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We did a whirlwind trip last Saturday (literally flew into Philly Fri night, showed up at hotel near Hershey at 2:30 am and had just Sat at the park) It was absolutely PACKED. In anticipation of this I had just bucked it up and bought the unlimited fast lanes for both rides and haunts online ahead of time. Still took us a good half hour to redeem our wristbands when we got to the park. To minimize wasted time since the park didn't open until noon, we stopped and grabbed lunch at Subway and did our Chocolate world shopping before park open. There still would have been no way to get on everything and do all the haunts, even with the fastpasses and 10-11 hours. It did allow us to do all the rides we wanted to and get all 5 haunts in with about 45-60 min for grabbing some dinner, most of that dinner time was standing in line. Wildcat's revenge being the only coaster we didn't have, we did focus on that, got 3 rides including 1 night ride on it. Definitely a top 5 RMC. Loved it. The new restraints on Skyrush are a huge improvement. We both thought it made the coaster much more fun now and you still get the oddly satisfying "pop" on the break run. One funny note on Skyrush; we were lined up for front row after the line closed at 10 (haunts were open until 11) wondering if they would honor that when to no one's suprise they announced last train, get on or get out. This resulted in about 10 seconds of a complete keystone cops free for all with everyone scrambling to get on. We ended up in the last row in both outside seats. Definitely more intense but not uncomfortably so. As far as Dark Nights; atmosphere/decorations were very good, scare zones ok but nothing special, unfortunately we really didn't have time for the shows, haunts were mostly very very good. They were well stocked with scare actors and nice and long. I thought Descent and Haunted Coal Mine had the best scares and Estate of Evil probably the best set pieces. Part of the problem with the scare zones is that it was just so crowded that the scare actors couldn't move around quite as freely as what would make better scares.

Super quick trip report for a super quick trip. After spending Saturday at Hershey and with an 8:30 pm flight out of Philly Sunday evening we drove an hour and a half out of the way to spend about 3 and a half hours at Knoebels. Yes, we have been there before so were prepared to just hit our favorites and do an abbreviated trip. Park was open 12-5, we were there about 12:15-3:45. Parking lot was packed, but we were able to get fairly close by virtue of needing to use the EV chargers (in PA they charge by the hour fyi) We walked past the one price, one pass giant ticket booth and the line looked to easily be 45-60 min. Time we didn't have and we didn't feel was necessary. Walked up to a regular ticket booth with no line, bought $40 worth of tickets and that worked out just about perfect. Weirdly, for as packed as the parking lot was and for as long as the one pass line was.........ride lines were not as horrible as I thought they would be, not short but not ridiculous. Although even if you were able to stay all 5 hours of opening you probably would not have gotten on everything you wanted to. Longest we waited was Phoenix but it was running only one train. In the end we got on Impulse, Phoenix, Flying Turns 2x, Haunted Manison, and Flyers. Sure it was hard to not get to stay and do more but it was expected going in and it was nice to see Flying Turns running without issues. FYI - the main ride operator on Flyers was being pretty strict about snapping. That's info from my son, frankly I could care less,

I'd rather they get another flat or two. Sounds like you had a great trip.

Meanwhile, SFSTL can't even run its carousel forward.