flightoffear1996 Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 A nice water slide with an under water tunnel would be sweet. Much like the one in the new water park at Flordia. Me personllay I dont care too much for enclosed slides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westcoaster Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 1 more wave pool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplehaze Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 I agree westcoaster. I hate when its crowded and your in the wave pool, bodies flying everywhere and when you come up from a big wave someones ass is all up in your face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast1979 Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 I agree westcoaster. I hate when its crowded and your in the wave pool, bodies flying everywhere and when you come up from a big wave someones ass is all up in your face. Thats actually a VERY accurate description. I hate walking around on the hot pavement, but I don't think that can be improved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Add I hate not being able to see a thing (or having water running all over my glasses), and you have a pretty good summary why Terpy doesn't bother with water parks...not to mention that in the old days, I was terrified that little kids would think Shamu had broken loose and escaped into the park! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast1979 Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 I was terrified that little kids would think Shamu had broken loose and escaped into the park! you mean he's NOT still roaming the park? Last I heard Shamu is Dating Kraken! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Well, we do know what happened when Shamu left what is now the land being kept at Geauga Lake's Wildwater Kingdom! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast1979 Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Well, we do know what happened when Shamu left what is now the land being kept at Geauga Lake's Wildwater Kingdom! He went Sulsa Dancing at the Nearby Cedar Point! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPostman Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 First Post!! So here goes. What are the odds that CF will make BB a seperate park and/ or charging addl. entry like at Soak City? I would personally hate to see this but IMO this seems to be a natural path CF would take. If for no other reason than having the parks operate similarly. I've never been to SS at CP and I do not know how BB compares, but maybe with a few high profile additions (a water coaster, A huge zero entry beachfront pool etc.) I could see it happening. Am I off base? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 If one were to believe a rumor at Screamscape lately, there is a chance of this happening. Given The Beach across the street, the general economic situation, and how this move would go over with the public, along with the back and forth action on deciding how to price Halloween Haunt, I really can't see a wise Cedar Fair doing this. Then again, imagine if they did this and dropped the gate price of Kings Island dry park by $10, while charging...what?...for Boomerang Bay. How to get enough people over there to be profitable without overcharging. And I could see them selling separate waterpark passes, too...requiring a day ticket for Boomerang Bay, a waterpark pass or a Platinum Pass to get in at Boomerang Bay. Could it happen? Sure. Likely? I'd think not, but this is Cedar Fair we are talking about. Unpredictability is their middle name, any more it seems....Who would have predicted that the conservative, we pay cash for almost everything and expand slowly and protect the distribution to unitholders above all would have bought the entire Paramount Parks chain, much less go deeply in debt to pay a top dollar price for it at the very top of the investment market of recent years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outdoor Man Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 i haven't read all the posts so don't torch me if this has already been mentioned. But CF won't get rid of BB... that is the CF answer for when the dry park underperforms. No, actually I can't imagine that would ever happen. I haven't been over to the waterpark yet this year.... hasn't been NEAR warm enough yet on any consistent basis- but it usually has a very healthy crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rcfreak339 Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 1 more wave pool Yes Kings Island need to get another wave pool, Look at Holiday World it always crowded in there wave pool (considering it is smaller) but I believe in 2005 they added a second and the crowds were low on a regular basis in the first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPostman Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 How does BB, in its current state, compare with Soak City or any other water parks CF controls that are priced seperately from their dry parks? I'm not sure they can pull off a seperate entry fee to BB without some high profile additions. Even then they would have to start low and work the entry fee upward to top scale over a period of time. Ten years doesn't seem unreasonable to go from "free" to say $29 (today's dollars) like Soak City. I personally think the best move at KI/BB is no move. Incorporating SC's fee into a CP admission and bumping that general admission to everyone entering CP's gates would seem to bolster the bottom line. I just think that a standard operating procedure across all of CF's properties would streamline the business somewhat, and I would have to guess that the pricing structure will be changing soon at either KI or CP (hopefully CP) in regards to entry into their respective waterparks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 The difference is not between Boomerang Bay and Soak City, but between Cedar Point as a resort and destination park as opposed to Kings Island being a regional theme park. A separate gate at Soak City encourages guests to stay another day, and spend it exclusively at that park...since they don't want to waste their admission fee by going to another park and having to pay yet another admission fee. With all due respect to the Sandusky area, other than amusement/leisure, there isn't much to compete with the Cedar Point complex...not museums, not the Reds, not a zoo, no Opera...Put simply, the separate gate at Soak City works as well as it does since Cedar Point is a resort in a resort area. Kings Island is not located on Lake Erie, and is not seen as a resort area (regardless of what the Kings Island Inn may call itself these days....and the presence of the "official" resort of Kings Island, Great Wolf Lodge, makes a separate gate for Boomerang Bay even less likely, in my opinion). That all being said, don't ask me to explain Worlds of Fun/Oceans of Fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPostman Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 Thanks for the insight. I am making my first trip to CP this summer and i'm interested to see how it stacks up. I Believe KI is a great value and I hope CF DOESN'T change a thing in regards to KI's pricing structure!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jzarley Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 Personally, I prefer BB to CP's Soak City...I like the layout and theming of BB better. (Although, I do like Soak City's "adventure river" thing.) I'm sure this won't be a popular opinion, but I actually think the idea of making BB a separate gate has a lot of merit. (And, I guess I'm speaking more as a CF unit holder than I am a park enthusiast...) I like Interpreter's take on reducing the price of the theme park by $10 or so; selling a stand-alone ticket to BB ($25?), then selling a combo ticket that's $5-10 higher than the current gate price. (Then, maybe a 2-day "park hopper" pass that's $10-15 higher than that...) I imagine a lot of visitors (I'm talking about people who travel a few+ hours to get there) only spend one day at KI only because they consider it one park. However, if BB were treated as a separate gate, a lot of those people may opt to stay longer in order to do "both" parks. That could really increase length-of-visit, which is directly proportional to the guest $ per cap... However, I agree this is pretty unlikely...first of all, there's the matter of competing with The Beach right across the road. Secondly, to make a change like this after offering the waterpark for "free" all those years is going to disgruntle a lot of regulars. (Of course, after purchasing Geauga Lake, CF proved they weren't too worried about PO'ing a lot of people...but then again, look how that turned out ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flightoffear1996 Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 I think it would be a good idea for a seperate admission. I mean some people that just want to go to the water park have to pay full gate price. Also with a new source of income we could continue to see the park, and water park grow at the same time. At first since we locals are used to having it be free with park addmission may be a tad bit upset I think in the long run it would be better for the park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kicpfan Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 I think BB should stay and be included in the park admission because on hot summer days it is easy just to hop over into the wavepool for 15 minutes and cool off . I think it is convenient and effective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastrider97 Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 They can't do this I would be mad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cormaster Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 I doubt they are going to remove it, but I really think since they are looking to return to "the golden age of Kings Island" they need to rename it to Water Works. I really hate the "boomerang bay" name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 The question isn't whether or not they are going to remove Boomerang Bay (they won't), but whether or not they will set it up with a separate gate and separate admission charge... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AintNutinElse2Do Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 When Dollywood built Splash Country I had really hoped it had been part of the park. However I think the end result is better. At parks with an included waterpark it seems when one side adds something they count it for both. In the case of DW and DWSC each park continues to add major attractions every year. Speaking of Splash Country I realized something when I was there last week and that it's Dollywood yet there' no shows there. It'd be nice to add more entertainment to waterparks most of them practically have a stage already at the back of the wave pools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Down under thunder does suck, I almost got stuck on it (I weigh 145lbs) and coolangetta racer is my favorite due to being able to soar 50ft along the surface in the bottom trough. Tasmanian Typhoon, the Wavepool, crocodile run, and both tube slides deserve honorable mentions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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