Posted Friday, November 2, 2007 10:25 AM | Contributed by Jason Hammond
Geauga Lake's Wildwater Kingdom has announced its 2008 operating schedule, admission pricing and season pass
pricing. Daily admission is $23.95, $15.95 after 4 p.m. Junior and senior admission is $11.95. Parking is $5. Children age 2 and under are free. Season passes are $44.95, junior and senior passes are $34.95. Guests who buy a season pass through Nov. 11 will also receive a FREE Cedar Fair V.I.P. jacket.
Cedar Fair announced in September that the amusement park would operate as a water park only, after operating the amusement park for four seasons.
$44.95 is not a bad price for a season pass, and some of the perks aren't bad. Sure, you won't be able to get into CP or KI with the pass, but if you're only intention is to go to the waterpark a few times, I think it's a good value, and how about that jacket?
I guess my only fear for anyone who was a supporter of the rides is that your questions have been answered--there are no mention of any themepark rides at all. In fact at a total size of 11 acres, I'd say that leaves no room for anything else but waterslides.
Actually if you look at water parks in the area (Soak City, The Beach, Noah's Ark) they all have about the same admission price so its actually a very fair rate.
It just looks like a ripoff because they were giving away the gate last year...
$23.95 sound's expensive compared to what they used to offer for about the same price. But it is an amazing waterpark with great potential, so I wish them luck.
I think you need to read between the lines a bit... a whole lot of people are going to buy passes because, "For 11 bucks more, we can come back all summer." Only they'll probably come back once if at all, so the cost per visit is $22.50. Makes sense to me.
Compared to what the park was last year, this seems expensive, but compared to other water parks its cheap or competitive. Sandcastle's season passes are $59 and the park is not nearly as nice as GL.
I wanted to go but I wasn't sure if and when the park was open thanks to the lack of advertising. There sure wasn't a shortage of Cedar Point and Kings Island marketing crap thrust in my face.
$23.95 is steep for just the waterpark compared to $26.95 for the whole shebang, but we have to keep in mind how underpriced $26.95 was for that park in the first place. (And I mean real-world underpriced, not Gonchar-world. ;) ) They can't exactly come out charging 11 bucks.
More importantly, I think, is what they'll do with the in-park pricing. Will it still be $4 Pepsis, or will they be more in line with what a typical attraction of this sort would charge?
How late was the waterpark open in previous seasons? I'm wondering how much time you get for that $15.95 twilight rate.
Also, I'm wondering about the proposed schedule, with weekends only until the second week of June, plus closed the last week of August. Soak City, Dorney WWK, and even Waldameer offer more days at either the beginning, end, or both. Is the weather or school schedule that different in that section of Ohio?
Soak City caters to the resorts guests primarily, so there are different rules there. But yeah, there's no point in being open during the week until the first week of June here, as the kids are mostly still in school.
