So after eating ourselves sick, we were ready to get off the boat and walk it all off! We arrived back in port and headed right over to our resort--The Royal Pacific. W-O-W! This was hands down the NICEST resort I've ever stayed in. Even Carlie said, "Wow! This place is HG TV legit!" This place was definitely not the cheapest place to stay but we stayed here because, #1-It was close to Universal Studios, and #2-We got into the parks an hour earlier than opening AND free "Express Passes" to all the rides---TOTALLY 100% worth it!!!
Check out our resort:
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| We ran into Gru at check in!!! |
So we spent our first day relaxing at our hotel pool. Then we headed over to the park (using our super cool resort water-taxi that took us from our resort to Universal Studios and back:) to watch The Blue Man Group. OH MY GOSH! The Blue Man group was HILARIOUS!!! We absolutely LOVED this show!!!
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| Our Water Taxi |
Universal Studios: (Days 6 & 7):
We hit the ground running the next morning to make sure we got there in plenty of time for our one hour early entrance. Most important stop...Harry Potter's Wonderful Wizarding World!!! I have wanted to go here for years!!! Our whole family are HUGE Harry Potter fans!!! And this place did not disappoint! We LOVED LOVED LOVED it!!! The attention to detail in the park is impeccable.
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| Entrance to Hogsmeade |
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| The Owl Post |
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| Butter Beers!!! |
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| Waiting for the Hogswarts Express |
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We used the train to get us between the 2 different
parks here at Universal Studio--the train ride
presentation was different each way:) |
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| Inside the train cars! |
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| The Knight Bus!!! |
The Hogwarts Castle and Diagonally!
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| Weasley's Wizard's Wheezes!!! |
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Tatum got her Luna Lovegood wand
at Olivander's Wand Shoppe! |
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The "Vanishing Cabinet" inside
Bourgen and Burkes |
Gringott's Bank!!!
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The chandelier inside the bank--
kinda reminded me of the Gilbert Temple
chandlier:) |
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| The Goblins busy at work inside Gringott's! |
We spent most of our time in the Harry Potter section but branched out to all the other rides as well. We LOVED having our Express Passes. The longest we waited for any ride was 20 minutes! I was not expecting that in the middle of summer! So we seriously rode every ride we wanted and as many times as we wanted--my kids felt so important waving their Express Passes around:) We hit the water rides in the middle of the day to keep cool. We seriously spent our entire first day at the park 7 am to 10 pm--only taking a short lunch and dinner break. Our kids were troopers!
We didn't take many other pictures as we were focused on rides but here are a few more.
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Max loves the Simpsons and wanted
a picture with Millhouse. |
There were several shows available in the park (we cared mostly about the rides) but we managed to hit just one. My animal-loving kids wanted to see the animal show. SUPER cute! The show highlight was definitely "Frank" the pug star in Men in Black!!!
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| DANG!!! He's cute!!! |
On our last day of vacation, we again hit the ground running to make sure we took in all our favorite rides at least one more time. By the time we headed out to get dinner to catch our flight home, we were thoroughly EXHAUSTED! But it was absolutely WORTH the exhaustion. We ended this family vacation on a bang! We got home at midnight and then needed a couple days to recover from our vacation. It sure stinks getting back to normal life! Realizing that there's really no Hogwarts:( But we sure enjoyed it while we were there. The Wonderful Wizarding World of Harry Potter is the Meeker family MOST favorite theme park we've ever been to! AWESOME family vacation and AWESOME family memories...CHECK! Summer 2016 ROCKED!
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