Michigan's Adventure,... Ticket price increase.

I'm of a sufficiently advanced age that I remember it as Deer Park Funland, but I think you're right: it's a water park with rides. It clearly offers something to its guests that they keep the place humming merrily along, I'd say it's the wet side.

And to be fair, I'm not sure we can say the park offers "nothing" to riders. Seven roller coasters is a decent number for a park that size. The more accurate statement might be that they offer only a couple of selections for hard core, thrill seeking enthusiasts. We should take time to remember that amusement parks are built with a much wider market in mind. Youngsters try their coaster legs out on Zachs Zoomer and Big Dipper. I'm sure tweens and families really enjoy the milder thrills on Corkscrew, Mad Mouse, and Wolverine Wildcat.
Patrons heading over to the dry side for a few spins after a day at the waterpark seems like a formula that works well for the park. They're busy, successful, profitable, and they know their customer.

If having only two high-thrill rollercoasters is enough to make you stay away from a park, then stay away. And this is the part where I should pull my shorts up to my moobs and tell everyone how back in my day the amusement park usually had only one rollercoaster, and if we were lucky? Two. But I'm too busy right now to get into all that.

Absolutely. MiA has a great collection of coasters.

Great collection? I think "great quantity" is a better statement.

I like all their woodies & always enjoy a Wild Mouse.

RCMAC, agreed that we can't say the park offers nothing to riders. Also agreed that what it has to offer is reasonable for a park of that size. I went there for the sole purpose of riding Shivering Timbers and that alone was well worth the fairly negligible price of admission. http://www.upsdownsandupsidedown.com/shivering-timbers-by-bobbie-butterfield/

Thanks to my mother, who was working at the park at the time, I had the chance to interview the owner's son (can't recall his name off the top of my head) about the coaster they were adding the following season. I remember being a bit gobsmacked as he unrolled a schematic map of the park and I saw how long it was going to be.

The name came from a project (thesis?) his sister Camille had done at college.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the owner's son had a kiddie coaster named after him...

P.S. I'm probably wrong.

Zach's Zoomer is named after -- I believe -- one of Roger Jourden's grandchildren.

I went to the website today, and Meal plans are the only thing mentioned as being new. Other then discounted season passes for the holidays, there is nothing new at the website.

As for Zach's Zoomer, it was named after one of Jourden's grandson's.

Or Maverick.

Here is another shocker not mentioned on the MA website.. I was just visiting the MA facebook page, where daily admission is quoted at $35.00 for 2016 for a adult daily ticket. A $7.00 rate hike in 2 years!? With nothing new again? This from the page administrator. I am hoping that it was misquote.

Unless there is something new soon. I won't be going back.

A business raising prices? What? How is that possible?

There's no link between raised prices and new additions. Bluntly: a business raises prices because it can, not because it's providing additional product.

Timber-Rider said:

Unless there is something new soon. I won't be going back.

Is there any chance that you'll also stop bitching about it? People have been trying to explain supply and demand to you now for years here, and it's something they teach in grade school. I can't rationally believe that you don't understand the concept, only that you ignore it.

The park wants to make as much money as possible. If people are willing to pay a higher amount, why is it a bad thing for the park to charge it? People find the park valuable enough to pay what they ask. I'm a broke tightwad, but I understand it anyway.

Excatly that. Couple of years ago at the theater, we took the main floor center seats, 7th through 10th rows, and raised the price $10 a seat. People are happy to pay the price for those "premium" seats. (Well, except for the occasional person who wants to know, which are better seats, the ones that are $89 or the ones that are $49?)

I made ticketmaster switch my seats when I was buying on the phone once becasue they assumed I would want the $50 seats instead of the $60 seats like it didn't matter. The woman tried to argue that whatever was going to come up after that few minutes would be worse than what I already had but I made her do it anyway. I was familiar with the venue and I told her there's a reason for the difference in price and I was right. My 2nd seat assignment was way better even with the elapsed time and the fast ticket sales. I can be a pretty cheap person but there are times when it pays to pay more.

I do understand why they are raising their prices. It's obvious, like the people who put out crappy re-hashed movies. They will charge whatever they want, and hope people are still dumb enough to pay it.

But, in my view, they are so busy knowing that they can do it, they never take the time to think if the should.

Do you think people would still pack a movie theater, if they raised ticket prices $7.00., while still showing the same movies they have been showing for the last 5 years? Supply and demand is also based on what the customers want. And, I am not the only one who thinks the park should add something new.

If you are going with supply and demand. The park is not meeting it's demand, and offering old supplies for more money.

Timber-Rider said:
If you are going with supply and demand. The park is not meeting it's demand, and offering old supplies for more money.