The Interpreter

True, but somehow I think what CF does will probably be more of a guide now than what PKI resale did in the past. After all, PKI was having Winterfest this year, too....

Six Flags Great Adventure is an outstanding park, but you must understand that on the day you go it is very unlikely that all the coasters will run. (For one thing, Batman and Robin: The Chiller is down, has been since early summer, and is unlikely to run this season). The park is about four hours each way from DC, and that is assuming that traffic is not bad. It is also not that far from Dorney Park. Six Flags America is much, much closer to DC, and is also worth visiting. At either Six Flags park, parking is fifteen dollars. Back to talking about Great Adventure, the crowds can be interesting....but, all that being said, the place is a great, fun place. The coasters there are superb. For my money, there is no better B and M hypercoaster than Nitro. Kingda Ka is the tallest, fastest roller coaster in the world. I strongly advise sitting in the front seat of a car. It is far more intense than the slightly smaller version in Sandusky, Ohio. Medusa is a fantastic floorless. The Temple of the Tiger show in the Golden Kingdom is not to be missed. The safari is somewhat reminescent of the Lion Country Safari, but it is a drive through, not a monorail. (People who know me well will be stunned if I don't mention Rolling Thunder, so I just did). If you have a Six Flags pass, the park is quite reasonable. Do post a trip report if you go!

Great report. Yep, middle seats of cars on The Beast are by far the smoothest. And yes, that's cinnamon in Skyline Chili. Not a lot, but some!

Nope. Labor laws vary from state to state and from province to province.

This is not to be missed, and I hope it helps: http://www.dafe.org/attractions/darkrides/...tom/phantom.htm

They are apparently kiddie Tiques.

So, if you are more than four feet, you can't ride the Tiques???

How to put this? The Python is intense. You could do a marathon on it. Would you want to? I doubt it. Is the park worth a trip? I certainly think so. Now, we need that nice man from Coney to answer the rest of your questions! Paging CoastersRZ!!!

It has always amazed me that Kings Island, nearly alone among major parks, has only one set of misters in the entire park (to my knowledge). And if Coke does go, the one set of misters in the Cool Zone would no doubt go with it.... Meanwhile, Cedar Point, far to the north and far less humid most days, has misters everywhere, and fans with misters in queue lines. Think we will see more misters next year at Kings Island? I, for one, hope so.

No. KI doesn't use track grease. It hasn't for some years now.

Some of us are so old, we love the smell of TRACK grease. Graphite is just not the same, in so many ways.

Well, in cases that are settled, there is normally no finding or admission of liability by anyone. Not to mention there is a very interesting issue of, as between Cedar Fair and Paramount Parks, who bears most of the responsibility for any losses here.

I know that! My question is if you do it this year, are YOU going to do it with or without?

This accually made me laugh out loud. I dunno, I might do it this year. With or without a mask?

...with a soda, that meal would have been around $12. Most people don't ask for ice water....and if you do, be careful that they give you the free water and not sell you a $3 (or more) bottle of water. Unless the latter is what you wanted. One other thing. I know there are times we all want to save money and sometimes don't just want but need to save money. That being said, higher than normal food prices is one of the ways parks pay for rides, employees and profit. I do, however, think CBS greatly overdid it with food pricing this year. In a year when Cedar Point cut many, many of its food prices (and its admission price), CBS raised food (and merchandise) prices throughout the park, some of them drastically. I would think that Cedar Fair could make more money by charging a bit less for food. I know a lot of people who currently leave the park for food might stay if the prices were more reasonable and not quite so stunning. Something is drastically wrong when you can eat for much less at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey , than you can at Paramount's Kings Island in Mason, Ohio. At any park, you must watch carefully though. At Great Advenuture, for example, if you go to Carnegie Deli in the park the typical sandwich is $15, yet you can get excellent ribs behind Nitro for less than $9! Or at any Papa John's at any Six Flags park they have the nerve to charge a typical $7 for a small slice of pan pizza! But the cheese bread, which is nearly the same thing without the tomato sauce is usually less than three dollars!

....or spend the same amount of money (or less) you would in the park but go somewhere quiet and nice and get out of the park for just a bit. . .You can splurge quite a bit outside the park and get far more and spend less. Heck, for what it costs to go to Stuntman's, you could even go to Outback Steak House and have a nice meal, especially at lunch. And the time spent may not even be significantly more if you choose to eat during peak times (which, if time is a factor, you really shouldn't--eat an hour or so before or after the times most people do--the waits are much less anywhere--inside or outside the park).

Hmmm. I was at Six Flags Magic Mountain less than three weeks ago. There were kids running around screaming. Lots of them. Behaving much worse than most kids in most parks. The difference, you see, is most of them were either by themselves or with their slightly older brothers and sisters. What was almost totally absent was family groups with small children. But there were small children. Just not very many with Mommy and Daddy, or at least with an adult old enough to care more about the kid than about leaving the kid to run around unsupervised while they went on the coasters. What was most obviously absent was adults without kids. I think I was in a part of the park audience that was far less than 5 percent....adult over 25. It was obvious the park was virtually completely full of teenagers, a few twenty-somethings, and a lot of screaming kids, most running around unsupervised. Many, if not most of the people in the crowd appeared to be people you wouldn't necessarily want to encounter in a back alley at 3 a.m.

Holiday World has smoking areas. But, they are well marked, conspicuous, nice and the smoking restriction is, at least from what I have seen, enforced.

Some interesting observations here: http://www.mickeynews.com/Columns/DisplayC....asp_Q_id_E_714

Minimum of four people: http://www.pointbuzz.com/news.htm?id=977

Yep, I am. From their website: Thanks for telling me. Too bad I will be out of town, at some little park in Charlotte, NC that weekend....

I see Cedar Fair lowering food prices at Kings Island. When? I don't know. I also see the food improving under Cedar Fair.

You know, it's kind of funny. I have run into drunks in nearly every park in the country, but never at any Busch park!

...and I thought they were on LOAN from Paramount Pictures. . .and not owned by Viacom corporate or by CBS...so how could Cedar Fair now own them?

http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar...EWS01/607280340