Universal Studios Singapore

We got a little busy and are only 8 months behind on finishing these posts, but better late than never!

We thought it was a bit funny that we decided to go to Universal Studios Singapore since we live(d) literally 5 minutes from Universal Studios Hollywood and have never been. So naturally we would go to the one that is halfway around the world. It also just so happened to be my birthday that day, and I was excited to try out some of the rides since when we visited Universal Studios in Orlando I was very pregnant and unable to ride ANYTHING in the entire park.

Universal Studios Singapore is located in Sentosa, a resort destination on the outskirts of Singapore.  They continue to build it out but aside from some hotels, Universal, a casino and some residential areas, it seemed pretty quiet and off the beaten path.  We took a cab from our hotel and it was just a few minutes to the complex.  We actually had a bit of a hard time finding the park entrance but once we got there we bought our tickets and we in a few minutes later.

The park was well kept and not busy, but we said many times that it was hard to really 'get' a lot of it since we had never seen a lot of the movies that many of the attractions were based on. I was SUPER excited to ride the Jurassic Park ride, which was a water ride, but it was pretty disappointing. I guess in reality it is a really old ride, but I was expecting more than the lifeless dinosaur statues that lined the boat ride. The ones that did move just looked like bad animatronics. Also, it was a water ride and I was the ONLY person in my boat who got completely soaked.  Everyone else in my raft had ponchos on and we all stayed pretty dry for the entire ride, and then at the bottom of the big drop at the end a giant wave splashed right over my head.

Lizzy's first Universal Park, every one else's second

Not quite the same as Mickey, but not too bad

There were a few rides that Annie really enjoyed - a dumbo type ride in the Jurassic Park area and a Madagascar themed indoor boat ride.

We also took them to a Sesame Street live show and a splash pad that was the hit of the day, and made the girls the hit of the park.

As we saw with the crowds at the Singapore Flyer, chubby girls with blonde hair and blue eyes are a bit of a novelty in this part of the world.  Many people were grabbing the girls and trying to get in pictures with them and were very interested in Annie and Lizzy.  The girls were pretty unfazed for most of the time but had had enough once the crowd grew pretty large.

After a few more grabs from ladies like this one, Lizzy decided it was time to go.  We headed to the bathroom to get them cleaned up and spent a little time on their version of main street and decided to head back to the hotel or a swim.

Overall, it was a really fun day for the girls and it is always fun seeing a new theme park.  While it did not resonate for us like a Disney Park, we would consider going back if we ended up back in that area again.