Universal: Snacks and Wanders

After finishing up lunch at Harry Potter World, we had the Illumination Minions ride at 12.30pm, so we took a wander around the park until we arrived and smashed through the ride. This one was cool, as you had a laser gun, got placed on a spot on a conveyor belt, and went through a range of minions scenes and shot at different screens as you moved around. Thoroughly enjoyable!

From here, we had just over three hours to kill until we were allowed into NintendoLand for our 3pm timed entry, so we pottered about to enjoy some themed snackies. We got a minion ice cream sandwich, some mixed berry churros (the one thing that really bugged me was that there were no plain churros in this park. Every single one was themed and flavoured in some way. In the end, we went for the most left of field one, which ended up being quite yummy), and some Mario treats. After that, we explored Jurassic World and had an absolute blast watching people get unexpectedly soaked on the main Jurassic ride. The coaster here was unreal. It was a corkscrew coaster, but it was on your stomach. I've done a stomach coaster before and it was super fun, but this one was nuts, and not something my inner ear could handle (nor my patience with a 150 minute wait time), but we did love watching it go by and discussing the mechanics.

Then it was a breather on a bench beside the NintendoLand entry to just have a snooze and a read until 3pm.Read more