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Thanks for sharing your trip. Your pictures brought back memories of our trip. You had some nice pictures of CityWalk that I didn't think to photograph. I'm waiting till the next Harry Potter expansion before going back to Universal. Glad you and your family enjoyed yourselves.
Thanks for reading along. I would like to go back for that expansion too. It sounds like it wil lbe great from the rumors I have heard.
great TR thanks for taking us along with you. I know what you mean about that Disney feeling. As far as I'm concerned nothing can hold a candle to Disney - they are the best of the best always will be. Universal may have come a long way but nothing beats Disney. - Glad you had fun.
Yeah, and you want to still like her by the end of the year and all.
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great TR thanks for taking us along with you. I know what you mean about that Disney feeling. As far as I'm concerned nothing can hold a candle to Disney - they are the best of the best always will be. Universal may have come a long way but nothing beats Disney. - Glad you had fun.
Thanks for reading a long!! Disney is just so special it's hard to describe to those who don't "get it"...Thats why I love message boards like this.
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Great rip report. I really enjoyed the "walk on the dark side". I plan on going there for one day in September. I need to get a dose of Harry Potter and roller coasters. It has been a long time since I have been on one. Your comments only added fuel to the fire. We have some leftover tickets from previous trips. Hope that they will still work. (tickets have entries for one adult and two kids) There will be two adults going in this time. Perhaps they will do some exchanges for me.
Great rip report. I really enjoyed the "walk on the dark side". I plan on going there for one day in September. I need to get a dose of Harry Potter and roller coasters. It has been a long time since I have been on one. Your comments only added fuel to the fire. We have some leftover tickets from previous trips. Hope that they will still work. (tickets have entries for one adult and two kids) There will be two adults going in this time. Perhaps they will do some exchanges for me.
Yay! You'll have fun. I do think the old tickets might work that way. But I am not 100% sure since I didn't have any old ones and didn't research that factor.
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Thanks for your trip report and all the great photos! Sounds like a good time. I wish I had time to do Universal on one of my upcoming trips, but the trips are so short that there is no way we'll be able to leave Disney. It will have to wait.
Thanks for your trip report and all the great photos! Sounds like a good time. I wish I had time to do Universal on one of my upcoming trips, but the trips are so short that there is no way we'll be able to leave Disney. It will have to wait.
Thanks for reading! It was fun and i am glad we did it the way we did, with the trip planned mainly for Universal. We got some tastes of Disney, but still did have enough time at universal to get a good taste of that too.
Claire wishes we could go back in Nov for a day. I just can't work it in though.
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Your pictures and trip report really helped me get a good idea what Universal was like! I personally have not been there in over 20 yrs and I'm currently planning a two day trip at the end of our cruise in Feb. Our main focus will be HP, but seeing your pics, I now know what else we need to explore. I may have a few questions for you as I plan further, but your trip report really helped put things in perspective for me.
Looks like you had a fabulous time!!! Thanks again for sharing!!!
Your pictures and trip report really helped me get a good idea what Universal was like! I personally have not been there in over 20 yrs and I'm currently planning a two day trip at the end of our cruise in Feb. Our main focus will be HP, but seeing your pics, I now know what else we need to explore. I may have a few questions for you as I plan further, but your trip report really helped put things in perspective for me.
Looks like you had a fabulous time!!! Thanks again for sharing!!!
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Yes...ask away, I'll help where ever I can.
Thanks for the TR. We had our first visit to Universal last March and didn't take many photographs so I enjoyed yours a lot and also enjoyed reading your impressions of everything. I found there was not a lot of detailed information on the boards when we were planning our trip and you have single-handedly fixed that problem!
I agree with your final assessment - Universal was great, it had some really good rides (like really good, WDW - you might want to up your game on some of the thrill rides you offer, hm?) but at the end of the day, my heart still belongs to Mickey and the gang. The magic factor will always be there for me, too.
Cheers!
Thanks for the TR. We had our first visit to Universal last March and didn't take many photographs so I enjoyed yours a lot and also enjoyed reading your impressions of everything. I found there was not a lot of detailed information on the boards when we were planning our trip and you have single-handedly fixed that problem!
I agree with your final assessment - Universal was great, it had some really good rides (like really good, WDW - you might want to up your game on some of the thrill rides you offer, hm?) but at the end of the day, my heart still belongs to Mickey and the gang. The magic factor will always be there for me, too.
Cheers!
Thanks. I agree, it was hard to find much info before going...and I hope this does help others in the future.
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Sounds like a good time. I wish I had time to do Universal on one of my upcoming trips, but the trips are so short that there is no way we'll be able to leave Disney. It will have to wait.
Guess where we were headed??
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