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[quote=Anonymous]One thing I hate about trying to plan a trip to Disney World or Universal Studios Orlando is how pricing is not transparent at all and they make it hard to understand what makes the most sense. The whole thing is designed to try and upsell you on more days and staying on property and paying for extras to skip lines and have other experiences. On the website, there's no obvious "basic experience" package that is clearly labeled and tells you exactly what is in it that would make sense for the average middle class family. They expect you to read a million blog posts or hire a Disney trip planner. It's ridiculous.

Same with Universal Studios. My kid is really into Harry Potter so I was looking into doing two days at Universal Studios this winter. I knew from other people telling me that Harry Potter is of course spread across multiple parks so I'd need a multi-park ticket. But then I went on the website and HP is actually at THREE parks. But the multi-park ticket only covers two of them. So you need to buy a separate ticket to the third park for the second day. It's idiotic to me that they don't just have a "HP Package" that will get you access to everything HP over two days. I'm not even expecting a deal on it, I just want it to be packaged in a way that is easy for me to understand and so I know where to go and don't miss something obvious until we get there and realize, like, the thing my kid is most into is in a park we don't have passes to, or we're doing them in the wrong order or whatever.

Like why make it so hard and confusing. I'm not dumb, I plan lots of vacations that involve difficult logistics. But I look at these theme park websites and just feel like I'm missing something because nothing makes sense.[/quote]

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