Following 5 months of promoting solely multi-day tickets and trip packages to most of the people, single day tickets are lastly accessible for the brand new Epic Universe theme park at Common Orlando. Listed below are the small print in regards to the new kinds of 1-day and 2-day tickets anybody can now buy, adopted by our commentary.
Previous to as we speak, Epic Universe tickets had been solely accessible to buy as a part of multi-day bundles and trip packages with lodge reservations for most of the people that emphasised days at Common Studios Florida and Islands of Journey. On this case, emphasised implies that these multi-day tickets all supplied solely a single day at Epic Universe, no matter length. You may purchase a 14-day and nonetheless solely get one go to to Epic Universe. (Probably the most excessive instance, for visitors from the UK.)
The one single day tickets beforehand accessible had been offered to Annual Passholders, which additionally went on sale shortly after the multi-day tickets and trip packages for most of the people. These proved fairly well-liked, and days round Memorial Day weekend and into early June rapidly offered out. Though, for what it’s price, we have now seen dates change into accessible once more after opening weekend every so often. So it’s price maintaining a tally of the ticketing web page when you’re nonetheless looking for availability within the first week or so.
That brings us to as we speak (March 13, 2025), when Common Orlando launched a brand new wave of ticket choices. Most notably, this newest launch contains 1-day tickets that permit visitors to go to Common Epic Universe on a single day. There’s additionally a brand new 2-day choice that permits visitors to go to Common Epic Universe on at some point, after which one other at both Islands of Journey or Common Studios.
Single day tickets are presently accessible for dates beginning June 1, 2025. Common Epic Universe opens on Might 22, that means that the primary 10 days are unavailable to buy through the 1-day tickets. Right here’s a have a look at the pricing & availability calendar:
Nevertheless, there are nonetheless Epic Universe trip packages accessible for all of those dates, suggesting that Common Orlando has merely blocked out the primary 10 days to have stock to promote to lodge visitors. If these rooms don’t promote out, we’d anticipate the stock to shift over to single-day tickets in some unspecified time in the future. So preserve a watch out when you actually need tickets for late Might!
Each single date on the calendar from June by means of December 2025 is obtainable. Ticket costs within the first full month that Epic Universe is open are both $174 or $179 each single day, with weekends and later within the month being dearer. Costs enhance to $184/$189 for the Independence Day lengthy weekend, which can also be the excessive water mark for Summer time 2025.
After that, costs start lowering all through August, dropping as little as $164 on weekdays within the second half of the month. They spike once more for Labor Day weekend, costing $179 to $189, earlier than plummeting on the Tuesday after to the 2025 low of $139. There are weekdays all through the month that price $139 to $149. Unsurprising, since September tends to be the slowest month in Central Florida.
October alerts one other shift, with costs growing to $164 to begin the month, and hitting $189 once more over the autumn break interval. That is just about the story of the ultimate three months of the yr, usually the busiest and costliest at each Common Orlando and Walt Disney World.
Just about each faculty break through the vacation season hits no less than $184, and even weekdays are elevated. Then there are the height season dates between Christmas Eve and New Yr’s Eve. Ticket costs peak at $199 on December 24, and keep at that stage by means of the top of 2025.
Our Commentary
Common Orlando introduced the opening date of Epic Universe, began promoting multi-day tickets, trip packages, Helios Grand Resort reservations, and single day tickets for Annual Passholders all inside fast succession in late October of final yr. All of this–from announcement to launch–occurred within the span of a single week.
5 months later, Common Orlando is lastly now promoting 1-day Epic Universe tickets to most of the people, solely a pair weeks after beginning multi-day ticket gross sales to Florida residents. In the event you requested me again in late October when extra multi-day and single-day tickets can be launched, I’d’ve guessed lengthy prior to now.
The truth that Epic Universe trip packages, lodge reservations, multi-day ticket bundles, and Annual Passholder tickets have all had loads of availability all through the summer time–together with in late Might after opening weekend–all referred to as into query Common’s determination to withhold single day tickets for thus lengthy.
As we’ve urged beforehand, it appeared that Common was enjoying a high-stakes sport of hen. That Comcast has dumped tons of cash into the constructing of Epic Universe, together with billions greater than budgeted. That the guardian firm needs or wants Epic Universe to be an enormous hit proper out of the gate, particularly as its legacy companies wrestle. That the aim is to seize as a lot income as doable, as rapidly as doable to begin recouping that large funding–particularly after a gradual yr for its parks.
In idea, this wasn’t a foul method to extend Common Orlando’s common size of keep, make visitors extra more likely to e-book on-site resorts, stop attendance cannibalization from Common’s present gates, and getting folks to spend their park days at Common Orlando reasonably than Walt Disney World, and likewise doing lodge stays at UOR versus WDW.
We’ve additionally urged for some time that every one of that is in idea, and will backfire. Households plan their summer time holidays through the vacation season and in the direction of the beginning of the brand new yr, and single-day tickets weren’t accessible throughout that window. Whereas some theme park tremendous followers may bounce on the alternative to expertise Epic Universe as early as doable and bounce over no matter hurdles Common throws their manner, they’re not the norm. Others might fear about opening season crowds, preliminary hiccups, or balk in any respect hoops they’ve to leap by means of.
Common Orlando already has misplaced no less than a few of these potential visitors for the opening summer time of Epic Universe. Not everyone seems to be refreshing the Common Orlando web site on a every day or weekly foundation, ready for the subsequent spherical of tickets to go on sale. Some verify as soon as, see choices to not their liking, and e-book elsewhere.
I’ve zero doubts in anyway that Epic Universe shall be busy throughout its opening weekend. It’s a model new theme park, after all it’ll! Tickets to Annual Passholders offered out quick and trip packages don’t use date-based tickets, that means that everybody staying in a lodge over opening weekend has a number of days of admission…however in all probability needs to go to Epic Universe on Might 22. I wouldn’t be shocked if the park hits a phased closure these first few days. I’d additionally anticipate digital queues to be the norm for sure lands, and that can have a cascading impact on crowds elsewhere.
All of that is to say that Epic Universe will certainly not be “useless” or a “ghost city” throughout these first couple weeks, and even all through the opening summer time. That positively gained’t be the case. However it’s nonetheless doable for the park to be busy and really feel overcrowded to visitors whereas falling wanting Common’s inner projections. It’s additionally believable for attendance to be decrease from June by means of September than the ultimate three months of the yr. That is what I believe will occur. Extra on crowd predictions very quickly, particularly now that we have now a full calendar of date-based costs.
In the end, it’s comprehensible that Comcast needs to seize as a lot income as doable through the opening season of Epic Universe, filling up its overbuilt lodge stock and never cannibalizing attendance at its present gates. It’s laborious to fault this method contemplating how a lot cash has been spent on Epic Universe. There’s quite a bit using on it. The third theme park should flip Common Orlando right into a bona fide vacation spot resort that may maintain its personal with Walt Disney World.
However it’s additionally foolish to faux that there isn’t draw back threat to Common’s technique, and I’m truthfully shocked they didn’t begin promoting single-day tickets three months in the past. On the very least, Common ought to’ve launch them earlier than Walt Disney World began operating its 2025 resident specials. They might’ve blocked out dates and restricted stock to have sufficient for pricier trip packages–identical to they’re doing as we speak, anyway!
Epic Universe shall be a smash success for Common Orlando within the long-term, however I’m skeptical that its opening season method goes to yield the anticipated dividends. I wouldn’t be in the least shocked if, after the preliminary fanfare the primary couple weeks, there’s a summer time lull because of this backfiring. We’ve been saying all alongside that they need to’ve tried to lock-in visits as rapidly as doable or else threat lacking out on them–and with the current rise in financial uncertainty and drops in shopper confidence, this attitude has seemingly been additional vindicated. We will see, although–maybe that is all improper, Epic Universe shall be packed all summer time, and exceed Comcast’s projections to traders.
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YOUR THOUGHTS
Have you ever bought single-day tickets for Epic Universe now that they’re accessible? Or are you ready a bit longer, planning to go to after the preliminary fanfare and opening summer time? Is it doable pushing trip packages and multi-day bundles will backfire? Will bizarre vacationers who aren’t hardcore theme parks folks sit out opening summer time to keep away from all of this? Ideas on UOR’s method to ticketing for Epic Universe? Agree or disagree with our evaluation? Any questions? We love listening to from readers, so please share another ideas or questions you might have within the feedback under.
