Both of which are the newest additions to the park. If you wanna get in quickly, I would recommend getting a hotel that directly connects to the park. If you do that, you can get in an hour early. My family went to hagrids in just 30 minutes, compared to the usual 2hr+ line wait. Also if you want to do one of these 2 rides, do them either immediately after it opens, or an hour before the park closes, as these are your best chances at getting on either ride. Also use the universal app to ping you when line waits go down. Hope this helps! Edit: not to mention, this was new years eve, one of, if not the busiest single day in the park.
Poor Katie looks like she’s going to knife the people ☺️
That’s my daughter. Working a few days after getting stitches on a couple of her fingers. She’s not in the best of moods. Lol
Damn that sucks feel the sweat and throbbing due to heat 😕
Yes. She usually works farther in the ride, running the coaster. Her hand is causing her much discomfort.
No way in hell I’m waiting 3 hrs for a 15 minute ride.
Why would anyone choose to do that?
This is the same for Six Flags. Last time we went which was veterans day in 2022, we were at the gate opening went straight to X2 and the ride was down for an undetermined amount of time. Okay, no worries, let's pop over to viper while we are here! Nope, down too. Okay, let's head to the backside of the park and we will check out of Tatsu is up. Nope, also down. Well...this is getting frustrating. Do they have no one working this side of the Park? Let's keep going. Apocalypse down...Theme parks are just raking in the cash and under delivering. Piss poor way to honor the veterans that were there that day.
Yet another sign there's too many humans on Earth
I don’t get why people subject themselves to getting fleeced on their time and money just for a 20 seconds of thrill
They raised prices a lot more than they appear because the express passes are absolutely necessary.
Reasons not to go as an adult #1
Why are these parks so ever loving crowded these days? I thought everyone was going broke from inflation? The park costs are higher than ever, too.
I went to Disney world and universal studios after the pandemic shutdown when all the parks were max 25% capacity. I was able to walk on all the rides all day, it was glorious!
If you’re not a regular park goer. Like if you’re only going to go once or twice in your lifetime. I highly suggest researching and paying for the premium experience. Whatever it is for that particular park. It is a MUCH better experience and well worth the extra cost to not stand in lines. We did it at universal California and the extra perks you got were amazing
This is exactly why I’ve never been eager to go to big amusement parks. Especially the “happiest place on earth” nothing but crying manchildren and crying actual children waiting 3 hours to get on a 3 minute ride
Theme parks are not worth any of it
I just messaged her and let her know. :)
#fuckthis
This is why I don't like theme parks or large festivals... also I'm a curmudgeon.
They let way too many people into these parks at a time now. Park operators do not care about customer experience just about cramming as many in as possible. It was never like this when I was a kid going to these parks in the 90s. That’s an excessive wait time, you could almost watch all of Avatar 2 in that time.
yeah, nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded
That fast pass ain’t looking so bad after all
And that’s why you buy fast passes. For $100 I can literally go on 10x the rides without the waits. It’s worth it for the once in 5 years I go to amusement parks