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Why would anyone want to walk?? Don't you get enough at the parks??
No matter how you dice it. Adding up a trip of resort, food, park tickets, and merch. Universal is closer to half the price of Disney world. And it’s more thrilling. For adults and kids. It’s a no brainer why universal is on an uptrend and people are complaining Disney out pacing inflation year over year.
Universal express is better than Disney premier pass.and it’s much much cheaper. Built in to the cost of their deluxe Disney would never. Not even a free multi pas with them.
Note for any viewers: Hagrid's now accepts express pass.
Please do a must-do list for a 1 day 2-park ticket for a Disney guest! Thanks!
Can you do a video specifically about hotels that offer an express pass and compare each hotel.
I want Universal to make a Mummy suite. I'd stay in it every time I visit.
Hopefully Universal forces Disney to come back to the OG standard
I thought for sure that Hagrid’s had an express lane. If it wasn’t one, then what was it?
is hagrids gonna get express once epic opens up
I need a suite with 2 bathrooms!
I'm loving the Universal videos!!
The categories recently changed to Value inn and Suites (Endless Summer and Cabana Bay), Prime Value (Terra Luna, Stella Nova, and Aventura), and Signature Collection (Portophino Bay, Royal Pacific, Hard Rock, Saphire Falls, and Grand Helios)
It’s a bit confusing because Saphire and Helios don’t offer included express passes and Cabana Bay has more amenities than all the prime values put together lol
Nice topic.
Royal Pacific has always been the go to hotel for me to go to. The Express Pass Unlimited alone makes that line of hotels the way to always go imo.
The boats at Universal are better than Disney. They are open air (so not stuffy), there is music, sometimes a joking captain, and they have dedicated security!
The hotels all have a text services to the front desk for anything you need.
Very excited for DFB to start getting into the great Universal resort restaurants!
We think Universal hotels are superior to Disney. We definitely prefer them!
The biggest difference is the ticket combos are cheaper and I can usually find rooms even 3 weeks out at Universal which is a lot harder at Disney unless you want to pay $300 or more a night.
What a fun video! Thanks for the great information!
Stayed in portofino bay in june 24. It was awful. Old room. Not worth the price. Closed off areas due to construction. Construction noise and smell.
My biggest bummer right now with Universal is that I have an Owner's Locker, and they don't allow delivery there. I think there was some issue during the pandemic when they had reduced bell staff, and now Loews won't let them drop off my Owner's Locker when I visit — I have to stop and pick it up and drop it off at the warehouse.
The express pass is the only reason I booked a premier hotel. I don’t care about luxury, I just want to skip long line!
The categories of hotel has changed. There is Value Inn and Suites (dockside, surfside, cabana bay). Prime value ( Aventura, Stella nova, Terra Luna) , and Signature hotels ( Sapphire, royal pacific, hard rock, Portofino, Helios)
Even though I much prefer to stay at a Disney hotel, mostly because it's a lot easier and quicker to get back to my room on a night after the Happily Ever After fireworks at Magic Kingdom, or Fantasmic at Hollywood Studios, that is not to say that I've ruled out staying at Universal hotel altogether, because I haven't. If there ever comes a time where for some reason I can't stay at a Disney hotel anymore, then I'll turn to a Universal one as a backup, but only a backup. But I don't see that happening anytime soon. Still, thanks for the video though
Disney is cooked.
Ok, let’s all be honest, AJ is simply perfect 😊🍾🥂🎆
Happy new year aj 🥳love the universal studios resorts so beautiful hopefully I get to save enough money 💴 to go to universal studios Orlando never been and I really want to go
I knew about the Loews Portofino but had no idea there were so many other options.