Finally tried out the gold flash pass and it couldn't have been any more worth it. Got to the park at 10 and stayed until 9 for the 11 hour run.
It was excellent making a Dark Knight reservation and walking past the hours of people in the neverending lines that i would never wait. The ride is worth the 5 minute wait after the flash pass entrance, but thats it.
Got on Bull 5 times early in the day sporadically then manipulated that Gold Flash Pass to get on it 5 times in a row all while the first queue house was totally full. It felt great for a total of 10 times. Just craziness.
The Gold pass had us just walking up to rides, and re-reserving them and walking back up after the ride. It was a blast and so worth splitting it with a friend at about $35 a person. Having a season pass makes it so worth it since its basically just like paying for portion of a ticket into the park.
We got STUCK on Condor at the very top! It was terrible and nerve wrecking (and my first ride on it), everyone was worried it was going to drop. Is this a normal happening for it to just stop at the top?
The park was crowded and the lines were very long, and after going so many times this year and now using a flash pass, i just cant imagine waiting for any of the rides more then 30 mins to an hour. I walk by some rides like Batman and CANNOT believe people wait over an hour for it. I love the hell out of it, but its less then a minute. Same for Superman, the GP has a certain love for it.
Tried Aunt Marthas chicken dinners for the first time. It was pretty good, much better then the terrible Johnny Rockets.
Pictorium is showing the Shallow Seas ONLY in 2D for the past week or so due to "technical difficulties" ... so no 3D if you are looking forward to that.
If you have any questions about the day just reply!
Ride Count--
Raging Bull - 10 Superman- 3 V2 - 3 Batman- 3 Dark Knight- 2 Demon- 1 Iron Wolf- 1 Whizzer- 1 King Chaos- 1 Triple Play- 1 Fun Machine- 1 Condor - 1 Roaring Rapids- 1
Goku1910 wrote:How exactly does the Gold Flash pass work?
I mean what's the REAL big difference?
Because I wanna go on RB about 10 times!
You get the little Q-Bot device, and the list of rides come up and supposedly it knows the length of the line but the Gold version cuts that line down 75% whereas the regular you wait the whole length.
My experience yesterday had Raging Bulls wait about 10 minutes from the current time, so we would get scanned and then you would reserve Raging Bull again, and by the time you got done with the ride it would buzz and you could just scan again. ALL while that whole first queue house was totally full and wrapping.
It was so worth it. Me and a friend split it and it was $35... stayed 11 hours so it was basically $3.50 an hour to never wait in lines. It was amazing.
cowboy1192 wrote:So do you have to schedule your rides with the Gbot/Gold Pass? Or can you ride them whenever you want?
You schedule them with the device, but even being a Saturday from the moment i reserved the longest reservation time was like 30 minutes for the Dark Knight.
the MAIN advantage to this system is you can reserve right away and ride anytime on or after your reservation time. You DO NOT have to be there on time. So say you get on Raging Bull and then want to Batman and the time is in 10-15 minutes. No sweat because the time to walk there and do Raging Bull will take over 15 minutes easy.
It really is worth it and saves a whole lot of standing around.