AmyUD06

Really? I booked this room like 2 weeks ago and plenty of places have their vacancy signs lit. I have no doubt about the weekends being booked up, but there's definitely space to be had on this Wednesday. Either way, in all my years of coming down here I've never seen it this bad, even on a weekend, except for like 4th of July or Memorial/Labor Day weekends. On a side note, as my hotel is literally one block away from Adventure Pier, I decided to go back right at closing to see if the line for Great White had died down. It had... I had a two train wait for row 4 (front would have been like 10 trains). Eh...it's better, but still quite headache inducing. Those Millennium Flyers or Timberliners can't come soon enough.

Apparently even Morey's isn't immune from the "everywhere is packed every day of the week" that is affecting all parks this summer. Despite pretty much every ride running (notable exceptions being Ghost Ship, Zoom Flume, and the Graviton) without any capacity restrictions, almost every single one of them had lines spilling out of the established queues, on a *Wednesday* night. Thus, no rides for me tonight. Full "report" and plenty of pictures of the massive lines when I get back to a computer.

Just makes my thousand dollar all season platinum FL+ all that more valuable. No complaints from me.

I got my voucher but I can't remember the last time I actually spent a cent in the park oh well

Is Flash Pass out of the question? You really should get a Flash Pass, at least Gold level if not Platinum.

I was referring to any of the other number of looping coasters that existed back in the early 1900s, but sure, I'm wrong on that particular coaster. Child.

Last I checked, the early 1900s was not the "Victorian Era." Either way, their statement is false and in no way accurate. They could say "world's oldest operating looping coaster" and have an accurate statement though. But still, they have the record over Corkscrew at Cedar Point (which does in fact have a vertical loop) by like a week, though, so I'm not even really sure if that counts. Anyway, this is a company that counts Larson Super Loops as "roller coasters" when they neither roll nor coast, so yeah, it's Six Flags.

Copy that. Dorney's waterpark isn't the most up to date (they've got a capsule-drop but that's about it in terms of "modern" slides), but I still find it a solid place to spend a day. Bonus: FL+ works on some of their slide towers, and both lazy rivers.

Yeah, with FL+ you'll be fine with one day everywhere and two at Cedar Point, especially if you're not planning on spending time in the water parks. As for Dorney, assuming you've dedicated a full day to it, when you're done with all the rides there in two hours, drive to Knoebels. You'll thank me later.

Meh, HH is not a terrible water park. I'd definitely put it ahead of DreamWorks and Kalahari in value, and ahead of all of them for not being 2+ hours away if you're coming from the south or west of Hurricane Harbor. Their lazy river is also on point, and Mountain Creek doesn't even have an adult-sized one. I'm never one to defend anything Six Flags, but be realistic here. There's a reason they have to stop selling daily tickets.

@bert425 Wow, great report, and as others have said, great memory. I get that using pictures to remember the order of things helps (I do the same), but me at 38 needs to take little "video notes" throughout the day to be able to accurately recall a day's event, so yeah my kudos to you. BTW, on Flight of Fear, the spaceship inside the hangar is part of the ride's original theming - to The Outer Limits, staged as if you were entering a restricted government hangar containing the UFO. The video that plays in the queue kinda explains it, even still, it's just been modified to remove The Outer Limits references.

Okay "Ken," it's clear I'm not going to get through to you. Keep on doing you. I pity any employee in any business you visit. PS - You can easily avoid a 90 minute wait to pick up the watch by getting there at or near opening.

Their three-station Sky Ride requires quite a bit of staff to operate. I'm sure that once the staffing issues go away, it'll re-open. EDIT: Thought I was in the BGW thread, thus the three-station comment. Either way, Sky Rides do take a bunch of people to run.

@ice1972 No, I don't support their decision to not offer Flash Pass on the phone for season Flash Pass customers. Yes, they should offer the same system to every paying customer, I'll agree with you there. I don't agree that it has "devalued" what you're paying for. The system operates exactly as it did when you purchased it. Now, if they removed rides from the Flash Pass program, then yes, I'd say you have a "devalued" argument. Mainly, what I don't agree with is the extreme to which you've taken your upset-ness. Your mild inconvenience from them not offering season Flash Pass on the phone app does not give you the right to berate, yell at, or otherwise harass a low-paid, young employee of the park, who has literally no control over the situation whatsoever. Write an e-mail to the GM of the park if it bothers you so much...front-line employees at theme parks don't have any say over how things are done. Was I highly annoyed when CF parks decided to keep their smoking zones to outside the park gates post-COVID? Yes, absolutely. Did I bitch and moan about it to the employees who scan the tickets/passes on entry? No, because they have no ability to change things that are corporate-wide or even park-level decisions. You also realize that this is Six Flags, and the "decision" to not offer what you're looking for is likely as simple as one of their tech guys forgetting to check a box to enable it, right? Again, not someone who works at the park and interacts with guests. Guest Relations might be your only real outlet at the park, since they can take notes that get forwarded on to the park management, but certainly you're a better human being than to "give them an earful." A casual, friendly, "Hey, it would be nice if..." will get you miles further. If the "1972" in your user name refers to your birth year, this is even worse, because a grown-ass adult should not get so bothered by trivial things like this. I hope you never have to face any actual hardship in your life.

@thisdougsforuBut really, was anything announced by Gerstlauer at all? All they said was "big project coming somewhere eventually," with no accompanying visuals or further information. I can't see any parks' marketing team being upset with that.

When you bought the season flash pass, presumably you knew how it operated, with picking up the watch. They then later enabled this phone option. You're continuing to receive what you knowingly paid for. Does it suck? Sure. Is it reason enough to go on a ranting, cursing tirade, threatening to berate some poor kid who has zero control over what the park chooses to offer it's customers, which may not even be at a local-park control level? No. If you don't like waiting 90 minutes to pick up the watch, get to the park earlier.

You've got some anger issues bro. Take a breath and get your stupid watch.

I can't speak to WoF, but Dorney hasn't been having anywhere near the staffing issues that other parks have been having this year, and typically have no problem staffing their Halloween events.

Queue Times still shows it closed, so there's that.

WoF has October hours posted for Friday/Saturdays/Sundays, with midnight closes on Fridays and Saturdays. Dorney has October hours posted for Fridays/Saturdays/Sundays, with 11 PM closes on Fridays and Saturdays. So, I'd say the chances are pretty good.

EDIT: CP's Calendar is showing midnight closings for Thursdays/Fridays/Saturdays in October! This bodes well for Kings Island's Halloween festivities, which I anticipate will be announced shortly. They haven't had half of the staffing problems this year that CP has had.

@Alex Sutcliff The current vibe is that travel to the US from anyone who's been in the UK in the past 14 days is prohibited, sadly. Vaccine or not. There are limited exceptions, namely if you have family that are US citizens. This page is long and convoluted, but explains it the best anyone can. In theory, if you were to first travel to a non-prohibited country, stayed there for 14 days, then flew to the US, you should be good....but that seems like quite a bit to just go to Cedar Point. If you booked everything through Breakers as a package, looking at their site, you should be able to get a full refund minus a $50 fee, which they may waive given the circumstances. Your best bet is to call them, the hotel, not Cedar Point general guest services.

I'm not crapping on them. I don't think they deserve to get 50-100% increases to their pay, just like no one ever does (the standard annual cost of living adjustment is approximately 2%). Yes, some do go above and beyond to provide an exceptional guest experience, but you can certainly not say that about some 14-17 year old (I would argue most) park employees, especially at major chains. And it doesn't take an economist to realize that such a drastic increase in labor costs in such a short amount of time will also cause drastic increase in prices (and/or increased automation/reduction of staff and/or reduction in operating hours as we saw with many CF parks). Slower, phased-in pay increases can be more naturally absorbed and result in less drastic increases for the end consumer. Try to take emotion out of it and think of it logically.

If you're going to list the death on Voyage (which you shouldn't, since it wasn't the parks fault), you need to list the flipped raft at Adventureland and the ensuing death. If you're going to list the fights at KI as a "major incident," you need to also list the turkey leg event at whatever SF park that happened at, and also every other minor issue that the news media blew out of proportion. You're definitely missing the pandemic-aftermath-related staffing shortages, causing many parks to substantially increase their wages to a level beyond what 90% of the employees are worth which lead to Cedar Fair cutting back hours so as to not terribly cut in to their (rightfully-deserved) profit, and the inevitable drastic increase in prices for everything that will probably come next year.

And jokes on you if you think it'll open in 2022. See: West Coast Racers.