How long will Labor Day lines be? For my birthday, I'll be going with 3 of my friends the day before and I want to be able ride everything I can with them since two haven't been on a roller coaster before.

Much depends on the weather.

I plan on going on Labor Day as well.  If need be, my friend and I will buy Fast Lane.  It's a $19.99 BAF day as well as dollar days, so unless the weather is bad, I anticipate crowds.

Expect crowds--then if you have a light day, you'll be ecstatic!

Anyone going to be there at open today? We are headed that way, wondering if it's looking to be crowded tonight or not.

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Webcam check tells me it's very light right now.

 

But the park hasn't been open for 5 minutes.

With HS football hitting week one in Ohio, you could probably shoot a cannonball down the queues of most rides tonight and not touch anybody.

Looks like the line for Diamondback isn't even out of the station. And I saw a train on the lift on the webcam, so it is definitely operating.

The app says Diamondback is closed but there are people on it. Going to hit up Action Zone until meetup at 6:30 for the night ride photos.

30 minutes for FoF. Sigh.

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Webcams looking like a really good day for rides, im trying to get myself down there for the evening for sure 

Flyers are a 2-3 cycle wait right now.

Amazing night! Haven't waited more than 10 minutes for anything, even ones where the app indicated a slightly longer wait. Definitely a #kibestday

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Lines are looking waterlogged right now, guess it's time to check out let it rock

I ducked into RHOFG, and have never, ever seen this place as packed as this! Hopefully this order of mozzarella sticks and unsweetened iced tea will see me through until the rain breaks up.

Looks like DB is having some trouble from the webcam. Riders are having to walk back to the station from the break runs.

It is, after all, themed for a snake that stops to bask in the sun every now and then. 

Longest lines as always is the food lines, they really need to address this next year, I think this year is a lost cause. 20 minutes for RHOFG, 15 person line for Planet Snoopy grill, waiting behind about 30 people in Larosa's line at Festhaus.

The park, and its meal plan customers clogging up the lines in front of me, has taught me to again leave for food. After all, "people gotta eat."

Looks like DB is up and running again according to the webcam.

The park, and its meal plan customers clogging up the lines in front of me, has taught me to again leave for food. After all, "people gotta eat."

 

Sigh.

 

I wish the lines were flowing instead of "clogging".

 

The all-season meal plan is a great deal, providing that the park can manage it.

 

The park cannot.

Was at the park last night (packed) and today (definitely not packed).  Have meal plans, and we ate both days without a substantial wait---even last night when Beast and Diamondback had ~45 minute to 1-hour queues.  Today we ate at...12:45pm.  Took son to Potato Works in Coney for a corn dog meal, nobody in line.  Wife and daughters took about 10 minutes to get their subs, then we took all that food to the picnic tables by the pond behind Hank's.  I told them how I wanted my burrito---which did take a few minutes---but that was that.

 

I would like to throw out another possible reason for clogged food lines.  It's not always the meal plan folks---it's people wanting their soda's filled!  My gosh...we have a couple of those refillable cups and I swear it takes FOREVER for them to take my money and fill the cup.  We've had good luck getting food, but I'm always shocked at how much time I spend behind people getting soda's refilled, including my own.  It should not take 2-4 minutes just to fill up a refillable cup---especially if the person has money in hand (sometimes people don't, which is inexcusable as well).

I would like to throw out another possible reason for clogged food lines.  It's not always the meal plan folks---it's people wanting their soda's filled!  My gosh...we have a couple of those refillable cups and I swear it takes FOREVER for them to take my money and fill the cup.  We've had good luck getting food, but I'm always shocked at how much time I spend behind people getting soda's refilled, including my own.  It should not take 2-4 minutes just to fill up a refillable cup---especially if the person has money in hand (sometimes people don't, which is inexcusable as well).

 

Possibly a symptom of charging 99 cents for refills. Add tax to that, and you get $1.05 (I think), which means people digging for spare change and/or the cashier having to count out almost a full dollar's worth of change.

 

Solution? Figure out what price becomes precisely $1.00 when tax is added, and charge that rather than 99 cents. The Columbus Zoo, for example, charges 93 cents to refill a souvenir cup, which becomes $1.00 even after tax, which is much faster than dealing with change. Yet Kings Island charges an extra nickel, which is perhaps a leftover from the Kinzel era?

Yeah, making it a $1 flat would make a difference for sure!  Hopefully next year will be better with all-season free refills.  As has been mentioned before, I think I most notice the...uh..."lack of motivation" by employees when getting refills.  Not much incentive for them to hurry it doesn't seem.

Is sales tax in the park 6.75%?

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^ At Kings Island, yes, that is the current rate. Sales tax in Ohio increased by 0.25% in 2013.

 

Total lodging tax in Warren County, Ohio is 12.75%. It's higher in Hamilton County. Thanks in part to efforts of members here, there is no admission tax in Mason, Ohio.

Only open five hours, searing heat, and threat of storms are keeping the crowds very low so far tonight. There's only around 100 people waiting for the gates to open so far.

There are some lovely storms and rain happening now. A group of us are here from work and this isn't quite the experience expected.

No wait on Boo Blasters...

Snoopy pumpkin coaster going now

Not ert for Diamondback I'm hearing it's closed till roughly noon

Just saw there's no trains on the track as of now, never seen that before