YawningDodo
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- Sep 16, 2014
Also, I don't know if this is a popular opinion, but I feel like US is going down hill. The theming of both Harry Potter areas are fantastic (as a huge potter fan), but all the new rides they put in are using the same 3D and motion simulation technology. It feels like you're riding the same ride over and over and over again, just with a different video playing. I felt sick all day and I never struggled with motion sickness before. It was a breath of fresh air to return to Disney and go on an actual ride again.
I'm with you on this one. The Spider-Man ride was very very cool when it was the only ride like it, but now it seems like all their new rides are the same technology and style. It's still fun, but it's just all a bit...same-y. Also, I miss the Jaws ride.
Oh, I didn’t realize that you could take Magical Express one way? I thought you had to use it to be picked up and brought home, unless you just give up the option to be picked up since you were going to Universal first? Is it better to start at Universal or Disney?
When you book you can set up Magical Express to take you both ways to/from or only one way -- I'm driving in from Miami after my cruise next week, so I only have the ME taking me to the airport at the end of my stay. No problem setting that up at all. And to answer your other question (as well as your original question), if I were going to do both in a trip again I'd do a split stay and do Universal first. That was my original plan on our 2015 trip, but instead we ended up staying in a WDW resort for the entire trip and daytripping out to Universal twice by taxi. It's doable that way, but it's too much transit time for my taste and you lose the ability to go back to your room for a rest during the day or to change clothes if you get drenched on a water ride (there's always changing in a bathroom stall, buuut....). Also, I say Universal first because I like Disney better and I'd want to end on a strong note. Please note that I'm not saying not to go to Universal -- despite my comments above, I really do enjoy their parks, and their HP areas are particularly well crafted. I just found myself less enchanted by our Universal days than our Disney days.
Another thought I'd had on that last trip, though: if we'd wanted to stick with the daytrip model, it would have been the same cost to go to Universal for one day with their express pass option as going two days without. Now, we'd been there a couple times before, so ymmv, but I felt like I could have had my fill of Universal in one day if we'd had the pass to skip some of the lines.