 Hey friends tonight We are hanging out at Universal Studios Orlando for the very first time in 2023 And we are gonna be doing a private VIP tour. I'm so excited to bring you guys along. We're doing both parks We're gonna be able to go backstage and do some exclusive things that you can only do on a VIP tour And I figured I'd make a little video going over the cost and explaining how it works. So anyways, let's go do this It's really fun being at the park before all the crowds arrive And now we're gonna make our way over to the VIP check-in area and get a little breakfast The tour itself is just around eight hours and it starts at 9 a.m And included in that you get breakfast, which is served at 8 30 and then you get lunch later on and it's just about $300 a person Depending on the season and this is for the private VIP tour There is also another VIP tour where you can join up with another group and I'm very excited We're gonna have a tour guide that's gonna take us around talk about the history of the park show us the backstage areas We can ride all the rides we want without having to wait in line and it's gonna be fun The park hasn't officially opened yet, but we're actually heading on in and making our way to our breakfast We're all checked in and got our VIP lanyards on. Look at this very fancy. It's cool being able to get in the park a little bit early I just did a Walt Disney World VIP tour a couple of months ago And now I'm gonna be able to do a full Universal Studios VIP tour and I thought it would be fun to compare both of them You know what I mean like see what the prices are and already I could tell you Universal Studios is cheaper because it was roughly Around $10,000 for 10 people at Walt Disney World here at Universal Studios Like I said, it's $300 if you are a pass holder or ticket holder Now if you do not have a ticket into the park You need to buy a ticket first and then pay the $300 which is still cheaper than the $10,000 for 10 people because that's just roughly around a thousand and at Universal Studios It's I would say maybe five hundred five fifty. So it's already a win for Universal Another thing that's really awesome is the breakfast that I was talking about We're here at La Bamba and we're gonna get to have breakfast before we start off on our tour And then we're gonna get lunch later on and that's included in the price of the VIP tour And that's something Disney doesn't offer and I'm excited for a little breakfast And then we're gonna head out ride some rides and I love coming in here. Look at it It's so cool and very nicely themed very elegant Another really awesome perk is the unlimited Universal Studios express pass once we meet up with our tour guide They're gonna take us to any of the rides that we want to ride and we're just gonna skip the line But once the tour ends we can still ride as many rides as we want without having to wait with our Little express pass that you get included with your tour And just right outside Patrick and Squidward are just hanging out here How you doing having a great day top of the morning to you very excited to see you guys look awesome. Yeah You stop you stop you look awesome. You match my energy. I like that I like that a lot and then also I'm wondering if we can ride the Pterodon Flyers You know the ride where you need to be able to have a child with you Like I wonder if that's included like if that's possible I would love to do that so we're gonna be asking questions and seeing what we can and I'm gonna show You as much as I can but I know we can't film in the backstage areas, but whenever they say it's okay. I'm putting it in there. I Want to give you guys a look at the breakfast that's included in your VIP tour and we get some pancakes some bacon scrambled eggs Some potato barrels not too sure what that is looks like a nice little biscuit sandwich here. Oh You make some omelettes there Fancy got an omelette stage. You got some fruit blueberry some overnight oats all the good stuff We've got some muffins some croissants So far from what I can tell the breakfast is kind of just like quick-service breakfast like buffets dial But the overnight cold-pressed oatmeal is so good I am obsessed with it and I'm probably gonna eat more than I should and we're about to ride a bunch of rides And oatmeal rides do not mix We are all finished up with breakfast and the rest of our group is all here first We got Maria with LBV TV and she kind of orchestrated this all so I'm very excited Excited this is gonna be so awesome I can't wait to see all the behind-the-scenes and literally I feel like we already got our money's worth of breakfast Yeah, I'll meet those coming up. Oh, yeah, and we got water to go Kristen right down Main Street, and then we got promise promise hope I know we got Sean and then we got Travis and producer Ashlyn It's gonna be a fun day. Oh my god. Why are we at a bar though? It's 10 a.m Now that our group is all together We're gonna meet up with our VIP tour guide and we're gonna head out in the park and ride some rides Also, we had a pre-pick our lunch reservation And I'm shocked at the places that are included in it like we could have went to mythos confistos Lombards here, of course we we chose mythos and that's included in the price We're gonna have lunch at mythos. It was also voted the best theme park restaurant of 2022 and that is so cool So I'm excited to show you that and I'm not too sure where we're gonna start maybe over on islands of adventure Cheers to our VIP tour Yep We have met up with our VIP tour guide Michael and we're gonna start making our way over to islands of adventure And I think we're gonna go directly to Hagrid's. That's a way to start the day. Oh look it That's a fun ride maybe that later on too Another really awesome perk is like I said we wanted to start over in islands of adventure and we're in universal now We don't have to leave the park We can actually cut through behind the sound stages like go right back and forth in a jiffy Like it's literally a one-minute walk and that's what we're gonna do We're actually gonna walk alongside rip ride Hollywood rocket and then go by stage 21 All right, Michael's gonna take us through That is Michael also our VIP tour guide team members only It was cool We just walked through some of the sound stages and learned a little bit about its history and now we're in islands of adventure That is so fast and efficient. Look at that And we made it We're in circus McGurk is Suicelanding I just asked Michael our tour guide and he said that even though we are on a VIP tour We still can't do the pterodon flyers So to this day the only time I've ever been able to do it is while I was attending the Orlando informer meet-up One of these days I'm gonna be able to ride them during the day But I mean there's still a lot of other cool things that we're gonna get to do He mentioned something about a Marvel superhero Island Photo opportunity where we get to meet all of the different superheroes at one time and that's something special for just VIP doors So I'm excited to see that This is where we're gonna be coming later on for lunch Mythos is such a beautiful restaurant and so many people in our group have not eaten here before so I'm excited I think everyone have you in here? Oh, I'm the only person that's ever eaten at mythos everyone else has never eaten here before So I'm very excited. Oh Travis you have okay. It's gonna be good You know can't go wrong with the best theme park restaurant in the world Another awesome thing about having your own private tour guide is you don't need to get lockers for any of the rides because They will actually hold on to everything that you have and that saves so much time because Everyone knows when you come to Universal Studios Orlando One of the like most time-consuming thing is dropping off your bags and emptying out your pocket So a lot of people don't bring anything in the park But you can bring whatever you want and they'll just gladly hold on to it for you And now we have made it over to Hogsmeade Please respect the spell limits looks like the wait time for Hagrid's is 105 minutes at the moment But we're gonna be able to just kind of walk right on in what Michael look at these guys Oh Why did this remind me of an intro to a sitcom Because it's such a time constraint on these VIP tours you're gonna want to go go go But most importantly have fun. You know what I mean? I know you're paying, you know a lot of money and you got to make sure you enjoy it Don't rush around and burn out just know exactly where you want to go have a plan Tell your tour guide what you want to do and he'll make it happen So it's really fun to make sure you just you have fun Because there's no express for Hagrid's we actually walk up the exit and we actually go Right to the ride itself and it's so much faster this way. I'm very excited. I'll show you guys But once we get in there, I'll have to put the camera away Walking right up the exit here and there it is Look at that Now of course we cannot film on the ride But I am gonna provide you guys with some stock footage So you guys can see what it's like to ride the ride a little POV style and our Tour guide is gonna hold the camera for me, but it's gonna be a lot of fun. This is one of my all-time favorite rides Look at that right to the front of the line front of the line access After me It's close now. We just need to oh you found my missing screws Let's be getting you out of here before you get blasted Grids was amazing and we got to ride it back to back a part of the private VIP tour And this is only exclusive for the private VIP door You can ride any of the rides as many times as you want like I think the non private one You can only ride it one time and people could ride it like 10 20 times over and over again But two is enough for us and now it's time to move along Now we are making our way in Superhero Island and we're gonna go to this special photo opportunity Where we're gonna get to meet all the Marvel superheroes at once This is only for the private VIP tour. So I'm excited. This is gonna be a good time This is so cool. We're just hanging out here and instead of hopping in line to meet characters They're all just gonna come to us It was so cool seeing all of the superheroes in one setting there And now we're gonna go backstage to the amazing adventures of Spider-Man and go into the show building itself And I cannot wait. This is so cool like normally when you do these VIP tours like either at Disney or Universal You get to cut the lines go a little backstage, but we are going behind the scenes on an attraction and that is that's awesome Getting to do things I've never done before is the funnest thing. Look it. I've never been back Are we going in this like really cool door? All right Keep the secrets to ourselves Here we go employees only That was definitely one of the coolest things I think I've ever experienced inside of theme park We were in the like mechanics room and we saw how the Spider-Man ride actually works and that was so amazing I wish I could show you guys but like I said, we really can't disclose or show anything backstage But it also leaves a little mystery for you guys if you plan on coming and doing this tour You get to see it for yourself, but it was so cool. I I really just love it a lot Now we're gonna move along and make our way to our next attraction And I think it's gonna have to be velocity coaster. I mean we're going big Go big or go home. Wow. What was that? What a dinosaur Here we go look at this restricted access it's like we're going into a raptor paddock access denied access denied Wow, this is really cool Thank you, wow, this is cool, I've never went this way before I didn't even know this was a way Look at this How awesome is it we're gonna actually see the velocity coaster take off right here? This close to it. Don't get too close. You might get your finger knit This is also another ride that we cannot film on but like I said I do have some POV stock footage that I'll insert it in for you So you guys can see what it's like because this is another ride It's just it's tough for me to decide which one I like more But I got to go with Hagrid's because the beaming that literally just shook me up for the day I love it. It gets you going. That's a better throw ride like it's intense But the beaming is in Hagrid's and I love it and we can ride it again and again But we have an appointment with the raptor. We have to go see our raptor. We're going to the raptor experience It's time to come face-to-face with a raptor. This is so much fun When it comes to meeting characters or having meet and greets in the park I always say the Grinch is my number one and at number two is the raptor encounter here It is such a unique experience and it's it's it's true. You have to do it. It's kind of frightening But it's amazing All right, and then we're going to take you into mortal danger. Nice. Yeah There is a black and yellow line folks you're going to be taking a photo with blue Yeah, so we need you on the black and yellow And we got to be careful because eye contacts like picking a fight Blue is like picking a fight. So yeah, it's an active confrontation to tell her you're sorry. It didn't mean it Sorry, blue Get get get get out of there All right, thanks game Thanks blue Love you The raptor encounter is so much fun But as you could tell it can be a little intimidating and especially frightening for children Even though blue is like a sweetheart kind of it still can be scary and I love it Like it's it's definitely like I said goes the Grinch and then it goes that and that's in any theme park Any theme park I feel like and now I think we're going to make our way back over to Seuss landing Ride some more rides and then we're gonna have lunch at mythos We've made our way over to the high in the sky Seuss trolley train ride now. This is a ride everyone gets to ride and uh, I'm kind of excited Look at us Here it comes Our Seuss trolley train has arrived and I love that we're going on the inside one There You gotta love the Seuss trolley train and now it's uh, just about time for lunch It's uh time for some mythos the best theme park restaurant in the world This is really cool that this is included in the vip tour Awarded world's best theme park restaurant by them theme park insider and you we're gonna get an appetizer an entree and a dessert It's such a great. It's such a great themed restaurant All right, here we go This restaurant is really awesomely themed and it's also cool. We don't have to wait for our table. We just walk right in Welcome. Oh, yeah Wow, look at it in here I honestly really do love this restaurant and one of the main things I love about it is the price point Because the most expensive entree is like 37 dollars and that's like, um, uh, a lamb dish But they have everything from state for only 29 dollars. They fill a like, uh, filet medallions Sandwiches that's even cheap at 17 dollars 17. It's honestly the price of a quick service But with a signature dining flair to it A part of the vip tour is you get one non-alcoholic beverage one appetizer Uh, will you get uh one appetizer to split poor two people? So we're gonna have four appetizers one entree and one dessert and I decided not getting a coffee Well, I got myself a little espresso because I need to pick me up and look they gave me a little rock candy to stir along with And then also the boys got the old fashions. Hey cheers Look at sipping ahead of time. I see you now Yep Here is a look at the apps. Here's the grilled octopus here. Look at that This was so good. I've had this before past the octopus down And then there's the squid right there that looks good. Let me see Oh, what do they got on the bottom of it though? Hey, oh I wanted to flip the octopus over to show you guys the char on here. Look at that Isn't it incredible? That is such a well prepped dish Very good. That's some good char That's some good char. That's some good char. What do you think? We have to hear your thoughts the tiffins or this This one. Really? I've had it before. I love it. Okay. We already got this I love it Was this lamb and tuna fish Sounds gross Spanish topia Break me off a piece of that octopus Oh Oh my lord Wow, that was incredible Cheers Oh Very tender right It wasn't tender and delicious The octopus is so good and it's got a nice citrus taste to it. I love octopus I think it's really something cool that I've gotten to discover and enjoy in fact I've been really liking a lot of different seafood and I noticed on the menu they have blackened swordfish So I think I'm going to do it. I'm going to get a little blackened swordfish and a little scallops Dinner has arrived. I haven't gotten mine yet, but here is uh everyone else's food. Here's Sean's Filet medallions. Look at that That's a good-looking piece of meat. I like it That's a good-looking piece of meat and then over here Kristen, won't you get the risotto? I got the scallops risotto and I added beef added the steak to it Very cool. What'd you get? I got vegetarian ravioli with steak on top. Yeah a little steak on your veggie wrap I get it And it looks like my meal has just arrived and like I said, I got the swordfish and the scallops So a little couscous and some green beans. So we've got a nice meal here Look at this. Look at that blackened swordfish right there And then here are the scallops. They look seared perfectly on both sides I'm really pumped to dive into this All right, let's try these scallops first. Look at that Look at that That's how you scallop That's how you scallop Yes, and now it's time to dive into the swordfish here. Let's see Wow That's impressed. Oh my lord The swordfish is gonna be amazing Here we go. Look at this swordfish nice and black And Outstanding Honestly, this swordfish is phenomenal Very very good very good texture. I haven't dived into the couscous, but I am loving the scallops everything else I mean, this is a great meal. How was yours? Look at that. Holy moly Everyone's going to town I think my favorite thing is probably these scallops So amazing Look at that banana bread. Is that what that is banana bread pudding? I got pumpkin banana bread a banana gooey cake. Hey, this is literally the best thing on the menu on top Wow Look at that Seasonal Look at I got the best Seasonal bread pudding This is such a fancy dessert. Look at that I'm breaking it apart adding some scoopsies on there Grab some of those cranberries some of that bread pudding, you know, this bread pudding is so good Wow Mythos was amazing. What did you say best theme park restaurant in the world? I have to agree with that side out front above the door right Now we're going to make our way to the other park because we have a quick reservation With the animal actor show, but i'm not too sure if we're going to make it So we're going to cut through simbad and we got to go to simbad. Let's go to simbad now And just like that we're in universal studios now We're actually rushing over to animal actors because with the vip tour We get a really cool experience where we get to get up close with some of the actors or the animals And uh, that's something i've never done before so we're trying to make it there It's like that actual slow motion music Look at that we're almost there we're walking here. We're walking here. We don't talk like that Hold on i have an idea Animal actors is such a fun show and sadly the one in hollywood just recently closed And i'm sure they're going to miss it out there so they might have to come over here But now that the show's over everyone's leaving and we're sticking around because we're going to meet some of the animals We're going to get to meet some of the animal actors Look at us. We're the only ones in here We're waiting for the actor. We got a private animal actor show. Oh, yeah, the pigeons actually just hanging out there Oh my lord, what? I just want to touch but i'm waiting for them to say it's okay Wow We're gonna go together so go ahead Maggie come on up This is incredible Look at Maggie's got spots even too Look at that hair. Did you see all the hair you had? Oh my lanza I definitely got her hair in my mouth. Maggie. I love you. I want you to know this. I love you Maggie you're the best Kristen you fell over Maggie I love you, thank you Somebody get some of that drill for Kristen The best thing about the animal actors and the animals themselves is they actually have Trainers so they don't stay here at university studios All the animals actually leave and go home with their owner Like with their trainer and that's so awesome Like they actually live at home and they come to work that like a like a regular job like with their trainers And I think I i'm in love Now we're making our way over to the best ride in universal studios ET adventure I love going on ET and i've been missing it kind of always want to like Duplicate the smell. I know some candle companies try to do it, but nothing's ever as close to the real ET smell Every other attraction that was here on that day has either been made to be purveished or replaced Now I'm reflecting its original experience Thank you Look at this tour guide, what a champ double doing it today Production crew Oh, wow, look at this That was awesome Come celebrate with us Another awesome perk that goes along with the VIP tour is you get all of the special photo opportunities And outside ET now that we just got done riding the ride. They've one of the best ET photo spots ever We're all going in the closet. Look at ET This is awesome. This whole closet just actually makes me happy makes me feel nostalgic Rock them sock them up there in the corner Look at the t-rex over here This is cool. Look at that cute face Oh my goodness We're all standing in a closet The ET photo opportunity was so much fun Now I think we're gonna move along to men in black. I found out that the olivanders want experience They used to do a private Session with a private VIP tour, but I think they ended that last year So we're gonna skip out on that and just try to get more accomplished We've been having a fun day though And we're kind of taking it like as easy and doing more stuff behind the scenes And because that's the best part about these tours is going places and doing things you would never normally be able to do Fallout boy If you've ever heard an interview or an interview with fan follow where they got the name of the band I'll tell you they are huge fans of the simpsons and they got their name from the episode with radio No way. I never knew that Fallout boy is from the simpsons. Wow I had no idea When the hope was retracted and kind of updated they added onboard audio to there and had some stuff The lead man for the band fallout boy composed all the area music and hog ride music for the incredible Wow fallout boy is killing it That's awesome Now we have made it over to men in black and I think we're doing this special tour Where would I be without my ladies? I don't know Where would you be? Where would I be without you? Maybe not on a VIP tour We are riding in black, man What are you saying? What are we doing? Baby girl put it on me Here we are, holy moly Oh Which one's bob that's bob. Hey bob This is so fun being down here I always looked at it from the top and like I always said I want to go down there and here we are I could just walk up see these guys in action Look at that nice little lounge area over here This looks comfy I love this look kane from the simpsons is in here. That's really cool This is awesome. I really love being down here And they also have like an earth visitation area where you get to sign in for your visitation And you put your name and the planet you're from. I don't know if you can see it right here right here That's so cool It was fun checking in on bob and eok and now we're going to keep moving along We've been getting a lot done today. We rode the rides multiple times the cagrets We did more than once got to do a lot of like cool meet and greets and behind the scene action And we're almost finished like we're almost done for the day I think now we're actually making our way over to the mummy and then we're going to actually see Underneath the mummy track, which is actually a cool perspective. That's something I don't know if we're going to be allowed to show you but it's something that is included on this tour A lot of these things you can actually do even though we can't film it But all you have to do is ask your tour guide. He'll set up everything is just be like, hey I heard you could do this and he'll see if he can arrange it Look at this. We're actually heading into the mummy 57 b And then 57 a is back there Wow, this is cool I never thought we'd be able to go in this way This is the best time ever right now Backstage I'm going to see the roller coaster going right about your head See the actual way of the track in addition to the fire room Wow You can imagine Yeah We just got out of the mummy and I have to say that was my favorite thing about this whole entire VIP tour It was so awesome. They shined the light up at the Ceiling and we were able to see the original confrontation track and I screamed I was so excited That is one ride. I wanted to ride so bad and I never got to ride and I just regret it I wish I was able to get to florida sooner and ride confrontation But that was cool. We're underneath the track. We saw the mummy just fly by our heads. I loved it. It's the best thing ever It's going to be incredibly hard to top that mummy experience But we're making our way to the born spectacular Born stuntacular I want to say spectacular And with that we are Done here today and I have to say this tour is 100 hands down better than disney's vip tour In fact, I cannot wait to do another vip tour again Michael our tour guide was so knowledgeable and so fun. He was great. He interacted with us He broke rides with us. I feel like we just made a new friend and it's definitely worth more Like between getting lunch and breakfast included you get to see more behind the scenes Go in backstage areas I loved it like like honestly and like I mentioned before the price. It's so much more affordable Disney is anywhere from $450 to $850 an hour. So just to say on the high end It's $850 an hour with a minimum of eight hours for 10 people You're looking at around $10,000 and here if you pay the $299 for the vip tour That's all you have to pay if you have an annual pass if you have to buy a day ticket Then it's around $500 an hour. So that's so much more cheaper and you get so much included with it I would definitely do it again. I hope you guys enjoyed the video Let me know what you guys think would you want to do a tour like this? And I'll put the information in the description below so you can check it out So, uh, we'll see you next time Bye