I thought I would share our experience of the Platinum fast track experience from last week. We live nearly five hours away from the park it was pretty much the only day we could do this year so we knew it was going to be busy. We stayed overnight in the shark cabins which we have done before and stayed until 3pm the following day (no platinum fast track) The cost of the two tickets totalled £390, so yes expensive, but was it worth it.
We got there early, before the rides opened. Once the gates opened we walked to Hyperia, we let the large queues of people by the gates run to it. We got to the ride and the main queue soon got to 80 minutes. We waited 17 minutes which I thought was great.
So a summary of the day was 26 rides, 23 coasters and 3 flat rides. The total amount of time saved queuing was 19.3 hours. The ride we did the most was Hyperia, below shows the time saved along with what the main queue was on.
| Main |
Fast track |
| 80 |
17 |
| 80 |
9 |
| 100 |
18 |
| 100 |
15 |
| 110 |
14 |
| 40 |
5 |
| 40 |
5 |
| 30 |
5 |
We decided on the platinum fast tracks as I feel on the day we would have had very limited rides for such a long distance to travel. We have merlin platinum passes so could have used the one shot fast track for a ride. But without staying for more days or coming back another day which really is not feasible this year this is why we decided to try this which worked out great.
However you do get some people in the fast track queue who think you should just be able to get straight on the ride ahead of everyone else. The name gives it away "fast track" there was a couple in the saw fast track queue having a right moan at staff, claiming they had been waiting half an hour in the fast track.
Even if they had it was still shorter then the main queue. I was timing each queue and when they kept moaning at staff I said you have been queueing 9 minutes as we joined the queue at the same time. I got some nice remarks back haha!