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[Universal Studios] Ticket upgrade at the park question
If I buy two day one park tickets, I know I can upgrade at the park to 2 day park to park tickets but is this more expensive to do this way than if I would have just bought the 2 day 2 park tickets online from the start? Hope that makes sense! If we could do 2 day one park, we'd save 60.00 on our 3 tickets vs. the 2 day park to park, but worried if I upgrade at the park it would cost more than 60.00.
We're staying onsite one night, so I think we'll be fine with doing just one park each of the two days we're there, but I guess it'll all depend on whether we can get enough done at WWoHP after supper on the first day. The first day we won't arrive at the parks until about noon, so thought I'd do IOA first being there's not much there we want to do. We basically just want to do Spiderman, Mythos to eat and then do the wet rides. Then we'll go back to the resort and go up to the room, then go for a quick swim being it's probably the only time we'll do this. We'll go back over to IOA to do WWoHP at 6:00 or 7 p.m. The park is open til 10 p.m. that night. We only plan to ride FJ, look around in the shops, and get some butter beer. DS isn't a big HP fan and neither am I, so it's just more curiosity on my part. If it's too busy to even see anything, I was thinking I could upgrade the tickets to 2 park, so over to Universal that night and then go back to WWoHP the next morning with our early entry and then go back to Universal to finish up. Whew, I know I'm an obsessive planner and with trying to save money at the same time it gets complicated.
The way you have your post typed I'm confused as to what you want. Do you want 2 - 2 day basic tickets (one park per day) or 2 - 2 day park hopper tickets (multiple parks per day)? You mentioned something about having 3 tickets - where did the third one come from?
I knew that was confusing! We have 3 in our party. If I buy the tickets online, it would cost me 60.00 more (20.00 X each of the tickets) to get a 2 day park to park ticket vs. a 2 day non-park to park ticket. I'm wondering if anyone knows how much it would cost for each ticket IN the park if I decide to upgrade the non-park to park tickets to the park to park option.
If I'm not mistaken, it's the same price at the gates as it is online. Just don't forget that the online quotes don't include the taxes so add another 6.5% to that total you have.
I would imagine you would have to pay the difference between the price you paid for the one park per day tickets and the park-to-park tickets of the same length (plus tax) at the gate prices.
Right now, Universal is running a deal on their website that saves $20 per ticket on every multi-day ticket with park-to-park access. The 2 Day, 1 Park tickets are $115.99 per adult (at the gate, $135.99). . . the 2 Day, Park-to-Park tickets are $135.99 per adult (at the gate, $155.99). If you purchased the 2-Day, 1 Park tickets at home at $115.99, then upgraded to the Park-to-Park at the gate prices, it appears to me (if I am doing my math right) that you'd be paying $40 per ticket to upgrade.
If it were me and I was going to do the Park-to-Park, I would just buy the tickets online and save the $20! :was:
Okay, disregard my earlier post - for some reason I didn't realize this was in the Universal Thread. I thought this was about Disney park tickets - don't know where my mind was
Do you think you could just upgrade it on the second day and only pay 20.00 per ticket for that one day vs. the two days? That way we could just do WWoHP the second day in addition to Universal. Maybe they don't let you do that if you buy a two day base ticket though.
I could be wrong, but . . . I think may be kind of like the Disney tickets when you add the Park Hopper on to them . . . you pay the same price whether you add on day 1 or day 5.
I decided to go ahead and pay a little more and get the park to park. I started thinking that we only have 2 days and if it rains or rides are down oe even if we have favorites we'd like to repeat in another park, the park to park will be worth it. Iguess if you are spending 365.00 on 3 tickets already, I can spend 54.00 more and have peace of mind! We'll just save a little more on something at home to make up for it!
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If you purchased the 2-Day, 1 Park tickets at home at $115.99, then upgraded to the Park-to-Park at the gate prices, it appears to me (if I am doing my math right) that you'd be paying $40 per ticket to upgrade.
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