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So... correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that only a 3 dollar cut on one-day tickets from last season? Looks like they are maximizing profit there.
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I'd love to be in their marketing department right now. One park for the price of two! What a Surprise!
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$44.95 is not a bad price for a season pass, and some of the perks aren't bad. Sure, you won't be able to get into CP or KI with the pass, but if you're only intention is to go to the waterpark a few times, I think it's a good value, and how about that jacket? I guess my only fear for anyone who was a supporter of the rides is that your questions have been answered--there are no mention of any themepark rides at all. In fact at a total size of 11 acres, I'd say that leaves no room for anything else but waterslides.
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Actually if you look at water parks in the area (Soak City, The Beach, Noah's Ark) they all have about the same admission price so its actually a very fair rate. It just looks like a ripoff because they were giving away the gate last year...
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$23.95 sound's expensive compared to what they used to offer for about the same price. But it is an amazing waterpark with great potential, so I wish them luck.
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I think you need to read between the lines a bit... a whole lot of people are going to buy passes because, "For 11 bucks more, we can come back all summer." Only they'll probably come back once if at all, so the cost per visit is $22.50. Makes sense to me. Now they just need to sell the crap out of it.
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You mean the way they didn't with Geauga Lake pre-neutering??
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Compared to what the park was last year, this seems expensive, but compared to other water parks its cheap or competitive. Sandcastle's season passes are $59 and the park is not nearly as nice as GL.
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You will not find me there.
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Apparently we didn't find you there this year either.
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I wanted to go but I wasn't sure if and when the park was open thanks to the lack of advertising. There sure wasn't a shortage of Cedar Point and Kings Island marketing crap thrust in my face.
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^ You have an internet connection, right? $23.95 is steep for just the waterpark compared to $26.95 for the whole shebang, but we have to keep in mind how underpriced $26.95 was for that park in the first place. (And I mean real-world underpriced, not Gonchar-world.  ) They can't exactly come out charging 11 bucks. More importantly, I think, is what they'll do with the in-park pricing. Will it still be $4 Pepsis, or will they be more in line with what a typical attraction of this sort would charge?
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me = facetious 
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kpjb:
And I mean real-world underpriced, not Gonchar-world.
Hey! A lot of you guys sound more and more like me every day whether you want to admit it or not.
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Does the platinum pass cover admission to WWK?
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The price for admission seems somewhat reasonable, but how many stand alone waterparks charge for parking? Noah's Ark and Schlitterbahn don't charge to park your car and their waterparks have more to offer.
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^^ Yes it does. Buy it at Cedar Point though because then you get Point Perks.
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How late was the waterpark open in previous seasons? I'm wondering how much time you get for that $15.95 twilight rate. Also, I'm wondering about the proposed schedule, with weekends only until the second week of June, plus closed the last week of August. Soak City, Dorney WWK, and even Waldameer offer more days at either the beginning, end, or both. Is the weather or school schedule that different in that section of Ohio?
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Soak City caters to the resorts guests primarily, so there are different rules there. But yeah, there's no point in being open during the week until the first week of June here, as the kids are mostly still in school.
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on the 10-10 days for rides and such the water park ran from 11a-8p.
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According to the website, Dorney WWK was open straight through from Memorial Day through Labor Day this year. And school here ends in early June and starts the last week of August as well.
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^^^^ If you extrapolate from the last two or three seasons, by 2010 they'll be down to Strickers Grove hours. Presuming they're open at all, of course.
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I'm guessing almost no one will pay full gate. The gate price gives them headroom to shove discount coupons in all the local papers and whatnot. -'Playa
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Still a rip off because When it was SFWOA the price for a season pass used to be around $50.00 for three parks. now its around there for only a water park c'mon i thought they will lower the pass price around the admission price and admission will be lower. that makes sense a $20.00 for a pass then a ticket price for $9.99. but instead they like to pick money out of our pockets.
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No one is making you go there. Furthermore, Six Flags underpriced everything, and they screwed themselves. Not a good example to make the case that this is the wrong thing to do.
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what difference does it make what Schlitterban is charging across the country? this waterpark has its main competition from local pools and other waterparks in NE Ohio. I can imagine a family of five walking up to the gate come July. Clearly they have done their research and checked this site for the buzz far in advance. They will be well aware of how many rides will be operational and where the best deals will be in the park. They hurry as they approach the ticket counter because they want to get into the park exactly on schedule. Families have a strict routine around these parts and they will be maximizing their time inside the park by extrapolating the 4 year ridership data to determine their exact location throughout the entire day. Of course they are aware of the utter destruction of every single dry ride. They have no emotional response to this action and think strictly of business at all times. In fact they don't even like Geauga Lake one bit but are only coming out to the park today because it's a better deal than the waterparks in Texas. The waterparks across the nation can't compete with the EBITDA that this water park can provide. This family would never think of swimming in the pool in the neighbor's back yard, the ROI just isn't there for it. What about the local pool? Now where is the sense in that? Who wants to swim in a pool close to home thats less expensive and essentially the same in a child's eyes? If little Johnny can't play in a $25 Million waterpark, whats the point of playing at all? "No Susie, you can't go swimming with your friends at the Rec, I want to go pay out the ass for a waterpark where you can be miserable and I can't afford a hot dog and a tank of gas for my Humvie. What Tim, you want to go see a movie and play your Xbox? What is wrong with you, child? You should be spending money every day of the week. Not only anyone's money, my excess of money of course. Where once we could have access to 10 roller coasters, dozens of slides, and a score of other rides for the low low price of $27, we can now have a whopping third of that for a stunning $3 less. Whats stopping us from going right now? Stop your complaining about that fat whale, it was dragging down on the bottom line. You don't want to be seen with something that FAT(EBITDA). I dont want to hear you complaining about how cold you are either, there is nothing esle to do here so stay in that "new and improved" wave pool that just replaced the "not quite so new and improved" wave pool. I don't care that we're in Cleveland and in a water park. It's the most moderately competitively priced major park in the country with no advertising, so quit your bitching and have some FUN."
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