One-day tickets have gone up $5-10, with one-park tickets starting at $110, instead of the previous $105. Park-to-Park tickets are now $165 for one day, up from $155.
Two-day Park-to-Park tickets are now $254.99, a $20 increase from the previous $234.99. Universal Orlando continues to offer its "buy two days, get two days free" deal, through the end of May.
Annual price passes appear to be unchanged at this time, with the Preferred annual pass, which has no bockout dates, remaining $384.99 for non-Florida residents.
Update: And now Universal Studios Hollywood gets in the act, too. Its one-day, walk-up ticket price goes up $5, to $120. But advance sale online prices generally seem to be the same. Those discounts vary by day.
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Let's ignore New Fantasyland, Frozen Ever After, Disney Springs, Avatar --all opened or opening within 60 days-- and other minor pluses in each park. And of course, My Magic Plus, which according to the internet has now cost $5 BILLION!!!
We really need to ignore STAR WARS land coming in 2019 and Toy Story land coming in 2018. Not to mention the Magic Kingdom's Tomorrowland reno.
Let's only highlight Universal's replacement of the AWESOME JAWS with Harry Potter, or replacement of Twister with a copy-cat Disney attraction or the replacement of Disaster with another screen based attraction that got bad reviews at UofH. Wait a minute... there has to be a new build... OH YEAH, King Kong. After riding it, I agree with everyone else... another screen and another meh...
Wait... I was trying to BASH WDW, damn FACTS!!!
Troy, Disney has been cranking out new attractions left and right. They do not need to speed along like Universal. They have enough of the market to release things on their own terms.
OT cracks me up the most. He's sarcastically alludes to Disney's profits going to shareholders, not caatmembera (as though Comcast is some benevolent company that doesn't care about it's bottom line), then he salivates at the opportunity to spend even more at Universal.
My main destination is the West Coast, and the idea of spending higher prices at USH than DLR is absolutely ludicrous. On the East Coast Universal has a little more in its side, with some great new stuff, but Disney is also developing (likely) great stuff too.
Disney's main issue is crowding. Higher ticket prices can help offset this without hurting their bottom line, so unfortunately well need to get used to the price hikes (in both companies).
I used to say that Universal Orlando represented a very good value for the $. Now it is just an OK value. And as local roadways and I-4 become more and more congested at all hours of the day and night year round, it makes just getting to and from the parks a miserable experience. When Volcano Bay comes online in a few months, I can't imagine what it will like getting in and out of Universal Orlando. True, they are expanding the # of parking booths, but it is still the same few lanes that already can't handle the traffic approaching and leaving the parks.
That said, he defined his bias as "nit picking" only Disney.
I'm curious to know... Why just Disney?
So-called "I.P. (intellectual property) franchises are destroying classic theme parks. I'm eager to shift my allegiance to Knott's and Busch when they make over their parks to resemble Classic Disneyland and Knott's of the 70's and 80's. Wall $treet Di$ney can go to pot.
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