Question about tickets for SW, really confused?

[thefourlams]

When looking at SW's website in particular their ticketing portion it states that admission is unlimited up to 7 consecutive days after first use. So, to me this means that I can purchase one ticket entry and go for 7 days in a row with that one ticket? Am I reading this correctly? I am looking at purchasing the SW and Aquatica tickets and trying to compare them to WDW's water parks. We were already planning to go to SW and it looks as if aquatica will be nice and if it is, then it would be a lot cheaper than adding the water park option to WDW. It will be 2 adults and 2 boys (7 and 5). Thanks!

 

[CamAnd]

I'd like to know that answer too. We're going to get the SeaWorld/Aquatica ticket for early May.

 

[lawnspecialties]

We just went to SeaWorld for our first time two weeks ago. It's become pretty much the norm that when you purchase a one-day ticket to SeaWorld, upon entering the park, you can get another day added for free. We did this and they made sure to tell us the second day had to be taken within seven days. This may be what the website is referring to.

I have no idea how Aquatica will play into this as we only went into SeaWorld. Two days is pretty much needed to do all of SeaWorld and not really miss anything.

 

[gardener14]

If you purchase your tickets under the "visitors" section of the ticketing page, a one day ticket for SW is actually valid for two days during a seven day period if you have your ticket validated at the park. There is a designated set of windows for this just inside the park's entrance.

On the same "visitors" page, Multi-park tickets (for SW & BG, or SW & Aquatica, or SW, BG, & Aquatica) are valid for 7 days and they do not require validation at the park. You simply take your paper e-ticket to the turnstyle each day. You can print off multiple copies of paper tickets if you need to (if they get wet, torn, etc.). Last month we used the park's website to buy tickets for SW and BG. We used them for seven days straight with no problems. Just walk up to the gate with the paper ticket each day and you're in. The e-tickets have a bar code, and they take a finger scan to identify you and prevent sharing of tickets.

Single and multi-park tickets purchased under the "Florida resident" section of the ticketing page do not have the option of repeat visits, but insead, they offer the Fun Card for about the same price. The Fun Card allows unlimited admission for one calendar year.

 

[Disbound]

We have done the consecutive 7 day option in the past and plan to do it again this May. We didn't print out paper copies for each day though. At the end of your (or anytime during I'd imagine) first day, go to the visitors center by the main gate and they will take your picture and put it on a plastic card (like a charge card) and you can come and go as much as you please for 7 days. I have no idea if it includes any of the other parks, it might be worth a phone call to them to find that one out. Although you can do Sea World top to bottom in two days, we found that we enjoyed coming and going at our schedule for a few hours on 3 or 4 days. We checked the schedule to see what we wanted to see again (and there were many) and also came and went at less crowded times. It also worked well to fit in a meal at Shark's Grill. You must make reservations at the restaurant the day of, no advance reservations. Hope this helps, have a great trip!

 

[Ali]

Just keep in mind that you will be paying for parking every time you go - at either $10 or $15 per day. We went last weekend and got a silver passport for $89 for my son so we could get free parking. It is a ticket good for a year. My family all got different tickets - I got a free teacher's ticket, my DH got the fun pass good until the end of the year and DS got the silver passport good until next year because he and I will go more often and the parking price was rediculous. We had our $10 parking refunded at the end of the day by showing we had purchased a silver passport so we think it is a good deal.

 

[gardener14]

We have done the consecutive 7 day option in the past and plan to do it again this May. We didn't print out paper copies for each day though. At the end of your (or anytime during I'd imagine) first day, go to the visitors center by the main gate and they will take your picture and put it on a plastic card (like a charge card) and you can come and go as much as you please for 7 days.

This is possibly not true anymore. I used the 2-park seven day ticket at Busch Gardens Africa on my first few days, and they would not provide a ticket/card in place of my paper ticket (they used to however). They said the paper e-ticket was my ticket and that I had to use it each day. I didn't ask about it when I got to SeaWorld because I assumed the policy would be the same. Either way, if you got a card with your picture on it, I think it must have been some time ago. I don't believe they use pictures anymore since they installed the finger scanning machines. I would bring extra copies just in case the paper tickets are damaged.

Similarly, last summer I bought a seven day ticket for Busch Gardens Europe and Water Country USA in Virginia, and the same policy applied. They would not replace my paper e-ticket with a card as they used to do.

 

[Mr. & Mrs. Smith]

Just to let you know, I did ask if I could use my second day at one of the other A-B parks like Busch Gardens and they said no. It has to be used at the same park that you visited on the first day.

 

[Kren]

Ali, what exactly is the silver passport for $89? I'm getting the idea it gets you unlimited parking? Does the silver passport only cover one park?

Thanks!

 

[Mr. & Mrs. Smith]

Ooops...wrong thread.

 

[gardener14]

The "silver passport" is the old name they used until just this year for a one-year season pass. Now they just call it a "one-year passport." $89 is the current child's price for a one-year one-park season pass (Ali said she bought it for her son). Technically, only the adult season pass includes parking, not the child's price despite Ali's expectation of free parking with that pass...I don't know if it's enforced or not. The adult price for one-year one-park is $99.