ticket including Early Admission ? really ?

[chmurf]

Hi
On another forum, a fellow poster informed us that his Third Party ticket seller sold him a 2 days park to park whith which he will get Early Admission
That guest does not stay onsite or at a partner hotel. He just gets a regular 2 days ticket, but the 3rd party seller insists the ticket will grant the guest early admission (1 hour before as he puts it)

So has anyone ever heard of such a thing ?
I know that USH (california) tickets can include this option, but never heard of it for Orlando.

I also know that Early Admission is for onsite/partenr hotels, some APs under conditions, and select groups. Just wondering what groups it can be

after all, if such tickets existed, they would probably be advertsised on places like here.
so did the 3rd party has their wire crossed and gave incorrect information, or is the guest pulling our legs, or ... what do you think ?

thanks for sharing some light about those mystery tickets

 

[macraven]

Hollywood and Orlando does different things
Maybe Hollywood has ee??


If Orlando uo has started that, totally unknown to me
I’ve not read about this happening but anything is possible for change



Like you said, partner hotels packages, do have that perk

What is the name of the 3 rd party vendor?

Curious..


I’m sure if anything has changed and perks are given out for ee, we would be seeing new posts about it

Thanks for your new info and thoughts

 

[chmurf]

Actually I don't think it is a new info

the 3rd party is a Canadian (québec) travel agent/planner who specialises in Disney, (called wdworld) and I highly suspect he has given wrong information to his customer. (he's given inaccurate info on UK disney tickets in the past) or that the customer did not quite understand what they were entitled to.

As you said, if such tickets existed for UO, we would know about them ...

The reason I ask, is because I suspect it's wrong information, and the guest on the other forum is adamant they'll get Early Admission. I'm trying to check facts, so that this guest does not show up 1hr too early and be stopped at Citywalk.(they stay at Disneyworld and will be ubering over to UO, on both days ).

thanks for your input.

 

[damo]

The only thing I heard like this was the shuttle/ticket combo that Dreams Unlimited used to sell. It, for some reason, allowed early admission. It wasn't widely known or advertised.

 

[Superchikk]

We were just at US/IoA in January. For early admission to the park, they don't check your "status" at the gate. They admit anyone with a ticket. When you get closer to the HP area, they check for your hotel key. You must present a Universal Studios property hotel key in order for them to let you through to the HP area. I did see them turning people away at that point. I suppose they don't have a problem letting everyone in to wander around or wait for everything to open at that point, but they did not allow people without hotel keys to go back to HP areas at all - not even close.

 

[chmurf]

apparently, from what I heard back from the ticket seller.
Those are (would be) tickets purchased through AAA/CAA
so from what I've been told by the ticket seller, a few months ago, Universal Orlando has partnered with AAA and CAA to offer free early admission for all tickets purchased through one of their offices in northen america.

maybe someone with AAA membership could verify that, because so far all I've seen on the AAA site is that EE comes with a package .... maybe it's more clearly stated one you add a ticket to the shopping cart on AAA.

 

[macraven]

I’ll make a call next week to AAA
I do have a membership with them

For me, it has been cheaper to use the smsm discount for my long stays for a room reservation
Don’t need package as I have the ap instead of tickets

 

[damo]

apparently, from what I heard back from the ticket seller.
Those are (would be) tickets purchased through AAA/CAA
so from what I've been told by the ticket seller, a few months ago, Universal Orlando has partnered with AAA and CAA to offer free early admission for all tickets purchased through one of their offices in northen america.

maybe someone with AAA membership could verify that, because so far all I've seen on the AAA site is that EE comes with a package .... maybe it's more clearly stated one you add a ticket to the shopping cart on AAA.

I see nothing on the CAA website about early admission. I would imagine that would be an advertised perk.

 

[rlthomas7]

I am a travel agent and just purchased my own one day park-to-park ticket through a wholesaler for my family's one-day visit next week. My e-ticket says it comes with early park admission. And it's not a travel agent special - I purchased this ticket the same way I would for my clients.

 

[macraven]

Which travel company sells them?

 

[rlthomas7]

Wanted to follow up on this. When I got my passes through the kiosk, they didn't say anything about early admission on them. I asked the attendant, who informed me that early park admission was only at Islands of Adventure that day. So I still don't really know. But it DID say it on my e-docs. I purchased them through Universal via VAX, which probably only means something to fellow travel agents.

 

[macraven]

Wanted to follow up on this. When I got my passes through the kiosk, they didn't say anything about early admission on them. I asked the attendant, who informed me that early park admission was only at Islands of Adventure that day. So I still don't really know. But it DID say it on my e-docs. I purchased them through Universal via VAX, which probably only means something to fellow travel agents.

Early entry is for all onsite hotel guests.
The room key is what is needed to enter for EE

Whatever park tickets you have will allow you entry to the parks then.

e-docs: electronic tickets/documents

What travel agents are allowed on their tickets, i have zero idea

The general population that buys tickets for the parks don't receive special perks on their tickets.

Some agencies may have a contract when booking a package that includes different perks that you can't get otherwise.

 

[gunderda]

We just purchased ours through AAA and the tickets don't say anything about early admission.

 

[pillowbook]

My family has Marriott Vacation Club and we stayed there last January for a Universal trip. We bought our tickets through Marriott and we got Early Park Admission. So I do think it depends on whether the travel agency/business has a relationship with Universal.

 

[damo]

I wouldn't be surprised to see all of these tickets disappearing once the next Universal value hotel is open.

 

[macraven]

I wouldn't be surprised to see all of these tickets disappearing once the next Universal value hotel is open.

damo, I can see that happening

 

[AtlantaDisneyDreamer]

I wonder if they are giving out more and more early park entries to non- onsite guests because onsite guests aren’t using the early park entry as much since the express passes now include HP attractions.

We stayed at PBR last September for seven nights and I don’t think we used early park entry at all - whereas, when we stayed at RP before the HP rides were included, we used it most of our stay.

Early entry is a nice value add for Universal that doesn’t cost them anything.