Actually, prices rise as time goes by...with the first of what is often several increases typically happening a week from today...

Not sure really where to put this so here goes--- I am a little OCD so please bear with me---I am a 2013 platinum pass holder and am staying at a nearby hotel on Sat. night. Now being OCD I plan on leaving KI midday and checking into my hotel (and possibly taking a swim,I did this at CP in July without the hand stamp)With the haunt rule on no reentry after 7pm---does this apply to those with passes? Or will I have to definitely be back by 7pm. Or will I have to use my 1 free entry for renewing my pass to get in after 7pm ( I like the idea of starting part of my trip with a RAOK of giving my unneeded entry to someone so they can use that money elsewhere.) So I just need to know how to play this. Ahh the joys of an OCD mind.

Thanks,

Mark

^ This year, 6:00pm is the cutoff for re-entry. You won't be able to get in after that point with a handstamp or with a pass that's already been scanned that day.

You won't get a free entry for renewing your pass; that is an offer only for new 2014 passes.

If you are not back before 6:00pm, you have three choices:

1. Purchase an admission ticket
2. Purchase a new (not renewed) 2014 gold or platinum season pass and use your one free admission. You'll have to return in the spring to process it.
3. Not re-enter the park

I like the idea of starting part of my trip with a RAOK of giving my unneeded entry to someone so they can use that money elsewhere.

The free entry on a new pass is tied to the pass (or voucher, if it's not processed). There's no separate ticket that you can give to someone else.

EDIT: meant to edit, not double post. Oops.

You'll have to return in the spring to process it.

Process it??

When I got my '14 pass at the park it sure seemed that it was "processed" at that time (picture taken and card issued).

^ In that case, it was processed.

Had you left with a receipt paper ticket issued at a ticket window, it would not have been processed.

Thanks for the clarification.

Last year when I renewed my pass it didn't even need processed. I took it to processing and they just said "nope, you're good." and sent me on my way. My photo is from last year. Should that have happened...?

Yeah back when I used to get a yearly I kept my pass and picture from previous years and kept going..I had that same pass for several years until the pass barcode was barely there

Sure hope so - as that's what happened to me as well. And I've seen part of the marketing for renewal is that " you get to keep the same card as 2013!" I really wasn't sure about getting mine so early at first, but when I realized I could keep the card all winter.. = sold!

I have used the same Platinum Pass and Picture since the 2010 season. So this would have been the 4th season using the same card with same picture!

And I used the same card, but with a new name, address and picture. Thanks to Kings Dominion's attempt to help and to the excellent, wonderful people in KI Admissions.

Thank heavens I renewed in person and at KI. Apparently had I actually filled my Steel Force yearning in the past month, things would have gotten really interesting really fast--as my 2013 Platinum Pass got stripped of ALL data when KD tried to change my Atlanta address to DC.

I wondered why Accesso would not let me renew online...and now we know why. My name was ---, my address was ---, and my e-mail was --- Discreet it was!

Terp, who apparently drives the proprietary Gatekeeper software at FUN batty, and then it tries to reciprocate.

^ Were gate associates confused upon seeing someone without a picture named "---" trying to get in?

No. I renewed my Platinum Pass without incident, until I asked them to verify KD had changed my address.

They had. Sort of.

I purchased platinum for next year in hopes of finally making it up to CP. I'll have to get it processed in the spring. I'm also grateful that the pass sale was extended, as I didn't remember to purchase the pass until Monday morning.

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