For Christmas I gave Dani a VIP tour of Universal Orlando. She was sick after Christmas, so she flew back to town President’s Day weekend to do it.
These tours are limited to twelve people. A guide takes you around both parks, including through some backstage areas, and lets you skip the line at ten attractions. We actually got in fifteen attractions, and then stayed a bit longer to return to the Harry Potter area so we could ride the Hogwarts Express in both directions.
The attractions we visited were:
- Despicable Me
- Rip Ride and Rockit
- Cat in the Hat
- Spiderman
- Hulk
- Olivander’s
- Hippogriff
- Forbidden Journey
- Dragon Challenge
- Hogwarts Express
- Grigotts
- Men In Black
- Simpsons
- Horror Makeup
- Mummy
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