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Just got my Universal travel documents today. What's with this e-ticket? I thought that's what you do when you print them online. I've never had to print my tickets before, especially at the park. Something new since Dec 06? Just curious.
Yeah e-tickets are the rage these days. Anything you do on-line like plane tickets and amusement park tickets are now offering e-tickets. I find it very convenient and usually no fee involved. If you lose them, you can always print out another one unless they were scanned at the park/airport already....
E-tickets mean an electronic ticket--usually when you print them, they will have a barcode that they will use to scan it when you use it.....
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I have E-tickets to both Universal & SeaWorld/Aquatica. It was way cheaper to buy them on line. but I think the Universal ticket I can trade in at the gate for a regular ticket. I don't do well with paper!! If it doesn't fit in the wallet it's sometimes gone
I think someone posted here a while back that they will not trade in the paper tickets at the gate - that's your ticket. I'll have to look and see if I can find the thread where someone posted that.
What we do when we purchase Universal tickets online is to choose the option to pick them up at the parks. It's so easy, just go to any of the kiosks in front of the ticket counters at the park entrances. You have to put in the credit card you used to purchase the tickets online, and out pops the tickets.
Also when we purchased tickets from AAA, we got real tickets, not printable vouchers.
Okay, I beleive we might be talking about two things here. Maybe what I have isn't an e-ticket. So let me explain. I got my travel documents yesterday. In 06 I simply got all my passes and just brought them with me. This time it was different. My TA told me I have to go to a ticket kiosk at the entrance to either park, swipe my credit card that I purchased them with, enter my reservation # and voila, everthing I need will be printed on the spot. Sorry for the confusion. But this is new to me. How about you? I somehow picture myself standing in line forever just to get to this thing. Any body deal with this yet? TIA
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Okay, I beleive we might be talking about two things here. Maybe what I have isn't an e-ticket. So let me explain. I got my travel documents yesterday. In 06 I simply got all my passes and just brought them with me. This time it was different. My TA told me I have to go to a ticket kiosk at the entrance to either park, swipe my credit card that I purchased them with, enter my reservation # and voila, everthing I need will be printed on the spot. Sorry for the confusion. But this is new to me. How about you? I somehow picture myself standing in line forever just to get to this thing. Any body deal with this yet? TIA
Linda
Yes, that's what we normally do when we buy Universal tickets. It's very easy, and there are a lot of kiosks so I don't think you'll be waiting in line. I've always just walked straight up to the kiosks with no wait.
Since we were staying onsite, we were able to walk to the park entrance and obtain our tickets from the kiosk the evening before our first park day. That way we had our tickets in hand for the next morning.
If you're not staying onsite but you have a car, you could drive over to Universal the evening before. Parking is free after 6:00 pm, so you could park, walk to IOA and use the kiosks to get your tickets. Also a good way to familiarize yourself with where the parks are located if you've never been before.
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Okay, I beleive we might be talking about two things here. Maybe what I have isn't an e-ticket. So let me explain. I got my travel documents yesterday. In 06 I simply got all my passes and just brought them with me. This time it was different. My TA told me I have to go to a ticket kiosk at the entrance to either park, swipe my credit card that I purchased them with, enter my reservation # and voila, everthing I need will be printed on the spot. Sorry for the confusion. But this is new to me. How about you? I somehow picture myself standing in line forever just to get to this thing. Any body deal with this yet? TIA
Linda
Thats how we did our ticket a few years ago. There are plenty of kiosks to get the tickets at, and we didn't have to wait in any lines to get ours the morning we arrived. The lines at the ticket counters were long though .
Okay, I beleive we might be talking about two things here. Maybe what I have isn't an e-ticket. So let me explain. I got my travel documents yesterday. In 06 I simply got all my passes and just brought them with me. This time it was different. My TA told me I have to go to a ticket kiosk at the entrance to either park, swipe my credit card that I purchased them with, enter my reservation # and voila, everthing I need will be printed on the spot. Sorry for the confusion. But this is new to me. How about you? I somehow picture myself standing in line forever just to get to this thing. Any body deal with this yet? TIA
Linda
I've done this a couple times and like others have said, I didn't wait in line because there were plenty of Kiosks available. Just remember to bring that same credit card the tickets were purchased with because that's the card you need to swipe in the Kiosk. It's really easy!
I did the electronic pickup a few years ago for park tickets and last year for HHN tickets. When the regular ticket booth line was over a 45 minute wait, the kiosk line was a whole 5 minutes. Just remember to bring the credit card that you used to buy the ticket. The kiosk will ask you to swipe the credit card for verification. Don't worry, you're not charged again for the tickets. You can also use the kiosks to buy regular park tickets too.
If the kiosks are down, if there's a long line, or if you lost the credit card that you used to buy the tickets, the Customer Relations booth at either park can print out your tickets too.
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What's with this e-ticket? 
I thought that's what you do when you print them online. I've never had to print my tickets before, especially at the park.
Something new since Dec 06? Just curious.
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I have E-tickets to both Universal & SeaWorld/Aquatica. It was way cheaper to buy them on line. but I think the Universal ticket I can trade in at the gate for a regular ticket. I don't do well with paper!! If it doesn't fit in the wallet it's sometimes gone 
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