Our Season Pass Processing Center opens Friday, April 13.

http://www.visitkingsisland.com/hours-directions/season-pass-processing

I guess you can't just open the park while you are at it? I have my Gold Pass processed and ready for the 2012 season.

huzzah for the island of the King will be renewing my pass in a few weeks! What joy, what thrill!

Don, if you come back here please answer this...I'm 14 and got my picture taken for my Gold pass when I was around 11. I've changed a lot and don't really look the same, should I get my picture retaken soon or is it ok for now?

^^^^^ I had the same situation and they stopped me at the gate and said I had to get it re-taken. But, Don should answer

They can retake your picture in the season pass building with no problem.

It should take about a minute, so I don't see any harm in doing it. Just try to go when it's not really busy.

The best time to process your season pass is during this early season processing times. If you wait until the park opens on April 28th, expect long lines and wait times.

If you are local, sure. If you live a long way from the park, lines are worst once a line forms in the morning. Usually, by mid-day, the line is significantly shorter.

They really should open processing center earlier on opening day,my kids(and me!) are gonna be real moody standing in line knowing were missing ERT to get our pics takin and just to far for me to go sooner just for processing. Anybody know how early we should arrive to avoid real long processing on opening day?? thanks

6 a.m. or maybe 7a.m.

The parking lot doesn't even open until a certain time though, right? Isn't it usually an hour before the park opens that the parking lot opens? So arriving at 6 AM won't do much good if that's the case (which it might not be, I don't remember. But I don't think they'd have someone on payroll opening the parking lot at 6 AM when the park opens four hours later.

Also, isn't there some sort of policy where you're printed e-ticket that confirms your season pass purchase can be used once to get into the turnstiles, but must be processed into a physical pass before the end of that day? Or is that not the case anymore / ever?

In the past, parking has opened earlier on opening day to accomedate the number of passes being processsed.

We went yesterday to have our passes processed. They took new pictures for our platinum passes, but did not change the card (and we didn't really have to go get pics). I'm curious about the season pass parking tho - all the stiles are gone. I don't know if they're planning to pave or if there won't be pass parking? Somebody knows of course, but not I. The crew in pass processing was in very high spirits, but things were a little chaotic. Invertigo looks good in the teal/blue paint. We're ready for opening day!

It's been tweeted and posted here...gold pass parking lot is gone....

Also, isn't there some sort of policy where you're printed e-ticket that confirms your season pass purchase can be used once to get into the turnstiles, but must be processed into a physical pass before the end of that day? Or is that not the case anymore / ever?

AFAIK, you can use your pass voucher ONCE for parking and entry. You can't reenter the parking lot with your voucher, so it'd be a good idea to process on opening day anyway.

Please note; You can now renew ALL season pass types on Kings Island website site.

Happy renewing, see you all soon!!!