Just saw a Facebook ad that let me to discover that 2017 passes/memberships are already available, at least for renewals. sixflags.com/renew
Seems to be the same basic deal as the last few years, although with some bonus tickets for renewals which I think is new. I was looking for any hints of anything else new (Holiday In the Park?) And didn't see anything, but I'm busy working oking, maybe somebody else would have better luck...
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I haven't seen any advertising for this yet besides the direct website above. I just want to make sure this is legit before I buy my pass. If it is, thats a hack of a deal!
Been to may theme parks, in many countries. However, SFGAm is my home park and I love it!
BCarroll wrote:I haven't seen any advertising for this yet besides the direct website above. I just want to make sure this is legit before I buy my pass. If it is, thats a hack of a deal!
It's on sixflags.com. I'm not sure how it gets any more legit than that? But if you're worried, I'm sure they'll push out the same deal on September 1st through e-mail and stuff.
One thing interesting is that the fine print says you have to buy four or more to get the special offers, but it seems to let you go most of the way through (I didn't finalize it) buying only one. Also, if you renew you get a bonus 2017 ticket which is good April 29-September 4, 2017, which I'm guessing means that's the dates of the regular season (although it seems possible they'd open a week earlier and not let you use the free ticket opening weekend because of crowds).
chrisisdragon wrote:Wow the dinning passes this year are way more expensive then last year Is the dinning pass even worth it
Unless I'm missing something, they don't have 2017 dining passes up yet, just 2016 ones which (inexplicably to me, but it's always this way) get more expensive as the season goes on. I'm sure they'll have various deals on 2017 ones on September 1st.
chrisisdragon wrote:Wow the dinning passes this year are way more expensive then last year Is the dinning pass even worth it
Unless I'm missing something, they don't have 2017 dining passes up yet, just 2016 ones which (inexplicably to me, but it's always this way) get more expensive as the season goes on. I'm sure they'll have various deals on 2017 ones on September 1st.
I was talking about 2016 dining pass Its going to be about the same for 2017 no way its going to go down in price
chrisisdragon wrote:Wow the dinning passes this year are way more expensive then last year Is the dinning pass even worth it
Unless I'm missing something, they don't have 2017 dining passes up yet, just 2016 ones which (inexplicably to me, but it's always this way) get more expensive as the season goes on. I'm sure they'll have various deals on 2017 ones on September 1st.
I was talking about 2016 dining pass Its going to be about the same for 2017 no way its going to go down in price
It will, I guarantee it. Passes (season passes and dining passes) are always cheapest during the pre-season sale, and only get more expensive as the season goes on (with a sale once in a while), but they never get as cheap as the pre-season sale again.
Example: a current 2016 regular pass is $78 and a gold pass is $98. A 2017 gold pass (which includes 2016) is $62.
If I recall correctly, last season the dining pass for the initial Flash Sale was $50-$100ish depending on which one you got (maybe somebody who bought them could confirm?). I'd be very surprised if that changed very much. There's no way in the world they try to charge anywhere near what they have them up for now ($159-$200)
anewman35 wrote:Just saw a Facebook ad that let me to discover that 2017 passes/memberships are already available, at least for renewals. sixflags.com/renew
Seems to be the same basic deal as the last few years, although with some bonus tickets for renewals which I think is new. I was looking for any hints of anything else new (Holiday In the Park?) And didn't see anything, but I'm busy looking, maybe somebody else would have better luck...
'One thing interesting is that the fine print says you have to buy four or more to get the special offers, but it seems to let you go most of the way through (I didn't finalize it) buying only one. "
Where does it say you have to buy four or more to get the special offers?
Jackluver18 wrote:'One thing interesting is that the fine print says you have to buy four or more to get the special offers, but it seems to let you go most of the way through (I didn't finalize it) buying only one. "
Where does it say you have to buy four or more to get the special offers?
It was in the small print at the bottom. It's not anymore.
Okay, well hopefully you won't have to buy 4 to get the offers. Im buying my season pass and dining pass for myself. I just read that on September 1st is when they'll announce the price for Dining pass and Membership pass. So Im gonna wait till Thursday or Friday when I have the day off to buy it.
Got two passes for the discounted price. My fiance and I decided the dining pass was no longer worth it as we can easily eat before driving down the street to the park. It's especially not worth it after the insane, non moving line I waited in at the new chicken place to get a chicken sandwich with a tiny piece of chicken on it.
LordMagnus101 wrote:Got two passes for the discounted price. My fiance and I decided the dining pass was no longer worth it as we can easily eat before driving down the street to the park. It's especially not worth it after the insane, non moving line I waited in at the new chicken place to get a chicken sandwich with a tiny piece of chicken on it.
Are you kidding? Strutters has one of the best deals in the park with the dining pass.
I jumped at the renewal as there wasn't a 4-pack requirement. In the past my partner and I always got screwed on the pass price because we were buying only two so we would have to work out a "you get gold, I'll get regular" Now we both have gold and it's cheaper than we spent last year.
Dining passes for next year are $69.99. They come with upgrade to premium which comes with sport bottle. Here is the link:https://www.sixflags.com/greatamerica/store/season-dining-passes-flashsale No gold dining pass this year, just premium.
acutler wrote:Dining passes for next year are $69.99. They come with upgrade to premium which comes with sport bottle. Here is the link:https://www.sixflags.com/greatamerica/store/season-dining-passes-flashsale No gold dining pass this year, just premium.
So total for total of $151 including processing and tax for Season Gold Pass and Season Premium Dining. Bought last year in spring and it coast $183 and that was for Regular Pass and Gold Dining.
I'm not sure how we ended up spending $450 for two season passes with parking on one and two dining passes, but I'm waiting to see how FF turns out before I consider buying more passes. If I lived right down the street or even within 30 miles, it'd be worth it just to use the dining pass every week. But if I'm going for the rides, it seems kinda silly to plunk down over $400 for maybe 6-8 weeks between May-July where the lines are reasonable. The dining pass is very worthwhile. You could get by with just one for two people because they give out such big quantities. Even when there were hordes of people in the middle of last month, we never had a problem with food lines.
If the prices go lower in addition to adding the new Joker coaster that may or may not increase demand. Goliath I think just increased demand for Flash Passes tenfold. Joker might only get an X-Flight level of hype, which is to say hardly any. X-Flight ridership has been much higher in the Goliath era than when it first opened. What they're trying to do I think is maintain the extra interest the Goliath advertising blitz brought them. My guess is that they're hoping this Joker coaster sustains it until they can bring in another record-setter that generates massive interest.
batmanfan80 wrote:I'm not sure how we ended up spending $450 for two season passes with parking on one and two dining passes, but I'm waiting to see how FF turns out before I consider buying more passes. If I lived right down the street or even within 30 miles, it'd be worth it just to use the dining pass every week. But if I'm going for the rides, it seems kinda silly to plunk down over $400 for maybe 6-8 weeks between May-July where the lines are reasonable. The dining pass is very worthwhile. You could get by with just one for two people because they give out such big quantities. Even when there were hordes of people in the middle of last month, we never had a problem with food lines.
If the prices go lower in addition to adding the new Joker coaster that may or may not increase demand. Goliath I think just increased demand for Flash Passes tenfold. Joker might only get an X-Flight level of hype, which is to say hardly any. X-Flight ridership has been much higher in the Goliath era than when it first opened. What they're trying to do I think is maintain the extra interest the Goliath advertising blitz brought them. My guess is that they're hoping this Joker coaster sustains it until they can bring in another record-setter that generates massive interest.
When you ordered did you add Season Parking to your cart? You didn't need to b/c the deal was free upgrade to Gold, which comes with free parking. Don't see how you got $450 total with 2 passes, 2 Dining..should have been about $300 w/ tax and processing fee.
I'll never understand Six Flags pricing. Our passes are more than a lot of the smaller parks (and a little less than parks like Great Adventure and Magic Mountain), but most of those parks have dining passes that are $10 more than ours. Also there are a wide variety of different rules - for example, some parks you need to pick up by the beginning of October to get the free Gold upgrade, we have until November...
So here's a question that maybe someone might be able to help with.
If I have a current Membership with SFStl and want to switch everything to SFGam (looking like the membership this year would actually be a little cheaper by about $0.50/month vs what i'm paying now and the dining pass for SFGam is $10 cheaper than SFStl this year), should I just cancel my current before buying the new (officially my 12 months are up September 5th), or if I don't cancel my current one, will I then end up getting double billed? I had a season pass offer for SFStl for $49.99 with my promo, but I like the membership option and honestly I only bought the one in St. Louis last year since i was in town over labor day.
Also, I plan on adding a season flash pass for SFGam at some point while the price is low (I'm sure it'll be offered at $299 for a bit), so I figure it would be better for my membership to be at SFGam since it's about 30 minutes closer than SFStl is to me.
anewman35 wrote:Just saw a Facebook ad that let me to discover that 2017 passes/memberships are already available, at least for renewals. sixflags.com/renew
Seems to be the same basic deal as the last few years, although with some bonus tickets for renewals which I think is new. I was looking for any hints of anything else new (Holiday In the Park?) And didn't see anything, but I'm busy working oking, maybe somebody else would have better luck...
This is the third year. Always the best time to get next year's pass. Incredible deals.
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