{"id":23824,"date":"2025-10-28T15:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/23824\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T15:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:36:07","slug":"universal-volcano-bay-annual-pass-discontinued-ahead-of-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/23824\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Volcano Bay annual pass discontinued ahead of closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Volcano Bay will temporarily close beginning Oct. 26, 2026, and will reopen on or before March 24, 2027 for an extended refurbishment, as <a href=\"https:\/\/attractionsmagazine.com\/universal-volcano-bay-2026-2027-close-taputapu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">previously announced<\/a>. Now, as we\u2019re officially a year out from the closing date, Universal Orlando has updated its annual pass options.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"550\" alt=\"Volcano Bay\" class=\"wp-image-240977 perfmatters-lazy\" style=\"width:800px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Universals-Volcano-Bay.jpg\"  data-\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Universals-Volcano-Bay.jpg\" alt=\"Volcano Bay\" class=\"wp-image-240977\" style=\"width:800px\"  \/>Photo courtesy of Universal<\/p>\n<p>The 3-park annual pass (AP) \u2014\u00a0granting admission to Universal Studios Florida, Universal Islands of Adventure, and Volcano Bay \u2014\u00a0is no longer available for purchase or renewal for the time being. (As a reminder, there is still no annual pass option which includes <a href=\"https:\/\/attractionsmagazine.com\/epic-universe-tickets-2026-pricing-annual-pass-discount\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Universal Epic Universe<\/a>, the resort\u2019s newest theme park.) Seeing as an annual pass with Volcano Bay admission would not be good for the duration of a full year, Universal discontinued the 3-park AP. There is no singular AP option that grants admission to only Volcano Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Multi-day, multi-park ticket packages that include Volcano Bay as an option will continue to be available, just not as part of an annual pass.<\/p>\n<p>(Universal also says Volcano Bay will be closed seasonally select dates between now and February 2026; consult the Universal Orlando <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universalorlando.com\/web\/en\/us\/plan-your-visit\/hours-information\/park-hours#universals-volcano-bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">park hours calendar<\/a> for dates during your trip.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal Volcano Bay will temporarily close beginning Oct. 26, 2026, and will reopen on or before March 24,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140,2749,14865,18239,14866],"class_list":{"0":"post-23824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-orlando","9":"tag-orlando-headlines","10":"tag-orlando-news","11":"tag-universal-orlando-resort","12":"tag-universal-orlando-vacation-planning","13":"tag-universal-volcano-bay","14":"tag-vacation-planning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}