Your longest hiatus from riding a coaster?

[coolhandluke]

Dec 30, 2005 to June 6, 2007, so roughly 1 year, 6 months. But that was between Rock n' Rollercoaster and a Cedar Point trip, during which the actual process of addiction took place. Since then, it's been 8 months for the off season. During the year, I've gone two months.

 

Purchasing my first ever pass this year will improve that in-season gap, I'm hoping...

[carolinacaniac]

In May, 2001 I took a ride on Alpengiest at Busch Gardens, and it wasn't until July the next year that I took another ride on Grizzly at Kings Dominion.

 

The two next longest included a year between rides on Wild Thing at Wild Waves (June 1998-June 1999), and a year between visits to Kings Dominion, but I don't recall which coasters were involved. (July 2002-July 2003)

 

-Gary T.

[sfmmrules!]

From end of August 2006 to end of January 2008. I was going CRAZY! I will NEVER EVER wait that long to ride a coaster again! I've got to get on coasters every year! Especially at SFMM & the Disneyland Resort CA-my two favorite places in the world!

[Eric_Smith]

About a year. Can't wait to ride again!

[stuartnz]

I didn't ride anything from 2003 - 2008. Back in '03 I was less of an enthusiast and more of a kid who got forced onto Goliath by his sadistic father

Then in 2008 I hit the Gold Coast and Superman Escape got me into it.

[VF15]

Since becoming a coaster enthusiast, my longest hiatus was Valleyfair's last offseason, 202 days (10/27/13 to 5/17/14). I should really take a trip to Nickelodeon Universe this winter to help with the offseason depression .

[Nrthwnd]

Playland (at the PNE) has this awful seasonal schedule that ends (weekends at this time)

at the end of September. And then Fright Nights takes over till end of October, at least.

And then it's all shut down until next late spring.

 

And life goes on....

 

And until we get our brand new flat ride next spring (XXL), anything is possible!

So for the answer, no coastering until at least mid-April, unless I do a coaster tour

which takes me overseas and/or to another coaster realm entirely. Then, every

thing changes, hmm?

 

So, at least......8 months between riding the same coaster, between seasons.

Edited February 10, 2016 by Nrthwnd

[SingleRiderCam]

From early 2008 at Six Flags Magic Mountain with (I think) Canyon Blaster to late 2010 at Knott's Berry Farm with Pony Express. At my guess, that is around 1,090 days without riding a coaster.

[gerstlaueringvar]

The longest is approximately 16 months. When I was in 9th grade and preparing for the high school test.

Edited October 4, 2014 by gerstlaueringvar

[Schrecken]

Since 1996 I've not ever gone a whole year w/o a coaster ride (before that I went 21 years because I had a severe case of coaster phobia). Probably the longest I've ever gone post 96' is maybe 8 months or so.

[thrillseeker4552]

I'm spoiled by having a year-round park as my home park (Knott's), so I never go more than about 3 months without riding a coaster.

[rcjp]

I think I didn't ride any (proper) coaster from 2007 all the way until 2011. Wow, that's sad....

That was the year when my coaster obsession returned (for good)

[YoshiCraft2011]

I took a hiatus in 2011. This was the only year my family didn't visit Knott's.

[GwaziBSRider1]

I've been riding coasters for 20 years now, and the only hiatus I've ever had is over the typical off season. Nowadays, I think the most I go without is two or three months. However, I recently moved to an area where we have an all-season alpine coaster. So, off season be damned!

[cwgator]

In my adult life it was 5 years (2002-2007). I think there was a longer period when I was a child as the first coaster I rode scared me to death (Scooby Doo @ Carowinds...lol), but I was only 5. It was 8-10 years before I would ride another one....which was Carolina Goldrusher and loved it. Then I quickly progressed to bigger and better coasters from there on and am no longer scared of any coaster. Some of those Chinese knockoff coasters however look a bit questionable...

[CanobieFan]

My longest hiatus is because I'm in New England. So an off season.

[PVA62]

About two and a half years from 2008-2010 during college when I had no money and didn't live near any parks.

[Diamondbacker27]

From 2005 to 2010

[gisco]

Recently I went about a year in 2012-2013. T many things going on in life to go visit a park.

[Canobie Coaster]

For me, the longest I've gone has been about a year in between summers in New England. Now I've learned how to reduce that wait by going to parks for their Halloween events and opening days in the spring, but even still that's at least 6 months between visits.

[VF15]

My longest hiatus was the 2013-2014 offseason, 6.5 months from late October to mid-May. If you don't count the offseason, I was on a two-month coaster hiatus this past season from mid-August to mid-October due to college.

[coasterkid124]

From the day of my birth to my first coaster ride

 

More modernly, probably just an entire offseason. I try to go on the first and last operating days of my home park every year. Once in a while, I'll do a trip to a park that's open during the winter.

[I love pie]

14 years.

[SFOG1991]

Beginning of November through early March, although most off seasons I end up going to a park somewhere.

 

Now that SFOG is open from March through January, I don't have to wait as long.

[SFOG1991]

Has anyone ever come back from a coaster hiatus and thought "OMG this is going to be more exciting than it used to be since it has been so long" then you go down the first drop and realize it's exactly the same as it always was?

 

You can only pop your coaster cherry once I guess.