I’m currently planning an Orlando vacation for my family of 5 during July of 2026 (myself, wife, DD 23, DS 21, and DD 17). We have been to WDW many, many times, buy have only been to Universal once, and that was way back in 2018. My oldest daughter is die hard Disney, and only wants to go there. My son says he is tired of Disney and wants to go to Universal-especially to try out Epic. My youngest daughter will go with the flow and have fun either way. We will stay on Disney property, and will all do some park days together there, but I’m thinking that my son, youngest daughter, and myself will break away and also spend 2 days at Universal while my wife and oldest daughter continue to spend those days at Disney—new experience for us to split up on a trip. Anyway, I’m wondering about ticket prices. I know how to shop for Disney tickets, but I’m clueless when it comes to Universal. Right now, Undercover Tourist has a 2 day ticket (one day to hop between the 2 old parks, and one day at Epic) for $390 final price. With only 2 days to hit everything, we will also do a 2 day express pass-final price $370 currently on Undercover Tourist. Are these prices typical, high, low?? I’ve heard that express passes get much higher as you get closer to your dates. Will there be any good ticket deals coming up anywhere, or would it be better to buy now before express passes go up? Undercover Tourist had adult tickets for child prices before Christmas, but the 2 day tickets were NOT included. Any advice here would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!
Cheaper direct from Universal. But you’re probably getting refundable tickets from UT. (ETA This was incorrect)
Unless I entered stuff wrong, when I priced the same tickets on the Universal web site, they were more expensive by the time tax was included compared to the final price on Undercover Tourist.
What dates? Same exact ticket with one day at the two parks and one at Epic? I just chose the most common price. But generally Undercover Tourist even states that it will be higher. I could totally be wrong.
I chose a starting date of July 8 on both Undercover Tourist and on the Universal Web Site. UT site says you save vs. gate price. I’m not sure if the Universal online price is the same as their gate price, but when I run the exact same tickets on UT vs. the Universal Web Site for July 8, UT comes up cheaper. That’s running a two day, 3 park ticket on both sites along with a 2 day express pass. For UT in the cart ready to check out price compared to Universal in the cart after taxes are added ready to check out, it’s UT-$760 and Universal-$809.
We are headed to UOR this weekend and I did a lot of research to find the cheapest tickets and express passes for our family of 4. I found that at least for our dates, the cheapest tickets were at Orlando Informer and the cheapest express passes were at Get Away Today. I have downloaded the tickets and express passes to my UOR wallet, and everything looks great. So check these 2 sites and compare.
You are right. My apologies. I was choosing the wrong 3 park ticket. Per other poster, I also check with Get Away Today and Orlando Informer to see what is cheapest.
Thanks for the advice-I’ll check those other sites to compare. No need to apologize-I appreciate the fact you double checked my search. I’m still wondering-how do these prices look for tickets in July? I have no frame of reference since we haven’t been to Universal in so long, so again, I’m just wondering if they are low, high, or pretty typical for two day tickets and two day express passes for July. If anyone has any insights, please let me know.
You’re math is correct. The only benefit from buying direct is that if you have any travel issues or ticket issues when buying third party UOR will not help you.
As I understand it from other people’s reports UT will give you a “credit” not a refund if you have to cancel.
Orlando Informer, in my personal experience, is a 100% no refunds / no exceptions if you have any issues. I love going to the OIM, but have had to resell my tickets at a loss when I couldn’t go.
UOR likes to say their tickets are nonrefundable, but I have never had an issue when my plans got cancelled.
Ditto. I have had express passes refunded two years later I never used (and they gave me single use free express passes for the one ride I wanted to ride that day before HHN) and I have twice made changes to tickets that said no transferable, refundable and they commented but did it anyway. I have changed packages within the 30 days or whatever it is and they didn’t charge me the $50 change fee either. They are always accommodating when you are nice in my experience