The cheeky not so bargain trip! Part 2

Day 3 – 20^th June

Today we were checking in to the Royal Pacific Resort for 1 night so we walked across from the Doubletree to get our express passes.

The room was already ready at around 9am so we popped up to the room and then took the Water taxi back to citywalk.

 

We decided to start with Universal Studios. Now it has been several years since we last visited (think we were here in 2009) and despite many people saying that Universal is better than Disney I was still sceptical.

We started off at Rip Ride Rockit which was a great ride – I chose KC and the Sunshine band whilst Rob went with NERD or something.

 

We then wandered across to Transformers which is a good ride (we had already experienced it in California).

I was determined to meet Bumblebee on this trip so we went to check out the meet ‘n’ greet but it was the turn of Optimus Prime. We did stop to see him and then decided to come back to see Bumblebee later.

Next ride was The Simpsons which was ok but not really exciting. We quickly followed it with Men In Black which was quite fun – although as usual Rob got a higher score than me :(

 

 

We took a little wander around and then used our passes to skip the ridiculous line for Despicable Me – although it still took us around 20 minutes.

We then popped back across to Disaster – not much changes here! Lunch was then had at Mels Diner (I think!) – I had a chicken burger thing and Rob had a burger and I had a ‘milkshake’ which was more like soft serve icecream.

At this point we decided to head across to Islands of Adventure. We started off with the Hulk which was a fun ride but hurt my head a little!

 

 

We then had a quick (very short) ride on Doctor Doom’s Fearfall – which we expected to be like Tower of Terror but it only had one drop and then it was pretty much over!

Up next was Spiderman which was an odd experience as about halfway around the effects stopped working – no sound or film showing but the ride kept on going around. We got to the end and the team members were unconcerned – no offer to re-ride or anything!

 

We decided to not bother trying again so we moved onto attempt Ripsaw Falls. We paid for a locker and headed into the line only to find that the ride had just broken down :(

We decided to leave our stuff in the locker and take a ride on Jurassic Park before collecting our things and headed into the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

The line for Forbidden Journey was posted as 30 minutes so we decided to give it a try. We actually waited a few minutes longer but it was a reasonable wait :) The ride was good – a nice mix and a good length of time.

We took a few photos and then decided we were done for the day (it was around 5pm).

 

 

 

 

So we started our walk back to the Doubletree to get an overnight bag. We got back to citywalk and there was a mega rain storm, we waited it out and then continued across.

 

 

We drove back across quickly with our bag and then took the car back to the Doubletree (I didn’t want to pay parking to both places).

We got a bit more exercise walking back across to the Royal Pacific. We got showered and went to citywalk for dinner – we chose an Italian place – Vivo. Rob had pizza and I had a pasta dish and then we had dessert which I think was cheesecake for me and I’ve forgotten Rob’s!

Back to the hotel to sleep :)