I planned my Disney Trip approximately 6 months in advance, and decided to go to Universal on the Thursday of our trip. I believe it was three months after I had planned everything (including all Disney ADRs) that Universal came out with the grand opening date of Harry Potter, June 18. Just my luck we were going the 17th. Thinking that perhaps we would get lucky and maybe a soft-opening/regular-opening would occur, we just hoped for the best. So the day comes, we decide to head straight to Potter (because other people on the WWOHP thread said to go early), and they said it was closed for the day.....awesome. We decide to head to dragons challenge, "sorry folks, dragons challenge is not operating today"....awesome. We decided to head for spiderman, which was a short wait, then we went in line for the hulk. We waited approximatly 30 minutes when the announcement came on "we're currently having technical difficulties" probably five times. Many people in line left but we decided to wait it out. After waiting a total of an hour and a half, we finally made it on. Just as we got buckled in "we're currently having technical difficulties" REALLLYYY!?!?. We waited 10 more minutes while we were buckled in and finally we were then cleared to go and we enjoyed our ride. After, we decided to head for the jurassic park ride. That was a short wait, we went through the whole ride and just as we were getting ready to get off the boats, there were four boats in front of us just waiting there. We waited 10 minutes, just floating there, then we heard a guy who worked at the ride yell "sorry folks, we are experiencing technical difficulties, we should be getting you on your way shortly." Two workers had to manually release the lap-bars and hold every riders hand individually to step up onto the platform. At this point we were so done with everything we just wanted to leave. We went to universal and went on the mummy, rip-ride-rockit, and we went to head for men in black and ET, the lines were outside of the main queue, so we just decided to head out. We got to see the madagascar penguins (which was the highlight of the day......imagine). We ate at margarittaville and did some shopping, but overall I was VERY disappointed in universal. Considering a one day ticket is $110, we absolutely DID NOT get our moneys worth. I understand that the official opening day of WWOHP wasn't until the next day, but everything put together just made our day awful. It just made Disney look a billion times better though. Has anyone else experienced such an awful day as this?
