Universal Orlando announces new two-days-free deal
If you are thinking about a visit to the Universal Orlando Resort in the next six months, there's a new ticket deal you might want to jump on right now.
You can get two extra days free when you buy a two-day ticket to the Universal Orlando theme parks. That means that you can get four days at the Universal theme parks for as little as $67 a day.
Tickets are available for one-park-per-day or for Park-to-Park on the same day, which are required to ride the Hogwarts Express that travels between Universal Studios Florida and Islands of Adventure. You also can get a ticket that includes the Volcano Bay water theme park, as well.
These tickets are valid for travel between now and April 30, 2025, when the tickets expire. To see the available tickets and prices, please visit our ticket partner's Universal Orlando theme park tickets page.
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I would be shocked if there were not at least AP previews. A hard open to the press for a new park is, uh, a choice. I think Universal is trying to push some fans who were planning maybe to hold off until 2026 to visit to sneak in one more trip before Epic’s opening slams the resort.
Universal has already stated publically that information regarding AP previews will be coming in the future. So we know it will at least be occuring in some form. I assume that since there are currently no APs available for Epic that this will require some sort of ticket purchase. The other question is what will capacity be like. Will this be similar to their infamous AP appreciation events, where many simply get left out do to "event at capacity."
I am curious how much these buy 2 days get 2 days deals actually move the needle. Perhaps for folks that have never been to Universal Orlando they are a good deal, but for everybody else a repeat visit to Universal Orlando can be accomplished in 2 days.
@I64Trekker - In terms of attendance, I don't think these really move the needle in terms of attendance or draw people to Orlando who otherwise weren't planning to come. However, I do think they generate more revenue, which seems counterintuitive because you'd think lowering prices would reduce revenue. What I think happens is that people jump on these deals to buy more days than they plan on using because they're cheaper or comparably priced to normally priced admissions that match the actual number of days they plan to visit. 2 of the last 3 times we've visited UO, we've purchased some form of "buy X days and get X days free" promotion, which gave us more days of admission than we could use, but because those tickets were actually cheaper than it would have cost us to actually buy the number of days we planned on using, we bought the promo tickets.
I think that happens more than many realize, but ultimately helps Universal generate more revenue because people are spending money in their parks instead of other Orlando attractions.
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The April 30th date is pretty interesting and perhaps indicates that Epic might be considering public soft openings ahead of the grand opening at the end of May.