khertz
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- Aug 10, 2008
Mom & Dad’s Meetup Anniversary Getaway!
Hello, everyone! Welcome to my 6th Universal TR! As much as I have always enjoyed including Universal Orlando on my WDW trips, I don’t think if someone had told me 10 years ago that I would have made this many Universal-only trips, I would have believed them!
Maybe you have followed along with some of my other TRs and know who we are, but in case this is your first time, I’ll do a quick little intro. This trip, there was only two of us traveling, DH and myself.
IMG_7642 by disneymom1024, on Flickr
We have been married for 15 years this past September, and we wanted to do something fun to celebrate a milestone anniversary. Although our anniversary is in September, we wanted to plan during the summer so we wouldn’t have any issues with our kids having to miss any school since we don’t live close by family who could stay with them and bring them back and forth every day. At first, we were considering Las Vegas where we had spent our first anniversary. But then, Orlando Informer announced summer dates for their Meetup event!! I have always wanted to attend one, but they are pretty expensive and very late nights, so it was never really feasible for all 4 of us to go. Plus, we still had APs that were active until the end of the summer. While it was not DH’s first choice (or maybe even second choice?) for an anniversary vacation, eventually I got him on board.
Honorable mentions, though they did not join us this time and were not too upset with us for going without them, are DS and DD. They spent the week at my parents’ house getting to play with their baby cousin. This is a picture of them from our trip last summer.
IMG_4366 by disneymom1024, on Flickr
A quick rundown on the Meetups for anyone not familiar… Orlando Informer is a travel blog that covers mostly Universal Orlando but also WDW. A couple of times a year, they rent out both Universal parks for a ticketed after hours event that includes low crowds, plenty of food, beverages, and snacks, and they offer discounted rooms at the Universal resorts. For this particular Meetup weekend, the parties would be on Friday June 3rd and Saturday June 4th. You can purchase individual nights, or a slightly discounted 2-night ticket, and we decided to go for the 2 night.
Our dates for the trip were Thursday June 2nd-Tuesday June 7th. When the tickets and room discounts went live, we were on at the minute it was released to get a room at the Hard Rock Hotel because we heard the discounted rooms get booked up fast! We wanted one of the resorts with Unlimited Express included, and it wasn’t a whole lot more to go for HRH over Royal Pacific, and it’s our favorite of the 3 deluxe resorts so we were very happy to get our room there!
We had such a great time and ate SO many snacks, I hope you will join in as I share it with you!
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