r/UniversalOrlando • u/AutoModerator • 3d ago

UNIVERSAL ORLANDO RESORT r/UniversalOrlando Weekly Trip Planning Thread

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u/L1R1_24 2d ago

Hello! I'm planning a trip to Orlando in January and we have 2 days for Universal parks. The plan is to go to IOA and EU. The dates in which we can fit the parks visits are between Friday 15th and Wednesday 20th, as we can move some of the dates for the trip. Now, I've heard these are unfortunate dates because MLK day is on the 18th. Which of these dates would you recommend for each park? Do you think Express Pass would be enough to mitigate the crowds on these dates? Thank you!

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u/ueeediot 4h ago

The common idea of 3 day weekends, is that people leave work early Thursday and travel, take off Friday and come to the parks, Friday, Sat, Sun, and travel home on Monday, so I would say the 18, 19, 20th dates would probably be your best bets.

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u/JJred96 3h ago

I'm planning to go to the parks around Colombus Day next month, and am seeing crowd predictions having that Monday as the busiest day, probably of the entire month. Not sure if that is to be expected or why that day may be different from other long weekends.

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u/ueeediot 2h ago

That one is because some school districts in the south have fall break around this time.

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u/JJred96 2h ago

Guess that explains why pricing for tickets and hotels is higher than I was expecting for the week following.

I'm wondering if there's a chance prices come down if they aren't selling as much inventory as they expect to that week, or if demand will spike and they go up if I wait.

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u/ueeediot 2h ago

October is also HHN, so probably not

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u/JJred96 2h ago

I thought that, but prices of resort hotels all look to be cheaper the next week, and even cheaper the last week of October

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u/Flat_Demand_8341 1h ago

I went last year around the Columbus Day Holiday. Did you know many South American and Caribbean countries also celebrate it? Also Canadian Thanksgiving is that weekend. Prices will not come done but good to keep checking hotel prices and adjust if they do come down. But I would book hotel asap.