Holiday World (HW) Discussion Thread

[prozach626]

damn!

[OneOfTheWills]

*dusts off old account*
 

Check…1..2.. This thing still on?

 

Loving the new posts from HW about the new, as they confirmed, roller coaster. Made me miss the old days with Paula. 
 

Lots of alliteration on the new (fake) website! 

[HolidayWorldFTW]

Came here with memories of the “66 days” they did with Thunderbird. Can’t believe I was still able to log in! Paula was always such a blast!  Anyone else think that maybe this new coaster is custom and has a water element? I even thought about a transportation ride too. Just s small transport from boulder canyon to the old pilgrims plunge location would significantly reduce the hike from that area of the park where splashing safari meets holiday world down to the heart of Thanksgiving which is kind of that Pilgrim's plunge location, and also near another entrance to Splashin Safari. This would tie in the Boulder Canyon/ Raging Rapids replacement.  Excited for tomorrow! 

[HolidayWorldFTW]

Also curious if anyone noticed that the story on the website of the gravy company tells the continuation of the story from gobblers getaway. Same family. Pizza instead of Turkey on Thanksgiving. I think we might have a gobblers getaway tie in…. Or a clue of maybe a new dark ride element on this new coaster?

[spidermonkey317]

Good Gravy

 

https://www.owensborotimes.com/features/2023/08/holiday-world-announces-10m-gravy-themed-coaster/

[thepoint4life23]

The Theming is amazing 

[mikeykaise]

a little corny or in this case a little gravy about the theming but it's good to see them finally doing something with the Pilgrim's Plunge area.

[HWLover]

This is an incredible addition! I’m so happy for Holiday World, finally adding their sixth coaster (ninth if you count the massive and very expensive water coasters). It fills a glaring gap in their lineup and will definitely be a hit with kids. The theming is over the top in the best way and I know kids and their parents will love it! The renderings look gorgeous as well. 
 

On another note, in those renderings everything appears true to the park except for one thing. There is no Crow’s Nest swing next to Thunderbird in any of the renderings. This is probably not meant to mean anything, but I wondered if maybe it meant the end for that ride? Surely not, but I guess we never know. 

[HWLover]

I have uploaded the renderings which can be found here: https://www.holidayworld.com/rides/good-gravy-family-coaster/

1,500 ft. Long ride, 1:05 minutes, 37 mph, 77 ft. Tall spike, 38 inch height requirement, one train, ten cars, two riders per car. First vekoma family boomerang in America. 

[KristenLeigh]

Hey y'all! My name is Kristen M and I'm a college student at Columbus State in Columbus, Ohio. I am getting ready to work on my final project for my Folklore class and I will be doing History of Holiday World. Besides asking employees/former employees, I plan on having a survey for passholders and guests to fill out for their own stories to share. 

I'm not sure where or how to post this but was wondering if anybody here would be interested in filling out a survey in 2 weeks?! Full credit is always given along with a short biography of the person I get a survey/interview from. 

[DoinItForTheFame]

On 2/12/2024 at 4:28 PM, KristenLeigh said:

Hey y'all! My name is Kristen M and I'm a college student at Columbus State in Columbus, Ohio. I am getting ready to work on my final project for my Folklore class and I will be doing History of Holiday World. Besides asking employees/former employees, I plan on having a survey for passholders and guests to fill out for their own stories to share. 

I'm not sure where or how to post this but was wondering if anybody here would be interested in filling out a survey in 2 weeks?! Full credit is always given along with a short biography of the person I get a survey/interview from. 

If you are still needing help I would be glad to help!

[teacherkim]

So, we decided on a bit of a whim to spend the day at the park yesterday. About a 3 hr 15 min drive for us each way, so we just did a day trip. We did not go to the water park this time since it had just opened and I suspected they wouldn't have everything going yet (that turned out to be accurate) and I also assumed the water would be fairly cold especially after the storms and  hail of the night before (not sure if that was correct but based on the frigid temps of the log flume, probably) Although from observations there did look to be plenty of people that gave it a go. 

Good Gravy is a very basic layout, as expected with a Vekoma family boomerang, but the theming and the queue are absolutely fabulous. Grandma's house is still decorated in all of it 60's mid century kitsch, including dark brown cabinets and orange countertops in the kitchen. If you're old enough you know what I'm talking about, lol. Even if you don't want to ride it, go through the queue.

Ops were still brushing the rust off. Really slow at Voyage but we saw a whole group being trained so I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that they just need to get a little more practice in. Although the Legend crew was rocking it.

All major rides going, no downtimes that I am aware of. In fact the only rides I saw not open were some of the slides in the water park as mentioned. Crowds were manageable. It was a good day.

Already had a couple shows running, the high dive show and a magic show that seemed to be geared toward kids.

Thanks to HW for having the EV chargers! Nice to get some free juice along with the parking, drinks, and sunscreen.

[Woodie Warrior]

Not sure if anyone else from here made it out, but Holiwood Nights was a great time this year! Rainy weather almost all day Saturday helped keep the day crowds away, and ERT for every ride was walk-on except Voyage which had about a 20 minute wait all night. Only got one Voyage night ride, but the countless Thunderbird and Legend rides made up for it. Good Gravy is super cute, especially the queue! Glad it was a part of ERT as I wouldn't want to wait more than 15 minutes for it, but glad there's a solid family coaster in the lineup now.

[thepoint4life23]

Finally time for me to visit Holiday world and I have a few questions.  I am going to go sometime in July but how long do the line for the roller coaster get on a weekend vs say a Friday? I will be knocking out Kentucky kingdoms and Holiday world in the same weekend so trying to figure out what order to do the parks. 

Looks like they have no Liner skipper system so just trying to wait as little as I can.  I will do some of the water park but most likely will not be doing  any of the well known water slides due to have kids and not having a way to leave them alone. 

 

Besides the coasters and The Turkey dark ride any hidden  gems I need to hit. 

With that does Holiday world have a Parent swap system. 

 

Robb and Elissa what's the name of the German restaurant you stopped at on your way to the park from Ohio? 

[mikeykaise]

On 6/11/2024 at 12:56 PM, thepoint4life23 said:

Finally time for me to visit Holiday world and I have a few questions.  I am going to go sometime in July but how long do the line for the roller coaster get on a weekend vs say a Friday? I will be knocking out Kentucky kingdoms and Holiday world in the same weekend so trying to figure out what order to do the parks. 

Looks like they have no Liner skipper system so just trying to wait as little as I can.  I will do some of the water park but most likely will not be doing  any of the well known water slides due to have kids and not having a way to leave them alone. 

 

Besides the coasters and The Turkey dark ride any hidden  gems I need to hit. 

With that does Holiday world have a Parent swap system. 

 

Robb and Elissa what's the name of the German restaurant you stopped at on your way to the park from Ohio? 

Weekends might start out very busy until the waterpark opens but once the waterpark opens that's where the main crowd flocks and the dry side crowd dwindles rapidly so the first or two hours after park opening will be crowded but if you're skipping the waterpark you'll be good on the coasters and I'm not sure about the parent swap system but the staff are very friendly and when my two sons were younger the staff would keep an eye on either or both of my sons standing on the exit ramp waiting for me. I'd send them into the exit que while I went into the entrance que and never had any worries about them.

[teacherkim]

On 6/11/2024 at 11:56 AM, thepoint4life23 said:

Finally time for me to visit Holiday world and I have a few questions.  I am going to go sometime in July but how long do the line for the roller coaster get on a weekend vs say a Friday? I will be knocking out Kentucky kingdoms and Holiday world in the same weekend so trying to figure out what order to do the parks. 

Looks like they have no Liner skipper system so just trying to wait as little as I can.  I will do some of the water park but most likely will not be doing  any of the well known water slides due to have kids and not having a way to leave them alone. 

 

Besides the coasters and The Turkey dark ride any hidden  gems I need to hit. 

With that does Holiday world have a Parent swap system. 

 

Robb and Elissa what's the name of the German restaurant you stopped at on your way to the park from Ohio? 

No line skip program but like Mikey said lines will be manageable once the water park opens. Even if your kids can't do the bigger slides, the water park is very good and the bigger slides have a single rider queue so if your kids are old enough to wait for you at the exit it will be fairly quick. 

I would suggest doing KK first and just staying in Louisville and making HW a day trip from in there. KK is eastern time zone and HW is central time zone and about an hours drive. So you will basically arrive at the same time that you leave and then it's not so bad just driving back to crash in a hotel in or near Louisville. There is truly nothing else to do around HW unless you want to rent one of the cabins and look at the small lake. I mean there really aren't even any restaurants. A subway and maybe a pizza place. There is a very good restaurant about halfway between Louisville and HW called the The Overlook Restaurant (theoverlook.com) with good food and fabulous views of the OH river. If the timing works out its a great place to stop. Fyi, it is eastern time so it will be an hour later than the park.

[thepoint4life23]

That is what i am trying to figure out if i should drive to Louisville stay the night drive to Holiday world. Then next morning do KK and head back home the 3 hours after half a day at KK. 

 

Good to know about signal ridder for the big slides. 

 

 

[prozach626]

Schnitzelbank authentic German restaurant.

^^ I can't imagine going to HW World and not visiting this place. It's always a highlight of our trip.

 

Jasper, IN has a lot of decent restaurants, but you CAN NOT miss Schnitzelbank. It's about 20'ish minute away. I'll ask Robb nicely to ban you if you don't go.

 

Be aware, Jasper is in a different time zone. We stayed at the Fairfield Inn last time, which was a very nice hotel, but expensive. Fairfield seems to be making a run as a middle-upper class option. We found it comparable to most Hyatts and Hiltons.

 

I suggest taking two days at Holiday World. Go one day for the dry park and one day for the water park. I understand this is not always possible, but it's ideal in my opinion. Go to the German joint after the water park to avoid shirtless bloat the following day, lol.