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No need. Not a single one of these live entertainment shows will be held inside. All of the large scale, headline productions are presumably canceled - they are not on this list. Nothing at Jack Aldrich Theatre, no indoor live band/bar at Red Garter, no Lusty Lil's at Palace Theater. Not even whatever they're calling Luminosity these days on the Celebration Plaza/Showplace Stage (the big outdoor one by Iron Dragon). Click on a show, scroll down, and it'll tell you where it's at. They're all smaller groups performing on outdoor stages, spread throughout the park as well as on the beach. As we haven't seen these specific shows, we cannot yet say how close the performers will be to one another. That said, they should be over 10' from guests at all times, from past experience.

You mean it's not a major holiday where everyone in the Greater Cincinnati Area™ comes out to the park? So they lied to me? Say it isn't so!

However, the public might buy into the hype of National Roller Coaster Day and concentrate visits around that time. They're a much larger percentage of park attendance (to use Terpy's figures, essentially 100%), so that's what you should be worried about.

It's a campout. Who really sleeps when camping? But really, last year's Coaster Campout at Cedar Point did indeed feature a late-night wake-up. It kinda backfired, though, because it was a Halloweekends teaser that ended up scaring some little children.

They do have good causes lined up as best I can tell, so I'm really not sure why they aren't saying what they are. It would surely be more compelling to donate when you know what you're donating to. As for Cedar Point's second (biannual*?) Coaster Campout, Tony Clark said in his blog post announcement that the campsite fee is going directly to Big Brothers Big Sisters Foundation of Erie County. That blog post shows that campers will indeed be in the corner where Turnpike Cars used to sit. The way Tony refers to it as a "(mysterious, for now) field" and the timing of mid-August (which is around the time we expect an announcement), one wonders if there will be a tie-in there. * Biannual and semiannual somehow both mean the same opposite things: twice a year and once every other year. In this case, context clues indicate I'm referring to the former option.

^^^^ Is the rest of Planet Snoopy typically open at the same time? I can't recall.

They will be Fury-ous after spending a Centuri-on speculations.

^ Liked for the info and as a unit holder, not the busyness as a guest.

That indeed explains a lot, Terpy, and deserves much respect.

Ah, but are all Motel 6 rooms' showers clean enough to comfortably use?

It sounds more like their way is the parking lot.

Still no mention of willingness to even consider negotiations? *sigh*

That camera is a PTZ unit, short for pan, tilt, and zoom. They can move pretty far around the park from its position on Power Tower. It's indeed possible that they positioned it there for internal monitoring and intentionally left it off of the site. They could've just put up another camera to play with internally, but alas. We're not entitled to live webcams.

Motel 6, sure, but what about, say, a Hampton Inn or Holiday Inn Express?

Could they not have had the locker-cleaning crew work a little later, even if it overlapped with the start of the employee ride night?

Actually, TLC is really TCFKATLC, or The Channel Formerly Known As "The Learning Channel". Nowadays, viewers "learn" about the "reality" of living as dwarves or giants or Amish, or being unhealthily overweight, or having numerous children, baking cakes, being addicted to "strange" things, ending up in an ER because of bedroom (or elsewhere) activities... The list goes on.

No, it states that you're getting more for less than gate price.

As a pair of Platinum Passholders with All-Season Dining Plans, my usual travel companion and I would find a much greater marginal benefit in booking a <= $100/night hotel room. A group of four comfortable enough to share a <= 10'x10' tent would fit in that same room, but have an actual mattress and shower. Unfortunately, they won't let you make a smaller donation to attend the festivities but retreat to a nearby hotel. Cedar Point allowed non-campers to partake only last year when there was no donation requirement. For a fundraiser event, it's great. I do suspect that the rate is set particularly high in order to encourage only a more upstanding group of individuals to attend. As such, it's not like it's a bad deal for $50/person if you can get four. A one-day ticket retails for $61.99 and you're getting that plus ERT, some food, and any other perks they throw in.

Special dietary restrictions very often do deviations from the rules justify. Anyone concerned about his or her medical condition would do well to notify the park and implore them to respect his or her unique needs. Coolers generally aren't allowed in the park period. Surely they don't turn diabetics away at the gate.. As for showers, really? Can't they walk everyone over to Soak City? Or, as Cedar Point did last year for its inaugural Coaster Campout, bring in shower trailers (semi trailers outfitted with shower stalls, running water, light, drains, etc.)?

Might there be an employee ride night tonight?

Well, that sounds really early to be clearing out the lockers. It's easy to get caught up at a ride and not get back to your locker for a half hour or more after close. Grr.

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Nobody who has listened to Matt Ouimet thinks that any Cedar Fair park is getting a dark ride next year. Matt has said that there are no Amusement Dark™ installations in the pipeline. They're working on them, but a pipeline typically contains only ready-to-build products. In other words? They don't have any ready yet. So.. I don't think so. Maybe 2017, but not 2016.

Really? Really?? Wait a minute. That was your take-away? In a discussion where we're simply advocating for taking some simple, relatively harmless precautions in the off-chance something goes wrong, that's your take-away? You do know that amusement parks are full of safety features put in place in the off chance something goes wrong, right? Roller coaster control systems are so redundant that it's almost impossible to have a collision without a human override. Rider restraints are redundant, both in terms of a combo of seat belts and shoulder/lap bars, and redundant mechanisms behind at least the bars. Security systems are throughout the park. Cameras on the rides, cameras all over the buildings (especially at KI). Security guards walking all around the park in a way that is very non-Disney Magic™. There already is a certain amount of safety and precaution built into the modern amusement park. And you think that it's a ludicrous idea to separate children from adults unknown to them while on a ride? You think it's a ludicrous idea to want a little bit of personal space on a roller coaster rather than being shoved up against someone's sweaty body? And to suggest that I should have to waste a ticket so that I am not made feel uncomfortable at the park? What's this, Personal Space Plus wristbands? Is that when you want more than two inches of personal space? Really?? Wow. Let me put this another way: You don't always have to wait for a specific incident to occur in order to take preventative measures. Sometimes it's best to prevent that which is predictable. Something will always go wrong. It's like a universal law. That doesn't mean that nothing is predictable. If I'm driving down the road and someone is headed right at me, should I do nothing? No, thanks. I'll surely maneuver my vehicle in a way to avoid a crash.

Quite literally. oo They should've tightened their phones instead! *sigh*