Is Quick Queue at Seaworld San Antonio Worth it?

IS QUICK QUEUE AT SEAWORLD SAN ANTONIO WORTH IT?

6/28/2021

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If there's one thing Mom and I love, it's vacation. However, since COVID fell upon the country like an invisible tsunami, we've been staying home instead of traveling, unwilling to pay the same money for slashed amenities and service while having to wear masks. To us, it's not worth it, a lesson hard learned when we went to Disney during COVID. That said, when theme parks in our area dropped their mask mandates, we were all in and ready to go. For one of our first forays out since late 2019 (aside from Disney) we hit up Seaworld in San Antonio and we spent the money on Quick Queue to see how much it added to our experience. (read more)

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HOW MUCH IS SEAWORLD QUICK QUEUE?

I'm going to take you through the process just in case you aren't sure how it works.

I purchased the Seaworld tickets for Mom and I, so I handled everything with Quick Queue. It's quite simple to log into the Seaworld website (make sure you pick the right park so you don't end up with tickets to Orlando or another city) and add your tickets to your cart.

Seaworld (like many theme parks now) sells tickets based on the date. You can buy an open ended ticket, but they cost more, so if it's better if you know the date you want to go. I'm not even sure you can purchase Seaworld San Antonio Quick Queue without selecting a specific date, unlike a general admission ticket.

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Purchase your ticket and then it should direct you (below your purchase) to addons you can purchase. These addons will include things like all day dining, shark experiences, dolphin encounters, and of course Quick Queue.

The prices start at $19.99 and go up from there, but you're generally not going to find the $19.99 price unless you travel in the off season. Even with us, homeschooling since before the pandemic made it a normal thing, our off season travels aren't quite off season enough, so we paid $24.99 per person.

This is in addition to the park ticket price, which for us was $69.99 per person.

That's a total of $94.98 per person.

Once you've completed the order online you can print your tickets and carry them with you to the park.

One question I've gotten a lot is "Can you buy quick queue at seaworld?" The answer is yes. You can buy park tickets and Quick Queue passes at the park when you arrive. There are kiosks at the front and lots of people to help. The only thing I'd say is that, if you're going during a busy period (holidays or during summer vacation), the number of tickets and Quick Queue passes sold will be limited and could sell out before you get there. So, if you are going at peak time, I recommend purchasing online, in advance.

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HOW DOES QUICK QUEUE WORK AT SEAWORLD?

Since I was so used to going to Disney and using their Fast Pass system I hadn't had a lot of experience with other forms of the same thing. We had been to Seaworld Orlando a couple of times, but normally just for a single day visit in between hitting all the Disney parks.

When we went to Disneyland in California we didn't go to Seaworld at all, instead opting for Knott's Berry Farm, who had their own version.

We quickly realized that they are all very similar, and also all a little bit different.

The first thing to know is that you will need to have your Quick Queue pass printed out and on your person at all times. This is different that Disney World where your Fast Pass is loaded into your Magic Band.

Your Quick Queue paper will have a barcode on it and you will need to show that to the line attendants so they can scan it. Often times the scanner machines will be down though, so you'll need to be able to quickly show them the printed pass with the date clearly visible.

I recommend grabbing a lanyard with a clear laminate card holder. It's easy enough to fold your Quick Queue paper and slip it inside the holder so you can just flash that lanyard whenever you need to, and you can tuck it into your shirt on the wilder rides.

We used something like this, cheap and simple.

I highly recommend going the "wear it on the neck" route simply because there are a few rides where you will not even be allowed in line if you have any bags on your person at all. So, while I was walking around with my lanyard looped through my fanny pack (yes, I wear one, it's simple, if not fashionable), I had to take it off and put it around my neck for these rides. This isn't a huge deal unless you forget that you have it on your bag, rent a locker, stuff all of it in, get in line, and then realize that you don't have your Quick Queue on you.

After doing that once I started wearing it on my neck, period.

If you need a fanny pack recommendation let me offer the advice that you get one with a built in water bottle holder, it helps a lot! You've got to stay hydrated in the parks, so don't skip keeping a bottle of water on you at all times. The last thing you want is heat exhaustion ruining your day.

Once you've scanned your Quick Queue pass at the Quick Queue entrance (we'll talk more about this later) the attendant will let you in and direct you to sit wherever you want. It's not at all like Disney where they assign you places. So if you want the very front or the very back, have at it.

Time to find the line!

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QUICK QUEUE PASS SEAWORLD SAN ANTONIO
FINDING THE LINE

This was the single weirdest thing to deal with when purchasing the Sea World San Antonio Quick Queue Pass, finding the line.

As I said, it's not like Disney, and that's because, for the most part, the lines for the Quick Queue are not separate from the regular line.

On some rides you simply go in the exit (I'd say this is a majority of the rides) and it feels very odd walking against the flow of traffic as you encounter people getting off the ride you are trying to get on.

On some rides you go in the general line, but then split off early on, following a different path.

And on a few rides there is a separate entrance altogether.

Basically it feels very haphazard, though I'm sure you'll get used to it quickly, especially if you've been to the park more than a few times in the last decade. I'd gone once about ten years ago, but I had my boys with me and they were very small so we didn't plan to ride many coasters, and I'm not even sure Quick Queue was a thing.

Something else to note is that you're going to be climbing a lot of stairs if you use Quick Queue. It's a bit of a shock to the system when you realize just how gently climbing the regular lines are. They need to wind you around in line to make lots of room, so there's plenty of space for gradation. With Quick Queue you are just getting to the front of the line as quickly as possible, and that means stairs.

Follow the signs (look sharp, they aren't always at the entrance) and go where it tells you, even if it feels really weird, and climb those stairs, a lot of them.

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In the picture above the line up top is the Quick Queue entrance, literally right there, no waiting. The people on the bottom were the ones (like Mom and I) who had to go rent lockers when they realized this ride wouldn't let them on with anything other than their hat and glasses.

I'm not sure why some rides let you on and allow you to place your bags in bins for the duration of the ride and others don't, but there is a difference, so if you see a locker near the ride you want to ride, it means you need to put your stuff in there because the only things you'll be able to store in the bins are your hat and sunglasses.

My theory is that some rides that run more than one set of cars will have people exiting the ride while the new riders are still riding, leaving two sets of bags in the bins. It would take only a few times of someone accidentally grabbing the wrong stuff for this policy to need changing.

So, if you see lockers by your ride, rent one and put your stuff inside unless you have a non rider who will be able to hold your things. They are not very good about marking these particular rides and we did witness a woman get all the way up to the ride with her young daughter only to get told that she'd have to leave the ride and re-enter the line without a bag. Thankfully the woman in line behind her offered to hold her items, and then that woman passed those items to the woman behind her so that woman could give the original rider back her stuff.

Like I said, more than one train of cars on the track means you aren't leaving your things in the bins.

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RIDE MORE THAN ONCE

Something to factor in when you decide whether or not purchasing the Quick Queue is worth it for your party is how many times you plan on riding each ride.

Here are the rides available for Quick Queue as of June 2021:

Texas Stingray
The Steel Eel Roller Coaster
The Great White Roller Coaster
Journey to Atlantis
Rio Loco
Wave Breaker: The Rescue Coaster
Abby's Rockin' Wave
Grover's Round Up
Super Grover's Box Car Derby

You can ride each of these rides as many times as you want, so if you're like Mom and I and you're going to go more than once then it makes sense to take the total cost of your Quick Queue and divide it by the number of total times you are riding.

We didn't ride any of the kid's coasters, but we did ride the others twice, though we were never able to find the Quick Queue entrance for Journey to Atlantis (like I said, they don't do a great job of making these entrances super visible). So at our $24.99 pass price we ended up paying about $2.50 per person, per ride, to skip the lines.

For me, that's worth it, but it would all depend on how many days I was going to be in the park and how many times I wanted to ride each ride.

I'm not counting Atlantis in there since we didn't find that entrance and just went in the regular entrance.

We made two loops around the park to ride the rides, but if you found a coaster you loved and wanted to ride it over and over, you can. You'll have to get off each time, but since many of the rides simply have you get back on the exit I do not see any reason why you couldn't get off, walk to the end of the Quick Queue line (of which there might be none at all) and wait right there for them to let you back on.

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SKIP THE LINE WITH QUICK QUEUE SEAWORLD SAN ANTONIO
HOW MUCH TIME DOES IT SAVE?

When Mom and I went in June we rode all of our favorite rides twice, ate lunch, browsed around, had a drink, meandered and were still at the entrance waiting for an Uber by 3 p.m. That's with all the rides not even opening until 11 a.m.

The park itself opened at 10:30, but it doesn't mean the rides are running. We asked an employee about this and he just said that the rides open at 11, but some even open a bit later than that. For example Sea Swinger and Riptide Rescue weren't open when we got off the Texas Stingray around 11:15, but were open when we wandered back in that direction around 2 p.m.

I think we could have ridden all the rides in one day had we not had the Quick Queue, but I don't think we'd have been able to ride them more than once and I don't think it would have felt very leisurely.

I pay for the Quick Queue because I don't want to feel rushed off my feet. Theme parks are stressful enough if you're only going once in awhile and want to fit everything in, so having this pass took some stress off.

Here's an example of one of the lines, comparing Quick Queue to the regular line. This is Wave Breaker, which is a heck of a lot of fun!

The regular line winds around on itself, heading back into the distance and zig zagging around. This was almost noon, so the lines weren't very long yet, but you can see the space where they'd fill in with more people.

The line continues behind some foliage where it leads up to the loading platform.

And here was the Quick Queue line.

A quick comparison would be perhaps 100 people waiting in the regular line, and approximately ten people waiting in the Quick Queue line.

It was very fast, the most we waited for any ride was 10 minutes and that was because every few trains they would stop everything, clean all the trains for COVID and then resume operations.

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FINAL THOUGHTS

Since we are no longer in easy (one day there and back) traveling distance of any theme parks, we want to make the most of it when we go. This means we enjoy the Quick Queue option and will pay extra for it when we plan a vacation.

I would not use it if I were going to be at the park for more than one day unless it was a very heavy time of year (like the holidays) and not even during the summer unless it were in a large city (Orlando, not San Antonio).

If you've only got a day and you want to enjoy the rides many times, I think it's a great way to make the most of that trip.

I hope this helps, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

Happy Thrilling!
Ty

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