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Universal Studios is one themepark one should not miss. As you enter the park, the famous big revolving logo will welcome you. The place is so nice especially for people like me who is not really much into wild rides! The 3d and 4d shows are really fun with moving chair, splashing water and tickling air effects. The set up of the whole park gives you the feeling of being in a movie scene. Walkways, shops and other displays looks so cinematically real :-)
Never miss the "Jaws" ride and be one of the MIB agents and fight the unwanted aliens.
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Check Universal Studios website for promos. When we purchased the tickets online they had the "Mastercard" promo wherein you can get 1 ticket free for a minimum of 4 pax (adult and child pay the same rate). The 2 days park ticket includes 3 more days free, access to citywalk and pleasure island.
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 Gateway to adventure by K.Knight
There are similar rides to those in LA with a few extras. There is the Jaws experience as well as the Twister ride, that add a little variety, along with the King Kong thrill ride.
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If you are visiting Universal / Islands of Adventure during one of the busy periods consider staying at one of the 3 on site hotels.
What we didn't realise was that you can check in very early on your first day (9am in our case!) and get your room key (even though they won't tell you the room number if the room is not ready!). You then leave your bags with the bell staff and go into the park using your key as an unlimited Universal Express (Fast Pass) on all the popular rides. Your key is also valid on the day you check out all day. So once again we left our bags and spent the day in the parks before heading to the airport.
Please note that you still need to buy your park tickets!
P.S. I did feel a little guilty about going on some rides 3 times in less than 1 hour when the main line was over 2 hours long!
P.P.S. The new Mummy ride at Universal is AWESOME. This sets the new standards for in the dark roller coasters! Leave a Comment
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This is a separate theme park from Universal Studios. It's divided in to 5 areas: Marvel Super Hero Island, Toon Lagoon, Jurassic Park, The Lost Continent, and Seuss Landing.
They have a little something for people of all ages. Great roller coaster rides are Incredible Hulk Coaster and Dueling Dragons. The water rides are a good way to stay cool during the day. Spider-Man is a neat ride. Marvel Super Hero Island is a must see for comic buffs and Seuss Landing is a must for young kids.
Busts are Doctor Doom's Fearfall and Poseidon's Fury. Leave a Comment
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 spider man lines by gcmm
Lines were very long , express the way to go Leave a Comment
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A must do. Once you do the King Kong ride, have you picture taken with Kong. It's at the exit of the ride.
Back to future ride is pretty cool.
Get a good seat for the Blues Brothers show!!!
And we all Love Lucy!!! Leave a Comment
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Universal Studios is a theme park that pays homage to some popular movies and characters. The rides vary from 3-d theatre attractions to a high speed adaventure with Mummies. It's a park that's easy to do in a day if you stay on Universal Property. Your room key from one of the hotels (ours was the Hardrock) gets you in front of the lines. This made it easy to see some of the more popular attractions such as Shrek 4-D, Twister, Revenge of the Mummy, Jaws, MIB, E.T., Disaster and Terminator 2 3-D. We really enjoyed Shrek 4D, Twister, Terminator and the Mummy. Jaws was a bit lame and predictable and E.T. was geared more towards little kids.
Universal is definitely a different experience from Disney. There is no "Disney" type experience with overly friendly staff and impeccable service. The rides are great but the staff reminds me of Six Flags in New Jersey. Just going into Universal not expecting Disney service and you'll be just fine. Leave a Comment
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Islands of Adventure is the second of Universal's parks. Islands of Adventure has more thrill rides than Universal studios. The park is divided into sections: Seuss LAnding, The Lost Continent, Jurrasic Park, Toon Lagoon and Marvel Superhero Island.
Seuss Landing and Toon Lagoon is geared more the children and families but we did ride the Dudley Do Right Log flume and Popeye & Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges.in Toon Lagoon. Dudley was a fun flume ride that didn't get us too wet. Popey and Bluto was a water rapid adventure that kept us spining and geting splashed.
The Lost Continent was fun with Posideon's Fury. It is a fun adventure where you walk into caves that look like they have ancient Greek artifacts. All of a sudden you and your groupare trapped infront of Posideon where a water and fire battle begins for supremacy of the Gods. It was a fun atraction. Dueling Dragons is one of the roller coaster rides of the park but neither of us were in the mood of seeing our breakfast for the second time.
Jurrasic Park had some awesome rides such as the Jurassic Park River Adventure and the Pteranodon Flyers. The River adventure was a great ride on boats through Jurrasic Park and the dinosaurs are free. The ride ends with T-Rex ready to eat us when the boat plummets down hill for a final splash. It's good fun.
Marvel Super Hero Island has some incredible looking coasters: Spiderman, Incredible Hulk and Storm Form Aceleratron.
Islands of Adventures was a fun Park and we had a great time here. Leave a Comment
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 Inside the ride by gcmm
hold on and enjoy.
Lines were long as this is the new ride. So if you don't want to wait go express..... Leave a Comment
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