Islands of Adventure: Day 1 of our Universal Orlando Summer 2025 Vacation \ Was Express Pass Needed?

The first week of June 2025, our family headed to the Universal Orlando Resort for our summer vacation. While we were staying at the new Universal Stella Nova Resort for 5 nights to be closer to Epic Universe, we did book one night at Loews Royal Pacific Resort. This is one of the three deluxe resorts that includes the Unlimited Express Pass (for the original 2 parks) for free as part of your hotel stay. So we received 2 days of Express Passes for 1 night. This is considered booking a "ghost room", however we ended up using the room quite a bit and it proved to be more valuable than just the giving us the Express Passes.

Come and follow us as check-in to the Loews Royal Pacific Resort, visit Islands of Adventure, go to The Toothsome Chocolate Emporium for lunch and close the park down for the night!