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Which Disney hotel did you stay at?
Been a while since we went but Blue Spring state park was class. Swimming, manatees, alligators, boat tours, canoeing.
Pop Century. Didn’t think I was going to like it as much as I did because it seemed a bit kiddy (to be expected with Disney I suppose) and we don’t have many young kids in the group. Loved it though, really nice homely feel and the staff were great. Whole setup was great, regular and quick bus shuttles to the parks and the Skyline on the doorstep for some parks as well which we loved. Universal has been the second part of the holiday, equally as good and the hotel actually ‘nicer’ but we’ve all missed Disney. Overall a fantastic holiday, not that much rain either and when it has rained it’s generally just lasted a couple of hours before cracking the pavements again. Saw a belting couple of storms in our first few days, excellent viewing.
Ideal. Pop Century looked decent, especially for the kids. We stayed at the next stop up on the skyline (CBR) and called there for food a couple of times.
That's where we're stopping in October so good to hear, just the 4 of us, kids 9 and 4.
Nice mate, you’ll all love it. For Universal we stayed in the Dockside Inn Endless Summer. Was a lovely hotel as well, and only 5 min shuttle to the Universal parks. Landed just after 5am this morning and back home now
.We went on an airboat tour at Wild Florida which was good fun spotting gators etc only about 30 miles outside of Disney but it’s out in the sticks and there’s also a car safari there.
I quite liked Daytona, the beach and the racetrack tour. They let us walk on the track. You can drive your car onto the beach an arl which I'm sure we did just for the novelty value.
Velocicoaster wins for the best coaster at those parks for me now. Thought it was tremendous
Aye it was brilliant that, a great addition to make IoA even better. Neck and neck between that and Stardust Racers at Epic but I personally lean towards that slightly, but wouldn’t strongly disagree with anyone picking Velocicoaster. Bizarrely the queue times were so low when we were at IoA. Everything except Harry Potter’s Hagrid ride (also class), had waiting times of 30 mins and often very less. Stardust the same tbf, yet some of what I’d class the lesser attractions at some of the Disney parks for example had massive queues at times.
A lot of people don’t like the faster/extreme coasters, so they will usually have lower wait times than a tamer ride.
I went on it 3 years ago and loved it. Proper intense ride. Love how they give you handles to hold on with 3 fingers max like a proper dinosaur.
True, although in the Disney parks the fast and extreme ones like Tron, Guardians of the Galaxy and so on had massive queues. Might be because the Universal leg of the holiday strayed into September? Epic is a good park, had just hoped for more extreme fast rollercoasters but I suppose as you say, they aren’t to everyone’s tastes. The Harry Potter land is impressive. One of the biggest let downs was a few things kept breaking down when we were there, including the Harry Potter one while I was on it - which was disappointing because it was off due to an issue while we were stuck in the queue as well. Ended up just being taken off the rest of the ride and got given a free express pass for any ride of my choice so I used it to do Stardust again. The queues for most things Harry Potter related at any park are mental.
The coasters in Disney aren’t at the extreme end of the scale. Guardians is fast and brilliant, but there’s no big drops or loops. Same for Tron.
I would disagree about Rock and Roller and Everest being more extreme personally than Tron or Guardians, love all 4 of them though. Guardians was canny intense (in a good way for me) from what I recall, and Tron has the speed and height. Rock and Roller is canny extreme I suppose with its speed and sharp turns.
