Did you end up doing the Ultimate FP? Trying to figure out if it will be worth it. We will be there at high time as well and part of me hesitates bc there are so few rides with FP but we will only have about 1.5 days in park. We live 1 hr from WDW and have been to DL in CA and are used to pretty much all FP all the time! From the chart online it looks like for a family of 4 the additional cost for Universal FP would be $800 per day? Does that sounds right? It's a big spend so trying to figure out if it really is worth it.
Any input is appreciated!
Yes, we ended up getting the one-time ultimate fastpass for me and DH, plus the kids's one time FP for DS11 (it works only for Ratatouille, Peter Pan and Buzz). In hindsight, we really could have saved the money and done without them. We stayed at the DLH so had early entry for both of our days and did tons without the wristbands. We only got them to use on our first day which was our full day there. I didn't want to waste any early morning time getting exchanging the voucher for the wrist bands, so we headed to the rides first. I also figured the wrist bands would be our back up if lines were too long or we wanted to go on something twice. We really could've gotten by without them because surprisingly, the lines were not bad at all. This was Friday, Aug 2nd. The crowds were much worse on our half day, Sat the 3rd.
Just to get an idea, here's what we did on our full day, but keep in mind we have a pretty relaxed touring style, stop a lot for breaks and didn't feel the need to ride everything:
Buzz (5min wait during EMM)
Hyperspace Mtn (5min wait during EMM)
Pinocchio
Pirates x2 (we just stayed in our boat and they let us go again since no one was in line!)
- pulled BTMR FP at around 10:25am for return time of 11:55am)
Phantom Manor (5min wait)
Frontierland fort walk thru
Castle walk thru
Small World
Alice's Labrynth
BTMRR with FP
Lunch at Col. Hathis pizza
Dragon walk thru
- we then took a loooooong break for swimming and relaxing at the hotel, we stopped on our way out to get the wristbands.
Snacks at the international huts at the Studios park
Ratatouille with wristband
Slinky Dog
Dinner at Agrabah Cafe
BTMR with wristband
Peter Pan with wristband
Tea Cups
Star Tours x2 (each wait was only 5min! didn't even need the wristband for this)
Tried to ride Buzz again with wristband but it was broken down - left at 9pm since we were tired.
We weren't interested in doing Tower of Terror or RRC. We rode Indy the next day with a 10min wait. So, we didn't even really need the wristband for most of the rides because we either did them during EMH or the waits weren't long enough to need them. We probably could have just stayed in DL park and done everything there on our full day and then the Studios on the 2nd day.
I honestly think that if you are going on a week day, even during busy August, then you will be in pretty good shape, especially if you have 2 mornings to get things done. Saturday seemed much busier, so if you can only go on weekend days then I would still recommend the ultimate FPs.
Happy planning!