Kings Island General Discussion 2026

[CedarPointer]

I'm sure everyone who shelled out for a prestige pass will be thrilled at their pass being devalued even more than it already was.

[jimlaheyscar]

Fiesta and Over Texas websites indicate all season, all park Fast Lane is now $450.

[BryanJay]

2 hours ago, WoodVengeance said:

Six Flags has unveiled a new pass structure for their parks. Gold Passes will now allow access to parks in certain regions, whereas Prestige Passes will allow access to all Six Flags properties. If Gold Passholders purchased an All Park Passport for 2026 (excluding ones given out during the MVP sale), their Gold Pass will be upgraded to a Prestige Pass for 2026.

edit: It seems the All Park Passport will still be available as an additional add-on for Gold Season Passes. Though it remains to be seen what exactly the prices would be for a Gold Season Pass with the All Park Passport compared to just buying a Prestige Pass that already has that included.

I understood the All Park Passport thing from the sale, I'm still partially confused on what exactly this is so I can only imagine what the GP must think, but this is cool I suppose. 

[BB1]

3 hours ago, CedarPointer said:

I'm sure everyone who shelled out for a prestige pass will be thrilled at their pass being devalued even more than it already was.

Hi, a Prestige Member here, not thrilled at all. I LITERALLY was just in Orlando saturday talking to people about the pass situation already with SIX parks and thought it was a joke. This just takes the cake.

I'm half tempted to call the park and ask about how this change affects me and if I can get a cost adjustment, but I unfortunately know the answer will be no.

[CedarPointer]

1 hour ago, BB1 said:

Hi, a Prestige Member here, not thrilled at all. I LITERALLY was just in Orlando saturday talking to people about the pass situation already with SIX parks and thought it was a joke. This just takes the cake.

I'm half tempted to call the park and ask about how this change affects me and if I can get a cost adjustment, but I unfortunately know the answer will be no.

My biggest issue is that preferred parking and the VIP lounge are already comically overcrowded thanks to the clearance sale on passes that ran for like 3 months, and now they've just given free access to a bunch of people who intentionally chose not to purchase the prestige pass. You already have the park defenders scolding people for having an issue with it, too, since they didn't upgrade everyone who bought during the clearance sale, just the people who bought it after that. Presumably, though, a good number of people purposely didn't buy a prestige pass since the big sale, since Six Flags felt the need to make a public announcement about it.

They did something similar at Wonderland when they discontinued the regular season pass (after selling tons of them) and replaced it with the silver pass, and upgraded everyone who had purchased a regular season pass to a gold pass, and the people who paid extra for gold passes were basically told "tough luck, your fault for buying a gold pass and not a red pass". And then they wonder why people are hesitant to give Six Flags their money.

[disco2000]

2 hours ago, BB1 said:

Hi, a Prestige Member here, not thrilled at all. I LITERALLY was just in Orlando saturday talking to people about the pass situation already with SIX parks and thought it was a joke. This just takes the cake.

I'm half tempted to call the park and ask about how this change affects me and if I can get a cost adjustment, but I unfortunately know the answer will be no.

Enough will call and they will do like they did for KD and Wonderland - offer you a BAF....

[Losantiville Mining Co.]

While I enjoy the idea of this "perk", I don't think it's very well thought out overall. What's worse is that it's another mid-sales year (starting/ending in August) benefits switcheroo with presumably bad end results. I think it would've been better to give free BAF tickets to those "upgrade-ees" as compensation, but instead we'll now have more people packing into the Preferred Parking Lot and the VIP Lounge(s). This doesn't affect me since we bought my Gold Pass during the MVP Sale (cue the Willy Wonka "You get nothing!" line), but I'm upset for the Prestige buyers whose passes are now devalued anyways. I'm thinking the company is still not seeing pass sales like they wanted and needed to find a new way to get folks buying.

I think the structure should be:

• Prestige — All of the current perks, except at a $300 or $400 price point
• Gold — All of the current perks, limited to one region (All-Parks Passport eligible), and at a $150 price point
• Silver — All season access with blackout dates (no more ending access at Labor Day), only access to the home park complex (Regional Park Passport and All Park Passport eligible), and at a $99 price point

This structure could help with all of the folks who complain about paying for a perk (go off I guess) that they'll never use while taking the bulk of the pass base back down toward the Silver Pass. You also wouldn't have as massive of a group going for the Gold Pass just for access to Haunt and Winterfest, a reason I believe is why the Silver Pass didn't stick around at Kings Island.

 

6 hours ago, BB1 said:

Hi, a Prestige Member here, not thrilled at all. I LITERALLY was just in Orlando saturday talking to people about the pass situation already with SIX parks and thought it was a joke. This just takes the cake.

I'm half tempted to call the park and ask about how this change affects me and if I can get a cost adjustment, but I unfortunately know the answer will be no.

I saw a couple of people in the Facebook groups talking about how they're planning to call corporate as well. Do you have any ideas as to what they could give you to make up for it that isn't a partial refund/cost adjustment? Anything I can think of right now is not enough.