Epic Universe Soft Launch, Ticket Prices, VIP Vacation Packages, Annual Passes, & Opening Date!

UPDATE: Wizarding World (Hogsmeade) Opening Date is supposed to read 2010. Shout out to @tcwarfare3948 for the catch! 👌🏼

hogsmeade opened in like 2011???

Do you know if Helios will offer the express pass? It isn't listed like it is for other signature hotels.

Well, my son & dil reside in FL and we visit a lot and visit Busch and universal a lot, but next year we’re doing Europe, so Epic will have to wait til 2026 since it has to be a bundle with only a month one day limit and I hope they are ADA friendly, should considering they’re other parks are as well as Busch G. I’m still EXCITED!!!

Lots of unnecessary filler information, this video could have been half the length and still been monetizable.

Universal just needs to turn ioi and universal into one park. Both are half day parks and if they’re going to increase park tickets, I can’t imagine paying anymore for a single day ticket at just Universal or ioi

DEIsney sucks...2025 is going to be EPIC!!!

What will happen to the 14 day pass to universal? How many days at epic will that allow?

What happens if you renew your annual pass this month or next month... Will folks be able to add/upgrade to the EPIC pass?

What about add on to ticket or annual pass like you can for volcano bay or at disney for waterparks? And what about annual pass renewals? Also passholder previews?

What about florida residents. There are special annual passes for them. And we get florida resident pass/ ticket discounts

I’m an annual pass holder, I wonder how they will let us get tickets to Epic?

or here is a thought, just sell a certain amount of tickets that the damn park can hold. not that hard. lol

They NEED to offer AP addition. There's no point for us to get 3 or 4 day tickets for 700+ each just to go to EU when we already pay and can go to Universal and Islands anyway being pass holders. I hope they take care of the loyal Florida Residents that have AP and let us add the park on.

The Harry Potter worlds were open when I first went to Universal Studios back in 2018. I believe they opened around 2012.

This was so clear, so helpful and so thorough! Appreciated 🎉

I graduate summer of 2025, so I have plenty of leverage to convince my family to get an epic universe vip package

So any family with kids im talking working class they cant pay that cost so like disney they only want upper Middle class people to be there so they will fail like disney .

Disney is push so much wokeness the streat Americans are boycotting them like they say go woke go broke .with there steaming gay shows god loving Americans tuned it off they dont want there kids seeing this smut.

Disney is a rip-off. Their greed is really a turn off and Universal's hotels are way better.

Wow..expensive..I really wanna see dark universe....I think I'll stick to Dollywood, maybe Dolly will come to the park outta makeup, that might be scary...lol

Wow...with these prices, going to Epic Universe is looking more and more out of reach smh.

Don’t know if i missed this, but if you are booked into portfolino bay or hard rock, will you get express passes for UE. Any thoughts?

Very disappointed…I came here expecting real info…not pure speculation.

I hope there's no park reservations. One of the worse idea's Disney ever came up with. Just hit max capacity and stop selling tickets. It's really that simple.

Give me a year before I go to Epic Universe. Once they make it a part of the Season passholder Ill start going, which I am hoping about a year.

Do you think if you stop in helious or one of the other premier hotels will the fast passes be given for epic as well as the other 2 parks and if so which rides / attractions will have an express pass lane? Thanks 👍 we are going November 2025 and planning on 5 nights in universal and already booked for 14 nights at disney. Travelling from the UK

Do you think annual passholders will get soft opening preview dates?

I'm for 2026 to go to epic universe, when the crowd levels are somewhat normal

When I go to Universal Studios I usually go for ten days and buy the unlimited tickets for the three parks. So that means that and correct me if I am wring I can only go to epic universe for one day. I mean I know they want to control crowds but I usually go solo.

I guarantee you if Disney did what Universal was doing if they opened a new park, people would be complaining non-stop lol. Great video as always, though.

Im going to wait until the helios hotel opens

I don't know what's going to be the final plan epic will have, but pushing packages on people that they can't afford or want to do because they've been to all the other parks, to me is totally Wrong of Epic to do.
Passholders should have the ability to buy daily or at least a 2- day pass just for Epic, one day is not going to be enough.

If they are going to push packages, then, we should be able to buy a 2-3 park and go to epic all those days.
Don't push the other parks when that's not what people want to do, because they do it all the time, already.
I hope Epic does not make this mistake, because the only ones buying these packages will be those that have never been here and will be making it their vacation, but still an annual pass specially like it is now, I go to whatever park I want, for as many days as I want, like I Disney, I can go 3 days straight to Epcot if I choose to.

I hope they do this right, so we all get the chance to enjoy this new park specially when we want not when they say or how they say, that's not right.

I wonder if Universal will start doing, like Disney, keeping Epic Universe open longing on specific nights for their hotel guests giving them extra time in the park at night. I don’t think they will be able to do that right away but after the park has been open for a year they could implement that for an additional hotel perk. Can’t wait for the park to open.

I’ve already planned to be going for my birthday next year in August

Word is that the UK tickets - which give you two weeks unlimited at IOA, Universal Studios and Volcano bay - will only allow one day at Epic Universe. I understand that they're trying to control the crowds, but that is virtually like saying to an entire country "Don't bother coming here in 2025".

We've had the Preferred annual 2-park pass for 7+ years and we don't have any blackout days, same as the Premier. Other than that, I like the educated guesses on all of these numbers.

So basically you told me what they did in the past but have no real info for the new park. Just guessing

Great info with your video! My family and I are moving down on the area next year and we can't wait!

So I know a few folks at Universal who have said that there will be NO annual pass inclusion for Epic Universe. So there is no pricing for a 3 park... because it won't be offered initially. If you're guesstimating for the future then what you listed makes total sense. But the word on the street is there will be no 3 park pass and that for the first year there will be no annual pass inclusion for Epic Universe.

I think it is funny that Disney thinks that Epic Universe is going to help their attendance. If you are right about Universal requiring a 3 day pass to get into Epic Universe ( and it sounds reasonable to me) Disney’s attendance at the Animal Kingdom and Epcot is going to decline a lot.

Wrong info. The 1 day 1 Park Florida resident ticket STARTS at 119. Depending on the day. Saturday I just paid 138 a day for 1 Park. So it depends.on the day

I need to know if Grand Helios will have fast pass included like Hard Rock. I dont need a trinket or a crappy lunch. Fast Pass situation as soon as you find out please!

Dope entry to your video lots of effort got you a sub!

Thanks for these updates!

What I don't understand is.... Universal never officially released this information . Where is this coming from

I hope they roll it out in the multi-day park to park with 1 Day Epic Universe way, it seems like the best way to keep the crowds down.

A cast member back in Feb hinted they might have access to different parts of the park on select tickets. Such as everyone has access to celestrial, then add ons for portals.

Ugh. Can't wait. I think a new adventure is coming. Thank God, no kids. Muah. 💋