We walked all the way from 34th st to Pier 17 to find that the Bike and Ride stand didn't sell tickets for the Ellis Island Boat trip until April - this wasn't made clear on the ticket printout and was extremely frustrating. Although with a pass you didn't have to queue for tickets there were still long queues for attractions. Empire State Building was very disappointing due to the 45 minute queue wait. We wouldn't buy these passes again.