Are Fastpasses (equiv) still available at Alton Towers?

VALM

Hi, we are planning to go on Thursday this week for my daughter's 13th birthday. We are taking two of her friends so we will be a party of five (me and MrM included). We have 2for1 tickets so will end up only paying for two adults and one child (one friend is 11 so falls under the adult age). I calculate this to be £95.00 and after a trawl around I think this is the cheapest admission we are going to get.

I was thinking of also buying some Fastpasses (equivalent Alton Towers name) but can't find any info about them on their website however when I was looking on there last week I thought I saw that you could win some if you booked your tickets online. My daughter has recently been with school and thinks they are £3.50 per ride. Does this sound right?

Cheers in advance. x

pompeyrich

Click for FAST TRACK details.

moneypooh

The best value is the Ultimate @ £42 for 19 rides works out at £2.10 per ride.
We do this every time and it now includes the big 5 so fantastic value.
We just about managed to do all the rides in one day!
We did get in free using vouchers so it was a brilliant day out

megzmam

my daughter went to alton towers last week for an end of year school treat and she said she and her mates bought a fast track pass whilst there, i'm not certain (shes out so can't ask lol) but i think she said you could buy different fast track passes for different thigs i.e just for water rides etc. sure if you go online on alton towers website it will tell you all about it. have a lovely day out x

moneypooh

When inside the park you can collect fast passes from the customer services area which is located on the right hand side of the entry avenue near the end. You can buy different types, but they have a limited number available aparently and when sold no more are issued (not sure if that's a pr stunt though).
Don't go to customer services 1st on the right as you'll queue and then they'll just send you to the other ticket office futher down.

McBridge

Use a raring 2 go voucher adults £18, children £13 then would only cost £75 slightly cheaper than the 2for 1 vouchers

balletshoes

moneypooh wrote: »

When inside the park you can collect fast passes from the customer services area which is located on the right hand side of the entry avenue near the end.
You can buy different types, but they have a limited number available aparently and when sold no more are issued (not sure if that's a pr stunt though).
Don't go to customer services 1st on the right as you'll queue and then they'll just send you to the other ticket office futher down.

that is true, there are a limited number of fast track tickets available each day. My friends daughter was there last week with her friends, they dithered about the fast track tickets until around lunchtime, then decided to get them, but there were no more available at that time.

Sharon87

If you don't get fast passes, and aren't fussed about sitting together then go to the single rider queue, waited for Nemesis 30 minutes instead of 90 minutes!

I remember when fast track passes were free... lol

ajbisgr8

I wnt to alton towers a month ago with the free sun vouchers. I bought two fast track packages which were £20 total and valid once each on the big 5 (air, nemesis, oblivion, rita and 13 - think they were the scream and the dark forest passes). I'd definately recommend these as a minimum as even a month ago (on a Friday) the normal queues were well over an hour for each of these, we got in in less than 15 minutes on each, makes queueing for the other rides a bit more paletable!

Otherwise I'd suggest doing what Sharon87 suggests and join the single rider queue, when we went on a few occasions they diverted the single riders into the fasttrack queue anyway to make them move more quickly.

VALM

Hi, thanks for all your replies. We went to Alton towers as planned yesterday and in the end decided not to buy the fasttrack tickets. It was a good choice considering the longest we queued for any ride was 15mins. We came out of the queue for the Runaway Mine Train because it seemed really long but rode it twice later on. In total we rode all the headliners : in order - Rita, 13 (twice), Oblivion, Air and Nemesis. We all got to go on all the rides we wanted so good day had by all.

BTW I think Battle Gallions is a fabulous replacement to the dreary swan ride they had for millions of years.