What we should DEMAND of Geauga Lake...

How about consitent improvement in the customer service we had since last season(another 50% drop in complaints). I know attendence was bad. But we still moved up to the number 3 park out of the "big" 12.

With CF I think the GL customer service will be exceptionally well..... Since they will actually properly train their employees.

How an employee is trained and how they actually act on the job are two completely different things. This new "customer service training" all the SFInc parks are getting this year was first used at SFWoA last summer. It worked so well in turning the park around that corporate adopted it for their other parks. Sit in a session and you'd be surprised how we got trained. A lazy, bad employee is on the employee and will be like that at any job he works, not just SFWoA. Look at the surveys taken at the front gates last season and would be surprised of the difference inthem since 01 and even 02.

I know how the training was at SFWoA, I sat through it last year and also training programs at two other parks. I personally was not impressed by it, and I can say majority of the employees I talked to agreed.

How about a name that everyone can pronounce?
No? Ok, well we'll just have to settle then.

LOL!

GE as in GENOME or GENIAL
AU as in AUDIENCE or AUDIBLE
GA as in GALACTIC or GALATIANS

It's not hard. Sheesh. At least it's not "Cuyahoga." (which is pronounced "KO-ga" in Cleveland)

Yea, complaints were down because attendance was way down.

GEE..AU...GA LAKE. Every one say it together now.

Den...I live in Cuyahoga Falls. That's pronouced KY...A...HOG...A Falls. The HOG...A part is commonly pronounced as HOE...GA also. Cuyahoga means crooked river which is an Indian term. I believe Geauga is as well. I just can't remember the meaning and what tribe right now. Shawnee? Cherokee? Iroquois? Chippewa?...oops, another lake with an amusement park too!

Wood - anything else is an imitation

Just because the idiots in Oklahoma City (or New York, or where ever Six Flags actually makes decisions from) couldn't pronounce it was not a good enough reason to drop it. All of us here grew up with it.

I know how Cuyahoga is *supposed* to be pronounced, but many Clevelanders shorthand it into "Koga."

They do? I've never heard of it.

As for my demands of the park, I would like to see a more classic, traditional park that Geauga Lake once was. Dang I miss that rotor! *** Edited 3/19/2004 6:51:08 PM UTC by HeyIsntThatRob?***

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Thrillerman said:
GEE..AU...GA LAKE. Every one say it together now.

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Oh I knew how to say it, in fact I was having to tell people here in the Midwest how to say it after the news that WOF had a new sister park appeared in local news. I was just putting a fun spin on a very weird thread title.

I agree with Jeff on the reason they changed it. But when you look at it, how else would you say it?

Can't say I've ever heard that, Den, even as a life-long Clevelander.

"Koga?" Never heard it either. I've always heard "Ky-ah-ho-ga."

Perhaps that's an east side thing?

It's not that they're *trying* to say it that way, it's just that they're so used to saying it that that's how it comes out. Kinda like people around here call the suburb New Albany, "Nob-nee." Or they say, "Klum-bus." It's subtle.

But I've only been to Cleveland twice in my life; I'm just going based on two couples I know who grew up in Cleveland, and from what they've told me. So maybe it's isolated...

I'm personally hoping that the park keeps the Monorail (Bel-Air Express, formerly Parkview Express) running throughout the entire year. Last season, because it was part of the waterpark formerly known as Hurricane Harbor, the Monorail was closed on September and October weekends. The Monorail has been a family favorite for years and even on slow days, seemed to have a rather long line (of course, one train operation didn't help matters much!)... so I'm hoping with the new "family" atmosphere CF is striving for, that the Monorail will be a centerpiece attraction all season long.

ray p.

Den, I've been a life long Clevelander also, and I haven't heard the KOga pronunciation either. Not once in the 45 years I've been here. It must be an isolated thing with the people you know.

my dad pronounces it "guy - u - gah" everytime and it annoys me...

- alan "43 days" j

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insider said:
With CF I think the GL customer service will be exceptionally well..... Since they will actually properly train their employees.

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That is kinda a slap in the face to some of the Geauga Lake/SFWoA employees who actually care about their job, don't you think?

Cuyahoga, i live there...

Ky-a-howga if that makes any sense.

Geauga?

GEE-AW-GA im almost positive.