Snyder Flags starts bending us over!!!!

It is now $15 friggin bucks to park at MM!

Quite a few of the other parks are following suit. The cost to go to Snyder Flags with a family is quickly getting out of control. Snyder thinks parks should be run like Sporting events apparently.

All I say is that the service better get a hell of a lot better or I may not be patronizing any Six Flags in the near future. Considering how terrible MM has become over the past few years, to assume that the Snyder Flags experience should cost anything near a day at Disney is ludacris.

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As you said, with these price hikes I expect much better service! If they really tried to improve customer service, general park upkeep etc, then I wouldn't mind the extra $5.

[gouldy]

You jammy, jammy twats. $15? I hate it when I see Americans ranting about stuff being expensive, you don't know you're born I remember the topic about fuel prices a little while ago, the guy said it was like $3 a gallon or something, can't remember now, and here in the UK we was paying that much for a bloody litre , seriously, you don't know you're born.

^ Lets just say we pay ?????????29 for a ticket to alton for the day, and it is only open from 10 till 5/6 most of the time! This is about $50 i think! Count yourselves lucky, geez.

Here is a comparisign of my last visit to SFGA versus my last visit to Holiday World. I think it's very obvious why I'm never going back to the corporate bastard-run park.

my most recent list of Six Flags expenditures for 1 day at the park:
$15 - parking
$50 - park entry
$10 - drinks
$18 - food
TOTAL: $98 for one friggin' day.

And what did that 98 bucks get me?

The good:
-Nitro, Medusa, El Toro. Yeah, the coasters are pretty much the only good thing.

The bad:
-litter
-no water fountains
-unattentive staff
-slow queue lines
-writing on ride entrance walls
-line jumpers (where's the security?)
-EVERYTHING is horribly overpriced ($3 just for a bottle of coke?)


Now, a quick comparisign to my most recent visit to Holiday World:
$0 - parking
$20 - park entry
$0 - waterpark entry
$0 - sunscreen
$0 - drinks
$8 - food
TOTAL: $28

What is my $28 getting me?

The good:
-The Raven, The Legend, The Voyage, Zinga, ZoomBabwe, The Legend, The Raven, The Voyage, The Legend, The Raven (repeat 7 more times, because they're that good!)
-friendly staff
-great ride maintenance (those woodies are smoother than others that are half as old)
-incredible guest service
-free parking, drinks, sunscreen, and water park entry
-great prices on merchandise ($10 for a t-shirt versus $20 at SFGA)
-clean
-crowds... what crowds?

The bad:
-I have to drive 400 miles to get there


Hmm... $98 to ride a few good coasters at Six Flags, or $28 to have the time of my life at Holiday World? Yeah, take that you money-mongering corporate punks.

Im with you pdon this should be the Snyder Flags boycott forum everyone who wants to join say so and you will join the list

1.pdonahue
2.RRollergod
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(pdon if im not here you can do the list)

You gotta admit some of the season passes are a steal though. I got my SFFT pass in the mall yesturday and it only cost 46 bucks!

Does the season pass include parking? If it does, then it is indeed a steal.

naw its 20 bucks for the parking pass, but its all worth the ten trips ill get and one trip to sfne!

well at BGW my family doesnt have to pay at all . . .cause we bought platnium passes (u get into any anhiser busch park *i totally killed the spelling on that*)

Originally posted by Jakizle

You gotta admit some of the season passes are a steal though. I got my SFFT pass in the mall yesturday and it only cost 46 bucks!

There are rumors that you won't see such prices next year; I hear season passes might be in the hundreds of dollars.

I think $10 to park was an outrage; $15 is beyond outrageous. I sincerely hope attendance falls very dramatically this year at 6 Flags. Granted, right now, the stockholders are happy. But will they be when attendance is lousy? Think about it - standard food (exactly what you can get outside the park, but more expensive), too-high parking fees, a focus on anything other than roller coasters (I admit, parks need to be well-rounded and family-friendly, but the statement's been made - no more coasters), and the fiasco about no re-entry? It's obvious that it's about the $$$$ - not about guest happiness. Paramount Parks has already gone this route - and attendance is down there. I don't want parks to be like the outside world, filled with shops and food the outside world already offers. That's why I think Dollywood and Silver Dollar City are such special places - where food, rides, entertainment and atmosphere all form a package.

Originally posted by cjd

Here is a comparisign of my last visit to SFGA versus my last visit to Holiday World. I think it's very obvious why I'm never going back to the corporate bastard-run park.

my most recent list of Six Flags expenditures for 1 day at the park:
$15 - parking
$50 - park entry
$10 - drinks
$18 - food
TOTAL: $98 for one friggin' day.

And what did that 98 bucks get me?

The good:
-Nitro, Medusa, El Toro. Yeah, the coasters are pretty much the only good thing.

The bad:
-litter
-no water fountains
-unattentive staff
-slow queue lines
-writing on ride entrance walls
-line jumpers (where's the security?)
-EVERYTHING is horribly overpriced ($3 just for a bottle of coke?)


Now, a quick comparisign to my most recent visit to Holiday World:
$0 - parking
$20 - park entry
$0 - waterpark entry
$0 - sunscreen
$0 - drinks
$8 - food
TOTAL: $28

What is my $28 getting me?

The good:
-The Raven, The Legend, The Voyage, Zinga, ZoomBabwe, The Legend, The Raven, The Voyage, The Legend, The Raven (repeat 7 more times, because they're that good!)
-friendly staff
-great ride maintenance (those woodies are smoother than others that are half as old)
-incredible guest service
-free parking, drinks, sunscreen, and water park entry
-great prices on merchandise ($10 for a t-shirt versus $20 at SFGA)
-clean
-crowds... what crowds?

The bad:
-I have to drive 400 miles to get there


Hmm... $98 to ride a few good coasters at Six Flags, or $28 to have the time of my life at Holiday World? Yeah, take that you money-mongering corporate punks.

holiday world is the poop. that is all i can say about that place.

[coolbeans326]

Considering how terrible MM has become over the past few years, to assume that the Snyder Flags experience should cost anything near a day at Disney is ludacris.

Six Flags Magic Mountain overall all had a better performance last summer than it did the summers before. (or so all the reviews said.) Last summer it was pretty fun, and overall wasn't that bad, but what Snyder is doing (like you said) he's hiking up things, and people just don't want to go a park that to them wasn't very good, and they wouldn't know because they didn't go last year when it had a better overall service, but even with that, it wasn't worth these prices that they have now. Lucky, for me though, I have an Xtreme Pass and I don't have to worry about parking and I get 20% discounts on practically everything which totally makes the pass worth it once you see that you've saved $20 in one day. It really pays itself off quickly.

^ yeah i know the more money the make, they more money they can put towards maintence.

two things though that i have to say about that. 1) Six Flags attendance WILL drop with all of these changes in pricing they have made. and 2) a park like holiday world, they dont spend that much money on maintance, well, becasue they dont need to. they keep their rides maintainned in good shape, even if they are running smooth. on the other hand, SF waits until something breaks, then they fix it. and they arent even that efficent in doing that.

Im not sure about anywhere else but in ohio they must give free cups of water. According to Cedar Point its law.

Originally posted by CoAsTeRkRazY

well at BGW my family doesnt have to pay at all . . .cause we bought platnium passes (u get into any anhiser busch park *i totally killed the spelling on that*)

Gold and silver come with free parking too. and discounts on food

yeah "snyder" flags needs to shape up

but at most parks, stuff is overpriced, but BGW as most of you might know is "The Most Beatiful Theme Park" and yes, it is nice mostly short lines, friendsly staff, an amazing ammount of litter cleaning staff, and
theres only writting on the ride walls on Loch Ness Monster, but they paint over it every year.

I have to agree that suff at ament parks are oevr pirced last year when I was at sixflags great avtere the park was in relly good shape there was no liiter and there was no line jumping and you coun't lean on the ral for the line and they din'nt allow drinks on the rides or food in line the rides were relly been mantented relly well but the food was relly expeve but it was relly good food. I will be going back to six flags great avtere this year but I hope that the I don'nt have to pay $15.00 to park when I was there last year it was $5.00 to park and the price to get in was $50.00 a person but I got a discout to get in the park becuse of the coke cans they had a cuone on them to save $10.00 a person to get into six flags parks so I only had to pay $40.00 to get into the park and the staff at the park were relly frendly. I think that attace will drop for the six flags parks this year if they chage that much to park to they still stamp your hand to get back into the park? If they don'nt I will never go to a six flags park again. I hope that six flags byes there parks back or gives them to cedar far amtent park chae and fixes the parks up alot.

^ you tend to leave a lot of letters out[lol]

here we go again. . .as Tcon likes to say *tremendous eye roll here*

and hepta yea gold and silver do but its just platnium is the best[approve]

^ i know

There is one question that I cant answer. How does Holiday World run on a small budget when Six Flags is freaking expensive?

let me see if i can answer this for you, sixflags is a large chain of parks with much more rides in most cases. which usually means more people riding those rides wearing them down more so they have to hire people to fix those rides so they charge more for passes and food and drinks now holiday world is more of a smaller family oriented park thats family owened and operated i think i cant really remember so its probably cheaper to maintain a park like that than a larger park like most of the sixflags i hope this answered your question

Originally posted by RRollergod

Im with you pdon this should be the Snyder Flags boycott forum everyone who wants to join say so and you will join the list

1.pdonahue
2.RRollergod
3.FN
4.cjd
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

(pdon if im not here you can do the list)

Hey, don't put me on that list until I have seen what the effect these changes will have [;)]

Originally posted by Jakizle

You gotta admit some of the season passes are a steal though. I got my SFFT pass in the mall yesturday and it only cost 46 bucks!

What!!! I am planning my trip to La Ronde right now and their seasons passes are $85.59, per person! I am planning on spending two days in the park with my girlfriend. If we buy two seasons passes at $85.59, it comes to $196.86 with tax.
I feel extremely ripped off! I can buy four regular day tickets for $147.94, tax included. I am definatly writing a letter to see if I can find out why La Ronde passes are so much more.

FN, Canadian dollars aren't worth as much as US dollars. You should know that.

i find that the extreme play pass frm SFMM pays almost twice itself each visit (after the first 2--regualr admission is 50 bucks or so and the extreme pass is 120) but it gets parking, 15-20% off food and merchandies, and 4 free, reserved fast passes. in total (not counting food and whatnot) it saves you around 90 bucks a visit. its pretty good and i've had it for 2 years. although sfmm s still crappy beyond beleif.