 Hey friends tonight We are checking in to low sapphire falls resort at Universal Studios Orlando for a little Stacation we are here for the whole weekend going to the Orlando and former meet-up And I figured I'd give you guys a little room tour show you around the resort And then we're gonna hop on over to Universal kick off the informal meet-up eat lots of food ride lots of rides And just have a beautiful Orlando and former meet-up kind of night Anyhoo, let's go do this The best thing about this staycation is Gracie is gonna be staying with me. We're at Universal Studios Orlando. Are you excited? She's excited. She wants to go to the pool right now The Orlando in former meet-up is a separate ticketed event that anybody can buy tickets to go to it is $229 and you get Universal Studios Orlando and Islands of Adventure basically all to yourself You get into the park at 5 p.m. And the event runs till 1 30 in the morning But all of the food and beverages are included in the price of 229 dollars for one night And it is incredible all of the rides are limited to like no wait times at all and it is incredible It's the best way to do Universal Studios Orlando and they also have amazing hotel packages We get to save 30% off if you're coming to the Orlando and former meet-up I'll talk a little bit more about the Orlando and former meet-up once we get over there But also put a link in the description so you guys can check it out for yourself Now I want to start heading on into the resort show you guys around a little bit get Gracie all comfortable and Enjoy a little bit of the resort itself Gracie has stayed at just about every single Lowe's Universal resort So I'm excited to see if she's gonna like this one She's never stayed here before and we're gonna go head to our room now and pick up our luggage And they give you like a little tiny doggie bag with dishes and mats So we're gonna get all settled in and then go explore around a little bit Here is a little bit of a map of the resort the check-in areas here We're gonna be staying in guest house to it's got this beautiful pool And then we've got water taxis that take us back and forth to Universal Studios Orlando. It's a pretty big Resort and it's kind of like a deluxe resort as well. It's very fancy very nice This is the main lobby itself And it's kind of very cool because you can see out into the park You can actually see the Hulk actually blasting off and Dr. Doom a lot of like islands of adventure So the lobby itself has a theme park view and I think that's awesome This resort has the feels of like a deluxe resort, but it's actually like a moderate It's like a mid-tier one and it's still like four stars four diamonds The only thing that separates it is the fact that you don't get that all-day express pass Like you would if you stayed at Port of Eno Bay or any of the high-tier resorts at Universal And it goes for just around three hundred dollars a night and like I said You have transportation to the parks tons of restaurants a very nice pool But let me know what you guys think actually let me know if you think it's worth the three hundred dollars a night It's kind of compared to like Disney's Caribbean Beach or Porter Lee's Like I mentioned you can actually see right out into the park there and we're gonna make our way over to our room. Oh Complimentary water. That's very fancy. It's got the fruit in it, too Florida oranges lime and lemon and then strawberry kiwi and fresh basil I'm all for a free fresh fruit water This is no joke some delicious water the strawberries and the kiwis and the fresh basil Mmm. I like it We're making our way over to our guest house, but I just want to show you some of the amazing views look at this It's it's so beautiful here Like look at that It's like a little tropical hideaway and right there is Islands of Adventure like I was talking about I love it. I really do love it here a lot. Here's a look at the pool on this side Wow We should definitely hang out by the pool. What do you think Gracie? She's looking down there Gracie, what do you think about this place so far? Huh? Do you like the pool? You want to go swimming a little bit later on? I love it. The pool is very nice It's kind of this weird like pattern to it and then this is the Hotel lobby itself. They have two restaurants or maybe even three nice little game room there Very cool. This is what the outside of the rooms look like And here's our room you want to give him a room tour Gracie go ahead Look at her Is that your bed what's your bed doing here? What? This is not your bed. That's your bed This is a very nice room very colorful very bright Gracie loves it And I'm gonna show you guys around a little bit Like I mentioned it's got like a nice little beachy like Florida vibes. I like these pillows here. Look at this Very nice. I got a nice little chair right here two beds And I just like how the light colors are in here and it even comes stocked with Fiji. Look at that Very very fancy some glasses. You get a little doggie bed a doggie bag We'll go over that once we get a little more settled in a little coffee machine the fridge the TV And then I like the bathroom too. Look at this over here It's very nice. The mirror actually is touch the touch mirror Look at that. Oh, I Like it a nice little stand-up shower The bathroom itself. Let's see Gotta check that good water pressure, you know, holy holy I wasn't expecting that Wow, and then we've got a little storage closet here That's a nice closet I don't think you could fit in there and you could definitely you can't definitely get underneath the beds Sadly, that's not happening, but I do like this room. It's very nice. I got a nice pool view kind of Could see out and look at the pool a little bit nice little garden view I think it'd be cool if they had balconies. That's only like thing. I feel like it's missing I want to set up Gracie's dishes and my little workstation And then we're going to go out explore around the pool a little bit take Gracie for a walk and head on over to Universal Studios and check in for the Orlando and former meet-up Like I mentioned when you come they give you like a little Lowe's loves pets like pet mat Some treats Only a little tiny piggies. Oh, she's gonna like those Some dog dishes or even a little Lowe's tag And then also one of these little signs that say Enter with care. I'm gonna put this on her right now So she feels fancy like a princess Only the best for this princess She gets the good ol Fiji water Yes, there you go That's the way Simply untouched Enough of the room tour Gracie wants to go to the pool I want to walk around a little bit and just kind of look at everything and scope out the resort Gracie you lead the way go ahead you lead the way go You lead the way but look at how beautiful it is out here It's very nice. There is the lobby and the water taxi I like this. It's very hard to make videos and vlog with a dog Someone's banging on the window. Huh? Hi friends That's awesome. You got some friends there Gracie What's down here? Come on It's a dead end. There's nothing down here Gracie You led me in the wrong direction There's nothing down there Come on. Let's go up here up here up these steps. Come on. Let's go Well, we made our way back up to the lobby. Maybe we'll head over to the tavern grab a drink Chill out for a second What do you think Gracie? You want a a pup beer? Strong water tavern sound like a good spot Gracie come on I like it This is really cool. I like this strong water bar. It's kind of a tapas restaurant and we're outside This is like a little patio area and it's all pet friendly and it's really fun They even have little dog bowls and little treats for the dog adoos and Gracie's loving I got a little beer just kind of hanging out. I would get something to eat But I'm telling you we are gonna eat a lot of food tonight. We are gonna eat so much food And now we're back in the room I'm gonna make my way over to universal. I'll be back to see you in a little bit Make sure you got some more fiji. You want some more fiji water? Huh right here There you go Very nice. See you in a little bit baby girl. Love you Put on some cartoons for Gracie girl. I'm thinking paws or furry or super pets Let's do super pets, huh? Let's see. Yeah, you want super pets? 29.99 oh my lord It's 20 dollars for super pets. I don't think you're watching it today Gracie All right, now it's time to head on out and make our way over to universal studios We're gonna take the water taxi over I know I keep on switching out my hats because I wasn't sure which one I was gonna wear tonight But I think I settled on the deathly hollows hat. I got it actually here at universal studios and I'm excited This is kind of funny. This reminds me of harry potter a little bit, but inside low sapphire falls. They have like a spiral staircase look at this in here This is really nifty I don't even know what this is for, but I like all the pictures This is really cool. I should bring Gracie here later. I bet you she'd love to run up and down these steps The water taxi comes every 15 minutes and takes you right on over to city walk And I'm excited. I love all the water taxis. I think it's a fun way to get to the parks There she is our water taxi Our boat our mode of transportation for this evening. Look at this. It looks so pretty out here Look at that me and Gracie actually stayed at this resort last time. It was so nice. She loved it I have a video that I never put out that I used just as like exclusive content But look at that. It's so cool. Isn't it? And we have officially made it over to city walk It was literally just a two-minute boat ride. It was a nice boat ride. I enjoyed myself very much Here are the dates for the next Orlando and former meetups for 2023 They have June 2nd and 3rd November 17th and 18th December 1st and 2nd and December 8th and 9th And if you plan on coming down anytime during those dates, it's so worth it tickets are still available Like I said, I'll put a link in the description and you can come both nights or you can come one night You have plenty of options But you want to book it as fast as possible because it will sell out When you come to the Orlando and former meetup, you don't need a ticket to go into universal studios You can get into the park as early as five o'clock and then at eight o'clock Everybody has to leave and at nine o'clock the official meetup starts And that's when all the free food goes on and one of the coolest things About this meetup is you get to ride The pterodon flyers, which is such a cool ride But you need to have a child with you to actually ride it. So for some people This is the only time they're ever able to ride it and we're going to be doing that tonight Each meetup has a separate Beaming to it like you have the winter meetup where you get to see the Grinch walking around the park And this one is going to be Mardi Gras because it's actually Mardi Gras starting tomorrow And another cool thing that they have is a speakeasy Where you actually get to go inside to like a little nightclub and go back to the prohibition era and have some drinks And each one like I said has a different theming But I do love the Mardi Gras one because you get all of the awesome food and some of the menus so far look impressive I did notice that finnegan's changed things up a little bit They've got new orleans black and chicken Caesar salad and then they got some gumbo and jambalaya I'm going to be eating a lot of that food Last year during the Orlando and former meetup They had the speakeasy and you had to find the passport to actually get into it this year It's whoever signed up for the meetup within the first 24 hours gets guaranteed access and look at that We got ourselves a little chip. We're going on in Just like I said before lots of friends lots of food Promise christen taylor ryan. It's gonna be fun. Taylor ryan's first time coming tonight. We got some pros over here Yep, but i'm excited. Let the eating begin Now that we're officially in the park We're really just kind of waiting until the event starts because i'm a pass holder I can come anytime I want but a lot of people actually use their ticket As like their vacation ticket to come to the park because you get so long from 5 p.m To 1 30 in the morning. So we're just gonna kind of chill out and the best place to do that is a good old finnegan's It's an Orlando and former meetup tradition But don't worry as soon as the actual meetup starts and the free food starts This is the place I want to be. I need to get some of that fresh jumbo and gumbo that fresh jumbo the gumbo The gumbalaya Starting out the night strong with some irish coffee and it looks like they added a little green to it for mardi gras. I'm excited Gotta get all hyper for the night. It's gonna be a long one. We're here until 1 30 in the morning We're gonna be eating lots of food. So cheers Once the event actually starts they're gonna have little like areas where you have to go through like a little security check and you have to show them that you got your little wristband on which we do All right, there it is. It's eight o'clock The park is officially closed to regular day guests now between eight and nine the food isn't available But you can ride the rides And we got a little fireworks here too. Look at that I had to make our way over to doggen alley because once you get in there and they check your wristbands They start the food and stuff early like around 8 30 ish So you can get butterbeers and the ice cream In fact, I think we're gonna go to the ice cream place first because that's always popular Here it is florian fortescue and you just go inside and grab the ice cream that you want They always have some amazing flavors, but they usually just have everything all set up and it's just come in and grab and go There's all the ice cream flavors right there Look at all these incredible flavors apple crumb Hi, how are you? Thank you Very awesome Well, I love the ice cream. Thank you Oh, yeah chocolate strawberry peanut butter right here salted caramel blondie Earl gray and lavender. That's the way chocolate chili. Is that the butterbeer? Thank you butterbeer ice cream Clotic cream raspberry and chocolate and sticky toffee pudding All right, so you can grab as much as you can carry and I don't want to eat a lot of ice cream So I'm just gonna try a little bit, but they can't combine the flavors So you have to give one scoop of each individual and I actually grabbed a bunch of them. So we're gonna try some You can technically grab every single flavor of ice cream, but I didn't want to do that I just wanted to try a little bit. So I got strawberry peanut butter I got the earl lavender gray And then I got the butter beer soft serve and then I got the uh, I think the pecan one or the oh the toffee one Here we go butter beer my favorite Honestly, I feel like I always knock the strawberry and peanut butter But it is really just like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It's really good But overall I got to stick to my butter beer and I just love it. In fact, I think I need to go get an actual butter beer Honestly, I feel like one of the big sellers for this event is the endless butter beer And that is hot cold and frozen and just so you guys are aware I am team hot. I think it's the best hot and then regular and then frozen I'm not the biggest fan of the frozen one, but you can get all three They've got the tongue tying lemon squish They've got the otters fizzy orange juice the fishy green ale. I'll take a fishy green ale There we go excellent And then a lot of butter beer look at me just sliding it down here There she is The hot butter beer Thank you Regular oh, that's frozen regular here pumpkin juice. Don't mind if I do Excellent I think we did well Look at all of these drinks and now we're chugging harry potter drinks All of the harry potter drinks are really cool and they're a little unique But the thing that I'm in love with the hot butter beer Much too good. Oh my lord go It was the same oh no, I call it a tie Even drink a butter beer if you don't got a butter beer mustache Did you even drink one ryan? He didn't even drink one Okay, that was fun I don't know if it was the best decision to start off the night though with ice cream and butter beers So we definitely need something a little savory. That's why we're going to head back over to finnegan's for some gumbo laya Are you getting a turkey leg? I wish I was getting a turkey leg Oh, there you go, uh, break me off a piece of that turkey leg So far $429 have been charged over here Wow You can get cheese sauce with your turkey leg. Oh Thank you We just went from butter beers and ice cream to a good old-fashioned turkey leg gobble gobble Cheers to turkey legs gobble gobble Gobble gobble Another really awesome perk about coming to the informal meetup is you get like basically the whole park to yourself And you get to see it like not crowded and it's kind of pretty at night Look at how nice and empty it is over here I mean you can really wait until later on and get one of those iconic like sitting down on the road pictures When it's just you because later on there'll be nobody here We were gonna head straight on over to finnegan's but since it just hit nine o'clock The line was a little long So we're gonna hop into louis and i'm gonna not eat so much tonight because I want to you know kind of Stick to like the really good foods. You know what I mean? Like definitely finnegan's and stuff like that So i'm not gonna probably partake in a lot of pizza partake in pizza They literally just have everything so you can grab and go you get yourself a tray Or a cannoli Don't mind if I do Yeah, grab me a cannoli or two Now I sound like dr. Seuss Pepperonis the regulars think I might do a pepperoni a There we go This pizza isn't the best pizza But it is free pizza and honestly All the matters in this world Hot Kristen, what'd you get? Everything everything Everything are you guys sharing that fettuccine? Are you carb overload? Oh, yeah Lady in the trap. Yes You grab one noodle. There you go Oh how romantic Enough of the pizza business. It's time for the good stuff finnegan's. Oh, wow. Look at there's a lot of people in there They must be serving up some good gumbo and some man catching beignets Over the years we have seen finnegan's have wings little beef pasties Of course, they always have the bread coating which is one of my favorite things So we're definitely gonna be getting some of that and the whiskey sauce extra whiskey sauce This looks like some good gumbo That looks good. Can I have it without the rice? Just straight gumbo. Look at that some shrimpies in there Much too good. Oh, yeah, look at she hooked me up. I see what you did there. I like it And then we got some jambalaya here. I'll take some jambalaya What's that one no meat Vegan oh, okay. Well, that's I said vegan option. Yeah, give me a double scoop Oh, that's like fresh grilled chicken there. Holy moly. Can I have some of that chicken? Yeah I like it. Thank you No salad just a chicken Thank you. Can I put this right here? Thank you and then the bread pudding the best Oh, yeah. Oh, hey, can you give me some more of that icing on top of that? Give it a double scoop That is the best. Oh my lord The key to my heart. Thank you Look at this I love this so much. Look at this food. I'm gonna feast right now The gumbo looks pretty good and there it is the bread pudding folks Oh, wow. First things first. We're gonna take a little jambalaya Then I'll scoop On that hot gumbo. Look at that hot gumbo. I'm gonna burn myself right now. I feel like but this is the gumbalaya Thank you This is the nice little jambalaya not a lot of vegetables a little bit better I think I mean this is the gumbo a little bit better than the ones we had yesterday or the other day at Hollywood studios But I do like the jambalaya as well, but I just want to jump right to this And you know what? It's the Orlando informer meetup. You can have dessert before you have dinner Venugans is a success. It's gonna be hard walking away right now, but I gotta do it Can't get full. We still got lots of good food to try But I want some more jambalaya the gumbo has a nice little kick and I'm gonna miss that bread pudding They all come back. I'm coming back for you babies Now I think we're gonna try to travel over to the speakeasy. We're gonna show them our tokens We don't have a south side swim here. Oh, we're south side swim today Tomorrow south side slim's gonna make his return Hopefully they don't ask too many questions. Mind your p's and q's sir. I'm sorry I'm uh my partner here Right, but I'm harry high and I am sammy seek Oh Prohibition detective Right Because alcohol's a little around here. Yeah alcohol's um alcohol's illegal Runner we got a runner. She's Please knock here Us south side slim South side slim All right. All right. You guys got tokens. Yes. Let me see him. Let me see him. Make sure you're legit All right, come on in. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. You're welcome I like your shirt looks like something teddy roosevelt would wear. Hey Sorry I didn't mean to alarm you cook yourself right? You're dead about it Unless you were slob at home then make yourself nicer than you are at home Oh, we'll do we'll do I like this place Knew this year we got a little craps and a little casino here these chips It's worth 50,000 50,000 Oh Do I give it away? Where do you keep it as a souvenir? 50,000 I know I want to keep mine as a souvenir If you wanted to play any of the games and they have multiple tables at blackjack roulette Crabs you have to give them your coin and you won't be able to come back in and you would get 50,000 like chips So I kind of want to keep mine I'm going to hang on to it because then I want to bring it back the next night You know, or maybe they'll give me another coin. I don't know I'll find out Here is a look at some of the drinks that you can get they have some specialty cocktails Wine by the glass is ten dollars beer is eight dollars. Of course. They got like old fashions and manhans in here It's actually just a full service beer like bar That was a fun little trip inside to the little speakeasy We didn't end up getting anything because we want to keep moving along. We have to head over to island's adventure We're going to do pterodon flyers maybe get a dagwood and uh try some more food You got a hot dog I'll take a hot dog Hot dog hot dog I'll take a hot dog Oh, and you got hot cocoa too? Wow, you guys got everything How dare you hot dogs hot cocos We're back on the hot theme. Yep. That's a big hot dog Kristen is literally combining hot dogs with churros and white claws The fact that this combination is actually happening right now is blowing my mind Now we're going to be able to hop over to island's adventure But we're going to be able to walk right through it So we don't actually have to go outside the park and it only takes a minute Anytime I walk this way I kind of just think of halloween horror nights and I love it I love being backstage. I like seeing the different sound stages Now that we have made it all the way on the other side I'm gonna stop into the circus megerkis cafe stupendous. I don't know what they're serving up today, but Maybe the roast beast Just like over at louis they've got Caesar salads and pizza But they also have pizza tots and buffalo tots and also a brookie But during the winter event they have the roast beef sandwich, which I love Got the pizza tots got the buffalo tots. I'm gonna grab myself a water You want a brookie? Uh, no, I'm okay. All right. No brookies. They do look good though You think I should take one? I'm taking it Because you said so you talked me into it Look at this. You got to have good hand strength Grab myself some pizza tots look at this and these barrels are good A little pepilloni Don't mind Everybody do Some buffalo chicken, yeah I like it. We do need to get those tendies though These are really good. I honestly like the pizza ones better than the buffalo chicken ones You know, but at least you get whole chicken in there. It's not too shabby Now it's time for the pterodon flyers Only time we can ride this is right now. I'm so excited Like I mentioned before you can only ride this ride if you have a small child to a company And this is the only time that you can ride it during these Orlando and former meetups without, uh, a little child We'll miss you I feel like a toddler That was awesome riding the pterodon flyers. It's so cool. Trust me if you've never done it before it's such an exhilarating Ride and if they didn't do like a random lottery the wait time would be hours I would literally come here and see when times I can ride that ride. That's how good it is But now we gotta move along get some more food Wait, are you really going? I'm going to I might die, but I'm going for it guys I believe in you That's a way As we're making our way over to marvel super hero island I wanted to stop at the king kong like little stand here because they have a kong dong, which is like a And they also have a banana, uh, like a little like frozen drink. Yeah, it's like that A banana icy and it is a kong dong a kong dog. Yeah I didn't even know they had cinnamon pretzels like this. Look at this What kind of pretzel? I mean, this is impressive. So we're going to get it. We're gonna I mean, I'm going all in Gotta get some icing a little bit But normally Oh I'm starting to feel a little bit cold it's getting chilly out and we're gonna be here for two days So I think we're gonna actually probably start making our way out. We already had lots of food. It's been so much fun And uh, there's one last thing we have to do There is just one last thing I need to check out and that is if frankenstein is still sitting here waiting for my mom But it looks like no frankenstein instead. We got beetle juice I wonder if my mom would be afraid of beetle juice mom if you're watching this Does beetle juice scare you or is it just frankenstein? Now it's time to make our way out of the park and over back to our boats and go see, uh, little gracey girl Oh Kristen, how you doing up there good? Good good There she is Well, that was a fun time I I loved your land when former meetup and I love our little staycation here Me and Gracie are gonna hit the sack and go to bed and uh, yeah, it's been nice We could have stayed a little bit longer. It was open till 1 30 But I wanted to leave early to get back to see Gracie girl and we got a lot done and we're here for the whole weekend So we're probably not gonna have to you know, cram everything in one night And yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed the video if you want more information about the Orlando informer meetup I will put a link in the description. You guys can check it out And uh, we'll see you next time Bye