AmyUD06

Unfortunately, except for the 4th of July, the park won't be open late enough this year to actually experience it while on the ride.

Whatever makes you feel better. If more people are socializing, there will be more spread, this is inevitable regardless of what kind of phased reopening you try to implement. Whether or not this increased spread is acceptable or cause for re-closing things, that's between you and your governor.

That makes no sense. If you believe the hype, reopening is what has caused these "spikes" in some areas, so how would that make NY state in a good position to reopen?

That's probably right. Both are capacity machines. Banshee is probably up there too.

Passholder reservation system is now online. Only able to book one day (so far).

Awesome. Second day booked. Thanks for keeping us all appraised on this, using whatever inside source you have.

CF should file a lawsuit to force his hand like they did in Ohio. I'd say get SEAS to join in for BGW, but we all know they're not in the best financial position right now...

Their website answers all of your questions. It looks like Flying Turns will be closed and the campgrounds have been open for some time. They have said that some rides that don't open with the park may open at a later date, "depending on project completion and additional hiring."

Agreed. Unless you can temper you expectations to realize that everything is going to suck. Granted, I'm going to KI for 2 days and CP for 3 in a few weeks, but I fully expect everything not to be running, lines to be long, and food service to be a shitshow. I just need a dose of normalcy in my life, and if I can't go get drunk and play video games at my local Dave and Busters, coasters it is.

When I was there in 2017 they did not have any locker requirements. Just be advised that you will need a riding partner for Thunderbolt, which in this post-COVID world probably can't be a stranger.

Then don't go to the park and/or don't ride Orion out of protest. The park won't miss you, and I'll appreciate one less person in front of me in line.

No idea; I don't have a pass or tickets, and you can't access the actual reservation system without one of those.

You need a ticket or pass to access the reservation system. Edit: I think this is what you were looking for: https://www.hersheypark.com/reservations/reserve-your-day/availability.php?_ga=2.173162337.35138034.1593269977-1848675145.1591994155

Haha Breakers is a "couple of hours from KI."

Whoohoo!

If it's anything like how WoF and KI is doing things, no you will not. You can only have one reservation active in the system at a time. I saw the same and booked 3 nights at Express for a reasonable price. On a side note, it appears (based on the FAQ page), that Cedar Point has followed KI's lead into a smoke-free entire park, with the only designated smoking area being "outside the main gate." That would suck if you're in the back half of the park. Eeesh...good thing I'm in the process of quitting.

It's a statue, so there's already a petition to have it removed.

Given that Illinois "Phase 4," which is scheduled to take effect tomorrow, still limits gatherings to 50 people, I don't see it happening until the state reaches "Phase 5" whenever that may be.

I believe it. Northam is a bigger toolbag than Murphy, Cuomo, and Wolf combined.

This is just a theory, but I *think* it's more of a technical limitation of their reservation system. Think of it this way: This system just uses their existing ticketing system. By making a reservation, you're "buying" a dedicated-for-one-specific day ticket that happens to be free. When you buy a regular daily ticket, it has a unique code which is used to identify it, so if you buy multiple of course you can register for as many tickets as you bought. With a Season Pass, that unique code is your pass number. For a system set up to accept these unique codes for a single day, which they have to be to function as any sort of actual reservation system, your unique code can't be in the system twice. This is a limitation of using their existing ticketing system for reservations, and in contrast to parks that have set up dedicated reservation systems, which they can make do whatever they want. Yes, it sucks (I'll be counting on the ability to make my second reservation immediately after I check in on my first day and went so far as to get a room at an expensive CP-hotel to avoid the nonsense up there), but just me geeking-out a little bit trying to figure out "why." As for Dorney, their county isn't even giving them the green light until Friday, so yeah its expected that they wouldn't have anything in place.

Couldn't care less about SFGAdv, but hooray for Morey's.

Honestly I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'll be able to book that second KI day.

I didn't even bother trying; actually I wasn't even aware that there was one. I booked through Hotels.com to earn my rewards nights.

Well, COVID-19 destroyed this trip, but I'm at least able to salvage some of it: -Day 1, Fri 7/10 - Drive from Newark, DE to Mason, OH. -Day 2, Sat 7/11 - Full day at Kings Island (date reserved in their system) -Day 3, Sun 7/12 - Another full day at Kings Island, if I can make another reservation after I check in on my first. If not, then a putt-around day, probably going to Dave and Busters to cash in my 100,000 tickets on a PS4 since all of my local D&Bs are closed. -Day 4, Mon 7/13 - Drive to Sandusky, check in the CP's Express Hotel, go to CP for whatever hours they might still be open. -Day 5, Tue 7/14 and Day 6, Wed 7/15 - Two full days at CP. With the expected operations shortfalls, this is necessary. -Day 7, Thu 7/16 - Drive home. I'll also likely be doing a day-trip to Hershey at some time in August, and might take a 3-day weekend to do Kennywood. Thanks again to all who provided advice throughout; hopefully it'll come in handy when I try this tour again in 2021.