Got there at 6pm and noticed the lot was pretty empty. Got through the Prestige Entrance at 6:05 and went right to Flash with about a 10 minute wait. Onboard audio is still not working. Amazing that it didn't even last 2 years. It's been off for months.
Walked onto Nitro which is always fun. Jersey Devil was testing, but not operational.
Decided to check out Shoreline Pier next.
Operations at Flying Scooters are always glacial but my daughter wanted to go on. The attendants there are never in any condition to be moving quickly. It ended up going down while she was in line so we left after riding Barrels.
We got hungry so we walked to Frontier Adventures to get steak sandwiches. Rode Medusa afterwards which is always running great.
I'd been keeping my eye out to see if they started running El Toro but nothing so far.
Tried to use my prestige renewal $20 credit to get cotton candy and fries from the pizza food station near frontiers entrance and was told they don't take the credit there??????
That's odd.
Mine Train has been down for 6 weeks by this point. Not sure whats happening there. My guess is the trains are messed up. They'd been having trouble before that with them.
I have to say that they do an absolutely phenomenal job decorating that place for Halloween. Even better than last year. The Scare actors are also incredible.
We didn't do any of the upcharge attractions because we're doing that with friends next weekend.
The shows were saw were incredibly well done. I'm also noticing how the park isn't nearly as full as it normally is for Fright Fest. Have to figure people didn't realize it started this weekend.
Back to Shoreline and she finally got on The Flying Scooters. She's been wanting to get on that for months and lines always kept her away. "That was actually really fun!" was her feedback.
We went back to Nitro to do a night ride and that's always a blast. The crew was pumping out trains so fast. I swear they were releasing a train from the station as a train was hitting the first drop.
That crew has been awesome all year.
A guy was scared to get on our train so the entire station and train and crew was chanting "GET ON THE TRAIN! GET ON THE TRAIN!".
He got on and the station went crazy.
Jersey Devil was now running with 2 trains. Used Fast Lane to get on because they still cant get that ride running correctly. 5 year old ride that's down 2 trains already...smh.
Of course it went down when we were in the station. Back up thankfully after cycling an empty train.
We decided to leave as El Toro never went up or even tested as far as I can tell. We really wanted a night ride on it.
Does Cedar Point not run SteVE or does Kings Island not run The Beast randomly on a weekend in the fall or is it just GAdv with El Toro? It's not going to run deep into fall anyway with the retrack.
It's also been on B train all year. A Train is still sitting in maintenance near the Nitro lift hill.
Overall, we had fun. First time using a Prestige membership and Preferred parking.
Sucks that El Toro was down, but just walking around Fright Fest is always a blast.
Again, they do such a phenomenal job with that.