You & Season Passes?

LOL! I agree. Oh well, addictions take money. ;-)

-Tina

I'm somewhere around the $250 margin.

$100 for the Hershey

$100 for Dorney

$50 for my SFA pass

I bought Paramount passes in the past but It's a little tougher to get your moneys worth out of them when PKD is about a 4-5 hour drive.

These are all of the passes that both the wife and I will be using this year.

2 SFOG Passes- $100

2 Carowinds Passes- $100

2 Knotts Passes- $130

2 Universal 2 Park Power Passes- $220

2 Busch/Sea World Platinum Passes- $590 (Paying over 2 years though, EZ Pay is nice!)

2 Dollywood Passes- $100

Not counting the Universal and Busch passes, we've come out pretty good with our pass prices for the year. Having a coupon to use for the ones at Knotts helped a bunch.

Cedar Point pass, JCC, and parking pass is all I'm doing for sure...considering a SFWoA pass.

$78 Dorney, $92 Hershey, $54 SFA, and $90 PKD. Multiply that by 3(Fiance, son, and me), and its a great value. Imagine if we had to pay the gate price everytime we went. If that were the case we'd probably only be able to go to each park 1 or 2 times, and that doesn't even include the other sister parks that we visit off of those passes. *** Edited 2/7/2004 2:24:50 AM UTC by Coasterfantom***

We only get passes at Dorney ($85) and SFNE ($60) and just buy tickets at the gate for any parks outside those chains. We do hit several sister parks, so the $290 is spread out pretty good.

This year's abnormal in that I have two season passes at parks that are in different continents, but here goes:

SFMM - $90
USH - $47
Dreamworld (Australia) - USD$118 (i.e. complete ripoff, for about 1/5 of about any decent park in America)
Warner Bros. Movie World (Australia) - $88 (slightly less of a ripoff, for even less of a park)

That's $343. Don't ever make a thread like this again - I don't think I'm the only one who realises now that it's not just time they're wasting with parks, but also lots of money. :)

Throw in a SoCal CityPass ($166), Orlando FlexTickets ($219), Park Hopper Plus ($269), and I've spent $1,000 on theme park tickets in the past year. If they count, do I win? ;)

SFNE Season Pass: $55

Haven't decided whether I'm gonna get the parking pass this year or not. The website says its a sticker and not one of those things that hangs on the mirror and that pisses me off.

Okay well this does show that Theme Parks should be thankful for our business because we spend a whole crap load of money every year! lol Okay not enough for a new ride but still!

Yeah, theme parks owe us stuff like ERT and food!!!!!11!!

Joe "well they do" C.

THATS RIGHT! lol ;)

Dollywood/Silver Dollar City Gold $87

Carowinds/Kings Dominion $85 (What? No Gold Passes are offerd this year?)

Busch Gardens Williamsburg Gold $140

Very happy that more parks are holding SP Appreciation days this year. :)

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Do we really spend a lot of money?

Take your season pass price and devide that by the amount of times you go a year I bet its a lot less then a Gen Admit ticket.

Of course they do make money on the stuff you buy in the park and thats the whole reason why there are season passes but seriously I will buy at the most a t-shirt (any new park I go to or if a major new ride I liked has a cool design) and maybe the random soda and snacks that proably adds up to proably $50-$100 max.

Six Flags definalty lost money on me this year, Cedarfair however ended up making a profit on me.

Cedar Fair [Knotts] $65 + $35 parking pass. Since Knotts is my favorite So-Cal park, this is the best deal for me. I visit at least once every-other month.

Disneyland $108 [the cheap pass with tons of blacked out summer dates] plus $40 parking. I've really come to enjoy Disneyland and DCA, and with the addition of ToT I couldn't resist renewing for a second year. I don't mind the black out dates because I never go to the park in summer anyway, and if I want to go it's only $25 on those days.

Universal - I have not purchased a pass yet but with their "buy a day, come back the rest of the year free" deal and Mummy opening I'll get a Universal pass this year.

Six Flags $0 - this is the first year in about 20 years I have not purchased a SFMM season pass. I won't be travelling much this year and won't return to SFMM until I read trip reports that it has improved customer service and ride operations.

mOOSH

I know if you do the math it comes to a few bucks a visit. Its justifiable if you look at the pros of buying passes. You have the option to just go for a few huors with out having to pay even half day prices.

-If you go and your favorite ride is down, it only costs you gas money to come back.

-If you pick a day a storm rolls in your not really out anything but time and fas money.

-If show up on a day where its packed in record numbers you can chill and wait all day in lines or go home and come back another day.

-Plus if your out of town and have a SF, CF, or Paramount SP, you can pop in if you have a few hours and not have to worry about dropping $40 for admission

The only con is not having time to use it and kill it.

So comparing it to other summer activities and trips, if you buy season passes its actually cheaper.

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Do we really spend a lot of money?

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Yes, I'd say $1000 is a lot of money, no matter how many times my family goes. If I wasn't literally rolling in frequent flyer miles, it would cost me a lot more.

Do we get good value for that money? Absolutely. But, $1000 purchases are not among those I make without thinking at least a little.

I spend $0 on season passes.

I do not live close enough to any parks that offer them to make it economically viable for me to purchase them.

MY favorite park and coaster,the Vancouver PNE/Playland, is 323 miles from my home. While they do offer a season pass, I am only able make it up there 1-2 times a year. This year, I will probably not be able to make up there at all as my wife is facing a kidney transpant or dialysis. Besides,POP admission to this park is only Canadian $24.99(about $17 US) *** Edited 2/9/2004 8:16:52 PM UTC by Ronald S. Anderson***

I usually only get a Paramount season pass from my home park (Carowinds). that brings the total to about....

$80.00

I think the benefit of being able to just pop in for a few rides is the best part about passes, atleast if you live pretty close to a park to do this. Instead of repeatedly spending whole days at the park, you can just stop in, ride your favorite couple of rides or whatever doesn't have a line, then go do something else.

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Mamoosh said:
....and won't return to SFMM until I read trip reports that it has improved customer service and ride operations.
mOOSH

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Or until they get an Intamin Hyper.:)