When?
WHich ones?
How were they busted?
Note also that Six Flags is near virtually every major metro market...Cedar Fair isn't.
Cedar Fair:
NYC: no
Chicago: no
Dallas/Fort Worth: no
Atlanta: no
St Louis: no
Meanwhile, Cedar Fair has parks in places like Shakopee, Minnesota; Allentown, Pennsylvania; Aurora, Ohio and Sandusky, Ohio.
And some New Yorkers would sneer Cincinnati!
That prejudice against Cinci is about as accurate as many's against a Six Flags they haven't been to in years.
For instance, Six Flags was recently headed by the former General Manager of Kings Island, the former Chairman of Paramount Parks.
The Flags of today is not the Flags of the midterm past. It is far, far better than that.
And it's not really a competitor of Cedar Fair. I daresay that Matt Ouimet and James Reid-Anderson understand each other's companies, respect and admire each other and borrow best practices. Gary Story and Dick Kinzel, and their business strategies, are gone.
Who did all season dining first at a seasonal park?
What seasonal chain first adopted virtual lines (and still does a far better job of it)?
Who started in park advertising on a wide scale basis?
Where was an event like CP's after hours party first done in a seasonal park?
Who started selling refillable souvenir mugs?
Which seasonal park chain first widely adopted no loose articles on large coasters?
Yep. And questions can just as easily be formulated the other way.
Those who only see the best at their favorite chain are missing out.
Illinois
Kentucky
Missouri
Montreal
New Jersey
New York
Texas (Arlington)
So yeah I've been to a few, but it's just my opinion. The parks have a good gimmick going but to me they just don't feel or excite me like CP or kI, can you dig it?