Long story short, we will be headed to Universal in November with a school group and the tickets are very inexpensive. We would like to stay onsite and book a room for one night at the deluxe hotels for the package, but we were planning on staying on property 3 nights so would probably stay at Dockside and just do a throwaway room. Right now, there are no AP rates out for November, but if it drops the rate enough, we could stay deluxe all 3 days. But the price difference for the ticket for 1 of us to get the season pass is about $230, so it would have to be worth it. Are there always significant AP room discounts or would it be a gamble?