Season Meal is a Go for our Park!

[Johnny.Ink]

Got an email from St. Louis about the season meal pass. It costs for them $55 bucks. I called our park and asked and the very nice CSR gent told me our park and St. Louis are the test parks.

Some details, if you get in before 11 you get 2 meal vouchers. After 2, 1 voucher.

The voucher will list where you can go eat etc.

I'm excited since my son and I go tons of times this will definitively save a ton of money for us!

MTA:

He stated they will be announcing the meal pass coming shortly as we and st. louis are the test parks for this new program.

[DejaVu2001]

Definitely looking forward to the details on this. As often as I go to the park, this could be even more economical than going to Burger King

[Johnny.Ink]

Definitely looking forward to the details on this. As often as I go to the park, this could be even more economical than going to Burger King

I got as much as I could Vu. I'm gonna ask to see if the pass works in both parks, or just the park you purchase it in.

[DejaVu2001]

^ If they can't even give you parking at every park, they certainly aren't going to give you food

[Johnny.Ink]

^ If they can't even give you parking at every park, they certainly aren't going to give you food

And I asked after my meeting, and he told me no. At least he didn't laugh at me

[DejaVu2001]

http://www.sixflags.com/stLouis/tickets ... gpass.aspx

St. Louis has their info up already. Only downside is drinks aren't included.

[monsterfan99]

Only downside is drinks aren't included.

And this is where they make their money. It's an old minor league baseball trick; give them ultra cheap food and they will spend a ton on drinks.

[DejaVu2001]

http://www.sixflags.com/greatAmerica/ti ... gpass.aspx

Great America's info is up

A day of thrills makes you hungry!

With the new Season Dining Pass, you can pay once and eat all year. Pay just $59.99 and eat lunch and dinner every time you visit the park. This exclusive offer is designed especially for Season Pass Holders who visit often — a great value!

How does it work?

Buy a dining pass at the beginning of the season and you can enjoy both lunch and dinner every time you visit Six Flags Great America. Each meal includes an entree and side order. The program features a wide variety of entrees at restaurants all over the park including BBQ pulled pork sandwiches, chicken strips, cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches, pizza, grilled chicken Caesar salads, hot dogs, pasta, chicken dinners, turkey leg platters, corn dogs, wraps and more.

Participating Park Restaurants

Aunt Martha's Boarding House
Primo's Pizza (multiple locations)
JB's BBQ
County Fair Grill
Maw & Paw's
Mooseburger Lodge
Great American Hot Dog
Waterin' Hole
Cyber Cafe
Paradise Pizza in Hurricane Harbor
Pink Flamingo in Hurricane Harbor
Beachcombers Chicken in Hurricane Harbor

[FParker185]

Simple work around for the drink. Ask for 5 cups of water when it's clearly just you. I bet the person just gives you the big cup of water like the old days. And if not, play along, make multiple trips, barge up to the front of the line to get the remaining cups, make it at least 3 trips. They'll get the idea pretty quick

[Coaster Justin]

This'll probably work wonders for Six Flags. Keep people in the park. Cedar Fair must've done well with their Picnic in the Park things.

[Chitown]

Notice on below all the details since drinks aren't included, they promote the $9.99 sports bottle. Overall, I think its a pretty good deal and they have a long list of restaurants to choose from. I would get it if I still lived up there.

[FParker185]

Yeah, carrying around the bottle is a pain though. Still if you get about 8-9 meals over the course of the season, the pass does pay for itself (using an average of around $7 for a meal at BK, plus I guess the time you loose at the park, which for most of us really doesn't count for much)

[Jackluver18]

I'll buy it

[Chitown]

I'm with Mike, even if I didn't want to bother with small cups of water, after I ate, I would just head to the nearest water fountain (they have plenty of them). Yep, once again, I would definitely purchase this.

[Ilovthevu']

I think this is a great deal if you like the park's food. From previous experience with eating various food at the park besides the Funnel Cakes and Pecans / Almonds, it's nothing special to me. Plus, as I probably said before I'm the type of person that I need to get away for a bit because their is a time during the day where the crowds are sort of overwhelming, and if I take 1 hr or 1 hr 30min to eat / go to a store, than it's like a refresher for me. I know a lot of people of the general public maybe stay all day, but than they leave earlier. I take one break during the day, and stay the whole night. If the park is open less, I won't leave though or sometimes I will go to a faster place to eat outside the park.

The only problem I see with this deal is that you are going to have to stand in line twice for your food. Once you are standing in line just for your voucher depending on how many people are getting it. I'm sure they are going to scan your season pass probably similar to how you get in the park, and than you are going to stand in line obviously for wherever you are eating. I just can't the picture out of my head of the season pass processing line, and the flash pass line, but it probably would be more like the front entrance line.

"Present your Season Pass ID at the Dining Pass Sales Center in Carousel Plaza on each visit and receive one lunch voucher and one dinner voucher."

[Chitown]

I really don't think anyone here thinks the parks food is outstanding. But for that price, I would get it because it is edible. That is how I think about all the fast food crap that is outside the park, just edible.

To solve the line problem, hit a restaurant at non-peak times.

[tp41190]

I don't think I will get it. I actually look forward to walk/driving to burger king, taco bell, or the mall for lunch. When you've been to the park countless of times, taking an hour or two out of the day is a good break...for me anyway. I don't think I could ever spend an open-close in the park again, even with it being dead.

[CoasterDemon]

^I just starting thinking the same thing to myself. Do I really want to stand in line for food? Those lines can be pretty slow and annoying.

Nothing beats a Culvers or Taco Bell. Or the Sbarro at the Oasis

[FParker185]

That's what I'm thinking. While it might be a decent buy money wise. Part of me wants to leave the park, sit down in my nice cushy car seat, and drive to Burger King, Culvers, Golden Corral or the Gurnee Mills food court or whatever in my nice cold air conditioning, gives me a rest during the day, where I don't have to worry about lines, people or anything else. Just sit back, relax get some halfway ok food, collect myself then head back into the park.

Other part of me says it's a decent deal and I should go for it. I think if I get it it's going to be in impulse buy one day. Of course I've been to SFGAm literally 300-400 times, I place no value what so ever on my time in the park, I've done everything there is to do more times than I care to do it. In fact if I show up at open, generally by 1-2pm I'm looking at my watch counting the hours til I go home. So 1-3 hours outside the park to get food means nothing for me other than maybe loosing a good parking space. In the end no matter how you slice or dice it if you go to the park more than 10 times in a season, you'll get a pretty good value for your money.

[monsterfan99]

With the last 3 on enjoying a break during the day from the parks. Was always a nice thing to drive over to BK or the mall and take an AC break.

[Chitown]

If you you keep going to BK, you are going to lose out here. This is a good thing. If you go over 3 times it will pay for itself. Think about it.

[Ilovthevu']

^The value of the food at the park is overpriced obviously so for me to get my value out of the food, I would say it would be 6 times to break even. For me though, 6 times is nothing really.

[CoasterDemon]

I guess it might be nice to have the food pass for a few times when I don't wanna leave the park. When I go with friends, there is always a balance of time thing. They usually want to ride stuff I could care less about, and I get that kinda hungry where I'm hungry *now* and have to eat.

So it might be nice to get a Mooseburger basket, cut it in half. That way, me and my friend will be temporarily satisfied and not have to leave the park for a while. I usually don't go during the day anymore, anyway. I like to go later in the afternoon or evening. Spent too much time as a kid there in the hot sun; now I'm a big kid and can do what I want, and have wheels. Nighttime is the right time to be at the park!

[MrRy10]

I'll probably get it

[w00dland]

Pros - Probably saves time and money.

Cons - You're still eating food at Six Flags.