Universal's New Kids Resort in Texas | Family Travel Tips

Jason: Grab your mouse ears and ready your wands. You're tuning in to Castles to Cauldrons, your ultimate guide to the magic, the thrills, and everything in between. From strolling right down the middle of Main Street USA to dodging fire-breathing dragons in Dygon Alley, you've got your theme park adventures covered. And now, sharing their hottest takes and best tips, here are your hosts, Jason, Micah, Rachel, and Terry. Welcome to Castles of Cauldrons. I'm your host, Jason Davis. This is episode 66. I have Terry and surprise, surprise, Rachel's here. But Micah is actually not. Micah is in the middle of a storm and she lost power, so she's not dedicated enough to go find a plug at a gas station like Terry was one time. So we miss you, Micah. We are also joined today by Kelly from Magical Travel. Kelly, it's good to have you on. Can you tell everybody a little bit about yourself and maybe how like How you got involved with magical travel and the travel industry and and some interest you have? Yeah. So I have been with magical travel for almost eighteen years now. Yay. Thank you. Yes. Yes. And we live in Austin, Texas. So yeah, what else? Because she was from Jersey. I was from New Jersey, originally a Jersey girl. Jersey girl. How did you find magical travels? Travel. Travels. Travel, sorry. Excuse me. And it's like anyways, the ass is not meant to be there. Sorry. But my husband was actually, I think, doing some website work for magical travel and they looped me in and here we are, eighteen years later. That's fun. Yeah. And fun fact, she speaks Spanish. So Kelly is our Spanish speaking advisor. So she's going to get the rest of the episode in Spanish. We won't know anything I won't know anything. And then somebody can tell us if if it's all true or not. I don't know. It's good to have you. And we're gonna she's on, she came, she did the Universal Kids Resort for Magical Travel last week. It'll be two weeks ago when this comes out. This weekend. So we will talk about that after we talk about some news. But first and foremost, we're recording this pre fourth of July. So Happy Fourth of July to everybody. Hope you've had a safe holiday. ⁓ and didn't, you know, get in a wheelchair and tell Terry to run off. Put it in reverse, Terry. Put it in reverse, Terry. Put it in reverse. Don't blow up your fingers. Keep everyone keep all your hope everyone kept all your fingers. I 100% really didn't realize it was like Terry, Terry. And I'm like, this is gonna be fun because we have Terry. I've heard that a lot, yes. But it's T R E E Y or T E R R R Y Terry. Not like I. You'll have big plans. Do you have any big plans for the fourth? ⁓ we're going up to my father in law's ⁓ he has a property up by the Pocono area. And we're gonna go up there, fish, shoot, set up some fireworks, barbecue. Sounds like it should be in Alabama. One hundred percent. Yeah. We're gonna go fish, shoot, and do some fireworks. Yeah. Yeah. And cook out. No one's gonna Because everyone's gonna be honing in on Taylor Swift's wedding this week, I don't know. Exactly. Yeah. It's a real national holiday. I don't care. And also Kelly's anniversary. Kelly's anniversary. Kelly's anniversary. The OG. Taylor stole your date. We're gonna live stream on the magical travel page anniversary pictures for Kelly. And that right. But we're gonna we're gonna hashtag Taylor Swift and Travis so that we get all the views because people think that way Kelly. I'm close enough. The hair's the same color, it's fine. Yeah, it is perfect. Just kinda make the face blurry so people think like you're gonna sneak peek of Taylor's dress. It looks like they're gonna use something like Disneyland Castle in the thing. So we can put a picture of Disneyland Castle behind you. I did hear the castle. Yes. That's crazy. Like how much money she she has. Like it's not Travis's money, right? This Travis has his own money. But she's doing all this to keep it so secretive. If you're in Well, they just she just they they, I should say she donated twenty six million dollars to charities today. Yeah. Yep. Not a huge fan of her, but she's a great like she she does give back to the communities and everything like that. And she's super smart when it comes to marketing. Or how much make she how much she made off the Toy Story stuff. This isn't Taylor Swift podcast though. It could be if you wanted it bad enough. It could be. I I wouldn't know anything other than what just talked about. I don't even know enough about Travis to talk about Travis for a Travis and Taylor episode. I will tell you a very fun fact I learned when they were doing the prenat, she's worth like two point something billion, but he's worth like a hundred million, which blew my mind. I didn't I didn't think he was worth that much. I was thinking fifty to sixty. Well I think it to do with the podcast and his and then the It's all off the field stuff. That's like a hundred million for a football player. That's that's not too shabby. No. Yeah, plus he's still active. So he's getting his contracts and then he's got the endorsements and then anything else he does. I tell you one thing crazy. I would be retiring after this football season when I'm marrying a somebody who's worth two point six billion. That preenop's gotta be ironclad. Well, the NDAs they sent out with the invitation apparently are ironclad. Like the invitation you got was watermarked with your initials or your name. So if it got leaked, they would know exactly who leaked it. Yeah. ⁓ Yeah, so that that's all the entertainment news that has nothing to do with theme parks besides the castle that they're building in MSG. But, you know, I know more about Taylor Swift now than I did when we started this podcast. Thanks, Terry. You're welcome. Anytime. So speaking of stuff that I I love and Terry hates, HNUs, we had two more houses announced. ⁓ the last of the original houses is called Invasion Alien Adduction. I closed out my tab. This one is exactly what it sounds like. You're going through a house. It says make contact with horrors from worlds unknown in this haunted house where a shipful of grays have torn apart a remote homestead in search of a fresh test subjects. I mentioned last episode I was looking forward to the pretty house, quote unquote. I think this is it. 'Cause you're gonna be on a farmland and aliens are taking over. But the the way they talked about it was that these aren't your typical green big eyed aliens. These are going to be adapting. So that's I was wondering, like the gray is capitalized. So are grays like your traditional looking aliens or are they like a breed? I think it's a breed. Okay. I just think like this one suits itself well for a lot of those wide open sets that we saw on Gaulkin last year. They could have like the farmland or something like that. It's I think it's gonna be fun. It's it's pretty high on my list right now. Second one was one that was has been heavily rumored for a while. And it is Hellraiser. This is the third IP house after Sinners and Stranger Things five. This haunted house is based on the original Hellraiser trilogy. It's ⁓ enter a realm of pure pain where Pinhead and his tormented ⁓ Cenobites derive their hellish pleasures. Have y'all watched those movies? No. Okay, I've only watched one of them, so I can't I'm not like So we only have eight houses in the house, aren't there ten? Yes, so we're still waiting to for two IPs. One of has been was the Lady Gaga then turned into Ozzie Osborne, but the rumors that they're having struggles trying to get either one of those. So don't know what that's gonna be. And I can't remember what the ⁓ last one was. So far it's it's turning out to be a pretty pretty solid year, it looks like. Like it should be fun. Nothing like last year where there was a strong This is the house I want to be going through all the time. What was that one for you last year? I think it was Gawking. Was it? I know that was ⁓ Micah's favorite. Micah's. I can pull it up. Was it Terrifier? No, Terrifier wasn't high on my list to begin with. In fact, I think Terrifier was like low on my list. And then it ended up being like five. Yeah. Artista was my number one that I was looking for. That was pretty house last year. Yeah, that was a good one. I liked that one. And Dawkins and Terrifier ended up being my third place. UW E was my my worst. Yeah. See, I'm a true fan. I keep my list on my c desktop so I can I'm just going through the things to see if I can find it. The good news is is that ⁓ Terry and Mike and myself have decided that we will be going on the first weekend of October to do H H N so October third. So if you If you're in I'm only reviewing food. And Stranger Things, at least. Ellie's gonna be there too. No. No. I don't do jump scares. I don't do any scares, Kelly. I went behind someone like this through every house last year. Like I did H dead with the lights on. We did a lights on tour and I was out of my mind already. So the lights are not going off. That's the one thing I still wanna do. I want to do the lights on. I would do the lights on one. We're also doing a not so scary I w I don't know which day I'm doing. I think Terry says she's gonna do it the Friday before and Micah said she might do it the Sunday. So I'm like, I can do either one. Y'all picked it Thursday through Sunday. So I'll probably do the Friday. Micah's gonna be there Friday through like Monday or something. The price of that ticket is ridiculous compared. We're not it's like one nineteen like I think like in that September weekend we would be there or whatever weekend it is that we I looked before, like that ticket's one nineteen. Then that weekend it would just turn to October and that ticket's one ninety nine. It's because it's October now. Is it for EGN you're talking about? Or you're talking about Nick and Disney? Not so scary. Yeah. That's just because it it moves to October and they s they know they can sell it for a higher price when it comes to And we'll get it. But I get to see the parade and the sparks. So are you gonna bring it is it are you going solo or? No, yeah, I'm I'm going solo. Whoever wants to go with me that's there can go, but my family will be here. Okay. That's kind of like they're a quick truck quick turnaround. Last last bit of news we have, this is actually kind of like more entertainment type stuff, but it has to do with the parent company of NBC Universal, which could affect the theme park. So I figured it'd be good for us to talk about. ⁓ Comcast is planning on spinning well, it's it is spinning off the universal side of their business. ⁓ if if you don't know Comcast is the internet broadband type stuff. It's the I don't know the actual good term. Yeah, it's Xfinity. Like I have Comcast here. I have a triple play, so phone, internet, and TV. Well they have ⁓ that and then they're gonna spin off NBC Universal and Sky, which is Sky was what they acquired from the Hulu ⁓ Disney conversation they had when they when they sold that stuff. So the Roberts family, I think is the name. Yes. They'll be involved in the leadership of both Comcast and NBC Universal. ⁓ think univer Comcast will have like nineteen point nine percent shares in Universal itself, NBC Universal. The big thing to take away from this is that Comcast is the reason Universal has blown up over the last few years. They got a op they opened up the books and saw like Butterbeer was making them so much money. They're like, why aren't we putting more money down here? And so we got Dying Godley, we got even that horrible Fast and Furious ride, the reign of Kong, Epic Universe. I mean, it's all because Comcast saw what could happen. I saw the Fast and Furious ride in California. It just The California one? Yeah, the California one. Yes. I was like looking at it, I'm like, holy crap. It looks awesome. ⁓ cool, but yeah. So it's not as free spinning as I thought it was either. Like it doesn't look as it's like cosmic rewind, right? Yeah. Because when you go over the elev the escalators, it turns and you look at the escalators as you drift over and it it's it looks fun. I need to go out there. But I think the Florida version is supposed to be completely free spinning, but then you have the spike that's in City Wall. But they just topped off. But it's because of Comcast, is that that's the reason we have all this. So the quite the reason I'll bring it up is if this splits off and Universal all the ⁓ all of a sudden sees a point where they have to say, Hey, we can't spend the money, does Disney now catch up to what Universal's been doing and surpass? Or will we continue to have this back and forth for a little bit? Like I mean, I think it depends on budget and yeah how fast turnaround time because I mean unlike universal Disney takes forever to do stuff. So are they gonna put it into it and then try to surpass Universal but then fall flat because their timelines are not in line. Well that's the thing too is that Univers Disney saw Universal do all this stuff, right? They saw the Universal open Harry Potter, the original Hogsmead with lines all the way dep back to City Walk. And they didn't do anything for years. And now they're actually doing stuff, but Universal hasn't stopped since then. So you would think Universal they're not gonna like this this is supposed to happen by the end of the year, if I remember right. Maybe it's the beginning next year. So whatever they're doing in Lost Continent right now, it's not just gonna be shut down. They're gonna continue to build it out. The expansions going on in Epic Universe, those are gonna be built out. Anything they have planned for, you know. Expanding Universal Kids Resorts probably are being gl greenlit because we're seeing some of the stuff we talked about last week in videos and we're gonna talk about a little bit later, but they've painted and made stuff look a little bit better in areas. So they know they're gonna have to one up stuff at kids resort. But I just don't think Universal's going to just roll over right away right away. I think Disney would be the one that kind of says, Okay, no more villains land. You know, Universal's done. You in this whole no more villains land. Like it's not happening. It just depends on for like the the RLI on the theme parks. Like if they're investing all this money in Epic and everything like that and they're getting a good return on it and it's funding other stuff besides the theme parks, then yeah, they're gonna keep rolling with it. But like anything else, if it becomes to be a money suck, then they're gonna, you know, tap the brakes at least for a minute and say, Wait, hold on. I honestly don't know how it's I can't name the arms of Disney and I can't name the arms of Universal because there's so you know, movies, T V merchandise, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But I feel like like sometimes I w I feel like that so much crap on Disney Plus tanked and it's almost like as soon as something tanked, something else in Disney World's price went up. And it's like, is this park now just funding crappy Disney Plus shows? Like let's hey, let's sell a hundred percent. You know, how about this? Let's not milk Star Wars anymore. That's a dead cow. Leave it there. So I feel like Universal also might be learning from that. I don't think it's hard to, you know, connect the dots. And I think maybe Universal saw that. If you've got a good thing going with the theme parks and just keep on going and don't worry about the other stuff. Kelly, what do you think? No, I think so too. And I think that when y'all said that they have Time to catch up. So Disney will announce something. Universal knows what that is, and they know that they can come up with their plan and implement it, open it before Disney's anywhere even near done. So they're all a step behind but and ⁓ a step ahead. So I think that they almost have the advantage when you're comparing new things side by side, that they know what's coming and how can they do something better. I do think if we see anything come from Universal, it will be more of let's close The horror out in Vegas because stuff I'm seeing is like it's not doing as well as they want it to do during the year. Like you can watch you can see videos of that place bring pretty much empty unless it's I've never heard anything about that except that it opened. That's all I ever heard. You you were the only person I've ever heard talk about going there. And you like Kelly said, I didn't even know it existed until you talked about it. Scrapped it'd be the Disney Quest thing, like saying, Hey, we're not going to move forward with it. I could see if Kids Resort in two to three years doesn't start turning a buck for them, they say, Okay, this is a failure. We're gonna sell this off to Six Flags and let them do what they want to do with it before the actual resorts get hit with anything. Because that those would be the big moneymakers, the revenues that they'd want to build more stuff for and compete with. It's just it's just interesting to know that this is still like I think this time last year Disney was talking about spending off ESPN as as their own company. Well, Disney would have the same same build out where they could control ESPN. It was just that if they wanted to sell ESPN, they could easier. And that's what this could be is what if Comcast wants to sell Universal? Or what if Comcast wants to be sold? And somebody else comes out. So you could have Theoretically Netflix come through and say, Well, we're gonna buy NBC Universal because they have a catalog for us to have on our platform because Peacock sucks. And then we have controlling rights for a theme park. I love Peacock. It's not doing great though. It's not turning a profit. I don't like Peacock. We have it, but just because of below deck. I was gonna say if you don't watch Bravo shows, there's not much reason to have Peacock. I will say, now that you mention it, besides Bravo shows, I don't think I'll watch anything on Peacock. And the Universal Monster movies. Like all the Universal and Blum House movies are on Peacock. So seeing that being sold to like a Netflix, Netflix could dabble in theme parks. They've been doing some dabbling in real world stuff, the house of Netflix and that type thing. So they could actually start putting Stranger Things in a theme park. And we've seen that relationship in the past with well with H H N with their Stranger Things house. So I just figured that'd be a fun what if. I don't know if we'll ever see anything come from it. Warner Brothers is being sold to Paramount right now because Warner Brothers was going to spin off the Discovery Channels and all that stuff. And Paramount and Netflix both went after it as a whole. And Paramount won. So who knows? But that's all for the news. 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It won't Yeah, but you wouldn't do the same back and forth in a day. I wouldn't know. That's what Kelly did. I'm pretty stupid though, so I might do that. I don't think so. With work schedules. Yeah. Yeah. My car does self drive, so I I would let it drive my out there. But she she made her way out to kid the kids resort that Universal has just officially opened as of today. It was yesterday. So Kelly, what were your over overall thoughts of the resort, like the hotel and everything? Getting around, is it something worthwhile if you're in the area to do? I think if you have kids the right age, let's say three to nine, ideally, absolutely, if you're in the area. I don't know that I would go I definitely wouldn't fly to Dallas to see it and spend time there. If you're in Dallas, Fort Worth, even Waco, Oklahoma, and you can drive in couple hours or if you want to stay overnight at the hotel, you know, even three, four, five hours, it's definitely worth a stop if you're in that type of area. So not worth flying across the country for like a universal Orlando type destination. But while you're there and your kids are the right age, definitely a place to stop and spend the day. So we're gonna go into the hotel f in a second, but is is this located in a spot where you could make the hotel your home base and be able to go back to the Absolutely Yep. So the hotel the entrance it to the park is under the hotel. So the hotel kind of starts on deck two, floor two, ⁓ and the entrance is right underneath the hotel. So we even heard a family, you know, when we were on a ride and they were like, you know what, we're gonna go to the hotel, back to the hotel, go in the pool for a break and relax for a little bit, come back. It is steps away. So easy to go back and forth. You're right there. Cause okay, so for like somebody like Terry, Rachel and myself, if we were to go out there, but would it the resort itself, would the hotel be good for staying for an extended stay and be be able to go into into Fort Worth and do more touristy stuff and come back? Or is it going to be out of the way a little bit? It's a little bit out of the way. So Frisco is going to be about twenty, thirty minutes out of downtown Dallas, about the same from Fort Worth. So if you're really looking for like city, you'll probably want to be in Dallas and not so much Frisco. So this is like you want to book it for the night, the You're doing the park and then the hotel is for the resort and that's the only reason I would be there. Okay. So what about the hotel? Like what's what's the general theme of the hotel? What type of rooms do they have? Is it well themed? Is it on par with what we have in Universal here in the hotel I thought was super cute. The one thing I was surprised at was that there weren't as many characters inside the hotel, ⁓ characters all over the lands of the park. All the part of the lands are themed. You've got character meet and greets, character rides, but not so much characters in the hotel. But it was super bright colored, yellows, oranges, reds everywhere. So definitely kid friendly in that theme. Kid friendly, but not overly character or movie connected. ⁓ what were the rooms like? So you saw three different cat three out of the four categories. Yeah. So you what did you say? So the standard room is your basic. It's the smallest. It's a basic room. It's got two queen beds, not a ton of space, but enough space for family of four for one night. All of the rooms, I'm sorry, I just said it had two queen beds, but that's not right. All of the rooms have bunk beds, which is super fun. So the standard has a queen and then it has a bunk bed and it's actually a twin over full bunk bed. So it's gonna sleep five. ⁓ So all of them sleep five or six. So those families of five don't need to worry about two rooms, connecting rooms, anything like that. So the standard room is the smallest. That is what they have the most of. And he did say that they have the most of them. And also some of them are theme park views. So they're facing out towards the park and that those sell very quickly. So those are proven to be pretty popular. The deluxe room is the same as the standard, same funk beds, queen beds, but just a little bit more space, same exact layout. But just about I think he said like thirty square feet more. So just wiggle room in the room. Are there any balconies or patios or no? No. No. Nope. They all have windows, so you're facing the parking, the pool, or the theme stove. The signature room is the one that I liked the best. I don't think it was on a corner, but it was almost felt like it was a bigger room on the corner of the building. More spread out, definitely more airy instead of the queen bed and the bunk beds right next to it. The queen bed kind of had its own wall and then the bunk beds across the room from it. So it was definitely more wiggle room, more spread out. And that's the only one that also had a split bathroom. So the shower and the sink were together with a separate toilet. So definitely some advantages to the signature. I saw a vlogger, the Tim Tracker. Mm-hmm. And he was in a room with the I guess the queen bed was locked off, like it had its own bedroom. So that is that the same style or is that the would be the room that you didn't get to see? That's the family suite. Okay. Gotcha. So the family suite is a living room. It has kind of like a nook. for the bunk bed and then it has a bedroom that is separated by a door and that is a king bed. So it's the only room that has a king bed. All the others are wheel. It very much reminded me of like Dark Side. I don't know if you've been in Darkside. Yeah. Yeah. So that that slept up to six, which is nice in case you have even more because it's a sofa bed that's for two ⁓ a twin over twin bunk bed and then the king. And then the manager did also tell me every single one of those connects to a standard room as well, which sleeps up to five. So if you have larger family or a larger group, you could do six and five with the family suite in a standard room. That was going to be my next question. It was if there was connecting rooms. So are they are they guaranteed or like is it just a you know hope to have it? That I don't know. I did not ask. So it probably depends on availability. I can't go ahead. No like The rooms are really brightly colored, but they're not seen. Like you said the floors are seen, so I look that up and it's like puss and boots, Gabby's dollhouse, trolls, and Shrek. But the rooms are all the same no matter what floor. So you won't get like a Shrek room or a puss in boots. Right. So like the hallway I think is a different color. So like I'm sure the Shrek hallway was green, puss and boots orange. But there is nothing except for like one picture outside the elevator that's saying, you know, this is Shrek and in your face, Shrek or characters or anything like that. I think that's pretty smart because for kids especially. Yeah, 'cause you know, what's popular right now with trolls and, you know, Shrek has a new movie coming out next year, that might not be popular in five, ten years. And if this thing lasts, they can easily go in and just take the wall art off and put a new vinyl up or whatever character's popular that can fit the the colors. So that that's not a horrible idea. But that's smart for kids, because I know a bunch of kids like will go down like I mean they're like thirteen, but they'll go down to like the pool in a hotel and just it never crosses their mind to remember like what floor their room is on. So they just kinda like call their mom, like, right, what's our room number again? So I like, you know, like if they're either a character or a color, you can easily remember, like, ⁓ this is what it looks like when I get off the elevator. That's the same that Pixar Place does. Like the four we were on was Woody and Bow. So, you know, you Was it? I didn't even notice that. You gotta have that childlike wonder, Rachel, about you. Yeah, they all have murals. Yeah. I don't pay attention apparently when I go play for it. Evidently not. But yeah, that was that was the mural was bow and woody when you when it opened up. And I think when we stayed a few years ago it was Coco. So it's really cool that, you know, they they incorporate that for those little kids, like you were saying, Terry, that they might not remember the number, but they can remember that they're And I like that. And like you said, Jason, I think it's smart they don't theme the rooms. Because if they do do an overhaul, it's really hard to re theme a room. But I didn't think about that until you said it. But that's universal if this if this resort does fail, they can easily sell it and the person come through holiday and come. Yeah, anyone could take it over. Yeah. It's just bright and colorful and kid not. That's probably why they did it. They probably didn't want to put too much money into the theming of it, like to have characters just in case. I think with the Nickelodeon. Suites in Orlando. They were like overly themed all the Nickelodeon characters. And when Holiday Inn came in they had a huge overhaul because it was so themed. But maybe you're Kelly, sorry, since you live in Texas, do you think that maybe they built this as like for people in like Middle America maybe that don't want to fly all the way to Orlando or California or what's your opinion of why they put this here? So I don't think it's the same as California or Orlando because it's definitely not a multi day destination. It's a one day, one and a half day. If you're coming from afar, you're gonna stay in the hotel just so you have a full day in the park. I definitely don't think it's a destination in itself. I think it's an add-on to a Dallas is very kid friendly. So you've got kids and families visiting anyway. And I'm sure, you know, just like Orlando's warm and I'm sure that's part of why everything's developed there, Texas is gonna be a spot that has decent weather year round. So It's going to be open all year round. So I think that's probably a big draw as well. So you're saying if like you're coming like dad's coming for like a Cowboys game on Sunday, you bring the family down and you can go do on like Friday or Saturday. Exactly. Yep. Okay, so let's talk about like so you said it's like a half day or it's like a full day, one and a half day. So like what kind of rides and stuff to do there? So there's only I think thirteen rides. Somewhere around there. It's more than Epic Universe the same. Okay. I was gonna say, yeah. Yes, but you don't have pre shows. The rides are purposefully short rides. I mean, the coaster ride is not going to be as long as Stardust Racers is. So the experience for each ride total is gonna be a lot less than something else. So not a ton of rides. There's shorter rides. There's a couple shows. We saw two shows. There's a movie theater that'll open with like short. And then the other thing is there are a ton of playgrounds and flash areas, like water playgrounds for them too, which I really love for the little kids, because if you have to stand in line for ten, fifteen minutes, you do a little ride and then they can go run around and play. And then you can go to another so there's a lot of that. I love that because if Trav if we g if we take Travis out at his current age, he loves a playground right now. So he would we used to Pay that money to go in there just play on playgrounds all day 'cause he's not a roller coaster. Yeah. But is there express pass or a form of there is not right now, but they were set up. Every attraction had two cues. So clearly they're going to do something. I don't know what that is. So but honestly, we waited maybe ten minutes, I'd say max fifteen minutes, and that was for The water ride and the shreff ride, which loads really slow and that's it. But even then, I feel like the queue space, like the cues that were set up were maybe double what we waited. So if we waited fifteen minutes, you're talking a full queue, they're expecting maybe thirty minutes for anything. But they're not long cues. Not at all. So Okay. So they're not expecting and they're not winding all around. They're all right in front of the ride, just back and forth with stanchions, and they cannot hold enough people to be long wait. So I don't know if they're not expecting that many people or if they're really gonna put capacity at that many people that it's never that crowded. And that was my theory is that it's probably gonna be based off hotel first. Like how much is how many people are in the hotel and then they'll open up Daily sales for outside guests for day guests to come in and do whatever our our annual pass is if they have those available. And they were sold out. I don't think they were sold at full capacity because it was still a preview, but they were checking your park tickets even to get into park. Like they made us show that we had tickets for that day. So I think that they have things in place to be sold out pretty often and they're going to double check that. Yeah. Do the cues are they more like a six flag type of cue or is it more like immersive like a Disney or all of it is pretty much like your six flags. It's just the line. Just the line. Yep. I can see where it's going to be that the older n the older kids, maybe eight, nine, ten, are at the playground in the splash ground. Flash pads and mom and dad are gonna be in line and be like, okay, get over here. Because I feel like that's going to happen pretty often if there's a line. Because they there's a splash pad andor a playground in every single land. So it's all very compact and right there. So the kids could very easily be on a playground, call ⁓ up, and they could be there in thirty seconds to the ride you're at in line. So we can't. Sorry. ⁓ I was gonna ask about again about the cues. Are they covered? Like are they? Yeah. They all are covered. All of the cues. All the playgrounds too completely covered. Some of the splash. I'm sure most of the splash pad at least. I didn't notice much on that. But all the playgrounds, all the cues completely covered. So we keep nothing indoors. Everything is outdoors. There's nothing indoors except for the theater, ⁓ the movie theater. So there's like nowhere to like cool off? Yeah. So you know like Universal Orlando, you're like, ⁓ I don't even mind waiting in this line for thirty minutes because it's air conditioning. Yeah. Yeah. So none of that. So I mean, they've got the fans and the misters and you're cooling off in between with the splash pads and there's two water rides too. So it wasn't that bad. But I'm a Texan and I'm used to it. But most people going very likely are too. So you're you know Texan with your Jersey accent popping out a little bit. But you keep talking about lands, so let's let's go through those. ⁓ there's Minions, Jurassic World, Shrek, and Puss and Boots, correct? And then I think there's a small Gabby's dollhouse at the front, but it's not like really a land so much. Yeah, it they didn't even have anything while we were there. So I think it's a dance party and a meet and greet, but they weren't even out while we were there. I think they were setting up for the grand opening 'cause it was two days later. So So we didn't see any of that, but there's no rides or shows or anything with Dabby's Allhouse. Let's run through the lands just real quick. ⁓ what you thought about each land, the attractions type thing. That way we have a feel for what age appropriate, like which ones would be more geared to the kid the smaller kids, which ones geared to the older kids type stuff. So whichever one way you want to go, I don't know what how the park's laid out. So Okay. So I'm certain you've got minions in front. So we'll start with minions. Okay. All right. Minions, I think, was our favorite. ⁓ all of us agreed. And that's probably because they have the Bellow Bay Cruise, which is the River Raft ride. If you've seen the reviews of the park, that's probably the most controversial one as well. It is. It's very it was very bland on the art and the oral based off of the concept. It was, but did you see that they are adding to it and they are they are painting it? So now you have Andy's walls painted on the the the clouds are painted on the walls now. So you have to minions. But it was a really good ride. So adding that I think will be helpful. I didn't think the theming was as bad a person as everyone was talking about. So if you were reading about it being a concrete jungle and and that bad and not entertaining and not themed when you were in the ride and eye level with the figures and everything going on. that was a lot more distracting and you didn't really focus on. I think a lot of the influencers too are they brought out don't have kids or the kids are aged out and they don't really understand what Universal is going for. So they were being critical over what the theming is 'cause they want it to be what Universal does. They're comparing it to what they know. Yeah. So I think that's why it got so much negativity. And then keyboard warriors were like universal do better. They're they're not there. So I agree with you. I think being there is bigger than Yep. And they took those criticisms and they're clearly working on it. So I'm okay with that. Yep. So there's a minion golf cart ride that's like the alien swirling saucers. So the spinning around, you're in a golf cart with the minion. And then there's a couple of splash areas themed to the minions, and then a minion meet and greet area as well. And they swap out those meet and greets. So we met one of the purple guys. I don't know if they have a name. Yeah. But we also saw some of the minions. Yeah. We saw some of the yellow minions too. So I noticed at those meet and greets, they switch those out pretty often. So it's not like a once and done kind of thing. You could go once and meet one person, go a little bit later and meet someone else too. So those are something that you could redo. Does Gru ever come out? I didn't see him. I only saw the minions. I didn't see anything like the girls or Gru. So this is gonna be a little bit specific, but because the Minions movie came out this weekend, did they have any promotion in the park for that? No. I didn't notice anything. Okay. That that's just because I would figure they'd want to promote something like that in the in the park that's based on what they want the kids to see. So, you know, they do it in the in the theme park, so maybe they're just focused on opening it right now and then later on. Might be all right. ⁓ you wanna go to the next land? All right. SpongeBob and bikini bottom. A couple this is probably mostly geared towards the younger side, maybe two, three, four, five. Kind of like a Dumbo type flow round and round ride. Meet and greet. So we did see them switch out a couple of there. It was SpongeBob, SpongeBob and Patrick at first. And then we saw Squidward a little bit later. So they're switching those out as well. Two more little kitty rides. And then one of our other favorite rides was Bob and Barrels. So I've never seen anything like it. You're sitting in a four person barrel and each of you has a water gun and each barrel spins and then they also spin around the center. So you're spinning and spinning and spinning and you can use the water guns to shoot the other barrels. But also there are water guns off the ride. So on the edge. So if you want to send your kids on the ride and you can stand outside where you can focus. Yeah, you can shoot ⁓ right in the face. That's awesome. Did you did you do that to your girls? ⁓ yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so we ended up more soaked on that than the ⁓ raft ride. So definitely water ride. I'm looking at the rides actually. Yeah, it's fun. It's about It was rolling barrels. Okay. Yep. Yep. And we rode that one several times and then would switch to staying off and shooting from the outside. Which that does bring up a good little question before we move on. Are these are a lot of these rides like very rideable, like multiple rides, or are they one and done? You know? So I have a 17 year old and a nineteen year old. So for us, several of them were checking off the list. one and done for now. We did everything. There wasn't anything that we didn't want to do. And that's another thing that I noticed is you know how you can go to some theme parks that have like hitty lands and it's just the kids on the ride and all the parents are standing there watching? Everyone rode the rides here. They were like family rides. They weren't just for the kids. Does that make sense? Like it wasn't where you stand on the side and watch. Yeah. No, that made sense for everyone, which made it so much better for us that we got to participate in enjoyed that too. I'd say a lot of it might be like one and done. So the the barrels definitely we did a couple times because we like shooting each other in the face with water. Who doesn't? The yeah. The Minions Rafter Eye we did multiple times. It was hot and it felt good and refreshing. ⁓ and then I think that probably if a kid has a land or movie they love, I'm sure they're gonna do it over and over and over. So you love Shrek, you're gonna go on the Shrek ride multiple times. We just didn't need well let's ⁓ let's move to Shrek right quick then and talk about that that one's another one of those controversial online ⁓ what what's going on in Shrek. Okay, so Shrek has a dry playground and a water playground. Water playground was really cool. It had the big dump bucket so you want to cool off. That's where the kids were running around. Then there's only one ride. It is Happily Ogre After. It's a little cheesy. It's for little kids. I think the criticisms I saw, Jason, I don't know what you saw, but that it looked unfinished, looked like it was popped up last minute. I also saw that like in between scenes was too long. Was it I could get that from what I was watching. Yeah. I think that is fair criticisms that it is not enough story for the ride. It was cute. to do. I feel like it could be better done. It's okay. I will tell you the thing we did not like there is it loaded so slow. I don't know if it's something they're going to change or if it's their safety procedures, but they did a one for one swap on the load. They would take a family off the car and then load the car and then send it off. And there would be three or four cars sitting behind it. And they won't let you off if you're sitting there. They say you have to stay seated and wait for an attendant to come get you. So the payoff of the ride did not match the weight because it was so slow to ride that we that's one of the ones we waited for. And the two minute ride with four scenes wasn't worth that is there any reason you could see why they would do that? Like it's not dangerous or anything like that, I'm assuming. No, I don't I don't know. It didn't make sense to me. I don't know if it's something they might change. I mean Universal knows how to load a ride, right? Like Yeah. They've got plenty of parks that do it very efficiently. So I don't know why this is not doable. There were a lot of safety things that they were sticklers on that didn't like make sense. So like every single ride, my husband had to take his hat off. I mean, he had like a big brim sun hat with like even a strap on it. And they would like come walk up to you, not just like a general announcement, please take off your hat. They would walk up to him, sorry, you need to take your hat off for the entire ride. So I don't know if some of those things might Get changed as they go, or if that's how it's going to be. But safety-wise, there were a couple things like that. I have been, I think where it was Dorney Park, which is in Pennsylvania. It's like a six flags. I was just on a regular kitty ride with my kids and they made me take off a baseball hat. Yep. Yep. And for me being bald, like I'm okay being bald. It is what it is. But like, I just don't like being told to take off a hat. Being old? It's also same protection, you know? Dude, I know. You burn this head, it's horrible. I've done it once and I'll never do it again. Yeah. You're not wishing space. It wasn't necessary. But you know, and I had said to my husband too, I said, I wonder if I am sure all these employees are not theme park employees, right? They are just Texas locals. They're Dallas locals. And it might be easier to teach them in black and white. Especially starting out, every single hat comes off every single time. I don't know that that's what was happening, but it felt like they were given black and white rules and every single person follows this every single time. I mean that makes sense. I get the consistency because I do like consistency when it comes to that type of thing. But you know, I'm just I'm the odd one. I get it. I respect the rules. I'll take it off. But like I feel a way about it when I do it. Especially if it's a kiddie ride where like I know it's not gonna come off. Especially the little nuance where it's slow moving. Right. Yeah. Like Yeah. But I mean the consistency part, I get it. Everyone says the same thing, so there's no interpretation. I get it. So next land, you wanna stay in the Shrek universe and go to Puss and Boots or Sure. Yeah. Puss and Boots also only has one ride and then one show. It's the swings in Puss and Boots, you know, like a regular theme park swing ride. Two inches on that one. Yeah. It was fast. So you do have to be a little bit taller than some of the other rides for that one. That's the only ride there. And then they had a puppet show, which I feel really weird saying a puppet show, because ⁓ picture you know, I say puppet show and I'm picturing my hand. And you like puppet. Yeah, no. ⁓ I don't know how to explain what they were, but purely puff professional puppets. They're like Olaf on stage. Yes, yes. And stuff like that, where there's people online. Yes, exactly. ⁓ I get it. And they still move. So it's not like a stuffed thing. They still had blinking and moving and stuff. And that was really, really cute. I actually thought it was cute for a fifteen minutes, sit down, giggled a couple of times. So definitely family friendly and cute, worth seeing. And they spent the money to make those puppets look pretty good. Like from what I've seen. They they don't they're not they didn't cheap out on ⁓ They got good looking puppets. Yeah, it was cute. What's the la what's the next land? Jurassic World. Jurassic World. Jurassic World. So the most memorable part there is when they forgot that we were on a ride and ran it through the cycle again. That's good. Nice. So there's another ride in Jurassic World that loads very, very slowly. It's the Mr. DNA's double helix. Yeah. No, no. It's a double helix, so it it spins in three different ways, but because of that, it's almost like little teacup pods and they load one at a time. So they load eight of them separately and then run the ride around. Ferris wheel kind of where the Ferris wheel has to come all the way around and everyone has to empty their cart before they go. Same idea. So and there's only one of them with eight carts. So again the load is very, very slow on that one. So They loaded everyone, we ran it. He unloaded everyone except for us and then ran it again. And he's like, ⁓ my god, I'm sorry, screaming up at us in the ride. Yeah, that one says thirty nine inches, but children under forty eight have to be with a supervised supervising companion. Yes. And it is a one for one on the sur supervising companions. Each child has to have one. So if you're under that line. Yeah. So like if you're if I had two kids that were under forty eight inches, you need to I couldn't take I'd really that sucks for single parents. I was like, what about single parents? You can't leave one kid at the bottom. Well, there's no rider swap, I'm assuming, because of how small the rides are. Right. Yeah. And the wait times aren't long, so I don't think rider swap is necessary. Right. There's I just I'm thinking universal and I just said rider swap. I'm thinking family rooms. There's not a thing. No. Right. Okay. So it's it's really like a six five. This is the first roller coaster, right? That we've talked that they have. Yes. So yeah, that's the first roller coaster. It was fun. It was definitely a kiddie coaster, but it was fun. I wouldn't need to ride it over and over, but we went on it and we had fun doing it once. So I can't remember the height requirement on that one. I think that one's thirty nine again. Yeah. That's one of the higher rise. Yeah. Yep. So that one's like the most thrill quote unquote ride there? For sure. In the whole park. That's the thrill ride. And if you had to compare it to like a kitty coaster, what would you compare it to? Like a barnstormer or more than barnstormer. I think a little more. Pretty close to barnstormer, I would say. Slinky dog? Yeah. No. Somewhere in between the two. In between the two. Between Barnstormer to Slinky Dog. Yep. I think that is a hippo it's a good yes. Yes. Mm-hmm. For sure. It's a good interest coaster. So those kids that are kids but want to be like, ⁓ my god, I rode a roller coaster, like they can say they rode a roller coaster. There was a drop tower, Jason mentioned their a regular playground with a big climbing steadosaurus. You got to climb on him. And then they have a ropes playground as well. So I would say it was like two or three stories high. So yeah, it's definitely up there two or three stories. So yeah. That's a little more I think that's more so like the climbing playgrounds, the Stegosaurus playground definitely are for like the younger, younger kids. And then the rope playgrounds higher up and all the rope stuff to climb for the not older kids, but older age that's there. When you say like younger kids, you're talking like three, four, five, and then like what would the max age for this park be, would you think? The max that I would like go for. Like I would go for maybe a nine or ten year old. If you have an ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen year old and a younger kid, I would definitely bring teenagers, teenagers along. I don't think it's not fun for them. Like I said, my kids are seventeen and nineteen and we still had a really good day. It sounds it sounds like a lot like going off your t your twin ager thing is like this would be a good part for the parents to be able to s like if they didn't want to ride stuff for the the siblings to bond to like they go on the roller coaster together. They can do it together together because of the yeah the height requirement for a supervising child or something like that. Yeah. And you know, that skets me thinking. So Rachel, you said, you know, it's reminding you of like Six Flags. One of the things that I would say is different from Six Flags is you bring your little kids to Six Flags because there's the kids section and they can do a couple of things. But Six Flags has so many teenagers right all over running around doing their teenager thing. This park this is more is for the kids. It doesn't have that teenage vibe. Hence the name. The kids resort. Yeah. You're lacking that that teenage draw there. They even you cannot go without a parent unless you're over eighteen. So if you're sixteen and you want to go just to go for the day, you live down the street and go start trouble or just go on the rides, you can't you have to be eighteen Or older or have a parent with you. So a lot of it's like ⁓ they're just going off the Six Flags thing. This would be like I don't know, the near Six Flags, but you could drop the ki the teenagers off at Six Flags. There's one in Dallas, so for sure. So you do that and then you bring the k the younger kids here while the the teen drive. I drop I drop Mason off at Hershey Park. Like Yeah, but you go to Hershey. I mean I like that. They're trying to keep like the riff raff out, I should say. Because you know the teenagers will do whatever they want to do. Right. So that's good that they're doing that. They're making it more family, more young kid friendly. They really are catering to like the younger crowd. You don't have all that shenanigans. The last man would be trolls. Sorry, Rachel. Yeah. Is it all to have another kitty coaster? I think so. Because we talked about Gabby's, which didn't really have a lot, Gabby's dollhouse. So that's the last one. There's another coaster there. Again, another one of the slow loading ones, because there's only one train, because the track is very short. It goes around once, it comes through the load area and goes again with the same people on it. Because it's a very, very short track. It might have to do with being a smaller park, limited. I mean the footprint is very small. You could walk around, which is great for the kids, right? You could walk around the entire park and not even be tired. So it's a very short track on that. And so it's only one train. So again, unload and then load new people, then send it out. It goes around twice. So that loads a little bit slow as well. It didn't really have too much of a line when were there, but I could see how it has the potential to get a line just because it's floating very slow. But so roller coaster. A spinning balloon ride. A lot of the rides spin. We talked about the bobbing barrels. That was a spinning ride. The Dumbo type ride spinning. The drop tower in Jurassic World spins as you go down. The balloon. I am not going. Yep. But my daughter gets most of the shake and she was fine on everything except for the double helix because that was moving in three different ways. But everything else, she was okay. But it would be something to think about if a kid gets most insect because there's a lot of spinning. You mentioned ⁓ the the closeness of the park. What would did you see a lot of strollers there? Or was it a lot of like I know it's still pre opening, so you might not have seen a lot, but would you suggest a stroller for those who have smaller kids? For sure. One of the reasons isn't just because of the kids, but just for your stuck. Because if you're going on the water playgrounds and in the splash areas, you're gonna be changing a couple of times. And they actually have changing rooms, not like bathrooms, just like changing stalls right next to every single water playground. So super quick, change in your swimsuit, go play. That's great. Change back out so you don't have to go on the rides wet. So I don't have to sit in a wet seat on the roller coaster because the kid was wet and sat in their swimsuit. That's great. That's great. Yeah. That's like ⁓ They do. They do have a dryers. They have those too. It's called the Texas Sun. That's true. Yep. I I think there were a lot of strollers though. They did have ⁓ for rent and I did see some people using rented ones. So there are some people that didn't think they need it or came without one and picked one up when they were there. I think even though it's not a huge footprint, it is hot. It's walking around. It's easier to have the stroller and say, Okay, get in than it is to carry your kid. hot and wet and tired and cranky. So before we move on to food, is there anything else you want to touch in the land itself or in the park itself? No, I don't think so. I'll I'll just say one little comment that I had is I did feel a little bit like it was missing one big centerpiece to DA. I mean there's no room for a parade, but a parade or I don't know what else. But I feel like There could have been it felt like it needed that one unifying like big thing. Because everything is just individual little things. And they're in the lands which are wealthy, but there was not one big, I guess, event. I don't know if that's what I'm looking for, but not one big thing that identified not like a kid, like at the Disney parks or n a nighttime show or like a parade. There's nothing like that. Right. Right. Nothing like that. I felt like it could use that. I don't know what that would. have to be, but it's just something that I thought could be there that wasn't there. I could do projection show on the hotel. So it'd be better There you go. Take I'll take I'll take the money for that one universal. So food, how much what did you eat on any of the food? Did you like the food? What type of food did they have? Am I gonna be able to do We actually didn't we didn't eat there. We were lunch snackers, so we just kinda snacked on little things for lunch and then we left. for dinner at dinner time. But the food was reasonably priced. We were just in Universal Orlando last month, and the food is much better priced at kids' resort. More standard quick service pricing, like twelve to fifteen dollars for a meal. Super cute food though. I did see the menus. Like they got the Dino chicken nuggets with the mount the mountain of mashed potatoes like in Jurassic Park. So cute. We saw a ton of kids with the So the food was themed for sure. So overall, do you think this is something that can that can last for a while? That maybe they need to like upgrade some stuff, expand some stuff and get to make it more of a a destination, or do you think it's as fine as it is? I don't know if they have space or can make it a destination, but I think as it is, I think I heard that they sold out of annual passes like pretty quickly. I know they sold out. I don't know how quickly I thought I had heard that it was pretty quick. So for locals just to have that clean, safe place to take their kids off. Is there you said that there's a a six flags in that area. Anything else besides that in that area? There's a lot for kids. There's a zoo. Okay. There's I don't remember the names, but there's a couple indoor like kids gaming places, those kind of things. So there's definitely other family friendly family kids things to do in the area. I just think this it hits the nail on the head for something that wasn't fully there. Like you said, there's six flags and you've got the kids section for the little kids there, but it's not the same. That this is Targeting the clear, like three to nine year olds young families, giving them their own place to go instead of going somewhere else where there is stuff for them. So it's very out you know, it's it's they're not outdated as rides, they're outdated as characters. Characters. Yeah. So bringing Universal in and having those characters that these kids know and love be able to do 'cause Travis doesn't know who Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck is. And I hate to say that, but you know, I knew who those were when I was his age. I also feel like this is like a good place, like if you do live in the area, like Kelly does, like grandparents could take your smaller kids to give them something to do. Especially with the annual passes. Where grandparents don't feel like they need to ride the ride with the kid because they're shorter cues and they can kind of maintain and keep their eyes on him the whole time. Or they're not scared to ride the rides 'cause they're not crazy. And they're more. It's a small part. So grandma's not walking twenty thousand steps a day like she might at Disney World. They can kinda get around and it's it's easier. Yeah. Off of Terry's about like multi gen or grandparents doing it, how is it flat? Is it like the ter like, is it easy for someone like in their sixties or seventies to do it? Yeah. All paved, flat. It's very easy to get around. Lost in shade which Disney World doesn't have. Rachel and I were saying we just get lost everywhere. It is like a circle. So I could even get where I needed to go, which is really saying something. So super easy to navigate. So jump on. Super safe for kids. Sorry, Jason. I care. I'm used to with you. Super safe for your kids to like walk ten feet ahead, twenty feet ahead of you and you don't feel like they're gonna run away. 'Cause it's like she said it's a circle. They're not gonna like go crazy. So quickly back on the A Ps. I think that A Ps there is a great idea because kids will always age out of being going to the kids' resort. But there's always gonna be kids coming up into the kids' resort versus So if I was buying it, it's not gonna be something I buy for ten years straight. It's gonna be maybe for like five years where my kids are that target age. But and everyone keeps moving to Texas, young families all the time, new developments, new houses, all these young families. So there's a cycling through those people, those families. in chunks. And it it's it'd be good presents from like y'all were talking about multi-gen, ⁓ good grandparents just hand out those APs to all the families one year. Cause I'm I'm assuming with the ticket prices the way they are, the annual passes aren't too bad. Yeah, I didn't see the price either, but the I want to go back to sidewalks too. How hot was it actually in there? I've noticed like there was not a lot of shade in a lot of the videos I saw besides for cues and stuff like that. So how hot did that white Concrete really fill with it reflecting and all that? Than the sidewalks were a problem. I mean it was hot because it was hot and there were some areas without a ton of shade. I also saw they're adding some umbrellas and stuff, even like yesterday I think I saw. So they're listening again to that feedback that people are saying, you know, and trying to fix that. But I don't think the pavement yeah got I was I was gonna just gonna say the what I heard was like they were trying to get this thing bu built and open. So what was the easiest thing to say let's wait and build and it's the shade structures because it's cheap and easy to do. They could put a they're not Disney, it's not gonna take ⁓ five years to build a shade structure structure over lunchbox. They can build one in one night for a big area. I don't think the stage structures so much were missing, maybe just the immature landscaping, you know, where you might be standing under a tree for shade. They didn't have that. Another thing I will say, there were two rides where I sat down and I wanted to hop straight up because it the seat was so hot. So I said before all the cues are covered, all the playgrounds are covered, but not all the rides are fully covered. And it was the SpongeBob one that just goes around like a dumbo. So that just sits in the sun. And I think ours was like red. And it was so hot. But actually then we went over to another SpongeBob ride, the ⁓ the little boats that just go around. And they had an attendant with almost like, you know how you would spray like a pesticide? They pump the little bottle and then they spray out of it. When you went up to your seat, he would spray it with that for you. So they knew it was a problem. Yeah. Yeah. It didn't really work at all either. But But A for effort. Yeah. So I thought that was interesting that I mean, to me, if you can do things I didn't ever have a seat in Orlando that was too hot to sit in. ⁓ so if they know how to do that in Orlando, why did they not plan for that in Texas? I don't know. Ever popped up like that on in Orlando was on Aladdin. It's funny you say it's like a dumbhead spinning rod. Yeah, because down one day and I was like, ⁓ no. Ooh, back up and just kinda had to ease down and get used to it. Is there anything else that we need to know about the Universal Kids Resort that we might have missed? I don't think that I just heard a lot that there is the Coca-Cola Freestyle Cup that you can get. And that's which is like a universal thing. Yeah. And they have their own flavors in each land. Just like I don't know if you've noticed at Universal Orlando, like like Epic Universe, each portal has their own specific flavors at the Freestyle Machine. So each land at Kids Resort Has their own theme to drink. Yeah. ⁓ there is a VIP experience. Mm-hmm. Starting from $1,000. Yeah. It's only four hours. Four hours, though. Yeah. I mean, that's all you need. You wouldn't need more, but still a thousand dollars. But like a thousand dollars or anything? Yeah, plus Yes. It has snacks with it. Well that's I mean still not like a thousand dollars like you have a dedicated VIP guide, priority access, a VIP lounge, snacks and beverages, and then dining and retail discounts. The VIP lounge is probably what worth a thousand dollars if it's like inside that's a grandpa that's paying for it 'cause he doesn't want to be out in the Texas heat. Yep. Well that's all we have. Thank you, Kelly. That's Yeah, you got it. Great information about the Universal Kids Resort. I do want to get out It does make me more interested to go since you talked about it as opposed to seeing everything online. You did make it more more appeasing. Excellent. I think if your kids are the right age and they love those movies and they know several of those movies, that it's a great weekend, long weekend. I also think we're like all three of us are in the wrong area because we're not getting advertisement for this. I don't know how much advertisement they're doing in Texas. No, I definitely saw it. We have seen it on T V, I'd say at least for A couple of months are popping up. When I go to the movies, I'm seeing stuff for Universal Orlando, Disneyland and Walt Disney World and the Crew Disney Cruise, but I'm not seeing anything for Kids Kids Resort. And that might be intentional because they want it to try to stay as local and regional as possible versus their other products that they have. Especially if they cap it out every day. I would I would think there's got to be a pretty low cap for that part. Well, Kelly, thank you for coming on. ⁓ Reach you so that you can make your nice goal that Rachel has informed you about on non-recording. She informed me of the said goal. I did not inform her of the goal. Okay. She said Kelly. Let's say email is the best way. So it's Kelly H K E L L Y H at magical travel dot com. Awesome. We hope to have you back soon. Talk about something else random. Who knows? That's good. ⁓ you can find the rest of us over at magical travel dot com. Any of our great agent agents would be glad to help you with any travel that needs that you have. Find ⁓ the podcast itself at Castles of Cauldrons or on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok. Once again, I I keep shouting her out, but we've We're really seeing an influx of like people liking and following, and Terry's doing a great job at at putting that stuff out there for us. So thank you again, Terry, for all your work you're doing there. And I know everyone loved my churro video. It was the churro video I feel like had the most love. It's called It was good video. It's just gonna keep popping up on everybody's socials. We will be off next week. Rachel will be heading to Alaska for her Disney Magic. And then I'm heading out ⁓ Fort Lauderdale for the Disney Destiny. Terry is just gonna sit at home. Head out to Miami for the Royal Caribbean Wonder. ⁓ you're going? You're doing a ship tour? No, that's like in two weeks. I leave Wait, you're going on a ship tour? Or are you doing a ship too? I'm I'm gonna cruise. ⁓ with the family? Just ⁓ just Matt. Just me and Matt. Good for you. It's only a three night 'cause he got seasick, deep sea fishing, so we're trying it out before we take the whole family. He'll be fine on that boat. It's different. It's good. A coworker just got off that boat. So we have room with a balcony. He's gonna be fine. I said boat, it's a ship. I said boat too. I know. But that's gonna do it for us. We will see y'all in a couple weeks. Have a s I hope y'all had a safe and great fourth of July, and we will see you on the next episode. Bye. Bye.