[HPforGrownups] Re: Universal's Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Advice for My Visit? (OT)

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 191346

On 9/11/2011 2:33 PM, Augusta wrote:
> I wrote a really long post on my facebook page about our trip last year -- I won't copy the whole thing here, but these are a few tips that I offered at the end:
>
>      Go off-season in the middle of the week if you can.
>

Bart:
     I had to be in Florida early last May, just at the beginning of the 
off-season. A few more hints:

     1) For many of the rides at Universal, they have special lines for 
single riders. These are MUCH shorter. And sometimes, when there is no 
single rider line, the guard will allow a single rider on the express 
line. Even if you're with someone, you may consider going on as two 
single riders if you'd rather not wait on line for hours.

     2) It's movie-centric. I recall seeing an attendant wearing some 
kind of uniform I did not recognize. I asked her what the uniform was, 
and she chided me for not knowing; when I said that I had read the 
books, but not seen all the movies, she said it was from the movie.

     3) Hagrid's Hut is VERY hard to find if you aren't going on rides. 
It's next to the line to the Hippogryph ride; if you don't want to go on 
the ride, tell the attendant, and he or she will let you through to see 
it. You'll see Buckbeak, too.

     Bart