Holiday World Tips?

Any and all are appreciated!

https://www.holidayworld.com/plan-your-trip/insider-tips/

Make it a priority to ride Wildebeast and Mammoth as early as possible, as the longest lines in the park are those, not the wooden coasters. That's my biggest tip.

Get there early, the waterpark opens 1 hour after the dry side.

Everyone goes to Halloween first, go to Thanksgiving instead.

Ride Thunderbird first, then Voyage and then get to the waterpark at least 15 min before opening so that you can be near the front of the hoard.

Ride Mammoth (twice if the line is short) and Wildebeast first.

Do any other waterslides you want to ride next.

Save Halloween for early afternoon, that's when the lines are the shortest.

Eat at Plymouth Rock Cafe.

Holiday World does a hard close, so the Voyage and Thunderbird lines will close early.

It depends on when your going to be there. I was there last year the first Wednesday in June and the park was dead everything was a walk on the whole day.

Wear good walking shoes. Walking up the hill at the end of the day can be agonizing :-)

The sunscreen is free, so take a jug and stock up for home.

Please remember to tip the parking valet!

kpjb said:

The sunscreen is free, so take a jug and stock up for home.

This is a site full of giant nerds that like to figure out this sort of thing, so...

What's the break even point on the ticket price? How much sunscreen do I need to nab to make my visit pay for itself?

Add a second jug to load up on soda.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to calculating how many bathrooms Deep Space Nine has. Fortunately, I'm not a nerd :-)

This is a really complicated equation because you need to factor in the cost for lockers to store your jug-o-sunscreen when you ride the coasters.

Holiday World is classy and doesn't make you get a locker

Alright, you slackers. I'mma do it myself.

According to this blog post, Holiday World uses (used?) Ocean Potion Cool Dry Touch Sport Sunscreen SPF 30.

I found that sunscreen for sell by a third party on Walmart's website. It is $38.27 for 32 ounces. Or about $1.20 per ounce. (we're worried about the cost to us in this case, not what HW pays)

If I go in the next month, HW tickets range from $25.99 to $39.99 depending on the day thanks to their dynamic pricing structure.

That means at the beginning of June on a weekday, I need to score about 22 ounces of sunscreen to recoup my ticket price in skin protection cream. If I go on a Saturday later in the month I'll need to snag about 34 ounces of the gooey gold.

Fill a couple of empty water bottles and you've beaten the system, my friends.

This has been, Enthusiast Tips with Gonch. (cue music)

Vaguely related, the last time I had a sunburn was at Holiday World. Because I live in Florida, and get sunburned in Indiana. Some things in life I'm not good at.

slithernoggin said:

Add a second jug to load up on soda.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to calculating how many bathrooms Deep Space Nine has. Fortunately, I'm not a nerd :-)

I always assumed they used the transporters to beam your poop in to space.

No, that would agitate the modulated gravimetric capacitators. :-)

Not to digress, but: how many Star Trek fans does it take to screw in a light bulb? 100. One to screw it in and 99 to argue whether it's canon or not.

Still not a nerd. Much.

Don't expect a theme park.

slithernoggin said:

Add a second jug to load up on soda.

If I were you I'd be careful walking around a crowded park with a jug of white powder. It could get mistaken for illegal drugs, or even Anthrax. Now, if you wanted to fill an empty 2-liter bottle with *POP* you probably could, but it would go flat pretty quickly, so what's the point when it's readily available?

slithernoggin said:

Add a second jug to load up on soda.

Do not confuse your two jugs. (giggity)

Tommytheduck said:
.......so what's the point when it's readily available?

Because it's "free"! :-)