Common Orlando has launched 2026 tickets for its Florida theme parks, which incorporates brand-new multi-day, single day, and Park Hopper admission choices for Epic Universe, in addition to an extension of reductions for Annual Passholders. This covers prices and the diploma of ‘injury’ with 2026 value will increase, plus a heads up about bought out dates this vacation season and extra.
Previous to at present, Epic Universe tickets for January 2026 and past have been solely obtainable to buy as a part of trip packages with lodge reservations. These have been launched a number of months in the past, and provided the choice to decide on park-to-park tickets that handled Epic Universe like a traditional park.
Common Orlando tickets for 2025 have included Epic Universe as a separate entitlement as an alternative of permitting park hopping or selecting what number of days to go to the park as a part of a multi-day one park per day ticket. Which means that multi-day tickets for this 12 months have all provided solely a single day at Epic Universe, no matter period. You may purchase a 14-day and nonetheless solely get one go to to Epic Universe. (Probably the most excessive instance, for company from the UK.)
Beginning in January 2026, this ends. Single day and multi-day tickets with durations of three days or longer will now not deal with Epic Universe as a separate entitlement, and as an alternative company to “transfer freely between Epic Universe, Common Studios Florida, and Islands of Journey.”
Which means that you possibly can, in concept, buy a 5-day ticket and spend all 5 days consuming your means round Epic Universe, lastly “ending” Florida’s #1 meals theme park and writing the remainder of your restaurant evaluations. Purely theoretical, in fact!
Previous to 2026, Common Orlando has been coming into choose company with trip packages right into a park hopping check proper now. We’ve solely seen scattered experiences of this on social media, however figured it was value mentioning proactively in case you’re fortunate sufficient to be chosen. Our recommendation can be hopping to Epic Universe after 4 pm. Try this in your first day and have that be your preliminary Epic Universe expertise. See the way it goes and decide whether or not that’s an acceptable strategy for you on subsequent days.
Right here’s a rundown of the brand new ticket choices simply launched by Common Orlando:
3-Day Ticket, 4-Parks Ticket (NEW for 2026 & Past)
Get pleasure from 3 days to maneuver freely between Epic Universe, Common Studios Florida, Islands of Journey, and Volcano Bay.
- Transfer Freely Between:
- Common Epic Universe (NEW)
- Common Studios Florida
- Common Islands of Journey
- Common Volcano Bay
- Trip the Hogwarts Specific – Journey between Hogsmeade in Common Islands of Journey and Diagon Alley in Common Studios Florida.
- Costs differ by day, plus tax. Common Volcano Bay is closed on choose days.
- Grownup Ticket: Beginning From $153.34 Per Day; Youngster Ticket: Beginning From $150.00 Per Day
3-Day Ticket, 3-Parks Ticket (NEW for 2026 & Past)
Get pleasure from 3 days to maneuver freely between Epic Universe, Common Studios Florida, and Islands of Journey.
- Transfer Freely Between:
- Common Epic Universe (NEW)
- Common Studios Florida
- Common Islands of Journey
- Trip the Hogwarts Specific – Journey between Hogsmeade in Common Islands of Journey and Diagon Alley in Common Studios Florida.
- Costs differ by day, plus tax. Common Volcano Bay is closed on choose days.
- Grownup Ticket: Beginning From $138 Per Day; Youngster Ticket: Beginning From $135 Per Day
3-Day Ticket, One Park Per Day Ticket (NEW for 2026 & Past)
Get pleasure from 3 separate days at 3 parks: Epic Universe, Common Studios Florida, and Islands of Journey.
- Go to One Park Per Day
- Common Epic Universe (NEW)
- Common Studios Florida
- Common Islands of Journey
- Trip the Hogwarts Specific – Journey between Hogsmeade in Common Islands of Journey and Diagon Alley in Common Studios Florida.
- Costs differ by day, plus tax. Common Volcano Bay is closed on choose days.
- Grownup Ticket: Beginning From $118 Per Day; Youngster Ticket: Beginning From $115 Per Day
These identical choices additionally exist for 4-day and 5-day tickets, with decrease per day pricing as extra days are added. Costs for the 4-day Park Hopper tickets begin at $124 per day in 2026; 5-day Park Hoppers start at $105 subsequent 12 months.
I might presume there are likewise longer period (14-day) tickets for worldwide company, however I haven’t seen these choices but. I’ll replace accordingly as soon as I’ve.
Epic Universe 2026 Single Day Ticket Costs
As at all times, ticket costs for all admission sorts differ by date. Probably the most easy view into subsequent 12 months’s pricing at Common Orlando–and the sort about which you’re possible most curious–are 2026 Epic Universe 1-day tickets.
Right here’s a have a look at the complete calendar from January by way of December 2026:
Common Orlando 2026 Ticket Worth Will increase
There are additionally a wide range of pricing changes, most of which look like value will increase. That’s of completely no shock, as ticket costs often go up on a year-over-year foundation. From my cursory evaluate, this seems to be kind of in keeping with what we simply noticed from Walt Disney World 2026 Ticket Worth Will increase.
This is sensible provided that Common tries to keep up pricing parity with Disney on single and multi-day product, with the aim of demonstrating that the 2 are equals. Common does supply decrease costs on its Annual Passes and different discounted tickets, not less than for now.
Epic Universe has additionally had a number of the highest ticket costs we’ve seen for 1-day tickets, typically in keeping with single day pricing for Magic Kingdom. That is arguably noteworthy since extra company are literally paying these costs than would usually be the case because of Epic Universe’s ticketing insurance policies.
As one anecdotal instance, I’ve spent extra–by orders of magnitude–on a per go to foundation to Epic Universe than I’ve for Walt Disney World or Common’s current gates. After all, I’m an excessive instance; not everybody studying this can be a theme park blogger (kudos on that call, by the best way).
Much less excessive is that I’ve spent extra on visiting Epic Universe this 12 months than I’ve any single different park if prorating my Annual Passes by park versus go to. (With out truly going again and doing the mathematics, it’s possible I’ve spent extra on admission for Common Orlando this 12 months than I’ve for Walt Disney World. That’s by no means occurred earlier than.)
Then again, it’s arguably not noteworthy that Epic Universe 1-day tickets have been so expensive because it’s a brand-new theme park. Likewise, the case might be made that the value will increase for Common Orlando’s 2026 multi-day tickets are literally very modest on a year-over-year foundation given the large value-add provided by transferring freely among the many current gates and Epic Universe.
That is exactly the case I might make, actually. I’m a little bit shocked that costs didn’t go up much more on a year-over-year foundation on multi-day tickets. Maybe they did and I’m simply lacking it; once more, my evaluate was pretty floor stage. However I’ve seen nothing surprising so far as value will increase go. It’s about what you’d count on in a traditional 12 months with out the addition of a model new park to the combination.
The underside line is that this could additional underscore the deceleration of pricing in a post-revenge journey setting. Neither the value will increase to Walt Disney World tickets nor these for Common Orlando in 2026 are all that attention-grabbing, particularly after a number of years of pricing far outpacing inflation.
Or perhaps it speaks to softness in demand for Common’s current gates? Or maybe the brand new scent carrying off Epic Universe? My guess is sure to the previous and no to the latter. At the very least, on multi-day tickets. I do suppose year-over-year evaluation of Epic Universe single day tickets is a bit pointless since there was heightened demand amongst locals and theme park followers for the brand-new park.
Offered Out Dates Improve & Lower
As a reminder, we’ve been watching ticket knowledge and gross sales for the ultimate few months of the 12 months. There have been a number of factors when dates round Columbus Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New 12 months’s Eve that have been bought out of single-day tickets.
On a number of events, this availability has been magically replenished, just about throughout the board. The one exception to this has been the week of Christmas and New 12 months’s Eve, which has been fairly persistently bought out.
That is whole as a result of, because it seems, we now have the info in from that first set of steadily bought out (and replenished dates). The title tells the story: Epic Universe’s Worst 2 Weeks Ever.
Truly, the title may undersell the story, and I’d extremely advocate studying that should you’re on the fence about visiting Epic Universe this 12 months round Veterans Day or any of the opposite peak weeks talked about above.
In all probability, the bought date dates magically changing into obtainable once more is the results of Common Orlando reallocating ticket capability. Again once we wrote a publish detailing the earlier soar in capability from ~15,000 to ~45,000 that we (principally) referred to as nothing to fret about, we added one asterisk.
That it might be meaningless if it have been laying the groundwork for future modifications and simpler reallocations of capability among the many varied buckets of park tickets. Particularly: “If 45,000 single-day Epic Universe tickets have been abruptly made obtainable for every day with every week or two discover, our evaluation of the affect on crowd ranges can be very totally different.“
Sadly, we don’t know precisely what occurred with the allocation throughout ‘buckets’ as a result of the ticket knowledge loophole has been closed. However we will surmise from the circumstances that: 1) tickets have been reallocated from much less fascinating buckets to extra fascinating ones, and; 2) beforehand bought out dates at the moment are promoting extra tickets.
Which means that is now not a nothing to fret about state of affairs, and these greater caps completely do matter. At minimal, dates throughout the vacation season are going to promote extra tickets than earlier than and exceed the earlier 22,000 excessive water mark.
I’m actually curious as to what number of tickets ended up promoting per day throughout these high-water marks over Fall Break. I might guess these dates simply eclipsed 25,000. Sadly, we now not have visibility into gross sales numbers. (I might additionally guess that regardless of the quantity over Fall Break, it’ll simply be greater round Thanksgiving, Christmas, and NYE.)
For no matter it’s value, the rationale I’ve stalked the single-day ticket web page on Common Orlando is not so I might purchase tickets to dates that have been beforehand bought out. It’s just about the precise reverse. I wish to take note of which dates and days of the week are promoting out most steadily so I can keep away from them. My view isn’t that it’s a “good factor” that tickets are again on sale. This isn’t like a widget that sells out and is restocked.
If tickets turn out to be obtainable after promoting out, that capability is coming from someplace. I’ve zero need to go to Epic Universe on any date that sells out, and I might implore you to rethink visits throughout these peak weeks. If I have been interested by visiting Epic Universe any date in November or December, I might merely wait and buy tickets the day prematurely. In the event that they’re obtainable, nice! If not, take it as an indication. (That is exactly what I’m doing.)
Epic Universe 2026 Low cost Tickets for APs
For a lot of locals, essentially the most noteworthy angle of the annual product launch is that discounted tickets can be found for Annual Passholders. In some way, I doubt this will likely be perceived as excellent news. Most followers we all know are anxious for APs that embrace Epic Universe.
Frankly, there was completely no purpose to count on this to occur in early 2026. Though we’d love to have the ability to buy an Annual Cross for Epic Universe (and drastically cut back per go to prices!), it will be a mistake for Common to supply APs at this level.
Common ticketing insurance policies are being relaxed in January 2026, which might additional exacerbate Epic Universe crowds. Common Orlando must do every part to protect the visitor expertise for informal vacationers, and that possible means no Annual Passes for an additional 12 months until main strides may be made to enhance operational capability.
We’ll shut by but once more making a plug for our rundown of Why You Ought to Skip Epic Universe. That was written throughout paid previews, however it has aged like a fantastic wine–for essentially the most half. We not too long ago returned with a refresh to that publish, as our recommendation for almost all of vacationers is to remain on the sidelines and wait till Epic Universe improves its operations and effectivity.
Amongst different issues, two of the opposite main factors raised in that article are “Unpredictable Attendance & Crowds” and “Trip Breakdowns & Downtime.” These proceed to be the overriding points with Epic Universe, as the brand new park continues to be a veritable curler coaster of day by day crowd ranges and common wait instances since its official opening three months in the past.
That’s kind of the rationale why it will be downright irresponsible for Common to supply Annual Passes to Epic Universe in early 2026. It’s additionally why you may wish to (proceed to) sit on the sidelines and see how crowd dynamics proceed to shake out. We’d count on to see a rise in common crowd ranges in Winter 2026 at Epic Universe relative to the previous few months.
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YOUR THOUGHTS
What are your ideas on 2026 Common Orlando tickets? Happy that company can now transfer freely to Epic Universe, and that it’s not a separate entitlement? Or are you apprehensive that this can solely worsen already terrible crowd ranges? Is it potential or possible that Epic Universe truly has even greater attendance from October by way of December 2025, or all through 2026, than it did throughout its opening season? Will you go to Epic Universe in 2026, or will you look forward to crowds to quiet down (in concept) in 2027? Agree or disagree with our evaluation? Any questions? We love listening to from readers, so please share some other ideas or questions you will have within the feedback beneath!
