State of USH - What's Next?

[Viator]

From @ethanuniversal--work continues on the progress for the future Studio Mill nearby Earthquake.



As noted by him: surveying cameras are on-site right now.

 

[Jerroddragon]

Wicked or HTTYD props would be cool

 

[UniversalRBLX]

For those that visit USH frequently, are lower crowds noticeable in person?

June saw a 14% decline in wait-times compared to last year. July is trending (so far) even worse with wait-times dropping by 25% compared to last year.

Year to date is looking 17% down.

 

[Clive]

Anecdotally, seeing a lot of reports that the park feels less crowded, yeah.

 

[Jerroddragon]

For those that visit USH frequently, are lower crowds noticeable in person?

June saw a 14% decline in wait-times compared to last year. July is trending (so far) even worse with wait-times dropping by 25% compared to last year.

Year to date is looking 17% down.

I mean for sure its not busy when I have gone but might be because I mainly go on weekends

Funny enough I looked up wait times for today and it looks kinda packed the Tram, Transformers, Jurassic, HP rides and the Mummy are about an hours each and MK is 90 mins

So thats pretty bad but also I go rope drop or go once its past 4 PM, that also seems to help

 

[viking_wizard_eyes]

For those that visit USH frequently, are lower crowds noticeable in person?

June saw a 14% decline in wait-times compared to last year. July is trending (so far) even worse with wait-times dropping by 25% compared to last year.

Year to date is looking 17% down.

It's definitely feeling more quiet to me. Can't back that up with figures or anything, it's just a feeling based on my visits, but yeah. Kinda felt that way in spring too, honestly.

 

[KlownzNskullZ]

It's definitely feeling more quiet to me. Can't back that up with figures or anything, it's just a feeling based on my visits, but yeah. Kinda felt that way in spring too, honestly.

Park hasn’t recovered since January fires. Literally no real peak season

 

[Clive]

It's probably too soon to say with real confidence what's causing the downturn, but I'd offer a combination of "foreign tourism is down due to obvious reasons we won't get into," "local tourism is down due to obvious reasons we won't get into," and "no new attractions with a big obvious one coming next year, so people are waiting for that to open."

 

[highdefrex]

"foreign tourism is down due to obvious reasons we won't get into"

And now foreign tourism's about to take another hit with this new $250 "visa integrity fee." Absolutely disgusting. Foreign families with kids now having to pay $1,000+ extra just to step foot in the US is going to be a hard "no" for a lot of people, especially on top of everything else going on. California parks are gonna feel it for sure, and Orlando's parks are definitely going to feel it.

 

[Jerroddragon]

And now foreign tourism's about to take another hit with this new $250 "visa integrity fee." Absolutely disgusting. Foreign families with kids now having to pay $1,000+ extra just to step foot in the US is going to be a hard "no" for a lot of people, especially on top of everything else going on. California parks are gonna feel it for sure, and Orlando's parks are definitely going to feel it.

Jake in another thread said it looks like 40+ counties shouldn't have to do this so hopefully its not too bad

But I think the bigger thing here is the Messages/Vibes we are sending everyone in the world...and to me its telling people do not come.

Funny enough while summer has been normal/kinda slow USH has been pretty darn busy the last week so it seems like they can draw people when they get big groups to come and visit or rent out space