Costco's Awesome Offering Helps You Visit Top-Tier Theme Parks & Attractions On A Budget

A family trip to a theme park can get expensive quickly, but there is a way to save on those tickets. Costco offers discounts on several theme parks and attractions across the country and even in other countries. All you need is a membership, which costs $65 a year, to save on trips to top-tier theme parks such as Universal Studios.

To start planning your trip and seeing which tickets available will work best for your family, make a Costco Travel account, which will allow you to see all of the discounted tickets and vacation packages. Depending on the type of vacation you are taking, it can make sense to book travel through Costco to save on the whole package. If you're just looking for tickets and not a whole trip package, most of the discounted tickets are visible on Costco's website through the gift cards and tickets section and then narrowed down to the theme parks & attractions section.

Even if you aren't a huge theme park person, it's worth taking a look at what is available because, as of writing, there are $50 Topgolf gift cards available at a discount, which could make great gifts around the holidays. There is also a discounted one-year Golfpass+ membership available with Peacock included, for $80. This would be $100 if you got it through the Golfpass website. So if you are a golf lover, definitely keep an eye out for ways to save through Costco.

If you live near Universal Studios Hollywood, you can save close to $50 by getting your season pass through Costco. The season pass is on sale at Costco for $170 and offers more than 180 days at the park. It's valid for 11 months after the date of your first visit. The California Neighbor Pass on the park's website is only valid for 9 months for $180. So you save $10 through Costco, while also gaining two months of access to the parks. There is a limit of six season passes per Costco member, and it looks like they have to be made in two transactions, so just keep an eye on that, if you are considering how many season passes to get during the sale.

While you're in the Universal Studios frame of mind, look at what they have for deals on both vacations and ticket-only options through the Costco website and the Costco Travel website. They have packages that include the hotel, Universal Studios tickets, and even extras like early admission and an express pass. These vacation packages are totally worth looking into, because you can end up getting extras included and potentially save on the overall total of your trip. Costco Travel makes it easy to plan the trip by having multiple options, whether you want to include Halloween Nights, or have a specific hotel in mind.

Saving on tickets will help you check off your amusement parks bucket list. Since Costco has several different parks included in its discounts. While looking at which theme parks have tickets for sale through Costco, consider ones such as Hersheypark, which are some of the best budget-friendly theme parks.

Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania, is a theme park filled with chocolate-themed fun that mixes in with all of the rides and attractions that can keep you busy for hours. Currently, Costco is offering a ticket discount bundle for two summer admission tickets plus a parking pass for $110. If you were to get the tickets through Hersheypark's website, it would be around $65 per ticket and then $26 for the parking pass, bringing the online total to $166.65. So by booking through Costco, you would save at least $50. The Hersheypark tickets available online now are tickets that can be used through September 7. The tickets include access to all three sections of the park, including the section with roller coasters, the water park, and the zoo.

Another great theme park to take the kids to is Legoland. Through Costco, you can get tickets at a discount to Legoland California, which is a three-day resort hopper ticket, allowing you to hop between the main park, the water park, and sea life aquarium. That is on sale for $140 at Costco, while it would be $159 on Legoland California's website for just a two-day resort hopper ticket.