Visited on good Friday, purchased day tickets at t...

Visited on good Friday, purchased day tickets at the gate with cereal token - 1 adult free, we are family of 4.
Tried to but fast track but some rides were not open, tiger rock - due to maintenance, was closed all day. Pirate ship was all gated off. Dragons fury was 120 minute but kept breaking throughout the day also.

We managed to get fast track for 2 rides as all the others sold out so quickly.

We was expecting it to be busy but in my opinion it was very over crowded.
My kids, 5&11 years old did very well in the ques but over an hour each ride is just madness. The gruffalo ride-was bubbleworks, was ok queuing as it had little games on the walls and fences to keep them amused, maybe have this on a few others?
We was waiting so long for the scorpion Express but was worth it as we all loved it.
After all the queuing we didn't get round to doing the zufari or sealife so would need 2 days here. Next time we will book in advance and maybe not come with our 5 year old as it was hard keeping him amused with all the waiting around.

The vampires food hall was appalling, so dirty. Grubby sticky chairs and tables. I went and asked a staff member politely to wipe the table down and he handed me the cloth lol. Food took over 30 mins to come out and its basically like a KFC or McDonald's restaurant .