Last minute help

[Lou Holtz]

I am leaving tomorrow on a trip with my mom for her 60th birthday. She has never been to Orlando before and really wanted to go. She just told me today that she wants to go to Universal for a day. We previously were going to stick with just Disney. I am a Universal veteran and have an annual pass, but I have a few questions.

1. We're going to be buying her ticket that morning. Is that an awful idea? I've never waited until getting to a park to buy a ticket. Is there going to be a line for that?

2. Why are the park hours so short next week? It's 8-12 at Magic Kingdom all week. IOA is 9-7. That's the minimum low crowd park hours. That doesn't seem correct to me. On Wednesday it closes even earlier. It concerns me that the hours don't match my perception of what the crowd level will be.

 

[mask]

Not an expert by any means. First trip to Universal was yesterday. Here's what I saw:

1. I bought & printed tickets online. I did see lines of people waiting to buy tickets. Having never been there, I was looking around to see where to line up for entry and other things so I can't give an exact description of the ticket lines other than to say there were lines long enough to be noticable but it seemed most people already had their tickets.

2. I think yesterday (Wed. April 6) had slightly larger crowds than anticipated. Hours were posted as 9-7 for US and 9-8 for IoA. Around 7 pm they announced that WWoHP, Seuss Landing and some other area I couldn't hear would stay open until 8:30. FJ was still at 45 minutes at that time.

Don't know if US extended hours when we left there around 6 it was thinning out fairly quickly.

HTH

 

[Bluer101]

If you have a Preferred or Premier AP than you will get a 10% ticket savings at the gate off 1 day tickets. If you area FL resident then I would buy online (still get some kind of discount) for kiosk pickup, there is normally no line. Also remember if you do the kiosk, bring confirmation # and CC used in order to pickup.

 

[tinydancer09]

If you have a Preferred or Premier AP than you will get a 10% ticket savings at the gate off 1 day tickets. If you area FL resident then I would buy online (still get some kind of discount) for kiosk pickup, there is normally no line. Also remember if you do the kiosk, bring confirmation # and CC used in order to pickup.

 

[Metro West]

If you have a Preferred or Premier AP than you will get a 10% ticket savings at the gate off 1 day tickets. If you area FL resident then I would buy online (still get some kind of discount) for kiosk pickup, there is normally no line. Also remember if you do the kiosk, bring confirmation # and CC used in order to pickup.

I think you have to purchase the tickets 24 hours prior to using the kiosks.

 

[ky07]

I think you have to purchase the tickets 24 hours prior to using the kiosks.