2014 Season Passes

[sfgam1]

My friend and I visited the park this past Saturday. He had processed his 2014 pass the Friday before. We got to the front gate, he scanned his pass, put his finger on the scanner and it didn't recognize his finger print. The turnstile attendant tried about 5 more times before sending my friend to guest services. At guest services, they updated his fingerprint and sent us back to the turnstiles. At the turnstile, the fingerprint yet again didn't work. After trying 5 more times, the attendant just let him go in.

I'm curious if this foreshadows next year...

[Viper 88]

Seems like it is going to be a pain in the ass. Whats next retinal scanning? Voice Recognition? Blood Sampling? Come on with all of this tech bull and get back to the roots. You want streamlined gate admission? SIMPLIFY no fingerprint just scan and go. More useless spending of funds better funneled into another aspect of the park like paint etc.

[SFGAmFan12]

My friend and I visited the park this past Saturday. He had processed his 2014 pass the Friday before. We got to the front gate, he scanned his pass, put his finger on the scanner and it didn't recognize his finger print. The turnstile attendant tried about 5 more times before sending my friend to guest services. At guest services, they updated his fingerprint and sent us back to the turnstiles. At the turnstile, the fingerprint yet again didn't work. After trying 5 more times, the attendant just let him go in.

I'm curious if this foreshadows next year...

lol. I have my pass but they never did my finger print. Can't wait until the confusion next season.

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[Road Rash]

I have the pictures on mine as well since we processed our passes back on September, 7th.

[UWW-10]

I'm betting the opening weekend is going to be a lot of unorganized chaos. I guarantee that if the park is trying to go to this bio-metric thing....anyone who processed early will probably be told they have to wait to process and transfer their information.

If the park wants to avoid this headache, then they'd be wise to hold some pre-processing dates so that the people could get this done prior to opening day.

[DeathbyDinn]

^ They had some pre-processing dates this year, so I'd assume they do it again.

Do we actually know for sure though if we'll have to switch our passes? If it's really that important to them I don't see why they didn't start using them from the day 2014 passes went on sale.

[Iron Wolf 90-11]

When we got the dining pass put on our gold pass we asked a worker about the finger print scanners. She said that it will be a year long process to get everyone's fingerprints in the system and get everything all figured out and situated.

[FParker185]

if I heard right the conversion wont have the need to re-process. They will just scan your fingerprint right at the front gate and that will be it. The whole idea is to completely get rid of season pass processing all together. In the end you will be able to get your season pass just about anywhere, then go to the park and use it, first visit your print is scanned at the front gate, and that's all that ever needs to be done.

[JimPanky]

Exactly. Everyone is acting like the fingerprints are so inconvenient. The fingerprints in the long run should eliminate the pass processing line which can be hell. Our benefit: no pass processing line. There benefit: you can print the same pass for everyone so you can print ahead of time and the pass itself will cost less and it will eliminate passes being used by friends, family, etc. which happens alot.

[kossdude1]

In my personal opinion, they have no clue what's going on with the biometric system, especially at the front gate with the guests who have pictures on their 2014 passes.

[JimPanky]

How bout we evaluate the season pass system that is new for 2014 in 2014 shall we.

[FParker185]

A novel concept!

[Jackluver18]

I was calculating how much it was gonna cost me for all three next year and there is a glitch on the six flags website. I clicked the dining pass through Fright Fest for 84.99 and in my cart it says "Dining Pass 4 or more through Fright Fest at 79.99. That's not the one I want so hopefully they fix the glitch before I purchase my passes.

[TwistedSTEEL666]

Will the season passes go on sale like in Feb or March? I think Jewel-Osco puts them on sale around that time as well. If they do go on sale it will be like $64.99 or $74.99 for one season pass?
I will buy one if they go on sale. Or if they don't go on sale, I will buy one anyway.

[FParker185]

Umm.... They started selling season passes in September, most people here already have one.

$79.99 for a pass, if you need parking you need a gold pass for $144.99

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

[Jackluver18]

Does anyone know if they are thinking about doing the "Early pass processing" like they did this year and go up to the park before opening day to avoid crowds?

[JimPanky]

Id be surprised if they didn't. They should. News of Goliath will probably increase season pass sales, which is needed with all the money going into it. I wonder if that is part of the reason they are going to the photo-less fingerprint system next year; to simplify pass processing to handle the increase in season pass sales.

[JimPanky]

Is anyone else having issues with https://rewards.sixflags.com/login.aspx ?
I can't log in. When I go to forgot password it says my e-mail doesn't exist; which isn't true because I went to the above link from an e-mail in my inbox saying my registration is complete.
I also tried just re-registering but it says my pass is already registered which it is.
Then when I went to contact us to ask them about it that errored out too. XD

[Luxornv]

Seems like we may be approaching a time when Six Flags no longer issues a physical pass. If they have your fingerprint on file, then that's all they need to ID you. Once they get the equipment working better, the rare occurrences of prints not being recognized just need to present an ID or some other way to prove who you are and that you actually did buy a season pass.

[DeathbyDinn]

I doubt we'll ever see that happen. Even Disney makes you scan your pass and fingerprint, and if the scanners aren't working, the best way to prove you bought a pass is to have an actual pass. And think about all the other things you we use our passes for. Store discounts, ERT, early theater entry, early park entry, etc. It would be expensive and inefficient to have to buy fingerprint scanners for all those different things, and there's really no need for it anyways.

^^ Just tried, working fine for me.

[TwistedSTEEL666]

I got a question. I have a 2014 season pass paper voucher ticket. My question is once I exchange it for an ID card season pass, will I be able to access and print out the discount coupons I want to use on my first visit from within the park? Are there any internet cafes with printers in the park?

[anewman35]

I got a question. I have a 2014 season pass paper voucher ticket. My question is once I exchange it for an ID card season pass, will I be able to access and print out the discount coupons I want to use on my first visit from within the park? Are there any internet cafes with printers in the park?

No printers, but if I'm not mistaken, you're not going to have to print anything out, they'll just be able to scan the pass and give you the discounts that way.

[Viper 88]

Thats bs especially if people dont have smart phones.

[FParker185]

the coupons are on your season pass itself, they scan it and it's in the system, it will apply the discount. Phone is pretty irrelevant.

[DeathbyDinn]

Guest Relations at SFMM has these, so I'd imagine we will as well.



Or, considering this is a website dedicated to the park, you could just ask someone...