Epic Universe 1 day ticket - cost and purchase question

[magickingdomprincess]

I'm trying to decide which tickets to buy for our trip this summer, and am considering buying a Seasonal AP + 1 day Epic Universe tickets. Can I purchase the AP's before we go, and then purchase discounted EU tickets beforehand? Or do we have to wait until we are there to activate the AP's in person? It seems like that was an issue for people last year before Epic opened, but we had AP's last year so I don't recall the details. Also, is there a way to see what the discounted price would be? Or is there a typical amount they're discounted? I'm looking at June 21st if that helps. Thanks for any assistance!

 

[DisneyMom93]

APs must be activated first. So I bought the Epic tix prior to our trip and went to a park and activated APs then went to guest services and got a refund for the AP discount price difference. It took forever but I did have four tickets for two days. I got back $217 total.

We did do all that on a bonus day. We didn’t start our park days until the next day. We actually started at Epic (stayed at Grand Helios for four nights) and then moved to Portofino Bay to do the other two parks.

It was annoying we had to leave the Helios property to do it and we hadn’t planned to. Wasn’t terrible though. Shuttle was easy.

 

[magickingdomprincess]

Ok, thank you! It's good to hear they will refund the difference. Was your refund for 4 people for 1 day? Yeah, that stinks that there wasn't a ticket desk available at Helios.

 

[DisneyMom93]

Ok, thank you! It's good to hear they will refund the difference. Was your refund for 4 people for 1 day? Yeah, that stinks that there wasn't a ticket desk available at Helios.

The refund was for 8 tickets total (four of us went for two days).