Six Flags reining in park hopping

Currently, if you go to purchase passes online there's no option to pay one time for the whole chain. Business is business, but this feels very greedy and the implementation is pretty anti consumer and out of touch with the market.

You have the option to do a few additional parks, but it's a very small radius and at least in the instance of New England, a very illogical one. Great Escape, Darien Lake, La Ronde? Really?! We can't even get Great Adventure and Dorney? (places we might bother to go; there are zero standout coasters from those parks). Not a fan.

Edit- All park passports are still on the site you just need to buy a gold or prestige pass.

https://www.sixflags.com/ne...further-12

It never gives you the all parks option during the checkout process, weirdly. I was aware that it said that and probably should have mentioned it.

And yet, we all think Six Flags has woefully underpriced their gate for decades. Hmmm....

Wonder if its some sort of oversight on the backend? no way they would not promote a product that is more expensive.

The family and I did some traveling this past week and ran into some issues with doing legacy CF parks and Six Flags parks. All of our passes worked (Cedar Point + All Park Pass renewals) at Carowinds. Three of our five passes worked at SFoG. The other two of us had to go to guest services and they gave us each a day ticket because they couldn't figure out the issue.

Reminded me of the old days when each CF park needed a trip to guest services to enter each park before their systems were all combined.

Just a heads up if you find yourselves with that issue.

I remember taking my 2003 CP pass to guest services at Knott's. Thanks for the memories on that one, Rob! It was a big deal when Kings Island was able to scan my CP pass in 2004!

I have been to both Great Adventure and America so far this season with my legacy Kings Dominion + All Parks Passport with no issues so far. I was prepared to have to go to guest services but I was lucky I guess. They did have a little issue at parking at America but after a few scans it worked.

I think the bigger one is really figuring out what actually comes with "membership" now. We have been Six Flags Members for multiple years now. I'm trying to see what would be necessary to expand to include the other Cedar Fair parks. I think I can get to the right "product", but then it claims my membership number is invalid (even though it just let us into Great America Saturday.)

Just did Six Flags America this past weekend (20Apr25) with our Cedar Fair (Carowinds) Pass + All Park Upgrade;

• Parking - incomplete - went to a booth with a green Open arrow, and no attendant. Drove right in with no scan and no issue.
• Entrance - PASS - pulled up the QR codes in the Carowinds App, and both mine and my wife's passes scanned for entry at the Front Gate standard line with no problem.
• All Season Drinks - FAIL - only tried at one drink stand, but gal at register could not get it to work with any configuration. She finally tried for a single drink, and it only offered a 15% discount. Walked away with a cup of water.

As always, YMMV.

Later,
EV

EchoVictor:

All Season Drinks - FAIL - only tried at one drink stand, but gal at register could not get it to work with any configuration. She finally tried for a single drink, and it only offered a 15% discount. Walked away with a cup of water.

Drinks and food was only supposed to work in the legacy chain of your home park.

I'm curious how long the new chain will continue to actively differentiate between the Legacy Cedar Fair and Legacy Six Flags parks in terms of things like the nomenclature used with add ons, IP integration, all park pass restrictions, etc. Or will there always be two distinct park brands in the Six Flags portfolio?

I believe they publicly reported that this year they couldn’t integrate in time and that’s why it’s happening. I would expect it to be in force next year (with the all park cost being higher.)