cholderfield Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 My wife and I decided to take a trip to Cedar Point. We left Monday night and were planning on staying at The Maples Motel, but we got there later than we thought we would (11:45pm) and nobody was in the office. So we decided to drive a little further down (closer to the park) and stay at the 4-star hotel known as Howard Johnson. Maverick experience quite a bit of downtime. We got back to the line at around 9:30am for ERT and it was closed. We waited until about 10 but they weren't even running empty trains yet. We thought we'd go ride Mean Streak instead, but we walked over to the line and was told it didn't open until 11, which I thought was strange but I wasn't too disappointed. Went and rode SkyHawk, no wait- awesome ride, I love it every time. Continued through Frontier Town and rode Millennium Force (30 minute wait). On a side note, it was the first time I rode from the first hill on with my hands up. The speed and height of this ride still gets me every time. We walked up to the front of the park and rode Raptor, I think it was about a 30 minute wait. Next we headed to MaxAir, we looked to have about a 5 minute wait, but a person on the previous ride got sick on the ride so we ended up waiting for 15-20 minutes for them to clean and run the ride a few times. Still worth the wait, of course Took a short break and went to Pink's for the first time- we both got a chili cheese dog and shared an order of onion rings and a Gatorade. The total was $20, which seemed excessive, but the hot dogs were very good and we were full. Walked to Wicked Twister, no wait and rode in the back. Next we headed for Magnum. I think it was only about a 5 minute wait. I love the ride, but those last few hills at the end kill my legs every time. I read some suggestions online to tighten the seat belt, but I hate feeling strapped in to the ride. Instead, I placed my hands between my legs and the lap bar and that helped big time. I think its the first time I walked off the ride with my legs NOT throbbing in pain Gemini had a very short wait, less than 5 minutes and only running the red train. Enjoyable ride as always. We decided to head back to Maverick. The posted wait time was 1 hr 45 minutes, which was very surprising considering how slow the rest of the lines were. The line was pretty far out, filling up over half of the outer queues, but once we got closer we realized that none of the inner queues were open. So in reality, by the time we got up to the platform it had been about 40 minutes. We got in line for the 2nd train, 1st seat and were about 3-4 trains away from getting on...when the ride went down again! Luckily, it didn't last for too long, I think we only waited another 20 minutes. I absolutely love this ride. After that,we stopped at the Gourmet Pretzel shop close to Magnum and enjoyed a pretzel. I had to work early this morning, so we decided to head home from there. It was definitely an enjoyable day, and probably the smoothest and slowest day I've ever been to Cedar Point. The weather great, if not a little on the chilly side. It was very cloudy until around 3-4 when the sun started to peak through. Low-to-mid 60s for most of the day. The only negative was the Maverick downtime during ERT, in hindsight, we should have went over to MF and went around a few times. Employees were all helpful and friendly. Can't wait until our next trip! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flightoffear1996 Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Glad you had fun! The line for Maverick is always crazy. I got lucky one visit and waited 10 minutes every time I rode but the rest of the ride were walk ons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
74Gibson Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 I've actually given up on Maverick for ERT and gotten kinda frustrated with it all together. The sad thing is, it was my favorite coaster but has kinda slipped... I gotta say I feel really bad typing that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomTheater Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Maverick experience quite a bit of downtime. We got back to the line at around 9:30am for ERT and it was closed. We waited until about 10 but they weren't even running empty trains yet. We thought we'd go ride Mean Streak instead, but we walked over to the line and was told it didn't open until 11, which I thought was strange but I wasn't too disappointed. MS, Mine Ride, and DT do not open till 11 am when the park opens at 10. If the park opens later, they open with the rest of the park. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markr Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 No Top Thrill Dragster? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gad198 Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 I've actually given up on Maverick for ERT and gotten kinda frustrated with it all together. The sad thing is, it was my favorite coaster but has kinda slipped... I gotta say I feel really bad typing that Funny you should mention that. The last four visits we've made to the park for ERT Maverick has been open once. Ironically enough, that was Opening Day this year, and Millennium Force didn't want to cooperate until the early afternoon! We've actually taken the strategy to hang back a bit, walk towards the ride and wait for the people who ran to the ride to see if they turn around. As soon as we see people coming back the other way we just continue on towards MF. Nice TR by the way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cholderfield Posted May 24, 2012 Author Share Posted May 24, 2012 No Top Thrill Dragster? My wife refuses to ride it...I'll have to save that for a personal trip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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