CaptainAction Lots of good info in there, thanks for sharing 🙂

Yes, that Royal Pacific walk is really short compared to the Portofino. We almost always skip the boat from Portofino cause we walk pretty fast and tell ourselves that we can have an extra cookie at the parks then.

Joy, I do the same thing as the advice from Dan. You only need to buy 1 annual pass for the discount on the room. Everyone in your party up to 4 also receive Front of the line passes for as many rides as they can walk on the day you check in and the day you all check out too. We see families buying front of the line passes every day at the registers and they spend like $60/ person and they can only ride each ride once on one day and not 2 days like your check out and check in days. If you bought 4 passes for two days that would be $520 and that wouldn’t include a room of course. If you join the Loews First Club, which is free, after a few stays they give you $100 for food at their restaurants for every stay and a free upgrade to a suite when available. And you don’t need any taxis or a car. We have stayed at Portofino for $175 per night (with Annual Pass Discount) with $100 in free food, upgraded to a suite with TWO full baths and front of the line passes for all 5 of us. We also buy our annual passes with AMEX and then we can use the AMEX Lounge at Universal, where anyone who buys annual passes w AMEX can get in, and you get free granola bars, kettle chips, and bottled water for free. Way cool.

@Joy ShawIf you can get yourself an annual pass, depending on timing you can sometimes get into Royal Pacific for as low as $120 a night – probably not too much more than you’re paying on I-Drive. We have a entire page on our site about this topic if you’d like to learn more: https://orlandoinformer.com/wpold/universal/on-site-hotel-annual-pass-discount/.

MamaInformer We did, and as always thanks for saying “yes” 🙂