Universal Baton Rouge Resort

Universal Baton Rouge Resort (shortly known as UBRR) is an amusement park resort located in Louisiana, USA. It's owned and operated by NBCUniversal, a Comcast company.

It consists of two theme parks, a water park, CityWalk dining, entertainment, and shopping complex, and six hotels.

The resort is similar to Universal's other predecessors, like Universal Orlando Resort since it showcases two selected theme parks, one downtown district, water parks, and hotels.

History
The development of building a resort in Louisiana began in 1994, which would of be called Universal Discoveries Resort, with three educational-based theme parks such as Universal Metazoa, an animal theme park for the opening of 1999 (but pushed to 2000), the Universal Atlas, a world culture-themed park which would've be the same concept to Universal's Port Aventura in Spain for the opening of 2006, UniversaLAB, an indoor museum theme park for the opening for 2009 or 2010, and a downtown area similar to CityWalk known as Discovery Village, as Universal Studios made their collaboration with The Blackstone Group, Busch Entertainment Corporation and Merlin Entertainments which formed together as a joint venture company known as Universal & Venture Group, Inc. (1994-2004).

On March 21, 2000, Universal Metazoa was opened to the public as its first theme park. It was in direct competition with Disney's Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

However by 2002 where Universal laid-off its partnership deal from TBD.

TBD.

Parks

 * Universal's World of Creatures Louisiana, an animal theme park which Universal's answer to Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park at Lake Beuna Vista, Florida. Opened on March 21, 2002.
 * Universal Studios Louisiana a movie and television show based theme park. Opened on August 14, 2007

Cancelled parks

 * Universal Atlas, a park would've to be themed to international countries, similar to the World Showcase section at Epcot.
 * UniversaLAB, an indoor theme park that would've been themed to science and science fiction.

CityWalk Baton Rouge
A Southern State version of Universal CityWalk contains 2 floors with stores, restaurants, entertainments, and night clubs. Opened on 2003, originally known as Discovery Village, which was themed to adventures and discovery with the set build around to be as a similar design to the Port of Entry at Islands of Adventure at Universal Orlando, until 2010, where it then got later re-themed as CityWalk which opened in 2012.

 Restaurants 

Hard Rock Cafe

Universal Food Court WWE Cafe
 * McDonald's
 * Burger King
 * Wendy's
 * Taco Bell
 * Pizza Hut
 * Panda Express
 * KFC

NBC Sport Grill & Brew

The Cowfish

Antojitos Authentic Mexican Food

Pat O’Brien’s

Firehouse Subs - a daily and sub-service cafe which, Universal Baton Rouge Resort in this version, it showcasing the theme around the firehouse department, along with the series of replicas of firemen props, and fire trucks.

Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville

Bob Marley–A Tribute to Freedom

Hot Dog Hall of Fame

Vivo Italian Kitchen

Starbucks - a coffee and pastry cafe

KUDOS - a Greek restaurant.

Chuck E. Cheese's

Hershey's Chocolate Bar & Store (at Hershey's Chocolate World)

 Stores 

Fossils - TBA

Universal Baton Rouge Resort Souvenirs - a gift shop that sells merchandise of Universal Baton Rouge Resort.

GameStop - a gaming store

Kouri-Ten - a store themed to Japanese culture which sells Japanese-related merchandise, such as clothing/apparel, Japan-themed postcards, snacks, toys, games, DVDs of Japanese anime and other Japanese/Asian entertainment, mangas, etc. The name of the store "Kouri-Ten" is a Japanese word means "retail store".

7-Eleven Experience - an interactive snack store

Toys "R" Us - a toy and video game store

Hershey's Chocolate Bar & Store (at Hershey's Chocolate World)

Barnes & Noble

 Snacks and drinks 

Hershey's Chocolate Bar & Store (at Hershey's Chocolate World)

Kouri-Ten - a store themed to Japanese culture which sells Japanese-related merchandise, such as clothing/apparel, Japan-themed postcards, snacks, toys, games, DVDs of Japanese anime and other Japanese/Asian entertainment, mangas, etc. The name of the store "Kouri-Ten" is a Japanese word means "retail store".

 Attractions 

7-Eleven Experience - an interactive snack store

Chuck E. Cheese's - an arcade center, pizzeria and a birthday restaurant, which solely aimed at children under the age of 14 with families.

Laugh@Night - a nighttime sketch-up comedy show exclusively for guests age 18 years old and older.

MTV Teen Club - a nighttime music club inspired by the channel MTV, and aimed at teen and young adult guests age 13 to 31.

Sprout Preschool Center - a children's fun center based on the channel Sprout.

AMC Theater - Universal Cinema Complex - a movie theatre, presented by AMC Theater.

Universal Arcade Complex - an arcade.

Hershey's Chocolate World at Universal Baton Rouge Resort - an indoor visitors' center, which a Louisianan version of the Hershey's Chocolate World chain, solely owned by The Hershey Company, focuses on Hershey's food products, which consists of attractions, shops, dining, and activities for children and adults.
 * Hershey's Chocolate Tour - a dark ride takes guests through the tour around the chocolate factory to learn how Hershey's candies are made.
 * Create-Your-Own Candy Bar - an interactive area where guests can create their chocolate candies by hand.
 * Hershey's Great Chocolate Factory Mystery in 4D - a 4D film which follows a story about TBA
 * Chocolate Taste Test - Immerse yourself in the flavorful world of chocolate in our tasting experience! Filled with the sights, sounds and smells of chocolate, Hershey’s tasting experts show you how to engage all senses to taste chocolates from milk to dark and varieties in between.

Hotels

 * Universal Studios Hotel - a hotel containing five floors based on Universal Pictures' films like Jaws, E.T., Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, and Despicable Me. August 14, 2012
 * Hard Rock Hotel
 * Universal's Cabana Bay Beach Resort, TBA
 * The Hogsmeade Lodge, TBA
 * CASORT (Casino & Suite Resort), a hotel and casino.

Resort

 * Universal Weddings & Honeymoons, a weeding festival held at the weeding area nearby CityWalk and occurs from February 1 to March 8.
 * Universal Grad Night
 * Universal Graduation Day!, TBA

Both parks

 * A Celebration of Harry Potter, a three-day weekend fan event held at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter sections in two URL theme parks, Universal Studios Louisiana and Universal Metazoa, which is theme to Harry Potter book and movie series. It occurs in January.
 * Otakunami, an annual celebration held solely at both parks. This celebration is aimed at the fans of the popular cutler of Japan, in which what it is themed to. During this event, most of the visitors and the park's staff are dressed as their favourite characters, whether from Japanese films, anime, manga or video games. It occurs every Tuesdays of each month of the parks, July (Universal Studios Louisiana) and August (Universal Metazoa).
 * Halloween events
 * Universal's Halloween Spooktacular Weekends, a family-oriented Halloween event spanning two theme parks, Universal Studios Louisiana and Universal Metazoa, filled with trick-or-treating spots, Halloween-related activates and entertainment. Opened in October 2016. Occurring dates  October 1-November 2. Theme: Halloween
 * Universal's Halloween Horror Nights, a nightly Halloween event spanning two theme parks, Universal Studios Louisiana (as Hollywood of Horror) and Universal Metazoa (as Savage Safari), at URL. Opened on September 2016 Occurring dates: late-September-November 2. Event's age recommendation: 13 to adult. Theme: Halloween
 * Christmas events
 * Joy to the World at Universal Studios, TBA
 * Holly Jolly Safari, TBA

CityWalk Baton Rouge

 * CityWalk BBQ Cook-Off
 * Eve

Area 1

 * Jurassic Park - 1-25
 * Minion - TBA
 * Batman - TBA
 * King Kong - TBA

Area 2

 * Jaws - TBA
 * E.T. - TBA
 * Mario - TBA
 * My Little Pony - TBA

Trivia

 * Since the park Six Flags New Orleans was closed and left abandoned after being destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Universal Baton Rouge Resort solely licensed Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and DC Comics to its two parks.