Both parks November 7th - express pass plus question

[disneylovr1]

Planning on going to Universal on Monday November 7th and getting a one day 2 park pass. We had planned on buying the both parks express plus pass, figuring we would rather have ridiculously expensive tickets but get to see as much as possible in one day and not wait in many lines (just the new HP ride and Rip Ride Rockit, hopefully, since they aren't on the pass, right?). I saw on the US website that the both parks express pass is only $25 that day. I think that's the lowest price it can be, which makes me think they aren't expecting large crowds. What does anyone think? Should we buy the express pass anyway, figuring it's like insurance and if we don't need it oh, well? Or wait and buy it that day if we need it? I would just be irritated with myself if they happened to sell out and we couldn't buy it, and my brother, who refuses to wait in lines longer than like 10 minutes, would kill me (and call me cheap!).

last time I was at Universal was in May 2009 and we had planned to buy the pass, but the lady at the ticket booth suggested we wait b/c they weren't crowded, and we were able to walk onto everything in both parks except for Disaster, for some odd reason, and Poseidon's fury. But that was before RRR and HP, and was a different time of year.

Any thoughts on crowds that day, crowds on Mondays, liklihood of the express pass selling out ahead of time, etc? Any advice or input is appreciated. We can't stay at US b/c we are booked at POR for the week, and don't want to move for one night, so we can't get the passes that way. Plus there are 8 of us, so it would be at least 2 rooms anyway.

 

[Metro West]

You should always wait until you arrive to see if Express Plus passes are needed. I seriously doubt you will need them that day. WWoHP will be busy as always but the rest of both parks shouldn't be a problem.