TheMagician

I would go on a Friday. Crowds are generally low then for the rides. For some reason the first Friday in October was crowded but the rest of them were good. This year I am expecting the final Friday to be crowded since it is the day before Halloween. I was there from opening to closing on the Friday nights last year and averaged around 15 rides a trip which I thought was a lot for 6 1/2 hours especially compared to how bad Saturday and Sundays are. Columbus Day is also a good day to go since it is a school night and with the park open until 10, the park clears out the last few hours. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

^^I shouldn't have read your post ... I'm considering going to SFGAdv on one of the weekends in October. But our visit around that time last year was horrible. Zumanjaro, Superman and El Toro were closed half of the day. So the (immensly large) crowds poured into the remaining rides ... there were no signs in the park showing what's open or not or what the wait times were so you had to wander through the huge park just to find out that something was closed. The remaining coasters all only operated one or two cars (except for Bizarro which ran 3 but loading took so long that you had to wait for about 10 minutes before you could exit the ride after it was over). And I could've dealt with all of that if they had at least filled every seat but there were about 20% empty seats an no single rider lines available. The two kids I had with me that day were very disappointed. So I'm considering my options for this year. Should I go Fri, Sat or Sun?

Are there single rider lines in GA? Which rides have them?

I guess I have to write this down as a kind of therapeutic measure. I'm from Germany and I've been visiting the East Coast of the United States for the last couple of years with a group of students on an exchange program. My group (four 14-year-olds and me) visited the park on Saturday, 18th October. Now you can call me stupid for visiting on a Saturday during Fright Fest but in recent years we've always had a great time and no problems whatsover. Not so this year. Somehow SF's promotion must have been especially great this year because the park was packed. It was crowded beyond belief. We arrived well before the opening and it was packed already and more and more people kept pouring in during the day. When the sun set parts of the park (the plazas) were so crowded that you could only move in the bulk of the crowd - and through the fence we saw even more people walking towards the entrance. In addition some of the rides were closed almost the entire day: Superman, Zumanjaro, The Dark Knight. This meant that the other rides had even longer wait times. To give you an example: when we walked up to Green Lantern at 11:30am the wait time was 2 1/2 hours already. When Superman opened in the evening we immediatley went there. Wait time was said to be 2 1/2 hours. After 2 hours one of the girls had to go to the bathroom. We left the other three kids in line and I went with her to the bathroom. We weren't let back in. Angry families threatened to call security. Over at El Toro the crowd started to get angry (jealous) at the Flash Pass holders because there were so many of them that the main line basically didn't move at all (plus they were only running one train at times). The atmosphere was horrible. In the end we waited 3 hours for El Toro. To sum things up: Time in park: 11:00am - 11:00pm Rides: Kingda Ka x1 Bizarro x1 Mine Train x1 Batman x1 El Toro x1 Needless to say that we missed all of the public Halloween events because ... guess what ... we were in line. At least Fright Fest kept its promise: it was a horror trip.