Disney/Universal Orlando tickets

[tony coleman]

Anyone been recently? And how much did you pay for park tickets? Two of us going next month for a week and the cost I’m seeing at the moment seems a lot for the week. Cheers.

 

[BerkshireBlue]

a week is expensive as you're basically paying the same price as two weeks, you'll be looking at the price of about £500 a ticket I reckon

 

[Blue Maverick]

About £500 each then factor in Genie plus that could be around £20 each a day and then if you want to go on the big rides you can pay around £12 extra to jump the queue!

 

[BlueMoonday]

Genie plus isn't essential for the whole week. I'd only use it on the last day or so to get on the rides you haven't been on or use them for the two star wars rides at Hollywood as the queues are typically 90+ minutes no matter what.

Set an early alarm each day for around 7am and book the virtual queue for certain rides, it's brilliant. We used it for Tron when it first opened and didn't have to wait too long.


I'm not sure how you are travelling around Orlando but if you are hiring a car then it's around 25 USD to park at the parks. However, say you paid this to park at one of the parks ie Magical Kingdom, if you then went to another park in the afternoon you don't need to pay this again.

 

[RobMCFC]

We've been to Florida so many times and talked about doing Universal, but in the end we always stay at a Disney hotel and the price to "leave" and do something else isn't worth it because there's so much to do there anyway. As noted above, you pay so much for one week because in the UK we get a 14-day ticket for the price of 7.

We used Genie+ this year and whilst it's annoying that you are now effectively paying for the Fastpass (that you used to get for free) you can use it to your advantage.

The main thing that you have to know is that there are two aspects to Genie+: The rides that you can pay $14-$22 for on a one-off basis (Rise of the Resistance, Tron, Dwarves Mine Train, Flights of Passage and Guardians of the Galaxy) and then all the others rides in any given park.

Whilst I'm not usually big on the faster/thrill rides, I have to say that Tron is an exceptional ride.

For anybody that's interested, here is a complete video guide to Genie+ that we made.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Genie plus isn't essential for the whole week. I'd only use it on the last day or so to get on the rides you haven't been on or use them for the two star wars rides at Hollywood as the queues are typically 90+ minutes no matter what.

Set an early alarm each day for around 7am and book the virtual queue for certain rides, it's brilliant. We used it for Tron when it first opened and didn't have to wait too long.


I'm not sure how you are travelling around Orlando but if you are hiring a car then it's around 25 USD to park at the parks. However, say you paid this to park at one of the parks ie Magical Kingdom, if you then went to another park in the afternoon you don't need to pay this again.

7am only counts if you are staying inside though otherwise it’s 9am, I’d also say do the rides you want earlier rather than last as they could go down or be unavailable so you have more chance to get them than last minute, also wiring for 70/90 mins is not the way I want to spend a weeks holiday

 

[RobMCFC]

7am only counts if you are staying inside though otherwise it’s 9am, I’d also say do the rides you want earlier rather than last as they could go down or be unavailable so you have more chance to get them than last minute, also wiring for 70/90 mins is not the way I want to spend a weeks holiday

Apart from the huge queues, this was the main reason why we paid to go on ROTR - it breaks on a fairly regular basis, and if you wait in the standby queue for 2 hours or more and it breaks, you've wasted your time. If you've paid, you get your money back and haven't wasted time.

In Animal Kingdom, we found that we could get on everything reasonably easily by paying for Flights of Passage.

 

[kashmir]

Years ago we went wanted to do parks,found if you looked at time share they would give you free tickets and feed and water you,so we went viewing in afternoon had no intention of buying only went for the free tickets they soon became bored of us grabbing freebies but did all the parks for nothing
By the way I’m a tight sod!

 

[inbetween]

Anyone been recently? And how much did you pay for park tickets? Two of us going next month for a week and the cost I’m seeing at the moment seems a lot for the week. Cheers.

As you're going for a week will you have time for all of the Disney parks? If not it might work out cheaper to just buy tickets for the amount of days you want. This company does them, you buy the tickets and then book the reservations.

If you don't need park hopping then all 4 Disney parks would cost you $480/£400 which saves you a lot on the £500 for the weekly ticket. If you do less parks/days then it's even cheaper. If you want water parks, park hopping and those kind of benefits then the weekly ticket direct from Disney might be best.

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If you're also thinking of getting a car then I'd DEFINITELY email Andy @ Discount Florida Car Hire first, he got us a crazy deal on Alamo the last time we went (at least 30% cheaper than the Alamo direct price).

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[Citizen of Legoland]

Went to Disney on Christmas Day once and there were no queues for anything. You could get off the ride and go straight back on it sometimes. The week after New Year was dead too. 9 years ago, wow time goes fast.

Doesn’t help the OP of course.