This year in Florida the schools go back later than usual - I think about the 20th and the parks are absolutely heaving.
We decided to go to Universal for the day during the first week of August and it was really busy, going in as the park opened at 9am we went straight to Spiderman and the queue was 60 minutes already!!!
We decided that for the five of us we'd buy 2 express passes so 3 queued and the other 2 of us got the passes. When it came to pay they were $51 each for use in 2 parks, that's an extra £25.50 at current exchange rates each, for 5 of us that would have been £127.50 on top of entry tickets for one day[msnmad].The lady on the desk said it was $15 more expensive each than the previous day as they'd sold out of them by 12 o'clock on that day so they'd put the price up as it would be even more sought after!
What I thought was the worst thing about the system was that when we got to the front of the queue on Spiderman and most of the other rides, they had one complete car for those with express passes and one car for those without! If they fed you into the main queue like they do at Disney then the main queue would go down at a much more reasonable rate. It is so wrong that families with children who've scrimped and saved to go in the first place cannot enjoy the day as much as those with money.