I just wanted to give an update on my ticket experience for the parks last week. I bought 2 tickets from
Undercover Tourist before the prices went up. I got the 2+1 day for $225 each. I knew I wanted to upgrade at least 1 ticket to AP to get the hotel discount. Depending on the how much the upgrade cost, I had considered upgrading 2 of the tickets. I got mixed reviews before I left if Universal bridged the prices of tickets to current prices before upgrading. I had Undercover mail the actual ticket to me. I bought 3 of my tickets from
Sams Club travel. I was not sure if these were upgradeable, the only reply I got was probably not. I bought 3 day park to park for $215 each. These tickets were Etickets that I printed from home.
We folded the Etickets up and put them in our lanyard with just the barcode showing. They worked fine like this. But since some people said you could exchange for actual tickets and some people said you could not, I decided to try it out. We went to the ticket window by Harry Potter and they were happy to exchange the print out for actual tickets.
On the last day we went to upgrade the 1 ticket to AP. The price was $10.60! So yes please, upgrade mine too! We both had the undercover tourist tickets. I went back and told my husband how much it was and we decided we might as well try to upgrade theirs as well. So went back to guest services and yep, was able to upgrade all 3 of their Sams club tickets as well! So we paid $225.88+$10.60=$236.48 for 2 seasonal APs and $215.17+$10.60=$225.77 for 3 seasonal APs! Not even sure if we will use them again, but felt good about gambling on it for $10 extra each.