FLORIDA
If your holiday travel plans include a trip to one of Florida’s many theme parks you can save your screams for the rides instead of shattering eardrums at the admission gate.
Ticket prices at Florida theme parks are enough to send a lot of folks screaming from the gates, but if you are planning to visit the parks this holiday season you will be thrilled to learn that your wallet won’t be hit as hard as in years past.
Busch Entertainment Corporation—–the owners of SeaWorld Orlando, Busch Gardens and other Florida based theme parks—just unveiled new a new pricing scheme aimed at enticing people to visit more than one park. By doing so, you stand to save more money.
Basically, the new pricing plan makes it cheaper for you to buy multi-park tickets rather than separate tickets to the parks. For example, a two-park ticket for admission to SeaWorld and the new Aquatica water park in Orlando costs $89.95. That’s about $17 less than if you were to buy two separate tickets to the attractions. For $339 you can buy one ticket that grants admission to four parks: Discovery Cove, SeaWorld, Busch Gardens and Aquatica over multiple days.
There is some bad news though: If you are visiting just one park you’ll be paying more. The basic entry price at SeaWorld increased by $3 to $67.95 and a single ticket to Busch Gardens Tampa Bay also went up $3, to $64.95.
The new pricing structure affects all Busch Entertainment attractions, including SeaWorld parks in Orlando, San Diego and San Antonio; Busch Gardens Africa and Adventure Island in the Tampa area; Busch Gardens Europe and Water Country USA in Williamsburg, Virginia; Discovery Cove in Orlando; and Sesame Place near Philadelphia.
LAS VEGAS
Good news for you budget-conscious families vacationing in Vegas. Sin City is about to get a lot more travel friendly next week. That’s when an inexpensive transportation system connecting hotspots along The Strip is set to start service.
The new, affordable ride is called VEGAS.com Arrow. It consists of a fleet of flashy buses and trolleys that stops at most major hotels and attractions and runs in a loop in three corridors: The Strip, the Convention Center and downtown Las Vegas/Fremont Street. All of the vehicles are equipped with video screens that display The Vegas Minute, a syndicated weekly TV show featuring updates about the city. In addition, riders can also use touch-screen kiosks on board the buses and trolleys to buy show tickets and club passes. Price for a single ticket is $2.50, but you also can buy $10 combination tickets, which provide unlimited daily rides on both the Arrow and Las Vegas Monorail systems.
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