Legoland

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Hi all we are going as a family of four next month. I'm leaning towards the ultimate as even though its extortionate, it means I won't have to queue with the kids. I gather it doesn't cover all rides (our aim is to do the mythical one early before there's a queue). What's people's thought on the pass in general?
 
We've gone for the middle option of reserve a ride. We (as in just me and the mrs) went to legoland probably 10 years ago and there were no issues. We would have been early 20s and had no issues.
 
I can't bring myself to buy those passes, one because I resent the cost (more than the cost of tickets themselves) and two because I don't really like the idea of my kids thinking you can be billy bigshot waltzing past the queues showing how important you are compared to the plebs.
That said there have been times where I've been stood in queues for over an hour with an antsy child wondering why we've bothered. Summer holidays it will be very busy.

Reserve and Ride regular is maybe worth it I guess, I'm not too fussed about long wait times if we don't have to physically wait in line, just do something else in the meantime.
The Ultimate thing for £90pp though, I mean for a family of four that's £360 on top of your entry tickets, so perhaps £500 for a day a legoland just seems exorbitant to me.

Rainy days are actually a really good time to go to Legoland/Chessington because by the early/mid afternoon a lot of families decide to pack it in and you can walk straight onto some rides and much smaller queues on the bigger rides.

One thing to keep an eye out for is reduced capacity on rides which will increase queue times, e.g. the fire engines sometimes they only have 1 side open (so half the throughput), similarly with Squid Surfer they had some disabled once. The good news I assume with lockdown ending there will less restrictions on social distancing meaning less wasted space on rides.
Tbh its not completely queue jumping, looks as though you join a virtual queue, but you can only queue in one at a time (even on the top one). I don't mind joining halfway through the queue (which is what the middle one allows). It is exorbitant though, but I guess that's how it works, if it was too cheap there'd be loads of people doing it.
 
Mythica is usually a 1hr+ queue before the park even opens, the hotel guests join the queue first. I've heard the best time is to join the queue for that is a few minutes before the park closes. Reserve a ride is great if you can afford it, wouldn't bother with the experience as that's ways been excellent for us.
We are staying in the hotel so might head there first. We will be arriving on a Thursday lunchtime and have Thursday afternoon and all of Friday to go round. The mythical one does look good.
 
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