Hey everyone, it's Jacqueline for Pixie Dust PhD. In today's video we will be doing
a brief room tour of our room at the Loews Royal Pacific at Universal Orlando resort--stay tuned!
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notification whenever I upload a new video. We are spending one night at the Royal Pacific. I think
after taxes it was about $350 for one night. It's a Monday night; today is a Labor Day
in America. I believe once you do three or more nights the nightly rate goes down quite a bit,
but it still ended up being five or so hundred dollars more than us doing the split stay between
the Doubletree and here if we had stayed the whole time at Loews Royal Pacific. But this is our first
time staying on site at Universal. We're really excited to check it out, and see if perhaps in the
future maybe it will be worth it to pony up and pay to stay on site. This morning we checked out
of the Doubletree across the street and then drove over to Loews Royal Pacific. Parking I believe is
$28 or $29 a night if you do bring a car, and then I checked in around 8:15 this morning. They do
what's called a pre-check-in. Obviously the room wasn't ready--we certainly weren't expecting that,
so that's not a big deal. But I was told that they sort of assign rooms as they become available
just based on the order of folks arriving. So the earlier you arrive in the morning the higher
chance it is that you'll get your room earlier in the day. I’m filming this during our midday break.
It's a little bit before 3 p.m. now, but I did get a text that our room was ready around 10:30
a.m. So we could have come back to the room much sooner had we wanted. We were assigned room 1622,
that's over in the tower one section of the resort. We booked a standard king room, and so
far I am super happy with everything. The entryway is painted this fun green color. It's a very lush
themed resort, which I guess makes sense for Royal Pacific. This specific room obviously could be an
adjoining room because we have this door, but we are just using this to store our luggage for
right now. We may end up moving the luggage, but honestly it's a it's a pretty good little spot
to store your suitcases, so that's a nice little storage bonus area. Then moving in a little bit.
First thing on your right after you come in the front door is a closet space. So here is your
typical closet amenities: we have a wall safe; there's an ironing board as well as an iron;
definitely some good space up top for the shelf and down below to store your things; and then I
guess it's standard to have ten hangers--five with the belt clips and five just standard hangers.
Turning around then on the left after you enter is the bathroom area. So there is one
sink and definitely some counter space--it's not huge, but it's more than sufficient.
And what I like about this is it comes with--you have your soap to wash up,
you also get a shower cap, and then you get hand cream and body cream, so a nice lotion,
as well as hand and body wash--so liquid soap. Doubletrees to my knowledge don't come with liquid
soap, so it's nice to see that. And then you have some disposable cups as well. Obviously you've
got your Kleenex. I thought this was a nice touch: you have some wrapped up q-tips; let's see little
packs of four. And these are tiny little cotton swab packs. So that's fun. And if we're being
honest, I’m probably going to take some of these with me and keep them with my travel stuff if
I don't use them. Then you have this really nice ornate mirror, and then pretty beautiful lighting
on either side. You do have a makeup mirror; so there is standard magnification and what I assume
is 5x magnification, and it does light up. And you can move it to your liking for the most part,
so that's a nice perk for sure. Luxury hotel. And then here you have this huge full-length mirror,
massive. So again, there's a lot of mirrors in here, which if you have more than one person in
your party that's always nice. Towels and such are stored below the sink, as is the hair dryer.
And you have some more storage space--space down there if you want to store your bathroom things.
Bathroom itself does have this pocket door with the frosted glass.
And then, I’m not sure if this is standard in all the rooms, but we have
a walk-in shower--so there is no tub, just a walk-in shower. But it looks really nice.
Multiple options for the water, small shelf to set down your razor, face wash, other things.
And then in the little basket you get color safe shampoo, color safe conditioner, and then a bar
of soap--but obviously if you don't want to use the bar of soap you can bring in the liquid soap
from the sink. I certainly will be doing that. And then you have this very cute little palm leaf
piece of artwork, and, you know, standard toilet. But your sink area is totally separate from your
shower and toilet area, which of course is nice to aid--aid in people getting ready at the same time.
Moving into the main living space, you have your AC control, wonderful. And then here we have our
king bed. Bedside table. And lamp on either side. This fun piece of artwork, which I think might be
printed on metal--it has a lot of sheen to it when you move in the light, or they used some metallic
paints especially in the fiery bits. That's nice. TV. Each side of the TV stand has three drawers;
these are a little bit small, but I mean you can definitely fit a decent amount in there.
These two doors are more important. Here you have your off-brand coffee maker; you get
a couple of little pods of caffeinated coffee, decaf, and then green tea, as well as
condiments, packaged creamer. Down here is your ice bucket and cups. And then on the left side
of this main cabinet is again your standard tiny little fridge. Technically I guess has a
freezer compartment, but we all know that doesn't work… so yeah, your tiny fridge is under the TV.
Back to the bedside tables,
they gave us a little thing of branded hand sanitizer and that's fun and a sign of the
times. Both bedside tables have this electronic setup where you have one USB port and two actual
plugs. And like the lamps and phone and stuff aren't using any of them, so that's nice. And then
you have a small drawer as well as a small open space below if you want to store anything there.
Moving past the bed then we have this desk; there's Adam, we're chilling. It's pretty big
desk actually. And on both sides of the lamp you have again the USB and two proper plugs;
lamp doesn't use either of those, so that's nice. Another mirror
in case you wanted more mirrors. It's definitely nice for bouncing in the
light. Then on this side we have a couch, and I’m pretty certain that this is a pull-out bed.
So I think it's probably a double; it looks... it's too big to be a twin, it's too small to
be a queen, so I’m pretty sure it's a double. So we booked a king room and I guess it comes
with a double sofa? I don't recall that from the booking, but that's cool. I don't know if I would
squeeze four people in this room. It definitely feels a little bit smaller than our room at the
Doubletree, but it also feels a lot nicer. So pros and cons. And then the wall behind the bed and
behind the couch is this beautiful feature wall. In general the room has a lot of rich textures;
like look at how cool that this night lamp is, and this lampshade also pretty cool. Then, and again
we booked a standard room--we didn't pay for an upgrade, I wasn't told we got any sort of upgrade,
we have this awesome pool view. Who would have guessed? So there's these beautiful palm trees,
pool's right there, if you tilt this way you can see that sort of man-made waterway where the boats
go, there's like a little fake beach area down there that some people dragged some chairs to
to hang out in… so yeah, a really wonderful view. Unexpected--a very nice surprise.
And then just like the Doubletree there's two sets of curtains: you have your blackout curtains,
and then your sort of more decorative curtains. There's your basic overview of our standard king
room at Loews Royal Pacific. This is our first day on property at Universal, and honestly
this room is pretty nice. The lobby's really impressive and nice; all the staff have been
top-notch, so fantastic like above and beyond. Super kind. Really welcoming. Also I really
appreciate that for the most part they call me Dr. instead of Ms. or Mrs., which I know is a
small thing and kind of an uppity thing. But I do put that my prefix is doctor, so, you know,
if you're gonna use a title it's nice when they use the right one. For the most part I just go
by Jacqueline, but obviously in hospitality no one's calling guests by their first name.
I think we are going to shower and probably take a little snoozle before we head out to the parks.
It once again has been a very hot day, so it's nice to have the room ready to come back to before
that guaranteed time of 4 p.m. Again, if you want higher chances of getting a room earlier,
at least at this resort, do your pre-check in early because it seems like they just go down the
line--at least that's what I was told. We'll be sure to report back on how comfortable the bed is,
and water pressure, and if we use the pool, which I think we might try to tonight because it looks
pretty fantastic, in another vlog. So be sure to stay tuned to the channel!
Brief update on the room and the hotel. So we did both shower pretty quickly after we last spoke for
the room tour, and the shower's phenomenal. The water pressure is great, the temperature is great,
I really love that little shelf in the back--it makes like washing your feet so much easier. So
A++. We have hung out on the bed; we took like a little rest, but it wasn't a full-on nap,
but that does seem comfy and so I think tonight will be fine. We are also both pretty tired,
so I’m sure it's a comfy bed. But yeah, so that's the update on the room. We did also go check
out the pool. We were hoping to go down there tonight sort of after parks, but there's been
intermittent lightning in the area; you can see it it's not super close, but you definitely can tell
like--you can see in the sky. So, you know, the pool is very much weather permitting, and weather
is not permitting right now. So we didn't get a chance to really hang out at the pool, but we did
walk around. And oh--there's just the lightning flash. We did walk around it and it looks very
nice. A lot of people were enjoying it, but there still were pool chairs; like it wasn't overly
crowded. So yeah, that was great. We did also have dinner at the main, I guess, restaurant. There's a
few here. But it was at the Island's dining room. They were participating in a magical dining--or
restaurant week, but like month here. So it's $37 for three courses; you get an appetizer,
an entrée, and a dessert. We both also just add on a glass of wine extra. After tax and tip we
ended up paying a little under $125, so it was an expensive meal--it's definitely not cheap. But for
what you get it was phenomenal. It was fantastic. They didn't nerf the portion sizes; like
everything was full size. So we got--we both got a Thai salad to start. It was a full size, like big
salad, and it was delicious. It was so good. And then we both also got a bulgogi marinated rib eye
steak entrée--is that correct? --Yeah, you got it. --It came with cilantro rice and some broccolini,
and it was thin but it was cooked so well. And I think because it was thin the marinade
came through in a really lovely way. It was so good. It was so good. We both ate all of
it and pretty quickly because it was just so delicious we weren't even talking hardly any.
And then for dessert you got an Oreo something… --Yeah, it was a yin yang Oreo cookie
basically. It was like… --But it wasn't a cookie. --Yeah it was like a mousse with a ginger center.
–Yeah. --Candy ginger center on top of an Oreo crumble crust. –Yeah. --So there's like a thin
crust and then like some vanilla mousse and some chocolate mousse, but then the center had
this like candied ginger. It was so good. That one definitely won. And I got a macadamia nut
layer cake that was coated in chocolate. It was also really tasty, it just didn't have as many
complexities as Adam’s dessert. And certainly like the texture was the same through all my
dessert, which I was kind of surprised about because I thought it would be macadamia nut
chunks. But I think it was like a macadamia nut butter. It was still delicious. The whole meal
was just--it was so good. I am floored, honestly. --Magical dining is quite the deal. --Yeah. --At least
at these resort restaurants, which we've gone two for two getting these full-sized portions.
$37 per head. You know, these hotel resort prices would normally be probably 50% more easily. --Like
the steak we had tonight on the menu, which I think is the same size, it's forty dollars alone.
So we paid $37, which is less than $40, and then also got an appetizer and a dessert. So yeah,
it was so good price wise, the flavor was fantastic, I honestly can't believe that
like a hotel restaurant was that tasty. I don't really know much about the Loews restaurant group
in general at Universal. Maybe they're known for really good chefs and food? But I certainly would
recommend it if you can get a deal. Even if you can't get a deal, if you're just sort of tired of
sandwiches and like good but, you know, theme park food… I might pony up the money
to get like a really nice meal here. I don't think I’d get all three courses. --Right. --We
don't normally get three courses. But yeah, I would come and pay for an entree and a glass
of wine and be very happy with my purchase. So there's your update on the hotel. We are
checking out tomorrow. I’m a little bit sad just because this is such a nice place,
and we don't have a ton of time to hang out and explore. But checking out means we are
one day closer to Disney! --Yeah. I’m very excited. Looking forward to that and a busy day tomorrow.
So looking to hopefully get some rest tonight, get ready. --Yeah, it's going to be a long day
tomorrow. So while the pool being closed is a bummer and it--it kind of ruined our plans,
maybe we'll get more sleep than we would have otherwise. So perhaps a blessing in disguise. --We'll see.
--Yeah. I--at least from the little that we know of this one day, in the one stay--I have nothing bad
to say about Loews Royal Pacific. Everything has been fantastic. The room is great, the shower's
great, the pool complex that we didn't get to go into… the pool--we walked down the area, it was
beautiful. All of the staff have been phenomenal. The restaurant's great. The location is obviously
really good, so—[The next day.] Hello! So as a last update about the hotel we figured out the
one wrong thing with it. The bed was fantastic. We slept really well. It's currently Tuesday morning,
so we are all packed up. And you can text to check out, which is awesome.
So we're gonna do that a little bit later. But basically the walls are pretty thin. So--and
it's a luck of the draw who your neighbors end up being. Ours were definitely two probably
elementary school kids, a baby or a toddler, and then parents. And they weren't yelling
by any means, but--and you couldn't hear every word they were saying, like you couldn't make out
the exact conversation--but they were definitely loud. And it definitely woke us up at like 6 a.m.
Early park admittance for hotel guests today was at 7 a.m. to Studios, so I think they were excited
and rushing to get ready for that. And we weren't planning on waking up until about seven, so yeah.
That's the one big negative about the hotel. Everything else has been fantastic though,
and yeah we're looking forward to our last day in the parks. But that's what you need to know about
Loews Royal Pacific! [Yesterday.] Yeah definitely something to think about… if you want to splurge
for an on-site hotel this is the cheapest I believe, if not one of the cheaper for sure,
options of the deluxe category at Universal. So then it also does come with Unlimited Express
pass for your stay, including your full check in and your full check out days. So that's definitely
something to think about. And we did utilize express quite a lot today… you can see that
in a vlog that will post or has already been posted depending--but I’ll update you all for
sure. But that is surprisingly efficient. I’m not sure if I would pay for it rack rate, but
having it being included in the price of the hotel makes it more appealing for sure.
--Yeah, they definitely get you with the whole environment, including the boats and the proximity and
the Express pass. It's a good value add. TBD if it's completely worth it,
but... -Yeah, we'll still have to think about that. I do feel spoiled being this much closer to on
property compared to the Doubletree, which is where we've always stayed in the past because
monetarily that's such a good deal. It's hard to pass up. So we'll have to think about that
more later. If you have stayed on property at Universal at Royal Pacific, or anywhere else,
we would love to hear what you think! Honestly, I think we're both pretty impressed with this
place. The whole thing has been wonderful, and especially the theming I think fits us
very well. It's like tropical and lush and vibrant, and it's just so fun to be in. Hope
the rest of your day is super magical, and we'll see you real soon at Pixie Dust PhD! Bye! Bye!