The Theme Park Thread • Page 248

Yeah I don’t recall seeing dolphins when I went in January. And I went to that exact Nemo area too

 

I think they mainly had them so they could charge people $210 per person to swim with them moreso than being out on display to the general guests.

 

I've definitely seen them but you have to know where to look. They tend to stay up near the surface.

I don't usually spend too much time in ~The Seas~ anymore (it will always be the Living Seas to me), but we wandered in on our last trip and actually spent almost an hour in there looking at weird fish. Fun activity when you are buzzed off of La Cava margaritas and La Fin du Monde's from Canada

 

my family loves the seas and we’ve seen the dolphins most times we look around (almost always after getting off nemo)

but where did the baby cuttlefish go, disney!?

 

About fuckin’ time

 

When parks fans pretend to care about an attraction nobody cared about for 5 years because it's closing

 

My niece & nephew loved that show when we went last year, but they’ll be even more excited by a full land in a few years.

 

And D+ prices increased too. Fucking gross.

 

This absolutely blows

 

Also why the fuck is their 7 tiers of tickets? Disney World FL doesn't do that right?

 

I'm assuming the tiers are the variable pricing structure based on expected demand for certain days, which Disney World does do

Edit. Didn't realize annual passes are more expensive for Land vs. World. Wouldn't have expected that

 

Disney World Fans Are Freaking Out Over Prices Again, And A $22 Dollar Slice Of Cake Is Involved

I know Disney World is too big to fail, but fuck these prices are atrocious. $22 for a single piece of cake, $8 for a bottled coke, and $14 for a side of fries.

Like who is this place for anymore?

 

Still for people like us. But the catch is, these people will just say “fuck it” and spend the money anyway

 

Did knotts scary farm and universal horror night this week. Thought I'd regret not doing Disney cause I have the ability to get in for free but am not taking advantage this time around. But man my feet hurt so bad I don't think I could even if I wanted to. Next time I go to a theme park I'm buying a collapsible stool to bring with me in the lines omg. And I didn't even rly wait in any lines all that long, but when I've been walking like 4x more than normal, standing around for any length of time is brutal

Update: I am never walking again in my entire life

 

Cake Bake Shop is third party owned and I don't believe Disney sets the prices for there. That said the prices are insane and I wonder how long the Instagram aesthetic will hold that restaurant afloat, especially after waiting like 3 years for it to open

 

rare knotts berry farm mention

my favorite park ever

 

How was scary farm vs HHN?

 

Same but I'm biased because I'm from buena park so it always has my

I enjoyed both. Hard to say which I liked more because they both had different sort of offerings. I think knotts had the better vibe for just walking around and getting scared. It felt like they had more characters wandering around and dark creepy areas with cool ambiance. HHNs costumes were def more elaborate but knotts characters interacted and talked more with guests which was cute and fun even tho I have anxiety so I panicked cause I didn't have witty lil responses to interact back well.

HHN def had the more elaborate haunted houses with higher production value. HHN is more efficient at queuing guests which the trade off was it sometimes made me feel like I couldn't fully process or look at what was going on in the houses. If you hesitate for longer than a beat to look around there is an employee barking to keep moving. But I also get it's a lose lose situation cause if they don't do that then people will complain about the longer wait times. HHN also was worse if you are covid conscious. Maybe it's egg on my face for going to a theme park during a busy event and caring at all, but the employees did not let us leave a small gap behind the ppl in front of us and it sometimes made me uncomfortable how close we had to be to each other in line.

For both parks I felt like I got to do pretty much everything I wanted without fast pass by going mid week. For knotts I got general tickets and did the rides during the day and then they have everyone leave and come back for the horror part, so I was able to focus on the houses at night but after the houses I went back on my fave rides

HHN I did the tickets to get in at 2pm with early access to the horror stuff at 5:30. Early access was great because we did many of the houses early and by the time the crowds got in and headed for the haunted houses we then switched gears to the popular rides that suck for wait times normally like the mummy and the Hogwarts castle cause they had no wait time, and then many of the houses also had like a 5 min wait. Honestly terror tram was so cute and underrated I would've been fine going on that repeatedly and it had no wait. But then once all the wait times for things peaked we didn't rly know what to do with ourselves because we were tired. I felt like knotts was easier to find seats close to where the characters were scaring people so during downtime we'd just people watch them scare others, and sometimes they'd come interact with us while we were sitting. HHN didn't have as much seating near the scare zones for that purpose.

tl;dr both were fun but my bias prob goes to knotts.

 

thanks for that recap! Kind of echoes my experience at HHN in Orlando and LA a few years ago. I truly understand the need to keep sending people through the mazes but it really kills the vibe when it’s a conga line through every house with employees in there yelling at you to keep moving.

it’ll never happen but it’d be soooo much better if they maybe increased prices by a bit and reduced capacity.

 

Went to the park today for my wife’s birthday. Had the best seat in the house at Lamplight Lounge

 

Happy birthday Sam’s wife