UUOP #405 - Universal Orlando Through a Walt Disney World Fans Eyes Part 2
Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast
Lee Mallaby
4.6 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
On this episode we welcome back our 6 guests to compare and contrast Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando Resort, but from a more Disney biased point of view for part 2.
Our guests were :
Maria Riboli former host of the Unleash the Magic Podcast
Mike Collins from CoasterRadio.com
Nikki Montoya from The Theme park Duo
Pete Werner from the DisUnplugged
Rikki Niblett from Be Our Guest
and
Tom Corless from WDWNT
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| 0:00.0 | We continue our look at Universal Orlando through the eyes of Walt Disney World fans as we bring you part two of our podcast documentary. |
| 0:07.2 | You are listening to episode 405, then please go back and listen. It's episode 404 and I encourage you to do so before listening |
| 0:38.8 | to this one. As I said, this is part two of our documentary. I would once again like to thank and |
| 0:44.8 | introduce my guests. The lovely Maria Roboli, the former host of the Unleash the Magic podcast, |
| 0:50.5 | Mike Collins, one of the hosts of the coaster radio.com podcast, Nikki Montoya, one half of the theme park duo podcast. Pete Werner, one of the hosts of the coaster radio.com podcast, Nikki Montoya, one half of the |
| 0:55.5 | theme park duo podcast, Pete Werner, one of the hosts of the Diz Unplug podcast, Ricky Niblet, |
| 1:01.3 | co-host of the Be Our Guest podcast, and of course Tom Call us, one of the hosts of the WDWNT podcast. |
| 1:07.7 | So let's move on. |
| 1:09.8 | One of the big differences and the reasons we really began to step |
| 1:12.4 | away from Walt Disney World as part of our Orlando trips was something we noticed on our last |
| 1:16.6 | full Disney trip back in 2013, and that is money. Now we noticed back on that trip that most |
| 1:23.3 | things at Disney World were an attempt to party from your hard-earned dollars, and we know |
| 1:27.1 | there are business, and they're trying to make money, but we noticed it had become very |
| 1:31.1 | in your face and obvious, and honestly we feel that's something that's become inherent in Disney |
| 1:36.1 | company overall as of late. The parks are expensive, the food is expensive, the dessert parties |
| 1:41.9 | and all the other upcharges can all add up to make a Walt Disney World trip run many, many thousands of dollars. Whereas Universal Orlando, and we know |
| 1:49.4 | the theme parks, and we know they're all out there to part you from your money, but we feel |
| 1:53.1 | that Universal can be a much more economical trip. So I ask my guests next. Do you think the relative |
| 1:58.5 | costs of trips to both resorts hurts Disney? And on the |
| 2:02.3 | flip side of that, do you think that helps Universal Orlando at all? I think the cost to afford a vacation |
| 2:09.7 | to the parks, it's very high. I mean, I don't know how, you know, I see families with kids that |
| 2:17.3 | they, they save every penny they have, you know, to come here and do these mega vacations. |
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