Am I looking at the numbers correctly? Upgrading to Seasonal Pass at gate?

[sunflowerblooms]

We have a trip planned for our February Break looking at the Seasonal Pass.

The current plan is:
Buy the 2 park 2 day with 2 extra day tickets from UT
$261.95 tax included
Current price Season Pass
$324 tax included

Universal is currently selling 4 day 2 park tickets for:
$330

Question: Upgrade entire family at gate will be a wash????
What am I missing? Trying to keep within budget. Planning on using AP discount at hotel for two nights to get unlimited express pass for 3 of our park days. So juggling the budget with tickets, passes, hotel rooms is currently happening on an excel spreadsheet.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Suprachica79]

Universal is running a 2+2 days promo so you will only be given the universal promo cost for the tickets rather than the full gate price of a full 4-day ticket.

 

[sunflowerblooms]

The 2 day plus 2 additional day promo is

Universal is running a 2+2 days promo so you will only be given the universal promo cost for the tickets rather than the full gate price of a full 4-day ticket.

Thank you for your response. I feel I need to then clarify:
The current 2 park 2 day plus 2 day promo is $274.99.
The cost to upgrade to seasonal pass would be $49?

 

[Mysteryincorp]

We just did this...the total price to upgrade was around $30 per pass. We bought our tickets from UT and I had every intention of bringing our UT ticket receipt so I could determine exactly what they based they upgrade price on but it was at the end of the day and I was exhausted! If you are staying on site, I recommend you upgrade your tickets at the hotel, no line anytime I checked and they were also able to reprint my daughter annual pass when she lost hers the very next day .

 

[glvsav37]

looking at it as well...but was considering only 1 season/annual pass...mainly just for the hotel discount. Much like Disney, I assume not everyone needs to be an AP to get the merchandise, food and hotel discounts, just as long as the person who is the AP is present or doing the booking.

the hang up for me is that I live out of state, and the email deal i received needed to have the AP activated by a certain date, well before I was planning on traveling. And, according to the ticketing agent on the phone, the only way ot activate an AP is to physically do it at the park. Reason this might be relevant to the OP is that in order to get the hotel discount, you may need to have the AP activated, you should at least check.

 

[bumbershoot]

the hang up for me is that I live out of state, and the email deal i received needed to have the AP activated by a certain date, well before I was planning on traveling. And, according to the ticketing agent on the phone, the only way ot activate an AP is to physically do it at the park. Reason this might be relevant to the OP is that in order to get the hotel discount, you may need to have the AP activated, you should at least check.

I’ve never heard of a deal requiring an activated ap to get an ap rate. Are you booking onsite at Universal?

 

[macraven]

You don’t have to have the ap in hand to book the ap rate onsite hotel room

Buy the tickets now and upgrade to one ap when in Orlando in February

The person that told you that you can’t, is incorrect