Are You Planning Renewing Your Current AP or Waiting it out for a Potential EPIC Version?

[keishashadow]

I’m up for AP renewal. Have no plans to visit U parks until next summer, even then probably just EPIC. Thinking to just start up a new AP for HHN trip. Makes no sense to me to pay for 10 months of non usage.

Received a couple of interesting surveys that including AP interest. Got me thinking as to whether there are many other regular APH in the same situation…deciding whether to let their passes go until it becomes known if there will be a EPIC pass/next year’s tix prices have been announced.

 

[CAPSLOCK]

I got our Epic AP tickets waaaaay back in Nov '25 for a day in Dec (a Monday, ugh). Our APs expired in Jan. Don't plan to renew it until 2027 or later, regardless of what's offered. We're out of state and generally get a few trips out of an AP and then let it lapse for a year +.

 

[Smugpugmug]

I did not renew my AP when my renewal period came around. I'd rather wait for Epic to be added and I don't mind if that's in a few years from now. I've heard a lot about Epic's operational issues and would rather visit the park when those problems have been sorted out. Plus I am in the early stages of 2026 trip planning and those plans do not include Universal so I don't see a need for an AP next year.

 

[Jessem1133]

Gonna renew our passes, but have no interest in paying anything additional for Epic.
Went on one of the preview days, and that was plenty to hold me over for a few years.

 

[KatieCharlotte]

Not exactly any of these options. Mine expires in early January. I'm planning one more trip at the very end, and then will wait to see what happens with APs and what my vacation plans are. I will probably take a quick trip that just includes a day at Epic with my older daughter who has not yet been there.

But this is my third AP as an out of state passholder and I have never renewed and instead took a year or a few years off, so I can't say it's just the current uncertainty. Eventually I want to spend winters in Florida and have an AP for all three parks, but that's years from now.

 

[Charade67]

My AP comes up for renewal in the middle of December. I have a trip planned for the first week of January, so I plan to renew so I can keep the AP room rate.

 

[Minnie1222]

I already renewed our APs. They're good until next summer. Yes, I will add Epic if it's offered at a reasonable rate.

 

[whiteness]

We visited Epic a couple of time during the preview, and decided that there was no point renewing our passes until we could get an annual pass that includes it. So, we are no longer passholders.

 

[Skywalker3]

I just renewed early September. Epic was so beyond overly crowded, I can’t imagine them adding AP any time soon, but they probably will, and it will be even more dreadful. If they do add AP, I hope it has a lot of blackout dates, or restrictions, or is very pricey to add. There's no way a busy time of year can handle APs/locals adding to the crowds/lines.
I renewed to get the AP discounts on hotels, etc, and possibly to go back, but I think we need a break, I had such a bad day at Epic, I was going to call and ask for a refund/cancel my AP. Soured the whole trip. I have no desire to go back for a while. I doubt I'll make any other trips there before HHN next year. Who knows. I would like to try a do-over of Epic.

 

[sandam1]

I'm a long-time passholder, but I let my pass expire after my February 2025 trip because our next trip that included IOA/Studios wasn't until November and I didn't see the point in paying for 9 months that I wasn't going to use.

My plan all along was to activate my 2-park AP for the November trip (I currently have the voucher purchased), purchase a single-day Epic ticket for November, and then upgrade to whatever pass includes Epic before our January trip (based on the assumption that Epic included APs would be available after the first of the year). However, we did a two-day Epic only trip in September and it was a train wreck and now I'm on the fence about upgrading. It really depends on the price point and details.

My January trip will be the first time that my best friend will be visiting Epic so we're definitely going to the park, but I might just do a one-day ticket - again, depending on how the $$ works out.