Universal Studios

I went to universal studios today. Oh boy that was a mistake.

I have no interest in the whole holywood thing but my plan was to just go on lots of rides. Anyhow, this is how it went down.

1. Arrive, wait in line for 1 hour to buy ticket.
2. Get ticket, wait in line for 30 seconds to get into park.
3. Go to most awesome ride, wait in line for 1 hour and 10 minutes.
4. Ride the ride for 2 minutes.
5. Go find lunch place, wait in line for 10 minutes.
6. Order food, wait in line for 7 minutes to receive food.
7. Sit down and eat food.
8. Go to next ride I want to go on, the estimated wait time was helpfully provided as 2 hours and 20 minutes.
9. Go back to most awesome ride, wait time is 1 hour and 30 minutes.
10. As all decent rides have long waits I go home.

Yeargh. It is such a disappointment. While waiting in the line to buy a ticket the main roller coaster goes over where you wait. Everyone things, fuck yeah, but that joy is at the cost of around 1.5 hours boredom.

The way to avoid this is to buy express tickets, which is a special line for people who have paid extra cash. They go to the front and all other lines stop and wait until that line is exhausted. I assumed that they were the rich people, which is probably true enough, but it is about $30 or so for this service. It costs about $65 to get into the park.

The funny thing about all this is I much prefer a system like the royal melbourne show. I used to hate it how you pay to get in and then pay for every ride, but this avoids the massive queues and is probably about the same value anyway.

Man, I would hate to see it on a weekend or a public holiday. This was on a Monday on a business day. I think the way to do it is to come and line up early in the morning. You could get a lot of rides done as it takes a while for people to get into the park.