Originally Posted By sjhym33 Had the day off so I decided to head to Universal and SeaWorld to catch up on some stuff there. First stop was Universal. My main goal today was to ride the new coaster. This was my fourth trip out since the coaster opened and guess what...closed today and possibly tomorrow because of technical difficulties. Ok, so on to the Mummy and so on. After the coaster being closed all day the next biggest surprise was the staggered attraction openings at the studios. I am not talking the park opening at 9 and other things at 10. No some attractions wouldnt be open till 11:30am. 11:30??? I would say a good half the attractions in the park opened between 10 and 11:30 this morning. The park was very empty so we hit several attractions within 45 mins and decided to head over to IOA. In comparison, all of IOA's attractions were open with the exception of the shows. Spiderman is still the best all around attraction ever and the Harry Potter area is really coming along nicely. My only complaint was they were only running one train at Dueling Dragons. Headed over to SeaWorld to finally see Polar Express. A very nice redo of Wild Artic for Christmas. I would recommend it highly. A walk on for Manta and Atlantis. There was a 10 min wait for Kraken only because they were running only one train. I dont understand. You are paying the employees to stand there why not run two trains and keep people moving? A nice time at both parks all in all. I have to laugh at Universal. I stopped in to Guest Services to ask if there was a way to find out if the coaster was runnning before making another trip out. I told the person at the desk this had been my fourth time out and each time it was closed. His response was the coaster was the most technologically advanced ride in the park. And even when it is running it doesnt normally open till 11am because it takes them that long to do opening procedures. Really??? So you have staggered attraction openings and your big coaster doesnt open till 11? Hmmmm. I think they got taken on that one. I will say this for the Guest Service person. They offered some backdoor passes for a couple of attraction for the inconvenience. We passed on them since everything was a walk on. Nice gesture though.
