Epic Universe Ticketing Info, Advice, & Speculation

[ilovetotravel1977]

I know WDW lovers will purchase the 14-day Europe tickets and it ends up being cheaper than buying in American. And they get the water parks, memory maker, and they get 14-days vs 5 or 7 days.

 

[Alicia]

Are they still offering AP discount on Epic single-day tickets, or was that just a previews thing?

Available through December 31st when logged into the official website. Go to My Account and click on banner image

 

[belloq87]

Universal Epic Universe's Stagnant Summer

We take a closer look at Epic Universe attendance for its first summer of operation and why ticket sales have been stagnant

blogmickey.com

Relevant to the ticket discussions.

 

[Mad Dog]

Universal Epic Universe's Stagnant Summer

We take a closer look at Epic Universe attendance for its first summer of operation and why ticket sales have been stagnant

blogmickey.com

Relevant to the ticket discussions.

The problem with this blog mickey analysis is that only half of the ticket plans are available to research. As Thrill shows, they're unable to see 6 of the 12 available plans on a daily basis. I would assume tourist agency and other such plans are unavailable to look at. Those numbers can only be guessed at. So I don't think those blog mickey numbers are reliable attendance numbers. And, with how bad the ride capacity has been, I would assume that blogmickey numbers are very much underestimates. The Epic hotels were in the high ninety percentiles occupancy up until last week, for one. ...But I do think that weekday ticket demand is falling in the very near future.

 

[Alicia]

The problem with this blog mickey analysis is that only half of the ticket plans are available to research. As Thrill shows, they're unable to see 6 of the 12 available plans on a daily basis. I would assume tourist agency and other such plans are unavailable to look at. Those numbers can only be guessed at. So I don't think those blog mickey numbers are reliable attendance numbers. And, with how bad the ride capacity has been, I would assume that blogmickey numbers are very much underestimates. The Epic hotels were in the high ninety percentiles occupancy up until last week, for one. ...But I do think that weekday ticket demand is falling in the very near future.

As Bio has pointed out, the guest parking lot is fuller every week lately. Two more rows filled than usual this week.

Maybe less people are using busses from hotels, sure... but also, maybe more people have multi-day tickets not tracked by Thrill and the park is actually busier every week.

 

[belloq87]

There are caveats of that sort within the article.

I shared it more because I think it's valuable that an outlet is drawing attention to Universal's questionable (the less charitable among us might say anti-guest) ticket policies (regardless of how much we can tie those policies to specific attendance stagnation).

 

[Mad Dog]

As Bio has pointed out, the guest parking lot is fuller every week lately. Two more rows filled than usual this week.

Maybe less people are using busses from hotels, sure... but also, maybe more people have multi-day tickets not tracked by Thrill and the park is actually busier every week.

Hard to tell, but I certainly don't believe blog mickeys numbers that kind of gloss over their caveats, and doesn't give much consideration to the 6 ticket types Thrill can't access. And they are kind of insinuating in dramatic fashion that's all the tickets sold daily, to get internet hits. ,.
And, yes, the ticket plans are very confusing. As @belloq87 described it very aptly, an
'anti-guest' ticket policy. But one thing is clear from Thrills numbers, which are a floor and not the actual or ceiling, the future floor ticket numbers appear to be softening along with Epic hotel occupancy very recent softening, which leads me to believe that Universal may be forced to adopt a more 'guest friendly' ticket policy if the softening continues after these last couple of the busier summer weeks. Now, that would be a good thing.