I just think in the UK anyway the costs are going abit over the top and people may choose to leave it, or go to parks that are cheaper and adding new rides. Alton Towers used to do the fast pass system for free, now they see a money grabbing opportunity and charge about £10 just for a fast pass ticket for the 4 biggest rides. Theme parks are expensive at the best of times and adding (in the UK) £30 extra makes the total cost for a day about £50-60 for a day out which is alot of money, especially for a family. Louis | The Great Escape |ĭo you get flash passes or equivalent skip line passes? How have your experiences been with them? Leave a comment below. Also, to see the prices and the list of rides that have Flash Pass, follow one of these links to the participating parks:Īmerica | Discovery Kingdom | Fiesta Texas | Great Adventure | Great America | Kentucky Kingdom | Magic Mountain | New England | Over Georgia | Over Texas | St. Hopefully, the tips above can help you decide whether these passes are right for your next theme park trip. As long as I’m visiting a popular park during peak season, then I’m likely to pay extra to make sure that I ride the coasters that I traveled for. I travel far to parks that I won’t likely return to and I’m there just for the roller coasters.
I’m all for flash passes, but I’m not the typical theme park guest. If you can squeeze in a trip before school’s out or in the fall when crowds are smaller then you may not need the pass in the first place. The same goes for the day that you’re planning to visit. If you’re going to visit a really popular park like Six Flags Great Adventure or Cedar Point you’re likely to run into some pretty big crowds. Wait times are an essential factor in the decision to buy a flash pass or not. How Are the Wait Times & Crowds at the Theme Park? This made the choice to buy a flash pass for that visit pretty easy. After my flight across the country for Six Flags Magic Mountain, you’d better believe that my goal was to ride every roller coaster possible as a return trip definitely wasn’t guaranteed. I fall i nto the opposite camp and I visit a lot of parks for the first and possibly the only time. Certainly you’ll eventually get a ride even on the coasters with the longest waits. If it’s your home park that you visit three or four times a summer then I can’t imagine that you would need a flash pass. But, if you experience everything including drop towers, log flumes, spinning flat rides, and you visit the water park and might take in a show, then you might not mind missing a roller coaster or two because you’ve enjoyed most everything else that the park has to offer.Īre You Likely to Revisit the Theme Park? Skipping past these lines so you can ride more roller coasters instead of spending most of the day waiting for them is a no-brainer.
Obviously, coasters are the most popular attractions at amusement parks and have the longest lines. If you’re like me and mainly just ride roller coasters then Flash Passes might be for you. Is a flash pass right for you? Here are a few things to consider that might help you make a decision. Sure, the picture I’ve painted sounds cool, but Flash Passes and similar ‘skip to the front’ systems cost money. At that point, I only had to wait a few minutes in the station and I was sitting comfortably in my #2 coaster of all time. I walked right past the masses waiting in the sweltering heat. Thanks to my flash pass, I simply made an appointment via the Q-Bot pager-like device and came back in a few minutes. El Toro had just opened and the wait was somewhere around 2 hours. I’ll never forget my last visit to Six Flags Great Adventure. Should You Get a Flash Pass? Are Six Flags Flash Passes Worth It?įlash Passes are electronic or paper-based systems that guests can use to bypass lines at amusement parks and in essence skip to the front of the line.
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