Going to the Waterford Regal Movie Theater

## **Parking your Transportation**

The Waterford Lakes Town Center is one of the busiest and
most difficult plazas to park at in Orlando. It is a huge location and the
Regal movie theater is located deep in the plaza towards the center. The best
way to find a place to park your car is to first look to the sides of the
theater as there are parking spaces there that people usually don’t think to
use. On an especially busy night (Fridays and Saturdays for sure) parking might
not be available in that section. The best place to put your car at that point
would be one of the restaurants nearby or, if you can’t find anything there and
don’t mind walking, towards the front of the theater. If you don’t have a car
and want to bike, there are plenty of bike racks throughout the plaza, most of
which are by the restaurants in the center of the plaza. There’s also a rack on
either side of the theater but they’re usually taken.

## **Buying Tickets**

There are many ways to go about buying tickets at Regal. You
can buy them online through various methods and apps such as Fandango, the
Regal site, etc. From there you take the code on either your phone or a printed
out piece of paper to be scanned by the ticket ripper who then prints and rips
your own tickets from the code. Another way to buy tickets is to use the
self-service machines to the right of the ticket booth. The middle machines
typically don’t work very well so the best ones to use are the one on the far
left and the far right, but the far left one works the best out of all of them.
You get your tickets printed there and hand them to the ticket ripper inside
who will direct you to your seats. Another way is the tried and true ticket
booth where you wait in line (if there is one) and order your tickets vocally
from the employee inside the booth. From there, the same process applies as the
self-service machine. When it comes to specific kinds of tickets, everyone has
their preference. If you are noise-sensitive however, avoid the IMAX theater (AUD
10) as the sound is almost deafening in there.

## **Getting Food**

The food at Regal is expensive but it’s mostly good. If you’re
looking for a meal, there are cheaper and better options nearby such as Five
Guys, TGI Fridays, Chick Fil A, etc. If you want a snack, your best bet is
asking for unsalted popcorn. Their popcorn is fantastic, but it is heavily
salted as a market ploy to get you thirsty and come back for drinks. If you’re
okay with that, then get the salted and a drink but if not it’s best to avoid
the salted popcorn. As for drinks, they have the usual small, medium, large
sizes. Keep in mind that if you ask for a medium drink, they’ll tell you that
you can get a large for not much more in price. That being said, the large is a
huge drink in comparison and if you were looking for a medium in the first
place, don’t bother upgrading because you most likely won’t finish it or will
have to leave and use the bathroom in the middle of the movie. The bathrooms
are also in the two hallways to the right and left of the concessions area.

## **Finding your seats**

When you bring your ticket(s) or code(s) to the ticket
ripper, he/she will tell you where to go to find your seats. If you forget, it
says the room on your ticket stub “AUD #”. There isn’t a sign that tells you
which side of the building which theater is in, but you can always ask an
employee or use a bit of deductive reasoning if you don’t know by looking at
the signs above either hallway. Try to arrive a bit early for the movie if you
want good seats, especially if you’re watching a movie on opening night or if
you’re a popular one. If you’re late, don’t worry because there are always 20
minutes of ads starting from the point in which the movie is listed to start
online and on your ticket. This gives you 20 minutes of leeway to arrive late
but keep in mind that seats will be harder to find the later you are. If you do
miss a showing, you can talk to the employee(s) at the ticket booth and ask for
a refund or to reschedule your ticket for another date or time.