teenageninja

Right, and it's all over the fact that someone said above how they thought it was silly that all those people ran right for Steel Vengeance. If you run there, and get there first, you are likely going to have a shorter wait. It's a pretty simple equation to understand. I think a lot of people over estimate how much research the overall GP does before visiting.

He's trying to say that they didn't know for a fact that it would be an hour wait later.

I would think that the programming would be pretty easy to stop the train on the hill if it hadn't cleared the brake run at the end of the ride, but that could cause a lot of wear and tear on the gearbox as well.

600 PPH, woof.

The best year of Kings Island's Halloween events was the first year of Fear Fest, which cost money. Now, the houses are all very poorly staffed and incredibly short. They make a ton of money on these nights, and these weekends are some of the highest attended in the season, but I still would prefer to pay an upcharge.

The only way this problem gets solved is if they have metal detectors at the line entrance like Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit at Universal Studios. I'm telling you from experience operating a ride, it's impossible to see everything. People aren't pulling their phones out in the station, they wait until they get past the operator. It's near impossible to see cell phones on the lift hill cameras. You can go on this crusade all you want, but the park is going to have to make some serious changes to their policies to make this happen.

I've been to Kings Island once this year and was stopped on two rides to ask people to put down their cell phones. The ride operator can only see them as they exit the station and on the lift hill. I'm not sure what else you want them to do.

The sound of this brings back terrible memories.

You'd be surprised at some of the tasteless stuff you see people wearing in the park, but it's hard to enforce with the lack of security you see once you get in the park. You see a lot of people walking over from Soak City through Planet Snoopy in bikinis and the such.

Who knows, I don't know anyone that's ever had the regular pass, but I was saying it's of no real negative impact to the park to extend the offer.

I don't think any work has been done back there in a while. They may have pressure washed it. They store trash cans in that area in the offseason.

My wife asked this question last night. I think sales are fine, but there really isn't any negative to extending the gold offer.

Boo Blasters is already a "Cave of Discovery" for the teenagers in the park.

I'm not sure how it's been the past few years, but in the past, the busier days were Saturday and Sunday. The Monday tends to be the lightest of the weekend.

I think it was mentioned that they redid some of the footers, however, I highly doubt they are totally new. Also, please don't correct me and say it's supposed to be called a footing.

I can tell you without a doubt, there are no back roads that are going to save you time. Unfortunately, Cincinnati has very bad traffic at rush hour basically from the I75 cut in the hill all the way up to 275 just south of Kings Island. Occasionally 275 will not be as backed up, but I assure you, if Google Maps or Waze didn't re-route you, then there wasn't an option.

Just use google maps. It'll give you the best route. It's very accurate from day to day. The traffic patterns are different nearly every day. Also, not sure why you would go from 71 to 75. KI is right off of 71N. That is most certainly NOT the way to go.

Kings Island's food department can't hold the jock strap of what the Reds do. They also have the benefit of having a lot of volunteers, less days to work and far less hours. That was why he didn't do it! We're only about 5 minutes from the entrance gate, so it could MAYBE be done in an hour, but it just ended up not being worth it.

My coworker considered getting the dining plan for lunch, and another was going to do it with him.

When I was in Rides, it was up to our discretion. Some are easier to open than others.

All the food is made at the individual locations. They have a central warehouse where all of the food is stored and brought out to the locations between when the park closes and opens. If it's really busy, they may get a delivery of some things during the day, but that's not the standard. @chugh43, when you add in the cost of the food and the lack of quality, that's enough reason for me to leave. I haven't in the past, because I've only gone about once a year in the past few years and I go with my in-laws. I do intend to leave for lunch when I go to the park Friday.

Look at the live cams on their website. I can barely see anyone in the park. These weeks are generally walk on city until the schools get out.

Glad to hear that when my friend and I visit on Friday, we can leave, get a cheaper and better meal, and come back faster than we'd get our food otherwise.

That video could have been me, possibly, I haven't seen it. I would walk out in the line if we had additional staff and recommend that people not wait because it was so bad.

The Picnic Grove? Which is used in some capacity almost every weekend and quite a few weekdays?