Walt Disney World's four parks, Universal's three including Epic Universe, SeaWorld and the city between them. A 1-day Magic Kingdom ticket was $199 for October 12 when we checked, parking is $35 a day at all three resorts, and Epic Universe is not on any 1-day park-to-park ticket. We print the number and the date, and say what to skip.
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Updated September 23, 2026
The strongest-rated product in each of the categories people actually book, with the catch each listing leaves out.
No Park Hopper; non-refundable; link it in My Disney Experience. Disney's own lowest 1-day price was $126.74 vs $133 here.
Rating as shown on GetYourGuide
Only some options include Epic Universe. Non-refundable; parking ($35) extra. Volcano Bay closes Oct 26, 2026 for maintenance.
Rating as shown on GetYourGuide
Transport-only option has no ticket. Food and tips extra. Pickup is at set meeting points, not every hotel.
Rating as shown on Viator
"Everglades" here means the Kissimmee headwaters near Kenansville, not the national park. No hotel pickup.
Rating as shown on Viator
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Three to seven days, one resort or both, each costed for two.
Crowd weeks, heat, and hurricane season from June 1 to November 30.
MCO, Sanford, Brightline, and whether you need a car.
Date-based prices, Park Hopper and who is allowed to sell them.
More than one park a day is rarely the saving it looks. The page works through park count against rest days, with the ticket price per day falling as the ticket gets longer.
Work out your daysHeat, rain, school holidays and the festival calendar decide the week more than the ticket price does. Hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30.
Pick your weekFourteen parks, each with what is closed right now, the price we saw for real dates and whether it earns a full day.
This year's dates, what a regular park ticket already includes, and what the separate-ticket nights cost.
Park Hopper, Lightning Lane, Express and Epic Universe, each answered with the official prices and the arithmetic on the page.
Products from GetYourGuide and Viator, grouped by what they are. The ratings are the ones each site shows; we do not print prices, because both change them by date.
The things worth booking between park days, with the operator's own price and the catch the listing leaves out.
Rockets, the nearest beach and the manatee springs, with the drive from the parks and the fee at the gate.
The best day trip from Orlando for anyone curious about spaceflight. Budget the whole day, take the included bus tour early, and check the launch calendar before you pick a date.
About 70 minutes from I-Drive
The nearest Atlantic beach to Orlando, with a pier, a giant surf shop and launch views. Go for the sand and park at Lori Wilson Park, not for the pier.
$6 per car, reservation needed
Hundreds of wild manatees shelter in this spring run from mid-November to March, an hour from Orlando for $6 a car. The rules changed in 2026: book before you drive.
Where you sleep decides your mornings. Four of the six bases, compared on the drive to each resort.
A Green Star counter in Mills 50, Disney's only Michelin-starred table and a Winter Park gastropub, with what a meal really costs.
Orlando eats like the rest of Florida once you leave the parks: Cuban bread, key limes, fried gator. Each page says what a good version looks like and what it costs now.
The park snacks people plan a day around, with the price at the counter and where to find them.
Rooms with the rate we were quoted for named dates, plus the resort and parking fees, and the trade-off each one makes.
Routes you can walk without a guide, with the distance and what it costs to leave the car.
Downtown Orlando's best short walk: the lake loop, a swan boat, a French bakery in Thornton Park and a steakhouse on Church Street. Sunday morning or a weekday evening.
2.5 miles, about 50 minutes
The best half day in greater Orlando that is not a theme park: Tiffany glass, a lake boat tour, a college campus and Park Avenue's cafes, on free parking.
1.7 miles, about 35 minutes
Park free, walk the waterfront from the Marketplace to the West Side as the stages start, eat, and loop back. The cheapest Disney evening there is.
Day-by-day plans that name the ticket they need and total the cost for two.
Longer reads on what changed in Orlando this year.
Every collection on the site, with what is in it.
Researched and fact-checked against the official calendars
Emily HartTheme parks & family travel
Marcus RiveraFood & drink
Sophie MarchandHotels, areas & planningIt depends on the date. For Monday, October 12, 2026, Disney's own calendar showed a 1-day ticket at $179 for Animal Kingdom up to $199 for Magic Kingdom, before tax; for December 28 the range was $184 to $209. Multi-day tickets cost less per day. Our ticket page has the full table and the date each price was read.
Not on a 1-day ticket. Epic Universe is sold as its own 1-day ticket, and the 1-day park-to-park ticket covers only Universal Studios Florida and Islands of Adventure. The 3-day and longer park-to-park tickets include all three parks. The Universal ticket page sets out every option.
Standard parking is $35 a day at Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando and SeaWorld. Disney hotel guests park free at the parks, and Universal's garages are free after 6 p.m. except on Halloween Horror Nights nights and December 31. Every lot and fee is on the parking page.
June 1 to November 30. A storm can close the parks: Walt Disney World and Universal both closed for Hurricane Milton in October 2024. The timing page covers heat, crowds and the event calendar month by month.
Disney's Typhoon Lagoon has been closed since September 9, 2026 with no reopening date, so Blizzard Beach is Disney's open water park. Universal's Volcano Bay closes on October 26, 2026 and reopens in spring 2027. Aquatica, SeaWorld's water park, has its own calendar. Each park page has the dates.
Not if you stay on one resort's property and only visit its parks. For a trip that mixes Disney, Universal and a day trip, a car usually wins once you count rideshare fares, but parking and tolls add up. The rental-car page does the sum.
Start with the days you have, then let the tickets, the base and the queue spending follow.
