The sale is over, so passes are now full price again.

You can get a pass with Tesco vouchers (dont forget that you can get topcashback to convert some of your cashback into tesco vouchers - I think it is £50 per year)

The sale is usually every year in January, so perhaps wait till then.

You can order via the dungeons website or sea life. You can get topcashback with either of these. You will need to go to the sealife centre or to the dungeons to activate your passes - they will become active for 12 months from the day you go to the dungeon/sealife centre to activate.

I think you can also purchase via the websites without having to physically go to the venue - you need to upload your photos from home. The disadvantage is that the passes become active on the day of purchase, so if you don't use them straight away, you have wasted some of the time on your passes.

Each pass is for the individual regardless of the 'group / family' purchase, and not tied to visiting with the other passes.

Congratulations hope you make the most of the passes as I did last year, now you have the passes a word of advice avoid the school holidays as them places will be very busy.

I didnt know about this. many thanks

You can buy/renew your pass now. Passes only get activated when you collect them. So wait until say... august 2016 and then collect them from your chosen resort.

From what I can gather from earlier posts

midnight on the 15th February 2016 online and at 5pm on the 15th via the phone lines.

No problem :-)

In the end I went for the premium pass via the sealife website for cashback (quidco tracked straight away) .

Decided that it was worth the bit extra for no restrictions and the fact it meant we didn't have to fork out for parking on each visit.

Sure, I understand that they are still open but how does having a standard pass differ with access? Surely if they are open they are open no?

Just trying to work out if the premium is worth it over standard as from what I can tell car parking is the only real benefit?

not a whole year so many parks close (alton towers and legoland) over winter - they are still closed
so if you think you will want to visit them do them first.

Its on the merlin website, the main restriction being you can't use it at London attractions through the whole of August plus a few other dates.

​it dose track got my 10% within 2 hrs

Yes. We had family passes for 2 adults and a six year old last year

Min 3 people make a familiy. Also please note you are quoting renewal prices so a new pass will be £10 more pp

Yep I've had it successfully track and paid when I did it last year.

I had topcashback payment but took about 4 months

This year the renewal prices are not bad:
Standard: Individual £109pp or Family £89pp. Premium: Individual £139pp or Family £109pp.
http://merlinannualpass.co.uk/renewal-prices.aspx

What I don't know is you can use top cash back or Quidco for renewals. Anyone?

Yes, we have done that for the last 7 years. Unfortunately our daughter turns 16 and Blue Peter badge expires then but they have done the rides so often we will probably take a year or too off.

FYI Limited to standard pass only and you can only transfer £50 from TCB

From what i can tell, 2 adults 2 children all Premium is £476. One premium adult (£149) and one adult two children standard (£297) is £446, so saving £30. I would rather pay that to avoid the restriction! :smiley:

the sealife centre in london is not listed as an exclusion on the topcashback website.

If you live in london and are concerned about sealife centre cashback, then go to the topcashback website and purchase your pass through the london dungeons 10.5% cashback
You can go to the desk at the london dungeon, get your pass activated then go immediately to the shrek adventure, sealife centre or london eye which are all next door to each other. (of course, you can also go into the dungeons)

If you are going to the dungeons or shrek adventure, you may need to pre-book a time slot (if it is busy). You can do this in advance through the merlin website but it charges £1 per person for this.

You can pre-book dungeon and shrek tickets, then collect your annual pass on the day

Your pass is activated on the day that you go to the merlin attraction, so you can buy your pass now online and collect it (and activate it) later in the year.

I am not sure how long you have to activate the passes but hopefully someone on hotukdeals can clarify this.

I purchased an annual pass in august which was "on sale" at the time but these were £119 each for the family passes. I got cashback via sealife hotukdeals but took almost 4 months for payment

We are same it's not worth it i don't think! As we always use 2for1 anyway. Unless you was planning to go a lot of times?

2 adult and 1 child can b a family price

Yes you can Premium Pass £357 for a family of 3. Plus get 6.3% Topcashback

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Ok thank you :-) not sure we'd get £700 worth of visits in one year as we just don't live close enough but good price for those that do (or smaller families!)

Answered my own question..... The January sale will end at midnight on the 15th February 2016 online and at 5pm on the 15th via the phone lines.

£20, I would recommend going for the Premium pass, you get so much more perks for it, free parking at theme parks, unlimited access all year round, fast track into the attraction.

Don't forget Topcashback (10.5%) / Quidco (8.5%) via a local attraction such as Sealife Centre, etc

No, you can add to basket but not checkout

It depends on where you visit. At Chessington its 92cm tall rather than by age, and they will get your kids out of the pushchair to measure them.

Pop down the road to Thorpe park though and its age 4 so you need to check with each attraction as they have different policy's