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My Awful Universal Orlando Experience

  • Thread starter Thread starter Co@sterDuck!
  • Start date Start date Tuesday at 8:26 PM
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  • Tuesday at 8:26 PM
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Few things to Note
  • I was in a party of 11 (7 adults if you include me, 3 kids ages 3, 10, and 12, and one 2 month old baby)
  • I was in the parks the week of Halloween 2025 (Sun-Sat) Except Wednesday which was a break day
  • Each post will have the date, park, and the start and end of each day I was in the park I.e. 9:00am to 9:00 pm
  • When I say awful I really mean several things such as unlucky, not enjoyable, Bad Day, etc.
  • I had (and still have as of writing this) an Arm cast on my left arm but I think if I wanted to, I would be able to ride everything but Hulk and I think Stardust racers.
  • This will be long and very negative on some days and the opposite on others
  • I rant and complain a few times in some of the days so be warned.
  • Finally I would love if you guys left you thoughts on my trip and if its me or the parks
Sincerely-
Co@sterDuck!
 
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  • Tuesday at 9:14 PM
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First day: Sunday October 26th Universal Studios/ some of IoA
9:35 am- 8:25 pm

This was my first time I went to USO since I was about 6 months old at which I cant even enjoy the park but I was excited as this would be the first time my sisters (age 10 and 12) Had ever been to city walk let alone USO so we all dressed in our Harry Potter outfits and got into the park.
We did the usual stuff minions,mummy,Transformers,E.T, and MIB which were great but the moment had come to go to Diagon Ally but just as we left MIB it started to rain hard so we ran over the the brick entrance and had to squeeze in between people we had a stroller mind you so this was not a fun time. we ran into Quality Quidditch Supplies so I could get a hoodie to cover my cast from getting wet. we looked around for a while and I was able to get the dragon mid fire breathing on my first try in the Weasley Wizards Wheezes entrance. we then ate at the Leaky Cauldron and I had a butter beer spilled on me after waiting for 25 minuets. We then tried Gringotts and it got delayed while we had gotten in the line but it only lasted for about 20 minuets until the line started to move again. We then went to some shops and got wands then made the "Mistake" of going on the Train not because the train wasn't cool but they said it was 15 minuets when it was really 1 hour. We ended the day with Mythoes and it was cool and had great food so we ate while we were leaving I had seen some heat lightning which at the time I didn't know what it was but overall good day.
 
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Second day: Monday October 27th Epic Universe
Full park hours
This was the most hyped day even though it was only the second day because of the rides. We all woke up and put on matching shirts (Image of my shirt attached) and left in time to do the rope drop. we headed straight for Isles of Berk as soon as we all got in the park and we went to Dragon Rally Racers. Me and my dad both are sensitive to some things like spinning excessively or drops steeper than 45 degrees which meant me and him opted out and instead he got a Mac n cheese cone and we went to the training camp area with Lucy (my 3 year old Cousin) and her baby brother James who was 2 months old at the time. Lucy fought with me because in her words "Baby peach have Paci, Im baby peach, so I have Paci." this didn't help because Lucy didn't really like me she enjoyed to play with my sisters instead. by the time the others got off the ride Lucy was fighting me trying to get her to listen and after 5 minuets we all got ready and left for Dark Universe. When we arrived we had been amazed by the darkmoor town and whent to Monsters Unchained or MUC for the rest of this. MUC had an estimated wait time of about 20 minuets we went through the queue and as we entered the inside heard the first of many "Attention lab rats! The equipment is needing some extra tuning up so the doctor's work will beeeee briefly delayed" which I didn't think much of until I heard the second one in the room with the loud blue and some times orange wires and the chained up bat on the wall. Then we heard about 3 more of those still in that room and the 6th time I heard one it said it was an extended delay, 2 more of those and then we had to "evacuate" the line. as we were upset my dad went to get everyone in our party a one time use Express pass for anything but Mine cart and MoM which he shouldntve had to do that but they didn't give us them like they did for everyone else earlier so when we got them we decided to use them on MK bowsers challenge so we went to it and got a child swap pass and we got all the way up to the loading dock and we were the next to be placed in one of the rows before the ride either broke or was adding more but it took them 30 minuets before the delay was over and right as we made it to the volcano it broke down again only for 5 minuets but the smoke was still on so it was very overstimulating. We then went to the; and I'm sorry for my language; the Dog :poop: of a ride yoshi is that wont even allow anyone under 3 feet on but at Disney Worlds Pirates of the Caribbean you can bring a baby on even though it has a drop is incredibly stupid and of course the buttons don't even work for me or my sister so we're just sitting there on the ride doing nothing. I do like the ride but its a baby ride that wont allow a baby to ride so we went to the 1 up factory. I bought a little cute Diddy Kong and Donkey Kong headband and my sister got a pair of Yoshi shorts. we then tried to go on Mine cart Madness but they wouldnt let anymore people in the line because they said they were at capacity. we were gonna get some DK floats but they were allegedly out of something that was in the Floats and that we would have to wait until 9pm so we left to go to Harry Potter. Just like the first time just as we were about to go to Harry Potter it started to rain but not badly yet. we walked around a bit then left to go to our reservations for dinner at 4pm in the Blue Dragon I think it was called; as we entered a Massive thunderstorm started closing everything but MUC (which Had conveniently open up not 2 minuets ago) MoM and Mario kart. we chose to do MoM first because it was only a 20 minute wait and it was great and no breaks during the ride we rode it once more with baby swap and by then it stopped raining and most rides opened back up so we chose to go toward MUC and it was fine at first until we got to the room right before you get on the ride and then heard the delay space and stayed then we saw the lights turn on in the next room and you know the rest they kick us out and by then me and my dad had riden a total of 4 rides 2 of which were the damn Yoshi and Carousel which is a whole other thing im not ranting about so the rest of my group rode werewolf with the expresses we got from the MUC shutdown and we went to go look at shops and left but before we did leave we refunded our tickets which I disapproved but who cares I'm just a teenager with no imput when the adults are talking so not the best Epic Universe first time
 
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  • Yesterday at 12:23 AM
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feel free to let me know if its me or the park for the 27th Epic day
 
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Third Day: Tue October 28th Isles of Adventure
Full day

This day was like black and white compared to the day before. After the events of the monster incident I was skeptical about it but thought "what could go wrong" this day the little kids under 5 years old and 2 adults went to MNSSHP so we didn't have to wait with baby swap and we immediately found out that this would be great for today.
me and my father didn't have a death wish so instead of going on velocicoaster with the others we rode one of my top rides now; Harry Potter Forbidden Journey. we rode it three times this day and never once did it break. *cough Monster cough* we had a blast going on river adventure just me and my 10 year old sister and had so much fun Meeting my new sleep paralysis demon on the cat in the hat nightmare ride. ended the day with some great pizza at Pizza Predattoria which was the end of what I wish epic was like.
 
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Fourth Day: Thur October 30th Isle of Adventure
12:00pm - closing time
This day was the day we went with the group of 9 due to 2 adults leaving so we said our goodbyes and left for the park. When we arrived we went to do Kong, Spiderman, and River adventure. At this point my parents had reservations at the restaurant Victoria and Albert's near the Grand Floridian. So they took my two sisters and left leaving me my two aunts and the two little kids. Once they left it had reached 6:00 so we decided to head over to the Raptor encounter to catch that one. It was pretty fun though we didn't get a photo because we tried to get an Instax photo but the camera either had no film in it or it wouldn't take a photo. We decided to go head over to Harry Potter World and me and one of my aunts got in line flight of the Hippogriff. which had been posted as a 45-minute wait when we got in line. We thought that this couldn't Be possible so we took the time when we entered which had been 6:31 pm and waited. By the time we got up there it had reached 6:41 pm; exactly 10 minutes we did baby swap on the ride and had a great time with it and I said the words " Hey maybe Hagrid's motorbike will also be extremely shorter than it's actually posted." when we got over to the queue for Hagrids we gave our bags to one of my aunts so we could do baby swap and the other one came with me and we got in line. the estimated wait time was about 2 hours and 20 minutes or 140 minutes. we started breezing through all of the outer parts and then we got to the part right before you get indoors. There had been 2 ladies (who I assumed to be around their 50s to 60s) who were behind us though we thought nothing of it until they started spitting in my aunt's ears. When they spit in her ear she said just move forward then they started pushing us into the group in front of us which ticked me and her off. We kept moving through the queue and after about an hour we made it to the part with the dragon eggs in the room. then the old ladies started taking pictures and they stepped on my aunts foot. She looked back at them And said “can you not!!” They looked surprised that she had said something to them and then they started taking pictures almost having the phone on the back of my aunt's head. I get very heated in moments like these and I was about ready to turn around and say “it's called personal space have you ever heard of it!” Yes I have done stuff like this before but that's another story. I managed not to do this And when I focus back I realized they were speaking a different language. I don't know exactly what language it was It might have been Portuguese or French I believe But I have no idea of knowing. We made it further into the queue and then We got to the Part where the cave starts. We made it through two of the cave corridors and then Out of nowhere we started moving Extremely fast and me and my aunt thought that they were making us leave the line because it was too late and then I started saying “no, there's no way, my luck can't be this bad” and when we reached to the part where they normally express pass members in i realized that they just didn't have any more people to let in from the express lane and were finally letting the line move like they should which in retrospect shouldn't be a hard thing to do But if you know Hagrids, you know the ratio for Express Lane People To normal lane people is a terrible one. We made it to the part where you can see the cars spin around above you or To what I believe to be Hagrid's Hut with the Skrewt Or maybe I'm wrong and Just imagine things I don't know. We made it to the point where the cast told us to wait And then The two ladies behind us weren't paying attention and shoved us Or I guess ran into us Causing me To be pushed by my aunt causing me to push the cast member in front of us who looked like he was already ready To go jump off a cliff. My aunt looked back and said “oh my God can you not!?” this caused the old ladies to get very upset and if it hadn't been for the cast member being right there, my aunt probably would have gotten into a fist fight with the old ladies and I would have too. we boarded the ride and my aunt got into the motorcycle and I got into the sidecar not because she wanted to be on the motorcycle but because I couldn't ride the motorcycle due to my cast and I know you could say I could ride it. it would just be kind of uncomfortable i just chose not to risk it breaking my arm further than the way it was. After we exited the ride The old lady shoved past us to get in front of us or To get away from us And we were looking for a baby swap pass. We had asked someone At the beginning of the line where we get baby swap pass and they had said at the End of the ride you will get them So we went to the at the exit of the ride. We had asked them to get a baby swap pass and she said you're supposed to get them at the front And we We're really upset that they had said that because when people say that there's always confusion or mix-up between whenever that happens So we tell them the story That they told us to get it in the back The lady we were talking to Said to my aunt to “calm down and calm down” like we were yelling at her To give us a baby swap pass which we were not; we were being very calm About it we were not angry or mad we just needed to figure out where to go She pointed us to the baby swap room and gave us directions And we were just upset after that We went ahead to The baby swap room And we went to go get the pass from the baby swap. My aunt Who was watching the kids went to go ride the ride after some problems Trying to get the baby swap pass When she got the ride we left to go back to the Airbnb. By the time we got Back To our Airbnb You were tired and upset And just knew that this would not be A good trip If things continue like this
 
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