Flying Turns Update

/John McEnroe...

"You can NOT be serious!"... ;)

^^^^ If you had bought tickets then, and you didn't use them all, you could have brought them back and used them this summer. :)

You could always try the 100 for 85 (or 90) deal.

The tickets would be MIA before we even got home. :)

Seems to me the problem isn't Knoebels or the tickets but rather the wife and kids! lol ;)

I just need a good man, right?

Well that rules me out! lol

So....back to Knoebels and the Flying Turns....

I need 7 hours just to get my flyer fix for the day. ;)

^...and that's if they're only OPEN for seven hours... ;)

I'm with Matt. After a couple rides on Phoenix and a couple on Twister, I could spend an entire day on the Flyers and not regret it (until the next morning anyway).

But, I see where Gonch is coming from. I went to IB for the first time this summer and was pretty much done with the place in an hour. LOVED Cornball (3 or 4 rides), liked LoCoSuMo (1 ride) and didn't much care for anything else and not much else was totally unique - at least as far as I could see.

Did walk thru Frankenstein's Castle, eh Andy?

Nope. :-/ I tend to not like walkthrough/haunted attractions. Even Knoebel's HH doesn't do it for me. *** Edited 2/1/2008 2:03:20 AM UTC by ApolloAndy***

Frankestein's Castle is a must, but going with experts makes it even better. They can make sure you don't miss the best parts.

No love for Hurricane? What about the scary yo-yo over the water? The tacos? The Double Shot? Flying Bobs? Antique Cars on bridges over the lake? The BUMPER CARS?!?!? The wonderful Galaxi and Tig'rr? Air Crow? THE TACOS?!?!

Man, you need to be properly acquainted with The Beach. ;)

IB is another good example.

Totally dug the place, but even with a raging thunderstorm blowing through that shut everything down for an hour or so, one ride session was plenty.

And we even did Frankenstein's Castle. :)

One visit three years ago was enough, but much like Knoebels, the new coaster is reason enough for interest in a return visit.

It's not that I don't like these places or they don't interest me - it's just that 4 or 5 coasters and a plethora of "same-old, same-old" flats don't take much time to get through. I'm not a power rider (only took 2 laps on each woodie during HW ERT - that was plenty) and enjoy the new experiences and move on.

Hell, at the Fall Affair at HW last September, I know we weren't the only ones mulling around trying to kill time until dinner/ERT at the end of the day (regardless of who will and won't admit to it) - there just wasn't anything left to do.

I don't know what else to say. The not-quite-small parks with the not-quite-big park prices all feel like the worst values to me. I can find a lot more to do for the same price range at the big parks or I can find almost the same amount to do for a much lower price at the truly small parks.

Hater! ;)

IB rules - It's the Hoosier version of Jersey shore piers

^^^ Which is why I appreciate that Knoebels still has the ticket option. I don't ever feel a need that I have to get in a certain number of rides to achieve value, or that I overpaid if (for some really strange reason) I stay for only 2-3 hours.

For as much as I visit Knoebels, I never feel like I run out of things to do there. I'm always running to the soft ice cream stand around 10:05, after convincing myself I had time for one more ride on something. Once I even played the flying frog game while holding that last minute cone (and got 3 in the buckets :) ).

Then again, I did manage to turn stops at DelGrosso's and Idlewild into 4-5 hour visits, so I guess that's just me.

Sounds like Gonch gets bored too easily. ;)

For me, I don't generally care to spend 12+ hours at ANY park in one day. I much rather visit multiple times with shorter visits. I rarely spend more than eight consecutive hours at any park.

LG, agree, I go to HW 5-6 times a year, but rarely spend more than 5 hours in the park unless it is ert stuff like at hwn.

At the Fall Affair, I was also walking around doing allot of nothing. Luckily, I had just got a video camera so I had something to kill time with.

During HWN, last year on the Saturday, I left the park noon after water park ERT and doing all the slides in the water park for the first time, I went back to my tent and slept for a few hours before heading back in for Voyage walk back.

I do plan on spending the whole day at Knoebel's during PPP only because I will be driving 11 hours one way just for the park.

Gonch Said, "The not-quite-small parks with the not-quite-big park prices all feel like the worst values to me. I can find a lot more to do for the same price range at the big parks or I can find almost the same amount to do for a much lower price at the truly small parks."

If you don't mind me asking...how would you rate place like Morey's?

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Acoustic Viscosity said:
Sounds like Gonch gets bored too easily. ;)

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Nah. You're just too easily amused. ;)

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Richie Reflux said:
If you don't mind me asking...how would you rate place like Morey's?

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I dunno. Only visited there once as well (2002). Spent a full day, enjoyed myself.

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But here's one for y'all then - I totally dug Celebration City this past summer. So much so that we had only planned on stopping by for one evening, but went back for a second.