First, the preparation work before entering the park
Universal Studios has two good but expensive hotels, namely Universal Studios Hotel at the top of the park gate and Jin Nuo Resort Hotel in the east. The latter is more relaxed and business-oriented.
It's good, but it's extremely expensive. The simple five words illustrate the fact that the two hotels in the park are extremely lack of cost performance. You can check the price on flying pig, Ctrip and other apps. In fact, even the package with tickets is usually around three or four thousand yuan, which is more than 50% higher than the total price of hotels outside the park+self-purchased tickets, which is extremely uneconomical.
The advantage of Park Hotel is that it has its own plug-in. Entering the park half an hour in advance can really make visitors who choose the park hotel enjoy a high degree of fault tolerance and comfort in queuing strategy and experience. But the problem is that the park of Universal Studios is not large, and the area of 1.7 square kilometers is less than half that of Disney.
In addition, the popularity of being left behind by Disney has also been greatly reduced. In fact, as long as you queue up at the door early enough and your strategy is excellent enough, it is a piece of cake to complete the main plays and performances in one day, and the extra half-hour gain is completely unnecessary.
So the conclusion is clear. Unless you have a mine at home or a late stage of lazy cancer, the park hotel is definitely a choice you can't even think about. In fact, the hotels around Universal Studios have complete services to the North Ring Road, and the shuttle bus/business car transfer in the morning and evening is basically standard. If you get up an hour early and walk an extra thousand steps, you can save thousands of starting expenses. Why not?
Crowd is not a fatal problem that affects the Universal Studios experience. As long as you enter the park in advance, you can greatly offset the negative impact of queuing. At present, the opening time of Universal Studios is usually around 9: 30 in the morning, but people will start to enter the park at 9: 00, so we must arrive at the gate of the park around 8: 00 to start queuing. As long as the queue time of the first project can be shortened to less than 50 minutes, then the rest is a quick and quick experience.
In addition, the most suitable mode of transportation to Universal Studios is actually the subway. /kloc-get off at Global Resort Station on Line 0/Line 7, which is convenient and quick. Especially when returning from the afternoon/evening, the advantage of the subway is like a blow to reduce the dimension, which must be given priority. In contrast, the distance between the passengers on the network is far away and it is easy to fall into the communication black box.
Then U-Express.
Yousutong is an official plug-in experience for paying to jump the queue, which can be viewed and purchased on "Beijing Global Vacation APP". With the U-speed open circuit, even a long queue of 150+ minutes in the afternoon can be completed in half an hour.
There are two kinds of value-added express, full value-added express and single value-added express. The price of the whole item is 1000, and the single item depends on the popularity of the item, ranging from 150 to 225, but it is not recommended to buy any premium express delivery.
Cheap fares and expensive environment are the core of every theme park's operation mode. Therefore, since the core cost performance of each theme park is piled on the ticket price, avoiding shopping and dining in the park has become a necessary basic skill for poor travel to Universal Studios.
The suggestion is also simple: if you don't eat in the park, it's over. Because Disney didn't have a notorious bag search policy in the past, your lunch can be solved by bringing your own dry food. You only need a few pieces of chocolate bread with enough calories, and you can meet the biofuel in the afternoon calmly, and you can save a lot of time waiting for meals in the park restaurant.
Bringing a bottle of mineral water directly can solve the drinking problem, and the rest of the water supply depends on the necessary drinking points in every bathroom in the park. If you are traveling with family and friends, it is best to bring an empty bottle of mineral water for extra drinking equipment, which saves time.
As for dinner, since the business hours of Universal Studios are usually closed at around 7: 30 pm except weekends, the expensive food in the park obviously can't stop you from being a little thirsty-it's more comfortable and cheaper to order takeout in bed when you get back to the hotel than to eat in the park. Isn't it delicious?
Of course, we really don't have to miss an extra hour of business on Saturday and Sunday and the fireworks show in Harry Potter district in order to save a few dollars. If you really want to eat in the park, then I recommend the "Drifter's Restaurant" located between Future Water World Zone and Harry Potter Zone, a pork chop +55 pieces of corn (22 years' price, comment area to be determined), plus potato chips to satisfy your hunger, which is relatively cost-effective.
Transformers. Fight for allspark. The Adventures of Jurassic World. Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. Jump into Jurassic. The first three of these four projects belong to the giant amusement projects with the best reputation and the most fun in Universal Studios, which are the so-called "three major amusement projects". Leap of Jurassic is a "new" project closed last year. Because a large part of the people who brush two brushes and three brushes are just needed, the number of people waiting in line here is also considerable.
If you don't get to Harry Potter at the first stop, there will be a queue for the rest of the time. The author's two-day visit to the park just happened to catch up with the peak of tourists in the Beijing college entrance examination. The queue time of Harry Potter's taboo tour exceeded 100 minutes. The only friendly time window is the ten minutes when he ran in line with his legs when he entered the park. As long as we seize this opportunity to brush off Harry Potter quickly, we can get rid of the crowd for almost a whole day and play all kinds of time-varying coquettish operations.
So there is no doubt that Harry Potter is the only first choice for every player who wants to attack the garden quickly. Remember, you not only passed the entrance of the park, but also passed the starting line of "Beijing International Folk Marathon"! Be sure to aim at the looming steeple on the right front, turn on the overload and lower the center of gravity, and do not hesitate to charge physically!
In addition, since it is the planning before entering the park, there is still one thing to be explained: Universal Studios is a theme park after all, and it is bound to get a better sense of substitution and play experience after watching the original movies. If you really don't have time, at least watch the following four movies: Transformers 1, Jurassic Park 1, Harry Potter 1 and Kung Fu Panda 3. Personally, I will recommend another song to you.
Second, the evaluation and strategy
It is true that there are many tours and performances in Universal Studios. I didn't brush them all twice every two years, but I didn't miss or even brush two or three of the main tours and performances. In fact, when we really resume the drama and performance projects of Universal Studios, you will find that its truly irreplaceable and highly exciting movie-watching projects/performances are nothing more than the following "eight major projects".
1, The Battle of Transformers allspark
Project type: Ride on the rail car/live interactive 3d movie.
Related competing products: Pirates of the Caribbean. Battle of Shen Bao
Queue length: about 100~ 120 minutes in peak season (the queue estimation in this strategy is based on the worst case).
Rail cars, real-life interaction, 3d glasses, and a Transformers Chaos with a popular character tailored for this play project, as the core project of the Transformers base scenic spot, the refreshing feeling and just right excitement provided by the Battle of allspark are really worth players' in-depth experience, even two brushes and three brushes.
2. Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey
Project Type: Take a suspended track seat/live interactive movie.
Related competing products: Pirates of the Caribbean. Battle of Shen Bao.
Queue time: about 120~ 150 minutes in peak season.
As a masterpiece of Universal Studios, Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey will bring visitors a dark experience full of magic and horror. With just the right sound effects and natural wind effects, well-made prop models and excellent dynamic effects, as well as a full set of original performances including Harry, Hermione and Ron, Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey is indeed worthy of its position as the strongest scene fist product and its worldwide popularity over the years, and it can be called a business card of Universal Studios.
3. The Adventures of Jurassic World
Project Type: Ride the Rail Car/Live interactive movie.
Related competing products: Pirates of the Caribbean. Battle of Shen Bao.
Queue time: 90~ 120 minutes in peak season.
If allspark is the most exciting and the taboo tour is the most immersive, then what Jurassic has is the most powerful interactive effect of Universal Studios and even the whole Asian theme park. Vivid dinosaur model, vivid dynamic effect, when Tyrannosaurus rex really growls at you, that kind of high excitement and realism is definitely the only refreshing experience here that is not available elsewhere.
4. Decepticon roller coaster
Project type: roller coaster ride.
Related competing products in Shangdi: building an ultra-fast light wheel.
Queue length: about 50~60 minutes in peak season.
I have to say that the Decepticon's gameplay experience is still exciting enough. It is extremely arrogant to eject uphill, and it can fill your adrenaline as soon as it starts, and the fastest driving speed is reported to have reached the level of breaking 100. Coupled with all kinds of spinning weightlessness and handstand experiences that all roller coasters have, Decepticon roller coasters can give you the most straightforward and authentic play experience. Every time he rushes out of the driller's body, it is a refreshing memory that the brave will never forget.
5, leap in Jurassic
Project type: roller coaster ride.
Related competing products in Shangdi: Seven Dwarf Miners.
Queue length: about 70~90 minutes in peak season.
As another flagship roller coaster project of Universal Studios, the innovation of Flying over Jurassic is that it greatly enhances the player's experience in the horizontal axis dimension-the traditional roller coaster swings up and down and left and right, and the player's vision is always forward. Leap of Jurassic realized a 360-degree rotation along the horizontal axis with the help of a specially designed rail car, which directly raised the freedom of the game to a height, flying forward, backward, forward, back to back and sideways. All kinds of flying, all kinds of perspectives, you can walk through the huge rockery with every gesture you can think of, and really let players feel the same pleasant experience as pterosaur flying.
6. minions, despicable me fell from the sky
Project type: interactive seating/image maximization.
Shangdi related competing products: skyrocketing. Leap over the horizon.
Queue length: about 50~70 minutes in peak season.
The same interactive seats and image maximization, as soon as you compare Disney's oversized ball screen, it is super cool and even has a sense of smell, and you are immediately pulled out of class. As a competitor of Disney, we can clearly see the top-heavy feeling of Universal Studios. Cycling events are getting more and more awesome, but there are no competing products of the same heavyweight in rafting, interactive movie and roller coaster. Universal Studios, with a high upper limit and a low lower limit, can be said to have a gap with Disney in the number of audiences.
7. Kung Fu Panda. Journey of the dragon warrior
Project Type: Cycling Track Rafting Boat/Real interactive movie.
Shangdi related competing products: Lei Ming drifting.
Queue length: about 50~60 minutes in peak season.
Similar to the three cycling events, the Dragon Warrior Tour is also a cycling experience that interacts with real models and movie plots. In this link, Universal also generously brought us brand-new original plots and excellent animation production. Just for these plots that are only appreciated in the park, fans of Kung Fu Panda have a reason to come.
This is all the advantages. As a rafting project, it's not exciting enough, splashing around and you don't even need to wear a raincoat in the front row. As an interactive project, it is not interactive enough. In this project, the task of all players is to see a brand-new confrontation scene between Po and Dreadwind. Immersion comes from the sense of participation, and you can't convince yourself to integrate into the plot, let alone participate.
8: Lighting, camera, action.
Project type: live special effects performance.
Shangdi related competing products: none.
Queue length: about 20 minutes in peak season.
As a project with a very novel design angle, it is almost impossible to find similar competitive products in Disney. Universal Studios has high hopes for this project. Not only Zhang Yimou and Spielberg were invited to speak for the platform, but also a large number of special effects scenes were designed as preheating films.
The actual effect is really good. The project team presented various real-life special effects in a studio-sized venue, including water flames, hurricane attacks, port damage, etc. This is an unparalleled decoration. In particular, the scene where the cruise ship crashed into the harbor and rushed directly to the audience was really wonderful.