This isnt an answer to your question but hope you may find it helpful if your driving that distance to go there......we went to alton towers last weekend and due to number of people there and length of queues, you dont actually have time to get on as many rides as you may imagine. We got there before rides started and left after they closed for the day, we wished we had looked on website and planned our day from the map of rides on there beforehand, to prevent dithering and doubling back etc. That should help to get most possible out of day.