Bush Gardens / Sea World - fast pass ?

dx4100 · 2 Dec 18, 08:23 PM

Hi All

Everyone keeps telling me how quiet they found Bush Gardens and Sea World compared to the other parks. What I am trying to work out is if I need to planning in buying fastpasses for the parks or not.

My 4 and 8 year old will go on most things they are big enough for but won�t go on the extreme rides. So I need to to mix up jumping on them as we go around without being absent from the family for the entire day.

So can I spend a reasonably good day with the family and pop off every now and then to tick off the big rides as we go around without a fastpass or do I reasltically need to think about getting a fast pass to do this ?

We are going first week of June 2019.

Cheers

Gryff · 2 Dec 18, 08:29 PM

You shouldn�t need them at all and hopefully Sesame Street land will be open in sea world by then and the 4 year old will things to do both there and at Busch

Simba2014 · 3 Dec 18, 02:16 PM

Are you going during the week or at a weekend? Both parks are busier at the weekends, although I'd say the weekends are still quiet compared to any other day at Disney.

If going at weekends and I'd recommend either a fastpass or doing the big rides first thing in the morning and last thing in the afternoon. If you are going during the week you should be able to wing it, but still expect small queues for the biggest rides.

We went on the weekends to avoid Disney at the weekends, and fastpasses were reasonably priced compared to most parks.

dx4100 · 3 Dec 18, 03:02 PM

Bush Gardens on a Friday and Seaworld on a Thursday

Thanks for the advice

ratmanscoop · 4 Dec 18, 04:59 PM

Queue times from my visit March/April 2017 (A Tuesday 2 1/2 weeks before Easter), all rides done between 11am and 5pm (so, the busy hours):

Mako: 90 seconds (Train 10% occupied)
Kraken: 60 seconds (Train 50% occupied)
Manta: 8 minutes
Journey to Atlantis: 30 minutes
Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin: 15 minutes
Turtle Trek: 2 minutes

Busch Gardens (Thursday 1 week before Easter) all rides between 12pm and 6pm
Sheikra: 17 minutes
Stanley Falls Flume: 30 minutes
Cheetah Hunt: 25 minutes
Cobra's Curse 20 minutes
Montu: 90 seconds (train 60% loaded)

In neither of those cases was use of a quick queue pass justified, to be quite honest. See how you go on the day, during my 2011 visit we bought quick queue passes and they were valuable but even then we were able to purchase them on the day.

dx4100 · 4 Dec 18, 05:19 PM

This is a great help - thanks!

3 Dec 18, 02:16 PM	#3
	3 Dec 18, 02:16 PM Simba2014 Excited about Disney
Simba2014 Excited about Disney Join Date: Oct 13 Location: Cambridgeshire	Are you going during the week or at a weekend? Both parks are busier at the weekends, although I'd say the weekends are still quiet compared to any other day at Disney. If going at weekends and I'd recommend either a fastpass or doing the big rides first thing in the morning and last thing in the afternoon. If you are going during the week you should be able to wing it, but still expect small queues for the biggest rides. We went on the weekends to avoid Disney at the weekends, and fastpasses were reasonably priced compared to most parks. __________________ Simon