How does UT tickets work

[pxydst]

I am planning on buying our tickets from UT, they say you can print them at home?!?!?! if we print them at home do we go to our resort to exchange them for 'real' tickets?? Can you just go to the entrance and exchange them there? or do we just use the paper tickets??? Thanks

 

[macraven]

UT as in undercover tourist
Or did you mean UO ?


UO -will call-do the print at home tickets or pick up actual tickets at the park

If you go with print at home way, make a few of them
If you do water rides and those paper tixs get wet, the bar code might not scan

Hotels don't exchange the paper tickets for the regular cc size tickets


I wasn't aware that UT did print at home tickets like UO does for their parks

When I use UT for tickets for other parks, I am mailed the actual ticket

 

[kohlby]

I don't remember who we went through when we did print at home tickets many years ago. We just went to the gate and they scanned them there. I printed out several copies so I didn't have to worry about them. I did UT for our upcoming trip and was mailed actual tickets.

I did run into an issue at a different place printing out tickets from UT. We went to Kennedy Space Center and their website says to go to the gate. But when we tried that, we were told their system wouldn't accept those tickets and we had to go to the ticket counter to exchange them. So - a heads up if you're planning on printing out tickets for a park other than US/IOA.

 

[wookiebeck]

I am planning on buying our tickets from UT, they say you can print them at home?!?!?!

See Mac's post above. It is normal for UT to only have option to send you real, plastic tickets. If you have the time, this is easiest to do.

if we print them at home do we go to our resort to exchange them for 'real' tickets??

Not the resort (hotel) but rather a ticket window at the entrance to either theme park. Exchange for real ticket is easy.

Can you just go to the entrance and exchange them there? or do we just use the paper tickets???

You can use the printed-at-home paper tix your whole trip. Others have complained that the paper gets pretty ratty after a few days, though. Print extra or exchange.

Have fun!

 

[mkwj]

I am not sure if it works the same, but we got ours from Orlando fun tickets I think. We printed out something from home and then once there we had to go to a kiosk and show our license and scan the tickets. It then printed out our normal tickets.

 

[macraven]

I am not sure if it works the same, but we got ours from Orlando fun tickets I think. We printed out something from home and then once there we had to go to a kiosk and show our license and scan the tickets. It then printed out our normal tickets.

some 3rd party vendors set you up with a voucher.
this shows you have paid for the tickets and you exchange the voucher for the park tickets.
real/park tickets are the size of a credit card and is printed on tyvek paper.
waterproof and tear proof

but some AP holders do say they wear out in a years time.
they are reissued when damaged and the bar code is not readable.

 

[pxydst]

Thank you all for this info. It is Undercover Tourist and I will check their website again to make sure we can print them.

 

[livibug]

UT has both.. you can choose e-delivery and you print them on your paper or have them (real universal tickets) mailed to you for free. We chose the mail method. Its on tyvek which is better than paper, but not as good as the old plastic imho. If you print them, they are real tickets and do not need exchanged - head straight to the gate

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Was just going to chime in. UT has print at home option and they are real tickets not vouchers. My husband wanted to use that option however for WDW tickets through UT we opted for having the tickets mailed since they were refundable that way (e-tickets weren't). It's not my favorite thing to carry tickets printed on regular paper but when we last went in 2011 and bought our Universal tickets straight through Universal they were the same deal-meaning printing at home on regular paper and it worked out ok.

Here's a screen shot of our print at home Universal tickets from UT purchased on 2/13/16: