I just noticed that you can now purchase 2007 tickets at pki.com. The Adult tickets are $29.95 and childrens tickets are available for $19.95

Maybe its just me but I am surprised that just how low the prices are for next season. As far as I can tell only Geauga Lake and Michigans Adventure have cheaper admission (out of the Cedar Fair parks). Also Kings Island is the only one of the old Paramount parks which have 2007 tickets for sale. I was expecting lower ticket prices but I figured it would be $34.95 leaving Cedar Point only a little higher at $41.95. Makes me wonder how much of an effect this will have.

Those are the online prices that went online a while ago. Nothing unusual with them.

The at the gate cost of a 2007 general admission ticket to Kings Island will be $44.95. But of course, as mentioned above, you can get a pretty good discount for ordering in advance. Also, if you don`t buy in advance, there are often coupons available at local stores/restaurants on general admission.

Yeah those are special prices. I believe though, you can also get those prices if you buy at Kroger or Meijer. Those prices though my stick if you buy them in advance. I would think the junior senior price though will stay $19.95, they will probably be a starlight admission price after 5 next year as well.

Kroger and Meijer get a commission for the tickets they sell. I doubt the prices there will this low. Plus, as the season gets closer, there is nothing to keep Cedar Fair from adjusting ticket prices, as they do with season passes. Generally, the later you buy, the more you pay.

Kroger and Meijer get a commission for the tickets they sell. I doubt the prices there will this low. Plus, as the season gets closer, there is nothing to keep Cedar Fair from adjusting ticket prices, as they do with season passes. Generally, the later you buy, the more you pay.

It's likely that the commissions paid those stores are based upon number of passes sold rather than the cost of the pass.

Exactly, but the cost of that commission MUST be and is built into the retail cost of the ticket/pass. Theme park tickets have become like airline tickets...what you pay depends in part on what you cost the seller. If the seller is the park and they must pay a ticket seller to sit idle much of the day (front gate), then you are going to pay more than someone who buys online, costing the seller virtually nothing and not involving a third party who also gets a cut.

Exactly, but the cost of that commission MUST be and is built into the retail cost of the ticket/pass. Theme park tickets have become like airline tickets...what you pay depends in part on what you cost the seller. If the seller is the park and they must pay a ticket seller to sit idle much of the day (front gate), then you are going to pay more than someone who buys online, costing the seller virtually nothing and not involving a third party who also gets a cut.

Why is someone sitting idle in admissions?

Sounds like bad scheduling.

Not anymore. MOST parks now sell most tickets elsewhere than at admissions. Online, in stores, by mail, telephone, ATM style kiosks outside the park...so much so that CBS took out the ticket selling booths in front of the main gate before last season started.