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Discover good ways to find Florida and VirginiaBusch Gardens Discount TicketsIn the slide show above, you're viewing pictures of the Busch Gardens Tampa theme park. Are you looking for cheaper tickets to either of the Busch Gardens parks? On this pages, you'll discover current deals & specials available at both Busch Gardens Tampa and Busch Gardens Williamsburg. How much do Busch Gardens tickets cost?Current Busch Gardens Tampa ticket prices are as follows: One-day ticket prices cost $74.95 at the gate for adults and students age 10 & up. Kid's tickets (ages 3 thru 9) cost $64.95.Current Busch Gardens Williamsburg ticket prices are: One-day ticket prices cost $61.95 at the gate for adults and students age 10 & up. Kid's tickets (ages 3 thru 9) cost $51.95. Whew! These prices can make any family think twice about enjoying a fun trip to the theme park! But, you don't really need to change your plans; you'll just need to do a bit of thinking ahead, and you may enjoy all the Busch Gardens fun you want...at a price you can afford. With a bit of advance planning, you'll rarely have to pay full price at the theme park's ticket booths. On the rest of this page, you'll find current deals & specials going on at the Busch Gardens parks which will help you enjoy some cheaper ticket prices. Busch Gardens print-at-home ticket specials & multi-park dealsBoth Busch Gardens Williamsburg & Busch Gardens Tampa offer print-at-home ticket discounts. The amount of the park's print-at-home ticket discounts may vary from time to time, but you'll save a minimum of $5 compared to ticket-booth prices (and sometimes much more.)Both Busch Gardens Williamsburg & Busch Gardens Tampa offer multi-park ticket discounts. Both of Busch theme park locations have adjacent water parks (which are open seasonally.) Buying a 2-park ticket (for both the theme park AND the water park) will save you money over buying tickets to each park separately; usually the difference is substantial. PLUS, both Busch Gardens locations offer combo savings with their sister-parks or other affiliated attractions. For example, in Tampa, buying your Busch Gardens ticket along with a ticket for its sister-park, SeaWorld Orlando, will bring you a big discount over purchasing them both separately. And, at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, getting a multi-attraction ticket combined with Colonial Williamsburg saves guests money. The nice thing about these discounts is that they're so easy to get; they're always available right on the theme parks' own websites! As long as you have a credit or debit card, it's so easy to take advantage of these discounts. Here are some links to help you discover the current print-at-home and multi-park Busch Gardens discounts being offered: Busch Gardens Resident's DiscountsHot news! FREE kid's ticket for Busch Gardens Williamsburg! Some exciting news has been released by Busch Gardens VA this summer. Between June 21st and August 31, 2010 there will be a major money-saving buy-one-get-one-free ticket deal for Virginia residents. Do you have kids age 9 & under? If so, you can get a FREE kid's ticket for every regular-priced adult ticket that you buy! Here's the Special offer page of the BG VA website where you may get all the details. Still MORE Virginia resident offers: If you can't take advantage of the "free Busch Gardens kid's ticket" offer, don't worry---there are still other resident's discounts that you CAN enjoy. These include special prices for multi-day and multi-attraction visits.You may use the following link to see the local resident's discount tickets on the Busch Gardens Williamsburg website. All Florida AND Georgia residents may buy Busch Gardens Tampa resident's discount tickets. You may use the following link to check for local resident's discount tickets on the Busch Gardens Tampa website. Busch Gardens annual passes: big savings for frequent guests!Both Busch Gardens locations offer a variety of annual pass options. This is a terrific way for families who LOVE theme parks to save loads of money; the more you visit the park, the more you can save! You won't even need to pay out a large sum of money to get your annual passes: the Busch Gardens EZ Pay program takes small monthly deductions directly out of your checking account...and doesn't even charge interest or a service fee for doing this!SeaWorld Platinum Pass Holders also get into Busch Gardens theme parks free as part of their pass-holder benefits. (And, certain Busch Gardens annual passes also include FREE admission to Sea World parks, as well!) In fact, this is the way that I, myself, use to make Busch Gardens visits cheaper. Since I live closer to Sea World than to Busch Gardens, that's where I have my annual pass...and I visit Busch Gardens for free (except during Halloween time, when a special extra ticket is required.) The park takes small monthly deductions from my checking account, so that it doesn't feel painful; I never end up paying a large amount for theme park tickets when I get to the gate. I get to bypass the ticket booths entirely! If you think that you'll make several visits each year to Busch Gardens or Sea World theme parks, it's worth checking out the details. Here are some links where you'll find info: 1.) Busch Gardens VA season pass info on the Busch Gardens Williamsburg website. Note: During May, Busch Gardens VA has sent several Tweets telling their Twitter followers that they can get a $10 discount on the 1-year/1-park pass by using the following promo code when purchasing passes online: BGVA1P. That would bring the price down to $89.95. The Tweets haven't announced how long the promotion period will be. 2.) Busch Gardens FL season pass information on the Busch Gardens Tampa website. Still more Busch Gardens coupons and discounts!Pepsi can discounts, grocery store & restaurant coupons...and more!1.) Pepsi can discounts: During Summer 2010, Busch Gardens Tampa is running a Pepsi can special! Try to find a specially marked can of Pepsi...because if you do, you'll be able to buy discount Busch Gardens tickets for only $59.99. Take your Pepsi cans directly to the ticket booths at the theme park. (Note: This discount may not be used when purchasing Busch Gardens tickets online, and it can't be used together with any other discount or coupon.)2.) Busch Gardens VA discount coupons at Food Lion, Bloom and Bottom Dollar grocery stores: During Summer, 2010, you may find grocery discount coupons for Busch Gardens Williamsburg. With the Bottom Dollar, Bloom and Food Lion coupons, you can get discount Busch Gardens tickets for $10 off the regular price on weekdays at BGVA. (OR, you may use your coupons to get $5 off of each Busch Gardens ticket on weekends.) Bring your coupons to the Busch Gardens ticket booths to redeem them. They cannot be used together with any other discounts or specials. 3.) Busch Gardens VA McDonald's coupons: Selected McDonald's locations also have a Busch Gardens Williamsburg discount coupon this summer, too! You may use the McDonald's coupon to get $10 off of your weekday admission to Busch Gardens...or $5 off of a weekend admission. To use them, simply bring the coupons to the Busch Gardens VA ticket booths. 4.) AAA discounts at Busch Gardens theme parks: Both Busch Gardens theme park locations are a member of AAA's "Show your card and save" program. This discount is small, about $5, but it's better than nothing if you head to the park unexpectedly. Discounts can be greater than this, though, if you purchase your Busch Gardens tickets directly from an AAA office. The www.AAASouth.com website also sells discount Busch Gardens tickets online to its members. Here's a link to the AAA South discounts from the club's website so that you may check out current deals. (Members will need to login before being able to purchase the specials that are listed on the site.) 5.) Busch Gardens Williamsburg Group Discounts: If you get together with your friends, it only takes 15 guests to qualify for purchasing Busch Gardens group discount tickets! And, unlike some parks that make you ship the tickets, you may print the Busch Gardens discount tickets at home. (One person must pay for all the tickets.) How much will you save? $17 on each ticket over prices at the front gate (for Busch Gardens Williamsburg.) Here's a link to the Busch Gardens Williamsburg group ticket discount page from the park's official website. Busch Gardens Tampa also has a group ticket discount. Whether you're planning a family reunion, bringing a youth group, etc. you'll need to call the park to make your group's reservations and order the ticket. The Busch Gardens Tampa group ticket phone number is 1-866-781-1333 (toll-free.) 6.) Corporate discount tickets: Your employer may have a Busch Gardens discount waiting for you; ask your human resources department if your company is a member of Club Busch Gardens! (Both locations of Busch Gardens offer this corporate discount program.) If your employer doesn't offer Club Busch Gardens discounts...maybe you can get your company to sign up! It's free; companies with a minimum of 100 employees are eligible. Here's a link to the Club Busch Gardens corporate discount info page of the Busch Gardens website. FREE tickets to Busch Gardens......but only for certain visitors1.) Hot news! Free Bush Gardens Tampa ticket for preschoolers: Busch Gardens Tampa has a NEW Sesame Street play area---and your kids are invited to try it out for free! Of course, babies and toddlers up through age 2 are ALWAYS free at Busch Gardens. But, for any families with preschoolers age 3, 4 or 5, this is a very important savings. The one requirement you'll have to fulfill before heading to the park is to PRE-REGISTER at the Busch Gardens Tampa website. You can't just "show up" at the ticket booths to claim the free Busch Gardens tickets for your preschoolers.The Sesame Street Safari of Fun is the new themed area at Busch Gardens that's the cause of this free-ticket celebration. What attractions does the new Sesame Street play area have? Actually, quite a bit! There are both kiddie rides and family rides (so that you may ride along with your small fry.) There's even a junior roller coaster and a kid's log flume! You'll also find both wet and dry play areas, character meet 'n greets, Sesame Street character shows (both a movie and a stage show) and the opportunity to Dine with Elmo (extra fee activity.) For complete information (and to sign up for your children's free passes!) here's a link to the Safari of Fun Free Pass page of the Busch Gardens Tampa website. 2.) FREE Busch Gardens Williamsburg tickets for preschoolers! If you live near the Virginia location of Busch Gardens, your preschoolers may get a free ticket to the park here, too. In celebration of the Sesame Street Forest of Fun's 1 year anniversary, kids age 5 years and younger are may each get a free season pass good all summer long at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. The special free pass is good through September 6, 2010; it's limited to Virginia residents only. This is a great way for local families to save money on their theme park visits this summer! How do you get this free Busch Gardens VA summer pass for preschoolers? You sign up on the park's website! Here's a link to the Busch Gardens VA free pass page where you may learn all the details and order the passes for your children. 4.) Busch Gardens Twitter contests: Both Busch Gardens locations have Twitter accounts...and they make "tweets" quite frequently! Sometime these tweets will simply refer you to fun new information that they've recently posted on the Busch Gardens Blog...interesting animal facts, info about new attractions, etc. But SOMETIMES these tweets announce contests in which FREE Busch Gardens tickets are given away! For example, even though Busch Gardens Williamsburg stayed closed during the cold winter months...even before their 2010 Season's opening day in late March, the park began holding Twitter contests. One of their contests required that you "re-tweet this message for your chance to win a roller coaster tour at Busch Gardens." The free ticket contests continued randomly in April and may. One day, a surprise contest required guests to send in their favorite Springtime memories at the park. Other past giveaways have included a summer Fun Card and platinum passes. Even if you don't win, it's exciting to try! Busch Gardens Twitter discounts: Sometimes, you don't have to compete in a contest to get a Busch Gardens discount from Twitter. For example, during April & May, Busch Gardens VA has been giving out discounts to various in-park stores & restaurants---but only to loyal Twitter followers! So, if you're a member of the Twitter community, don't forget to follow either one...or BOTH...of the Busch Gardens theme parks! Busch Gardens on Facebook: There are thousands of Busch Gardens Facebook Fans. Both of the Busch Gardens theme park locations have their own separate fan pages. You may or may not find info about new Busch Gardens discounts at the time you're ready to visit the park. But, even if you don't, you may make a post sharing your excitement, view the park's schedule of upcoming special events...or even ask a park representative a question.
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