Universal Orlando will be updating their pricing model, and there will now be even more benefits for vacationers who plan and purchase ahead.  The new pricing is not reflected across the board, but only affecting visitors who show up and purchase 1-Day tickets at the resort.  Universal Orlando includes the theme parks Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure.

This is a demand based pricing model, and is giving many Universal fans a quiver of concern after Disney World's updates earlier this year.  However, Disney changed their pricing so that they would charge a higher price during peak volume periods, no matter if the tickets were being purchased beforehand or at the park.  With this Universal update, if a customer purchases their tickets beforehand, such as online from our partner DW Tickets, then they will not be subject to these new higher prices. 

This new update only confirms what we have always told our readers - Plan ahead, buy ahead, and save!

For details on this price update, including the actual figures, please click here.

Happy theme parking!

Water is wet, fire is hot, the sky is blue, and Orlando theme parks will raise their prices at least once each year.  For regular visitors of the Walt Disney World Resort and Universal Orlando, these are truths that they know all too well.  Albeit a nominal annual increase, when visitors purchase their ticket packages, they have become all too aware that each year those packages are a few dollars more expensive than the previous year. 

Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure, executed their annual increase last Wednesday (10 News).  It's unfortunately timing since most of the Country is on school vacation this week, and the parks volumes start to increase in the next few weeks.  However, it should also be noted that Universal is reinvesting in their parks.  This summer a revamped Incredible Hulk roller coaster will be opening back up, as well as the much anticipated Skull Island : Resign of Kong.

Disney World, in a reversal of usual order, will be following up shortly with a raise in their own admission pricing (Inquisitr).  The actual figures have not yet been released, but we are expecting nominal figures.  The good news is that Disney World is also putting a lot of money back into their parks.  For example, the new Frozen Ever After will be opening soon at EPCOT's Norway Pavilion.

Ticket websites, such as DW Tickets, will also need to raise their pricing to match the theme parks' price increases.  This generally happens within a week or two, as inventory bought at the old pricing is depleted.