haydn12

It took us 2 days to go through all of Colonial Williamsburg. We did get interrupted the 1st day by a thunderstorm around 3pm that dumped at least 2 inches of rain.

We always hit Food for Thought restaurant multiple times on our trips to the area. They are busy no matter what time you go.

I read all your trip reports. Very entertaining!

We got lucky a couple years ago when we went in late May. The weather was threatening and so the park was empty. We rode I-305 3 times for early ride time and then it went down. We were able to get 5 rides on Twisted Timbers. That ride can get brutal with that many rides! We were surprised about Tumbili and really enjoyed it. We did have a thunderstorm in the middle of the day which lasted for almost 2 hours. We spent that time eating a sit down lunch. We enjoyed the park quite a bit especially since the waits were no more than 5 minutes all day.

I still prefer Diamondback and Mystic Timbers to Orion. Orion is still a great ride but it's hard to beat that floater airtime on Diamondback. Mystic Timbers is crazy in the dark.

The top 2 are also reversed besides being upside down. They did maintenance on them and since then they have been messed up. I sent a message to the park about it but haven't heard anything back. I like looking at the Winterfest lights since we live in Arizona and can't attend.

All the ride needs is something erected to block debris from hitting people in the queue.

The FastLane wait time for SV depends on the worker at the merge point. We found it was usually 15-20 minutes on the 3 days we rode it back in early June.

Fast Lane Plus works great at Kings Island as it dumps you in the station for all the big rides.

Kings Island is by a major city so families do drop off their kids at the park while they work. We have friends that used to live about 2 miles from the park and they would drop their kids off during the day at least once a week while they worked. Cedar Point isn't by a major city so they seem to cater more to families in the summer. You do get quite a few school trips at the end of the school year. I noticed on the webcams on July 4th that the park was empty with walk-ons for Diamondback. It looked like almost all the rides were walk-ons.

Cedar Creek Mine Ride was one of the first of its type. There isn't much terrain to work with except when it drops towards the water. Steel Vengeance needs to be ridden in the afternoon as we've found it to be slower in the morning and a much wilder ride later in the day. The midway at the front hasn't changed much since early '60s. It still has the charm of the skyride running down the middle that brings back many childhood memories.

The 2 lines to the station seemed to balance out the 3 days we were there. Only issue was the left side had a slow person doing the wand the one time we went on.

Pantheon was more intense than we thought it would be. We did 2 rides in a row and after the 2nd, I was feeling a little ill which doesn't usually happen to me. Alpengeist is super rough. We rode it once and that was it for us.

We need a decent amusement park here in Phoenix. Summers are hot but the rest of the year is decent. I've been to Florida in the summer and the humidity makes it feel just as hot as Phoenix. Castles and Coasters doesn't have any more space unless they tear out some of the mini-golf courses. They have no room to expand.

We rode row 17 a few weeks on the Beast and was amazed how smooth it was. Park looked dead yesterday.