In today's video we are going to talk about what you should not do when you're at Universal
Orlando
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ago we made a video about five mistakes that people make when planning their Universal
vacation planning is only half the battle so what we figured we do in today's video
is talk about 5 mistakes that you should avoid making when you are actually at the parks
number 5 on our list is don't push yourself too hard we are the world's worst about doing
it our typical day in the Parks we average about 30,000 steps so at the end of a weeklong
vacation we're done like when we come home we just move our bed into the kitchen to walk
in the fridge to get something to drink [pretending to drink] this isn’t butterbeer my feet
hurt and it is downhill from there it takes us like a week to recover so don’t do it
to yourself when a lot of people visit Universal they feel like they don't have enough time
to get everything done that they want to so they push themselves too hard they walk further
than they should they wait until they're starving to get something to eat and they wait until
they're already dehydrated to stop and get a drink so every once in a while you just
have to stop and take a break we get it you want to get as much done as possible when
you're in the Parks but you also don't want to come home and feel like you need a second
vacation just to recover if you only got like two days in the parks we kind of understand
like you're going to push because you want to get as much done as possible and you are
kind of time crunched but if you’ve got 4 or 5 plus days take it easy you’ll regret
back end of that trip pushing yourself like the first three days like we always tend by
that last day we’re just like I wish we hadn't walked 40,000 steps yesterday that
way we could enjoy the day it's just as easy to do to easy to get caught up and being in
the theme parks but trust us you will thank yourself if you'll just take some breaks here
and there just take some time to take care of yourself make sure that you drink plenty
of fluids eat something other than churros and butterbeer fudge I disagree I totally
disagree actually yes drink some frozen butterbeer you need to get something with some protein
into your diet I’m pretty sure frozen butterbeer might have some kind of protein and make sure
that you take breaks when you’re tired fourth on our list is don't discount any of the rides
and this is specifically for people that have never been to the park before and what we
mean by this is don't avoid any of the attractions just because you've heard bad reviews I kind
of disagree no seriously if you've never ridden a ride you should at least try it once on
this channel we do give a lot of grief to certain attractions at the park, Shrek and
Fast and Furious, I'll just come out and say it but it’s because we’ve ridden them
enough to see if there was something we were missing and we still don't enjoy them but
something that happens on those rides is that there’s still wait times so there are obviously
people that enjoy them and you might as well like just because we don't like not every
ride is made for us or not every ride is made for you you have to see what you like for
example Anna here one of her favorite rides in the parks is Storm Force I love it and
I don’t know if I’ve ever even seen someone waiting to ride that ride it’s been just
about as busy while it’s been closed as when it’s been open we’ll walk up and
be like oh we’ve got express pass and they’re like that’s real cool whichever one you
want it’s yours we really do think that every ride at Universal is worth experiencing
at least once number three on our list is don't come unprepared and we actually mean
this in two separate ways the first way is that you want to make sure that you get into
the parks with Everything that you're going to need for the day so that you don't have
to go all the way back to your hotel room that’s a lot of walking that you will not
want to be doing it’s also going to take time out of your day so you're going to want
to make sure that you have sunscreen you’re in Florida you’re going to need sunscreen
you also want to make sure that you have a portable charger for your phone and if there's
rain in the forecast you want to make sure that you have a poncho you are in Florida
you’re gonna need a poncho another thing to think about is any kind of medications
that you might need throughout the day so if you're prone to motion sickness you want
to make sure that you have medication for that or pain medication for headache or anything
else that you might need the second way that you should prepare for your trip is by knowing
what you want to get done at the parks we suggest making a list of everything that you
want to get done and prioritizing those things first we've heard several people say that
you can't get everything done at Universal unless you have 3 days or it's not even worth
visiting the parks unless you have that much time and we couldn't disagree more the fact
is some people just don't have that luxury a day or two is all the time that they can
have in the parks and we’ve had plenty of trips where we felt they were successful and
only had a maybe a day and a half of time actually in the parks and that's because we
were prepared our preparation is a little bit different we've been there so much that
we know the things that we want to do when we get there but if you've never been or if
you haven't been that often that's what you should do like make a list of like maybe 10
things that you just have to get and then everything that you do after that is just
icing on the cake it’s a great mentality to have and it’ll really make you feel like
you get the most out of your trip a great way to plan for your trip is by downloading
the universal mobile app of course this is an invaluable tool while you're actually in
the Parks to see wait times and things like that but ahead of time you can familiarize
yourself with where attractions are in the park yeah they have like maps of both parks
where you can see exactly where everything is located and you can also use this inside
the park to help you navigate around each location you can actually see where you're
at and you know maybe it can help you find the entrance to Diagon Alley you don’t know
how many times we've been at the parks and people are like huh is this diagon alley I
thought there was a dragon is that purple bus the dragon? Like you hear all kind of
crazy things and if you have the mobile app it’s going to make things a lot easier like
you can really see where things are located and you might even be able to find the entrance
to Diagon Alley second on our list is don't miss out on early Park admission in our what
not to do when planning video we talked about the benefits of staying at an on-site hotel
and one of those is that you get access to early Park admission with this access you
get into the parks and hour before everyone else and to do this you either have to have
a hotel room key or you have to have one of the top two tier annual passes so with early
Park admission it's geared more towards the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in both parks
but there are some other attractions that are open like minions or velocicoaster two
extremely similar attractions I just picked one in each park they are identical but with
early park admission you can take advantage of things like Ollivander’s wand shop you
can go to the ollivanders wand experience you can eat breakfast at the three broomsticks
or the Leaky cauldron you can get a butterbeer before the line gets huge and then you can
actually wrap around and get another butterbeer and double fist it and when people who are
walking in who didn’t have early park admission are walking in you can just laugh at them
like enjoy waiting an hour or you could even ride Hagrid’s or Velocicoaster before the
lines really start to pile up or you can get a butterbeer with early Park admission sometimes
it's in both Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure but sometimes it is only in one
park or the other so you do want to make sure that you know where it is before you get there
and that comes back to downloading the Universal app you can see where early Park admission
is on that app see this circular it’s a circular argument one of the really great
benefits to early park admission is that if you don’t have express passes you can get
to ride some of these attractions before the lines get extremely long I believe we had
a comment not too long ago that was talking about getting into early Park admission in
the middle of June or July like so a busy time of year and And it was at islands and
they got to ride Hagrid's and then Velocicoaster I think they said three times before the park
opened to normal guests and and that's the thing like if you want to make the most of
your trip get there early you’re not only going to avoid lines but you’re going to
avoid some of that heat as well yeah this is a great tip and one thing to remember as
well is that express passes don’t work during early Park admission so it's a really great
time to take advantage of that and number one on our list is don't let the wait times
scare you we have been in the Parks where we have seen some insane wait times like well
over 200 minutes and we see people like walking up to the queue like all excited to get in
line and then they see that posted wait time and they just walk away disheartened and it
just makes us really sad because the vast majority of the time the actual wait is not
as long as the posted wait time yeah we’ve seen some really high posted wait times a
little story when we were there in March I believe and we thought it was a glitch we
walked and I think Gringotts was GINGOTTS Gringotts was right around it was about 240
minutes maybe it was 200 minutes it was somewhere in there just way too long longer than we’re
going to wait for it but right before we walked away we heard somebody say who was getting
their stuff out of a locker like wow it said it was 4 hours and we only waited an hour
didn’t know if they were talking about express we had no idea but we were willing to wait
an hour so we went ahead and got in the express line and we never stopped walking we just
walked right on and we got off and it was like did we accidentally skip part of the
line we were supposed to go through so we went and rode it again and went right on it
again moral of the story is sometimes what you see posted is not reflective of what you're
going to experience wanted to mention that that doesn't just apply for express pass if
you watched our most recent video and we'll put a link to it right here we accidentally
did an experiment where we looked at whether the posted wait times were accurate or not
and you will be shocked by the results in that video If you haven't seen it so this
doesn't just apply to express but we wanted to make sure that you knew if you did not
have Express still don't be deterred by the wait times the only real caveat to this is
when you see a low wait time for a popular attraction for example let's say that you
check the app the app circular and you see that the Mummy is only a 25 minute wait and
so you decide to head over to the mummy And when you get there you see all kinds of people
in the locker area and people just like piling in the queue but you look up and the wait
time still says 25 minutes and here comes the circular thing it’s because everyone
has downloaded the app and seen it was only a 25 minute wait and rushed to the attraction
so you go put your stuff in the locker and then you head on in to the Mummy and when
you hit the end of the line you decide to check your phone and you pull the app out
back out and you check the wait time and it now says 40 minutes so what happened in this
instance is that when people see that a popular attraction has these lower wait time there
is kind of just mad dash to it and it does take some time for that posted wait time to
kind of adjust so this is really the only exception that we have when the posted wait
might be fairly accurate but aside from that you're typically not going to wait as long
as you see alright guys that wraps up today’s video leave us a comment in the comment section
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