UCLA Central Ticket Office

Gives me good deals! Unfortunately, the hours don’t fit my schedule so it is difficult to buy tickets through the ticket office. They also charge a fee if you don’t pay cash. That’s the only negative thing about the ticket office.

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Traveler’s NOTE!
Definitely, this is the place for buying activity tickets. Seriously, I didn’t know this place even exists, but after searching through places, you should buy tickets here! If you are driving with two people, just one person to go get the ticket, because it is not worth a buying a parking ticket, unless you are going to go around UCLA.
It is really inside the campus. We had to ask several people for the place. When we finally find it, we were afraid that people will check the student ID for purchasing. However, luckily they didn’t check the ID and was easily purchasable. Definitely coming back here for buying any other tickets.

I should’ve taken advantage of this place much sooner. With discounted tickets to theme parks, movie theaters, shows, sporting events, and even the Catalina Express, the Central Ticket Office offers great deals. Located close to the sports pavilion, and about a 5 – 10 minute walk from the hospital, it’s easy to get to and very easy to find with the signage. I went in the mid-​afternoon and there was no line. The window attendants were helpful and courteous both on the phone and in person. They didn’t ask to see any form of ID and they accept cash or debit cards only ($ 0.75 charge for debit cards).

Parking to get here can be a nightmare. $ 3 an hour pay by space.
$ 8.50 gold AMC tickets
$ 7 silver AMC tickets
Discounted theme park tickets here as well.
Cash or debit card only. $.75 charge for using debit card.

CTO is one of the perks of being a Bruin! You get discounts on all types of tickets (theme parks, movie tickets, bus passes, etc.) This is the place to go when you wanna save a few bucks or more on a specific theme park. I just bought a Disneyland 1 day, 1 park pass for $ 90 ($ 92 on disneyland’s website). I suggest you do some research before you decide on where to buy your tickets. The only down side is you have to pay in CASH (they charge you 75 cents if you use debit cards). It get busy during football/​basketball season or when the clubs on campus have cultural nights (shout out to my VCN tradasses!)

In a safe, easily accessible part of campus just behind Pauley. The lunch line gets pretty long, so try to come around 11:30am to beat the rush.
I like that it’s walking distance from the UCLA Medical Center shuttle stop.
They have good deals on bus passes for students and employees.
They should open more windows during lunch. There are usually only 2, which can’t service the crowd fast enough.

UCLA CTO is the best place for students to purchase the ticket. I am currently taking some classes and was trying to buy discounted tickets for Universal Theme Park. Here is the good place to stop by. At the same time, when I stopped by here before the class semester starts in the afternoon, there was only one person waited on the line. Super fast and convenient.
The purpose for them to set a time limit and open Mon-​Fri: 10−4pm is mainly for students who studies on campus or lives around UCLA community; otherwise, everyone all wants to buy a cheaper ticket even the one who is already having a job and not a student anymore. If you can’t make this time frame or don’t want to be part of the unlucky persons, waiting on this such stupid line, then the best way is to go onto their websites to purchase the ticket by using your UCLA ID /​email address to log in (if you have). If you don’t have UCLA ID to log in, why not pick a day to stop by.

UCLA CTO is an office which sells tickets to events which are often on evenings and weekends. Then why isn’t it open evenings and weekends? Over my five years at UCLA I have been stymied by them numerous times because they are not open weekends or after 4.
Furthermore, the wait is usually excessive, especially around graduation time. There are eight or ten ticket windows, usually one or two are staffed. Going there feels like going to the DMV. Yes there are discounts and yes there are cheap disneyland tickets and whatever but there needs to be some sort of easily selectable online or mail option.

It’s super convenient being able to pick up tickets from a location on campus. I’m always leery of getting tickets I’ve ordered from ticketmaster/​live nation/​etc through regular mail; my mail is often «lost» at the apartment address I use. So for a few extra bucks a ticket I pick them up in person at my leisure from this location. (You can usually pick up tickets at any retail location, but this one’s on my campus so it’s super easy). The line always seems to move fast here, and each transaction has been a piece of cake. Great thing about ticket offices on college campuses– college educated workers who make transactions go smoothly :)

Overall, the staff is friendly and helpful, and they are usually students. They are very accommodating when it comes to special circumstances. The only drawback is when things are very busy and a line develops.

If you are ever looking to buy discounted tickets for movies or theme parks, the UCLA CTO is the place to go! You pay cash and get the tickets right away so you don’t have to worry about buying faked ones like on Craigslist or Ebay.
There are lot of selections of theme parks and discounted places: Some of them are
–Aquarium of the Pacific
–Disneyland
–Legoland
–Knotts Berry Farm
–Six Flags Magic Mountains
–San Deigo Zoo
–Sea World
Best of all, these discounted prices are available to everyone, not just UCLA students. To get a better idea on the ticket prices, just go on
. Getting to the CTO is easy, just park your car Parking Lot 6. It is very close to the James West Alumni Center.

You can’t beat CTO’s discount prices, ranging from small to steep discounts off of retail value. I’ve gotten all of my movie theater and amusement park tickets from here for 15+ yrs now, it is not just for campus events. Movie tickets are always cheaper or the same price as Costco, and you aren’t required to purchase a minimum number like at Costco. Go to
to see their prices for everything; their website is always updated to the most current pricing.
Remember, they accept CASH or DEBIT CARD ONLY, never credit cards. And there’s a less than $ 1 service charge if you use debit card. Also, anyone can walk up to the windows to buy tickets, they don’t ever ask for a UCLA ID! (The only exceptions are specific UCLA events that are open to UCLA students/​staff only).

Does have discounts but oftentimes the staff is incompetent and can’t get you a straight answer without wasting 5 minutes of your time. Can be hard to find at first. Does however give away free tickets to events and has a wide selection of entertainment venues :)

Theme parks, buses, Movies, (AMC Silver/​Gold), Football tickets, you name it they have it. You don’t have to be a UCLA student to buy a lot of the tickets however if helps if you have your bruin card. As a proud UCLA Alumni I still buy all of my AMC Silver tickets here for like 7 bucks. Yep. I’m a cheap ass. Though, all you gotta do is wait 10 days and bam you saved yourself half that cost. Happy Trails!
*THIS PLACE CLOSES AT 4PM SHARP… I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve raced on over here and gotten here at 4:15 and been SOL (That’s SHIT OUTTTTTTTTTTA LUCK)

Super helpful, lines can get crazy for huge events like Spring Sing but they’re definitely very fast! It’s much faster though, if everyone just pays with the exact cash or by card, of course.
And I love that the CTO sells discounted — barely, but it still helps — tickets to Disneyland.
Also, for the UCLA football rooter bus, you have to buy your bus tickets with cash and by the Thursday before the game.
And quick tip for buying tickets for UCLA events — you always need a Bruin Card, but last I remembered, you can buy 4 tickets with 1 Bruin Card.