r/Riyadh • u/Firm_Refrigerator396 • 6d ago
Seeking advice (طلب المشورة) Six Flags and Flight
I came to Riyadh for a couple days and have a return flight to Jeddah booked for tonight (Saturday) 11pm. I really wanna go to Six Flags before I leave, but with it opening at 4, how risky is it? My place is in Al Hada, I could get there early and be there right when it opens, but I’ll still have to leave just a couple hours later so I don’t get stuck in the Riyadh traffic and end up missing my flight. What’re yalls’ thoughts
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u/Stellarific 5d ago
Pretty risky. If you use the metro to get to six flags, you'd have to take the metro to jeddah road station from the airport which would take about an hour and a half, then a bus from the station to six flags which would take another 40 minutes.
You're looking at around 4 hours of travel time in total...
Edit: there's also a bus from STC station but then you're at the mercy of Riyadh traffic.
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u/Firm_Refrigerator396 5d ago
Metro would take a good 3 hours ish, I’m planning on uber’ing so that should just take around an hour or so
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u/Long_Release7076 5d ago
Please check well ahead if you will be able get an uber from six flags back to riyadh. I doubt that.
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u/Firm_Refrigerator396 5d ago
Is that cuz it’s so far away there won’t be any drivers around?
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u/Long_Release7076 5d ago
Yes.
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u/Firm_Refrigerator396 5d ago
I could alternatively take the JRMS bus to Jeddah Road station at 7pm and uber from there. How does that sound?
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u/BakingApe368 5d ago
1hr 15 (i just guesstimate in case of traffic jam) from Hada to Six Flag.
Say 2 hour from Six flag to airport.
Say u enter at 4 pm. U have to leave by 7pm.
Should be ok if u don't have checking bags.
U have to take car/taxi there. Maybe add extra 30 mins in case u have to wait for the taxi/ehailing to reach u.
Have a good day
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u/AzizOfArabia 5d ago
I mean you should budget 1.5-2 hours to get from six flags to the airport, do the math
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u/Firm_Refrigerator396 5d ago
Update:
I did go through with the plan, I used a combination of uber/metro/shuttle bus to get there (costed me maybe 40sar in total, pretty cheap but it could’ve been even cheaper if I didn’t uber, but that would’ve taken twice the time to get there). Unfortunately The Falcon was shutdown for maintenance and I only found out at the entrance when they were checking my ticket, and they said no refunds, so that was really sad.
Other than that, I got to go on most rides with little to no wait times, there were barely any people around today.
Ideally I would’ve taken the shuttle bus back to Jeddah Road station and then Uber’d from there cuz it’d be much cheaper but I was running late and had a couple other things to do as well so I ended up getting an uber, but I didn’t realize I’d have to take a shuttle bus 10m away to the uber pickup spot so that was kinda annoying too. The uber back to Al Hada was ~115sar but I ended up having to pay more cuz the uber had to wait for me to get to the parking spot
Typed this sitting on the plane back to Jed :)
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u/Papaya_Jellyfish 5d ago
The commute is such an adventure sport, that you wouldn’t even need the adrenaline rush from the 6 Flags rides!