<p>I'm a little confused about the prices listed on UCLA Housing for meal tickets. If my parents come to visit/pick me up on the weekend, which price do we pay? The "meal ticket price" or "visitor card prices"?</p>
<p>Meal</a> Prices (1003979)</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Easiest way is to just go to any residential hall’s front desk and purchase individual meal tickets with cash.</p>
<p>You get visitor bruin cards from those bruin card ATM things and it costs extra money. Not sure why anyone would use that method.</p>
<p>Or, you can also try putting cash directly in YOUR bruin card, and telling the lady to swipe easypay for your parents to get in. May or may not work.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of a visitor bruin card before.</p>
<p>I think depositing money into your bruin card and using the debit function (easy pay) at the dining hall is the easiest way. It’ll work for getting your parents in.</p>
<p>In fact, depositing money into my BruinCard periodically and swiping each time was how I (myself) ate during the years when I was at UCLA. It was cheaper than the meal plans, and much more flexible.</p>
<p>@phospholipase, I assumed that the easy pay Bruin card was only for me. Is that incorrect? Can I pay for my parents with that?</p>
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No. I’ve paid for non-UCLA people with it in the past.</p>
<p>@spoon!</p>
<p>I just assumed that because it states on the website: “UCLA students, faculty, and staff may purchase individual meals for themselves (one swipe per person) using the BruinCard debit feature.”</p>
<p>You can put money into your own Bruin Card and pay for other people with Easy Pay. It’s no problem. I’ve done it to swipe family in before meal periods started/summer.</p>
<p>Phospholipase is correct. You can swipe non-students in with easy-pay or with a premium plan. (Note: there are a few exceptions like if a dining hall just reopened from renovation and is in its trial period)</p>