How many rooms AP Rate??

[Hawk]

Can anyone tell me how many rooms you can book with a Universal AP?

Thanks

Tim/Hawk

 

[rpbert1]

Only 1 room per AP, but i think if you have young children you can get an adjoining 2nd room as well, but someone like Damo will post better info

 

[RACEFAN9]

We booked 2 rooms in November.Wanted them to be adjoining but they were not.Booked both rooms using APH rate.

 

[damo]

It used to be a one pass per room rule but that seems to be changed. When the PIN codes came out last year, it was a two rooms per code and since then, it seems to be a 2 rooms for one AP rule.

I would make sure to ask when you make your ressie.

 

[Hawk]

Thanks.

Tim/Hawk

 

[JenSinMA]

Reviving an old thread because this issue came up for me and I'm getting conflicting info. I will be the only one in my party with an AP. I have a party of 6. I booked 2 rooms online at PBH for one night at the APH rate, no problem. Today I saw the same rate showing for HRH, which we'd prefer. So I called and changed the ressie to HRH. The res. agent said we'd need two APs to get this rate for both rooms, and said that's ALWAYS been the rule, unless the 2nd room is all kids. That wasn't my understanding. Now I may get slapped with a higher rate upon check-in when we can't produce another AP.

Has anyone booked 2 rooms on one AP recently?

 

[damo]

Recently people have been told that if their children are in the second room, they don't need an AP. However, I don't recall us EVER being told here on the boards that they asked for two APs. Sometimes the information at the front desk is difference than the reservationist. You can always contact the hotel directly for the most recent information. There does not seem to be any official ruling printed anywhere.

You can book however many rooms you want without any APs. However, you MAY be asked to show APs when you arrive. You can always purchase another one once you are there if they want to see two.

 

[JenSinMA]

Thanks Damo. I checked in today to HRH and had no problems whatsoever. In fact they didn't ask to see my AP at all. SOOO glad I booked the rooms--the early entry, express passes and the ability to nap/swim after lunch were indespensible today. I'm not even sleeping there tonight (we have a house in Windsor Hills) and still feel I got my money's worth.

 

[damo]

Thanks Damo. I checked in today to HRH and had no problems whatsoever. In fact they didn't ask to see my AP at all. SOOO glad I booked the rooms--the early entry, express passes and the ability to nap/swim after lunch were indespensible today. I'm not even sleeping there tonight (we have a house in Windsor Hills) and still feel I got my money's worth.

That's great. I'm glad you felt you got good value for your money. That is really what is most important here.

 

[MMA524]

Great thread.

My plan was to purchase one Preferred AP in my name online, activate it when I arrive at the parks in June, then use it to buy multi-day tickets for the rest of my family with the 15% AP discount.

I have already booked two rooms at the Hard Rock, at the APH rate. One for my family of four, and the other for my brother who decided to join us, and will be traveling solo. Wondering if we will collectivelty need a second annual pass, I called Universal three times today, and naturally got three different answers.

1. A reservationist emphatically told me that there is a strict limit of one AP per APH room, and that my second room would revert to the Stay More, Save More rate if I had only one annual pass. ( Odd that she didn't say rack rate )

2. A team member working the HRH front desk assured me it would be no problem, as long as both rooms were reserved in my name and I had my annual pass at check-in.

3. Finally, a reservationist on the night shift explained that I could get both rooms with one AP as long as the second room was for my children. Without me volunteering any personal information, she even laid out a hypothetical scenario in which the second room was for my brother and his family. That would not be permitted without a second annual pass. Uh oh, she's on to me!

You can always purchase another one once you are there if they want to see two.

This is probably the approach I will take.

Then again, for our four-night stay, the APH rate is a savings of almost $200 after tax over the SMSM rate, so a second annual pass will pay for itself.

 

[JenSinMA]

Your plan is a good one. You can always upgrade your brother's multi-day pass to a Preferred Annual Pass if you need to in order to maintain the AP rate on both rooms. But my guess is that you won't need to. I could have gotten away with not having even 1 AP because no one at the Hard Rock ever asked to see it. Not that I regret buying the AP...it would have been cheating otherwise, plus I enjoyed the other savings like free parking at the parks and the merchandise discount (which they will even apply after the fact if you forget to show your pass when making a large souvenir purchase!)