AmyUD06

SF Great Adventure's "capacity" from 1998-2003 (the years I worked there) was only around 25,000, so yeah I'd say that 10,000 is a normal summer day's attendance. We usually hit maybe 15,000 on a Saturday.

Well, given how KI was only allowing Platinum Pass holders to reserve one day in advance, making multi-day trips impossible to plan, I went ahead and booked 3 nights at Express (there's no way I was spending the $275 a night at Breakers when I'm use to less than $75 a night for the motels I typically stay in). We'll see how that goes.

Well, the limited hours and one-day-per-pass thing are a bummer, but hopefully they realize that they don't have that many willing season pass holders each day and will open up more. I'm booked for July 11th. My bigger concern is that Cedar Point follows suit with that "one-day-per-pass during preview," especially if they're not offering FL.

Correction, SOME colleges are starting fall semester online. Not enough have even announced plans for anyone to say "most."

They could also very easily and relatively cheaply put something like this: around the perimeter, and have counters in place at the designated entry/exit gaps.

Edit: Just saw it myself on KI's FAQs on their website. That is in fact a bummer. At least CP's page still references multiple smoking areas throughout the park.

The Governor in Ohio has ruled that businesses may require masks for everyone, or may make them optional for guests and required for employees. They have opted for the former, for now, causing them to risk losing the business of the die-hard never-maskers. If the opt to change to the latter, they may risk losing the business of the die-hard everyone-must-wear-a-mask-or-we'll-all-die folks. Time will tell if they made the smart business decision. Either way, its their business and their decision, and your decision whether or not the status of masked-ness is a deterrent for your attendance.

You know you don't need your physical card, right? So long as you have the piece of paper indicating the Platinum Pass has been purchased, you can bring that to any CF park and have it processed into a physical card, regardless of where it was purchased. It's not like Six Flags where you have to go to your "home park" first.

We get it, you think masks are necessary and won't go to a theme park without one. We don't need two posts to that effect within 2 pages of eachother.

Okay. That's your choice. Others will choose to go.

Believe me, I hope it will, since I'll be there on the 11th and 12th; I'm just going off an article I saw back when they first posted the opening dates (trying to find it now), where they quoted the CEO as saying something to the effect of "Orion, 2020's new coaster, will be open later next month." Now that I can't find it, I'm hoping I'm wrong.

All they've said regarding Orion is that it will "open sometime next month," as in not with the park. Given that this was made with the announcements that only reference July, I'm not sure if "next month" means July or August. If you were talking about a dedicate "Media Day" as in Media-are-the-only-ones-allowed-in-Day, I find that highly doubtful at this point. They're not going to open the park and then close it, and if it was going to happen before the general park opening, I imagine it would have been announced.

They did. And Ohio's Governor isn't requiring masks for everyone. Parks are being overly cautious.

Well that sucks if true. I could definitely see them not pre-selling it online, though.

Me too. A shame (for me) about the date though...just misses my 4th of July vacation time.

EDIT: You know what, it's not worth it to try to talk sense into doomers. Let's keep it to theme park talk please?

Poll answered with the first choice. To your specific questions: 1. Yes, absolutely. 2. I reserve my right to not answer this question. 3. If parks reopened without a majority of their rides/without their signature ride operating, I would likely pass. For example, let's say CP says they're "open" but the only coaster they're running is Blue Streak. Yeah, not going.

EDIT: Better judgement says I should delete this.

Nope, not gonna take the bait. EDIT: Better judgement tells me my initial reaction of non-response was best.

You also can't buy single day tickets, so I wouldn't read too much into that.

A little extreme reaction, don't you think? If masks are important for people to wear (I'm not saying they are), they're important for kids to wear, too. One's age does not affect their ability to contract/carry a disease. Just because they will naturally fidget with the masks, it doesn't make them exempt from biology. Thus, if masks are necessary at Location X, but kids can't wear masks, you obviously can't/shouldn't take kids to Location X. I fail to see what about that statement garnered your reaction. Sorry if the truth hurts. That is, if you buy into the whole "masks will save us all" ideology. My secondary comment about them being the harbingers of doom was obviously sarcastic. Maybe it's a shame that your non-sarcasm-detecting genes have been passed on to future generations.

That said, I think a lot of people (both in the general populace and government) are realizing that "number of cases" isn't that great of a metric for how bad things are. Obviously, as testing capacity increases, there will be more positive cases. At least around me, the semi-responsible media outlets (amazed that there still are some) have started focusing on "number of hospitalizations" as their scorecard for what's going on.

I regret nothing.

Then don't go with young children until this fiasco is over. Problem solved. Otherwise, those kids could become asymptomatic carriers and lead to the death of the entire world. Just like everyone else.

1. Upgrades Online - No, must be done at the park or possibly over the phone. There is no mechanism to upgrade a pass of one type to another type other than at renewal. 2. Can be done at another park? No idea, but your theory of them not knowing how much was originally paid seems to lead to a sensible "no." Do you still have you receipt from the Carowinds transaction? 3. No one knows how the reservation system will work yet. Judging by what other parks are doing, the best answer anyone can give is "maybe." Technically, they haven't even formally said that there will be a reservation system, but it's very likely.