jump00
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Fabulous start to your trip report. WOW great pics so far! RPR is our favourite Universal hotel - did 10 nights last summer and going back again this August! Your food reviews are “dead on”.Hello! We recently returned from a fabulous trip to Disney and Universal. I've got pictures and reviews to share from our dining adventures. This was my first attempt at doing a dining report on a trip with our kids. I got about a 50% picture rate!
We had an extremely early flight and grabbed breakfast sandwiches at the airport. Nothing special, but hit the spot.
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The first three days of our trip were at Universal. We stayed at Royal Pacific for the first time.
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Amazingly our room was ready when we arrived around 9 am. Before heading into the parks, we grabbed food at the hotel quick service.
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Raspberry Jam and Cookies and Cream pop tart type things... These were fun. The raspberry one was too sweet. Cookies and Cream one was surprisingly not too sweet and very yummy. The outer crust of these were so good. We also loaded up on Starbucks caffeine!
Universal's Mardi Gras festival was going on during our trip. It reminded me a lot of Epcot's Food and Wine festival, except not as good. We experienced huge waits for food that really soured us on it. Everything tasted good though.
We got meatballs and a hot dog and a mead flight from a booth near Men in Black ride. Then we got a taco, corn, and mixed drink from the Mexico booth. We wanted more food but every line was super long.
For dinner we ate at Leaky Cauldron. We did mobile order. I really hated Universals approach to mobile order. They made you wait in a long line that moved really slowly to get seated at a table. It's like it was their way of limiting the capacity so that the kitchen can keep up. When we finally were allowed to sit down and press the "make my food" button, there were plenty of open tables. I much prefer Disney's method of using mobile order window times to control capacity because you can be doing other things while waiting. Anyway...
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Bangers and mash:
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Scotch eggs:
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Fish and chips:
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Not pictured: My kids got some fun themed drinks that they really loved. DH got Shepard's pie.
We ate here once before and love the atmosphere. It's so highly themed and immersive. I don't love the food. Generally it's kind of bland, but I'd continue to come back just for the theme.
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We ended the evening with beignets from a festival booth. They were fresh and yummy. That's the end of day one!
Brenda
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