What is the world's best amusement park ever?

[boldikus]

Im totally not qualified to answer this but based on the small handful of parks Ive been to my top 5 parks are:

 

Hersheypark

Cedar Point

Six Flags Great Adventure

Kennywood

Morey's

[Paradox]

I honestly haven't been to any of these parks but I do feel as if they are the best and I really do want to visit them one day. I absolutely love Liseberg and Europa Park.

 

I can't believe no one has mentioned Phantasialand yet. After Taron has been added, it will be an outstanding park.

[blk_mamba]

I think there is a noticeable difference between Amusement Parks and Theme parks. They both are very similar but focus on different things. In my opinion the best Amusements Park that I have been to is Cedar Point. I have only been once but it was pretty far up there as far as amusement parks go, it just had a world class feeling to me from the moment I drove onto the peninsula.

 

1. Roller coasters- While they do not have the coaster count anymore they have so many solid roller coaster. I appreciated that NONE of their roller coaster were clones so every experience was unique.

 

2. Food options- I thought food wise they have a pretty solid line up. Way more sit down restaurants that I am use to seeing.

 

3. Effective use of space- To me the park feels similar to the Manhattan in more ways than just topography. They pack so much into that space (World class park, decent water park, hotel, water sports and the challenge park). I only went for 2 days but I could easily see how I could stay for 4 days.

 

To me I left the park feeling that is very obvious that they give special attention to details from the rides, to the food, to everything.

[Snowyowl1028]

Dollywood and Knott's. Sorry, too lazy to elaborate.

[Oryp]

I'm going to amend my hasty answer from just Lake Compounce to definitely include Knoebels, Silver Dollar City, Dollywood, and Hersheypark, for reasons that you all have said. I need to get back to all of these, especially SDC since Outlaw Run went down after I got only 2 rides in .