Two Amusements Parks...One Weekend

[CrazyKay07]

This holiday weekend (8/31, and 9/1), my family and I went to Kings Island, and Coney Island, which dad referred to as the "original Kings Island". He says that is where his family went before KI.

Ok, so Sunday the 31, we went to KI. We got there pretty late around 330pm. Me and my friend were able to ride FOF, Firehawk, SOB and The Beast. The lines were each an hour or longer, but I didn't care because we still had a blast! This was my first time on FOF this season, and I swear it takes off way faster than usual. It was still awesome. On Firehawk, two people were stuck in their seats, so we had an extra 10 minute wait. We were already up there and right after we got on, they shut the ride down for a little bit. SOB was the same, rough in the rose bowl but smooth everywhere else. And we rode The Beast at 930 in the very back, in complete darkness. Best ride ever! Oh, we also rode avatar because the line was still open at 10pm. We were only over their to look for the rest of my family. Overrall, it was a good final trip for the season.

On Monday, we went to Coney Island. I haven't been there in about 5 years, and my dad hadn't been there in what, I don't know 30 years. But we let my little nephew have most of the fun today. We watched him ride everything he could. It was super hot though and crowded. I am pretty sure tickets were $2?? But I am not sure. I did get on the flying bobs and we played lots of games. We had a nice family outing today as well.

Due to gas prices and other things, my family had to stay close to home. Usually we go to Cedar Point, but this was nice as well. Thanks for reading!

Keshia

[CoastersRZ]

Well, I think that Coney actually might have had more people in it on Monday then what Kings Island did. Crowds at Kings Island were on the light side on Monday. I was up at KI on Monday, and did not work at Coney. The reason I didn`t work was because I knew Monday was going to be the busiest day of the weekend for Coney crowd wise because of the AFL-CIO picnic.

But, there were still decent crowds on both Saturday and Sunday. I should know, as I was the only rides employee who operated the rides ticket booth on Saturday and Sunday. When I wasn`t out in the ticket booth (or the pool cashier that gave me my break wasn`t out there) the ticket booth was closed. We were short staffed on Saturday and Sunday, and when we had enough people to operate the ticket booth, I was the only one with experience running it! But hey, I got to sit in air conditioning. I still would have rather worked a ride though.

Glad to hear you had a fun time at Coney Island. After all, "Coney Has It."