How much time do we need at Harry Potter at Universal?

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Anonymous wrote:We love Universal. Go to HP early both days. How old are your kids? Forbidden Journey is not that bad. My 6yr old went on it and loved it. The walk thru is amazing. Other rides/shows at both parks my kids loved was (besides HP)

Minions
Transformers
Shrek
Spiderman ride
Ripsaw Falls
Jurassic Park Ride
Popeye's Water barges
Pterendon Flyers
X-Men Excelerators
the cat in the hat rides
Woody Woodpecker coaster
ET
Simpsons ride
Men in Black ride (like Buzz light year in Disney)

The Jurrasic Park play areas were so much fun too.
The Cat and the Hat show was cute
Curious George play area. Even older kids LOVED this. Tons of water play areas and inside the building is a huge interactive ball shooting play area. I think my 6yr old spent 45 minutes in there. She loved it.

We also tend to take breaks in the middle of the afternoon and go back to the pool. Unless the parks close early. Then we do the pool at night. It depends on the weather. There are a lot of fun restaurants/shops at Citiwalk too.

This was our experience too. We loved all the other rides in addition to the HP areas. Men in Black and Simpsons were our favorites. The Mummy is a somewhat intense indoor roller coaster that was also fun (my 9 yo went on it twice). There are a lot of simulator type rides (similar to Soaring in Epcot and Star Tours in Hollywood Studios). As far as shows, we really liked the Horror Makeup show at Universal Studios -- it is hilarious! We did a park each day and then had a third day to go back and hit some of our favorites. We like Universal better than Disney for older kids (ours are 8 and 9). Have fun!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are HP fans and found less than one day of things to do there. So disappointing. It is largely shops. No thanks, I don't need to spend money to spend money. And the rest of Universal was so old and depressing. We did like the ET ride. We did not do the big roller coasters.

If you were a HP fan you would've admired how the parks "took" you to Hogwarts, Diagon Alley, and really put you there. Yes, we absolutely spend hours wandering around the shops taking it all in. True fans will do the same, which isn't you.

You are too funny/really weird.