[Troyston]

Hi. We stayed 4 nights at Cabana Bay from the 15th August so benefitted from early park entry. We got most of US done by lunch. IOA was similar however we avoided the rush towards Hagrid and turned left towards Hulk and Spiderman and did all the rides around to Hogsmede with minimal waits.
We then went to Disney for 14 nights but returned on the 26th August and stayed one night at RPR to benefit from the express passes. My opinion was we didn't need the express passes as the queue were all below 15 mins which I think is fine. On the rides that were 5 mins or less it actually took longer with express as the main part of the queue was the scanning bit where they take your photo and that was on occasions very slow!
However I suppose Hagrid may have express pass by next summer so that will defo be worth it!