Vicki926
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Feb 3, 2015
Hi all-I read the Universal boards pretty frequently now that we've started to add Universal into our WDW trips. August 2014, we decided since the kids were getting older (12 and 14), were big Harry Potter fans, and loved roller coasters, we needed to start going to Universal. We did 2 days 2 nights at Royal Pacific, and then headed to WDW for 6 days. We loved it, and for our next trip, we decided to use the same plan, except for one thing. The hotel. RPR was ok, but we didn't love it, so this time we booked the Hard Rock-much more to our liking!
We got buy 2 days, get 1 free passes from UT.
Day 1- Friday-my husband had off, the kids and I went to school/work for half a day and then we were on vacation! We had a 3:30 flight from Newark. Flight was fine, picked up our bags and rental car and we were on our way...to the La Quinta across from Uni. LOL We did the same thing our last trip. My husband has a friend that's a manager, so he gets us a free room. We just stay there our arrival night, then check into our Universal hotel bright and early the next day.
We wanted to go to Teak for dinner, but couldn't even find a parking spot. We ended up at a sports bar that was in the midst of changing names and menus..but the food was good, and everyone was in a great mood, so it was fine. Back to the hotel to sleep, couldn't wait to get up and check in to the Hard Rock!
I hate trip reports without pictures, but I barely took any today...so here's a pic of my daughter looking at me and my son looking out the plane window .
It looks like my pics arent showing up according to the preview..I'll see what I can do about that before I continue on..
ETA-now they're showing fur me, hope they are for you, too!
We got buy 2 days, get 1 free passes from UT.
Day 1- Friday-my husband had off, the kids and I went to school/work for half a day and then we were on vacation! We had a 3:30 flight from Newark. Flight was fine, picked up our bags and rental car and we were on our way...to the La Quinta across from Uni. LOL We did the same thing our last trip. My husband has a friend that's a manager, so he gets us a free room. We just stay there our arrival night, then check into our Universal hotel bright and early the next day.
We wanted to go to Teak for dinner, but couldn't even find a parking spot. We ended up at a sports bar that was in the midst of changing names and menus..but the food was good, and everyone was in a great mood, so it was fine. Back to the hotel to sleep, couldn't wait to get up and check in to the Hard Rock!
I hate trip reports without pictures, but I barely took any today...so here's a pic of my daughter looking at me and my son looking out the plane window .
It looks like my pics arent showing up according to the preview..I'll see what I can do about that before I continue on..
ETA-now they're showing fur me, hope they are for you, too!