AmyUD06

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.

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.