No re-entry at Sux Flags this Year

I must be crazy, but I find it easier to carry items in a backpack (water, snacks, hooded sweatshirt, jeans for two adults and 1 child) than to walk back and forth to the car. *** Edited 1/11/2006 11:54:03 PM UTC by The Lorax***

good then there is re-entry into the parks

Back packs are generally what you see the teens doing anyway since they spend far less than the average full family. But even still, you have to worry about thievery, or you simply misplacing your belongings. Hopefully no one is that dense, but things happen. I just find it re-assuring that my stuff is safe in my car, and when I need it, I can or could just go and get it. I don't want to walk around Magic Mountain with a coat waiting on it to get cool enough for me to use it, leaving it in my car keeps me from sitting it down and forgetting it.

I don't like leaving anything at the station either because people are retarded now a days, Once at Knotts, someone walked off with my sport bottle, a bottle that I had been drinking from for about 4 hours. So that ended my leaving anything at the station, if someone took a $8.00 bottle imagine what could happen if I or you leave a Back pack with: $300 cell phone, $400 camera, wallet with various credit cards, and a Jacket or a change of clothes.

*** Edited 1/12/2006 12:20:04 AM UTC by Magicmike***

If SF did at some point enact this policy it would drastically change my visiting habits and would certainly cut down the number of visits I make.

With SFGAm for instance, where I visit most often, I've always arrived before park opening, taken a bunch of rides before the park gets crowded, and then leave for a couple of hours or so in the afternoon.

I generally go back to the hotel and do required website updates for some sites I take care and then go back to the park later in the afternoon.

If I had a restriction on leaving that prevented me from doing my work I wouldn't be able to visit as often and they would certainly get less $$ from me.

I do spend $$ for food in the park most of the time also.

Another thought altogether:

How will this affect things once the hotel gets built at SFGAdv.

You won't be allowed to return to your room? Seperate gate for hotel guests? Special pass/ticket for re-entry?

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Cs6153 said:
good then there is re-entry into the parks

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Not according to the park's PR manager.

All that stuff that the PR person said is all BS. They just want people to stay at the park spend more money. All this is going to do is drive away guests.

:'(

Y'know, it seems to me that if they are seriously considering this plan (and from the looks of their web site..well, who knows?) Six Flags is trying to swat flies with a howitzer. The PR response says something about not holding space for someone who may or may not come back? Okay, why not take advantage of the terrain: enter and leave the park as much as you like, but once you leave the parking lot, you're done (unless you want to pay to park again...and that could even apply to season parking pass holders!). Or how about this: if someone wants to leave, he gets a re-entry pass good for some specified time. Is 60 minutes long enough to walk to the far end of the parking lot and back? Miss your return window, and you're done for the day. There are ways that they could accomplish what they really want to do without creating a PR nightmare in the process.

Or, heck, do what Idlewild does: fence the parking area and handle admissions at the parking entrance. :)

Oh, and for what it is worth, I discovered a couple of years ago at Cedar Point that there is a perfectly ordinary, small object that almost anyone in the park could be carrying which WILL NOT fit into any standard amusement park locker: a moderate-sized stadard (non folding-sweep) umbrella. It just so happens that mine came from Six Flags.

Someone mentioned carrying a backpack along all day. That might be fine for a day-long concert. But at a day-long concert, you aren't trying to strap yourself into a seat that was designed for someone smaller than you. As others have noted, platform boxes and lockers have other problems. The one time I used a midway locker in a park, it cost me roughly $160 to replace the camera lens that got destroyed, and a little more to replace the other items destroyed by the grease that came out of the lens. Never put anything in a locker that is worth more than the stated limit of liability...usually $20.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

As of 11:30pm Jan 11th 2006

This is SFNE policy from the website

PlEASE NOTE: SAME DAY RE-ENTRY IS NOT ALLOWED.

Goto SFNE and hit tickets page.

Here's some things I wanted to touch on, and I'll see if I can remember them without using quotes.

1) Great Adventure can get ridiculously crowded. Crowds are definitely a major problem there some days.
2) Keeping soda cans in a car is a bad idea. So we're leaving Holiday World on a hot July day and I'm sure I turned the A/C on. I drive a Mazda Protege 5 hatchback and we had coolers in the back. We're maybe five or ten minutes down the road and I start hearing noises. Noises that didn't sound car-like. Sure enough, the soda cans started to explode
3) Keeping medication in a car--Again, a really bad idea. Read the warning labels about the temperature your medication is supposed to be stored at. It probably won't say 100 degrees or higher, which is obviously how hot your car can get on a summer's day. The only way I'll take meds with me is in a plastic bag that I keep in my cargo shorts/pants, or if I'm on a trip, it'll go in the suitcase where hopefully it's better insulated from the heat. The same applies if you're visiting a park during the fall.
4) Not wanting to carry around a jacket all day makes you lazy? No, it means that you can enjoy your day much better without having to constantly worry about losing it.
5) What if you feel ill? I seriously started to feel bad at PKD during the summer, and I almost threw in the towel. There was only one problem--I had three other people with me and I was the driver. So what if I wanted to go out to the car to chill out and hopefully recover for the rest of the day?
6) Kids have accidents--if you know what I mean. Who wants to make junior walk around all wet all day if there are dry clothes available?
7) White-water rapids rides and Shoot-the-Chutes can get you incredibly wet, to the point where there isn't a dry part on your body (yes, I know what a revelation). What felt good at 3pm may make you absolutely miserable at 9pm. So again, if you've got dry clothes, socks and shoes out in the car, or at the very least a towel, I'd want that option.

The thing is it does not matter if people leave the park or not. It’s a perceived value. If they are told they can not re-enter they will be upset and not come again even if they never left the park before. It basically tells the guest going to the park that the park does not care about you and all we want is your money.

Also, about putting things in to lockers. The lockers in the theme park are very small. They can not fit much if anything. Also, once Hurricane Harbor closes all those people would be required to move there items for the Hurricane Harbor Lockers into the Theme Park lockers. That right there will get people pissed off. Then you have to think about all the extra lines the food places will have. Need more places for people to sit to eat. Then how about people forgetting something in there car. How are they going to get it? There is so much problems with it it’s not worth even trying to implement such a policy.

I can see it now a 2 hour wait at the Guest Relations window.

Fast pass for the GR window is $10.00.

Pop in a cooler will not explode.

Some medications require a cooler (Insulin for one)

Well, if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then I am doubly flattered, Carlo and Charles because I said the same thing about long lines at Guest Relations and Fast Passes for the GR line in the first post on page 5.... ;) ;)

I know that Redman, Gonch pointed out the maylay that he'd like to watch at GR.

Think they will charge to watch?

Better yet, Have a Snyder Mascott outside the park. The Mascott says you can't re-enter. I say I can! BLAM!

So which website will this new policy pop up on today. lt's not on New England's Site anymore, so far it's been on SFA, SFGadv and SFNE. I think someone is messing with our minds.

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RatherGoodBear said:

I go to minor league hockey games a lot, and yeah the arena has a no re-entry policy.

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Would those "minor league hockey games" share the same parking lot as Hersheypark?

For 23 years I have gone to 40 games a year (and, God willing, more in the playoffs), first in Hersheypark Arena (Yay!) and now GIANT Center (eh, its okay, but it ain't the "Old Barn"), and at each venue they do have a "re-entry" policy. Get a "Pass-out Check" ticket at the door when you leave, turn it in as you would a ticket when you return. Heck, with the system they have now, I could even leave the parking lot, drive around for 20 minutes and come back in with out paying because with the pre paid parking passes you get in with your mirror placard which they don't collect (never did that though).

I don't use the re-entry option often, but I do sometimes. Mainly because I want to get rid of some of the junk... I mean, "promotional items"... you sometimes get when you enter the building, or because I have forgotten something in the car that I wanted... usually a cell phone (my wife likes to have one handy... just incase... Yeah... your guess is as good as mine on that one).

IF they would stop that policy there, they would face a possible riot. Not from me or folks like me (we will just have to hold that promotional junk they give us and survive with out our cell phones), but from the folks who chose to step out side of the building and polute their lungs and air with carcinogins (and create a smoke screen for the rest of us to walk through while we are taking the promotional junk to our cars and getting our forgotten cell phones).

BUT... bottom line is you are only in the arena for 2 1/2 to 4 hours (depending on how early you arrive), and, as you said, it is enclosed, climate controlled, no water rides pouring stuff on you, etc etc etc.

Parks are different.

As I said somewhere in this thread... while travelling we sometimes spend the morning and afternoon at parks, leave for about 3 or 4 hours to refresh and recharge batteries in a hotel AC or pool, and then return. Also, I am more of a park person than my wife. She likes them, but is not quite as fanatical as I am (or else she just realizes when she is tired and has had enough and does not push herself to pure idiotic exhaustion as I do) and, if travelling, we sometimes leave in the afternoon to take a break as said above and then I return in the evening while she stays at the hotel and relaxes in the AC or by the pool (she's the sane one).

So, since SFGrAdv is a day trip for us, and when we leave, we leave, no big deal. However, if this becomes a Chain Wide policy... or if other chains decide to do this, it may affect us when it Vacation time rolls around.

However, just wait until SFGrAdv takes a page from the NJ Department of Transportation (or what ever agency regulates the roads) and decides to make people pay to LEAVE the park as well as enter.

(Yes... you gotta pay to leave NJ on most major highways... they call it a Toll, I call it Ransom)

^ Either way, paying to leave NJ is money well spent...:)

I can say that, I grew up there... ;)

Either way, Snyder & Co. have yet to enact any policies that make me want to go to a SF park in the first place....there's a few of their parks I'd still like to hit, but those revenue-generating *return visits* are looking less and less desireable. Hey, I know of other chains that treat me like a "guest", and Dollywood isn't THAT much further than SFoG...

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coasterguts said:
So which website will this new policy pop up on today. lt's not on New England's Site anymore, so far it's been on SFA, SFGadv and SFNE. I think someone is messing with our minds.

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I just checked SFNE's website on a computer at my school and no matter how many times I did Ctrl+F5, it still said in yellow bold print, "SAME-DAY RE-ENTRY IS NOT ALLOWED."

SFAW already has a no re-entry policy.