Greg Scheid, Kings Island's VP and General Manager, mentioned on his Twitter that Kings Island would be rolling out a loyalty program for season pass holders this year. Although the program has not officially launched, they did do a soft launch this past weekend and I was able to get my hands on some early information on it.

- The program will allegedly grant you points for visiting the park as well as purchasing food. We know that you get points for visiting the park, based on the announcement. An associate was being trained by one of their superiors on the program at one of the food locations as I was checking out. They asked if I had a season pass so they could scan it. They scanned the pass and a small extra receipt printed out.

- The name of the program will be FUN Perks... unless of course, that changes before the launch.

- You will be able to manage your points online, but I'm not going to give you the URL quite yet because the site hasn't launched.

- This is a multi-tiered system. The top of my receipt says "Level: One Star" I'm supposing that you get points and that brings you up from level to level. I do not know how many levels there are, and I do not know what perks you get for going from one level to the next.

- I can only assume that you get points for merch, but I asked the guy to scan my Gold Pass when I bought something at one of the gift shops and the system didn't object, but I didn't get an extra receipt. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this is due to the fact that the system isn't 100% yet.

-Rumor has it that the new KI app will allow you to manage your points through that. I sure hope so.

I'm really excited about this program. This should be great!!!

That sounds cool! Wonder if you get discounts as you rank up?

It probably won't involve sticking orange stamps on a sheet, in exchange for rewards...

KIFan73, of a certain age....

Level 1 star? Sounds like a paramount term!

It's here!

http://funperks.com/

Says my pass # is invalid. Can anyone register yet?

I don't think it's exactly ready for prime time yet, but some of the things are interesting. Discounts? Exclusive events? Hmm...

Yeah, it's not working for me, either. Didn't the KI Marketplace have similar issues when it was launched?

I was able to register.

After I signed up, it gave me a free All Day Drinks Wristband certificate.

How did you even find the link for it...

Says my pass # is invalid too.

I am unable to sign up.

http://www.focusmark.org/Default.aspx links to the same signup page, I found it using Google.

How did you even find the link for it...

It was printed on the receipts that were mentioned at the beginning of the thread.

kblanken's link worked for me; I got a free all-day drinks wristband! This is such a cool idea.

EDIT: Just checked my username and password on the funperks.com site, and it works.

Just signed up too! I too got a free drink wristband! For the amount of times I go to the park, this is a great perk for getting my pass!

I actually heard about this on opening day but didnt want to post in case it wasnt true.

Just signed up and got my free drinks wristband!

Edited May 10, 201214 yr by 16gwoods

Thanks for the link, kblanken. All of us are signed up now.

Thanks for posting about this! The free drink wristband will help me out a lot.

If you have trouble registering, it's because the site isn't 100% functional yet. This is the word from the park. Don't worry if it doesn't work for you.

Is the free drink wristband automatically added to your pass, or does it need to be printed out? It says it's corrupted when I try to open it and print it.

Mine printed fine...perhaps a problem with your Adobe?

Do the points reset after each year

It worked fine on the second link, and I also got a free all day drink wristband, pretty cool.

One of them opens as a word pad, and just displays the code of the document, and the other when Adobe tries to open it, it say's it's damaged and cannot be fixed. The second reward has also disappeared now.

I'm registered! Had to use the second link posted here; the first told me it was not a valid card. Got a free all day soft drink wristband immediately. Nice!

If you haven't caught it yet, here's a good (yet rough around the edges) video about how the star tier system will work.

http://www.focusmark.org/About.aspx

I wonder if they activated the program they used to make that video...

Is it just me or did that video really seem "Destination Park" feel to it? Even though it's about Season Passes it just had that feel. It might be hard to explain, anyone understand what I'm trying to say?

Is it just me or did that video really seem "Destination Park" feel to it? Even though it's about Season Passes it just had that feel. It might be hard to explain, anyone understand what I'm trying to say?

Watermarks right in the middle of the video definitely scream "destination park" to me.