It's time to check out another Universal Orlando Hotel.

This week we look at Low Sapphire Falls Resort.

This is episode 517 of the unofficial Universal Orlando podcast. Everyone, welcome to the show.

We're going to talk about, well, kind of wet our appetite for our trip in 17, 16 weeks, I think it is at this point when we'll be scary. At Sapphire Falls. I am here with Tracy. You heard her voice there. Hello. And Chris. Hey. That weird pause was like for some reason I expected Chris to just chime in straight after you said hello. It was weird. I don't really know what I was doing there. Michelle is God knows where she is.

I don't know.

I don't know where she is.

Probably still trapped by the storm.

I think she's on a Veloccoaster, maybe. Maybe. Eating fries, but she's been a lot of coaster. We should have talked about this on last week's episode. She got e-backed of Transformers when we were trying to do a Google meet.

Just try and find out if the Wi-Fi was good enough for a joiners on the show.

They got evacked out of it with a fire alarms going on it. And we haven't heard from us since? No, that's true. That's her Wi-Fi that did that. So, yeah, we're going to talk about Lowe's Sapphire Falls Hotel, which is the fifth on-site hotel at Universal Orlando and opened back on July 7th.

Interesting enough, very close to when we're recording.

Like July 7th, it's July 18th to pull the curtain back.

In 2016, and is the was the first, is a was, it is because they changed them all, all didn't he it is the first in Universal's preferred hotel range escape to an island paradise now from the stone turret in the lobby to the inviting charm of each room and sweet you're surrounded by a vivid textured haven that is inspired by landmarks of the islands there are blue water waterfalls, cascaded over lush grounds, and in the distance, the calming sound of steel drums calls you in to take in the scenic views, and ease into island time and let go. Amid the beach area, palm trees and pool, you'll find Caribbean-themed dining options. Right, let's just talk about the theming of the hotel at this point, because this is why I wanted to stay here.

It's absolutely gorgeous.

It really is.

That walk up from the water taxi, up that spiral staircase into that lobby with that big, I don't even know how you describe it that like ball chandelier thing

it's absolutely stunning yeah yeah they they the theming in that area I don't want to

call it a room but stairwell stairwell it is it just takes you somewhere else yeah it doesn't

feel like a hotel no it kind of i know it's

supposed i guess it's supposed to sort of be inspired by those um like sort of rum traders back in

like piraty times isn't it that's what it looks like it's like stones where they kept the barrels

downstairs yeah it's smugglers yeah it's it just It doesn't feel like an on-site hotel. And then the juxtaposition between that and then walking into that lobby is, like, you said it, it's breathtaking. It is. It's absolutely gorgeous. And it's just that. That's what made me fall in love with it. And at that point, I was like, I need to stay here. Well, from the second we saw the plans, we were like, we've got to stay here. Because, I mean, even the artist's impressions, they're never usually... Universal's to be fair. Yeah. But this was absolutely spot on. And then seeing what the restaurants were like, from the second it's being up, we've like we need to spend time here we've spent a little but not enough restaurants do you say hmm

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