Day 1 : Universal Studios
Finally we reached Universal Studios Hollywood (to be referred as USH). The entry for Car Parking was a huge que though more than one where processed at a time. Now don't say the length of each car made it look big. We waited for quite some time to get there. Once at the toll gate we were asked for 3 options $15, $20, $25 depending on the closeness of the car park to the studios. We had the whole day and so took $15 ticket.
Lucky, we had a walk for around 5 mins walk though the USH city, before entering the park. It had various shops, different attractions like a huge guitar, a big stage named City Walk, a huge King Kong display, a dragon on a shop, etc.
Did I say 5 mins....nooooo...we clicked pictures as we went, videos, etc, especially near a randomly water shooting Fountain, etc. And a few more at the huge Universal Studios Globe.
Finally we went into the Universal Studio after showing our Pass. Did I mention we had taken the tickets online and had saved around 1000 bucks a ticket. We showed our pass, got the events list, and headed in for fun. So many events, all free, (or lets say all paid for unlimited visits), and we had to decide which to go to 1st, so that if required we could go again later.
We decided to take the tour first. This was one interesting part, where we were shown the external looks of the Stages, only outer views built houses, street views, cars and so many other things. It included a Old Village view where rain and flood simulation for shootings was shown.
Then we saw a car show, where two cars were rotated amongst sudden gush of water, fire etc. We also saw a petrol tank near a water body blow up, and a shark rushing at us, throwing water at us, making our cameras wet, A huge original plane broken to make look like a real plane crash destroying a near by village, and so on and so forth.. So many that I cant tell all here.
For the more interested few, who enjoyed my email, I will describe the King Kong 3D, a part of this show in next email... We really enjoyed it, and wished to go again, but the part of it was so small of the entire show that we dint have the time for it again.
After this show was over, we went and took the All You Can Eat Pass, by paying around $24. I was sure I will not be able to justify it, but paying for each thing I want to try, would be very costly, or time taking.
Now we went down the mountain for food, and few other rides. We had food, and since it was lunch time there was a long que. We could choose one of three types of items at a time, and we were sure we wouldn't come again in the line. A good plan to limit the wastage of food.
Once we had the food we went for the Jurassic Park ride, the Revenge of the Mummy ride, food again. Now I was heavily loaded and dint want to take any ride at this point. Two of us went for the Mummy ride again, and then we joined them for the Jurassic Ride again.
Am I going too fast....Yeah let me save this for the next mail, giving you the high level points.
After this we came up for the Terminator 3D show, went to Animal show, Shrek 4D, the virtual Simpsons Ride twice. Time ran faster when you enjoy it as much you enjoy it. We headed for food to the nearest place instead of the best place which was far below where we were right now.
After food, we headed out, took a few more snaps here and there, and started for the hotel again.
Again to the mercy of the GPS. When we headed out of the Parking Lot, we didn't know which way to head, and the GPS took quite a while to get connected to the Satellite. All we could do was ride around with our own instincts.
We reached the hotel, agreed tp pay $30 (including extra $6 for Vallet parking) for Parking, checked into our room. The odd things we learned was a 500ml water bottle was $4, internet for 24 hrs was $10, etc. We got fresh, unloaded the camera, left it for charging, viewed the pics in laptop, and went to sleep.
Finally we reached Universal Studios Hollywood (to be referred as USH). The entry for Car Parking was a huge que though more than one where processed at a time. Now don't say the length of each car made it look big. We waited for quite some time to get there. Once at the toll gate we were asked for 3 options $15, $20, $25 depending on the closeness of the car park to the studios. We had the whole day and so took $15 ticket.
Lucky, we had a walk for around 5 mins walk though the USH city, before entering the park. It had various shops, different attractions like a huge guitar, a big stage named City Walk, a huge King Kong display, a dragon on a shop, etc.
Did I say 5 mins....nooooo...we clicked pictures as we went, videos, etc, especially near a randomly water shooting Fountain, etc. And a few more at the huge Universal Studios Globe.
Finally we went into the Universal Studio after showing our Pass. Did I mention we had taken the tickets online and had saved around 1000 bucks a ticket. We showed our pass, got the events list, and headed in for fun. So many events, all free, (or lets say all paid for unlimited visits), and we had to decide which to go to 1st, so that if required we could go again later.
We decided to take the tour first. This was one interesting part, where we were shown the external looks of the Stages, only outer views built houses, street views, cars and so many other things. It included a Old Village view where rain and flood simulation for shootings was shown.
Then we saw a car show, where two cars were rotated amongst sudden gush of water, fire etc. We also saw a petrol tank near a water body blow up, and a shark rushing at us, throwing water at us, making our cameras wet, A huge original plane broken to make look like a real plane crash destroying a near by village, and so on and so forth.. So many that I cant tell all here.
For the more interested few, who enjoyed my email, I will describe the King Kong 3D, a part of this show in next email... We really enjoyed it, and wished to go again, but the part of it was so small of the entire show that we dint have the time for it again.
After this show was over, we went and took the All You Can Eat Pass, by paying around $24. I was sure I will not be able to justify it, but paying for each thing I want to try, would be very costly, or time taking.
Now we went down the mountain for food, and few other rides. We had food, and since it was lunch time there was a long que. We could choose one of three types of items at a time, and we were sure we wouldn't come again in the line. A good plan to limit the wastage of food.
Once we had the food we went for the Jurassic Park ride, the Revenge of the Mummy ride, food again. Now I was heavily loaded and dint want to take any ride at this point. Two of us went for the Mummy ride again, and then we joined them for the Jurassic Ride again.
Am I going too fast....Yeah let me save this for the next mail, giving you the high level points.
After this we came up for the Terminator 3D show, went to Animal show, Shrek 4D, the virtual Simpsons Ride twice. Time ran faster when you enjoy it as much you enjoy it. We headed for food to the nearest place instead of the best place which was far below where we were right now.
After food, we headed out, took a few more snaps here and there, and started for the hotel again.
Again to the mercy of the GPS. When we headed out of the Parking Lot, we didn't know which way to head, and the GPS took quite a while to get connected to the Satellite. All we could do was ride around with our own instincts.
We reached the hotel, agreed tp pay $30 (including extra $6 for Vallet parking) for Parking, checked into our room. The odd things we learned was a 500ml water bottle was $4, internet for 24 hrs was $10, etc. We got fresh, unloaded the camera, left it for charging, viewed the pics in laptop, and went to sleep.
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