Originally Posted by theCMG
Whoah ambitious and sounds great. Not sure how long that sub $100 starting price will hold! See more... |
Well, I suppose all they have to do is have a small number of $99 rooms available for a few nights each year to claim a "sub $100 starting price".
Most of the rooms for most of the year will probably be significantly more than $100.
Originally Posted by Moorlandman
‘Minutes’ from Universal? More like 20 minutes with the traffic lights! See more... |
It's about a 20 minute
walk from the old Wet'n'Wild site to the Universal parks. But only a 5 minute drive. The times usually refer to the driving time not the walking time.
Originally Posted by Latinosharkey
Is it just me or are there going to be too many rooms for the parks? See more... |
There's currently around 5700 onsite rooms at the moment. They'll be a total of 9000 onsite rooms when all this is done. That's a potential increase of around 58% in onsite guest numbers.
If you assume each hotel will be 90% full and each room will have an average of 3 people, then that comes to an additional 9000 onsite guests in the next couple of years (total number of onsite guests will be around 24,300). Of course, those guests will be split across the 3 existing parks as well as visiting other attractions - but let's say 4,000 go to each of the main parks plus 1,000 at VB.
Currently, the yearly attendance at the main Universal parks is around 10 million each. That's an average of 27,000 guests per park per day.
If we only consider the additional onsite guests then the park attendance will increase from around 27,000 per day to around 31,000 per day due to these new hotels. That's a 15% increase.
In comparison, that's similar to the increase Universal Studios saw from 2014 to 2015 (around 15%). It's a significant increase but nothing too huge. It'll make the parks feel about as busy as the Disney parks.