Andrew Burton

Review of Cedar Point-Cedar Fair

Me and my girlfriend stayed at hotel breakers, bou...

Me and my girlfriend stayed at hotel breakers, bought after 4pm passes, the meal plan, and the refresh package, and we were excited to have fun at the park the next day. When we arrived to the hotel, we were informed of the Access Passes for Millennium Force, Maverick, Steel Vengeance, and Top Thrill Dragster, which are one use tickets to go on the rides that are only available at two times in the day. I did not see anything about these online.
The next day, we realized that we would need to rush to get these access passes or else we would be wouldn t be ride the best rollercoasters. So, we made our way around the park and spent just the first hour going around the huge park to all the rides and waiting in line to get tickets. While we did this, we noticed that half of the restaurants and rides were closed. Why?? We figure having more rides open would spread the crowd out. And then we realized the water park was closed. Why is the water park closed? What is the difference between that and the dry part of the park?
We had the ride and refresh tickets, which allowed unlimited free fountain drinks for the whole day. However, the drink cups were small and they didn t provide lids or straws anywhere. So we had to stop constantly to drink and kept spilling our drinks on ourselves.
We bought the meal plans, but the lines for the food were very long. Because of waiting so long in the lines for the rides and trying to get the access passes, we only managed to get 3 meals in between the two of us, despite them advertising meals every 90 minutes (6 per person) which was impossible.
Despite getting the access passes , we still had to wait in extremely long lines, which moved barely (had to wait up to 2 hours) because only half of the seats on the rides were usable due to social distancing. However, the lines to the ride had practically no social distancing, as people moved along the same paths as others. I know this is unavoidable, but if the lines are already packing people together in one place, then why do the seats on the rides themselves need to be so far apart.
We are relatively fit people, through the course of the day, we only managed to go on 4 rides, three of them the access pass rides, and we missed steel vengeance because we missed the time to get the access pass because we were rushing to do as much as we could. In the course of 9 hours, we tried to hit as many rides as we can, use our meal plans, and use our refresh passes.
We did not experience 90% of the park because it was either closed or we didn t have enough time because we spent it so much in a line for an access pass, in the line for the ride itself, or rushing across the park to get to a ride in time. Not only that, we paid for an after 4pm pass, but we soon realized that they don t even check people for those after 4pm. Why did I even buy those? It was a complete and unnecessary waste of money.
Also, most of the rides had nowhere to put your belongings, so you re basically forced to buy a locker for each ride you go on, and they only let you buy the locker for 2-3 hours. We left all of our belongings in a locker for more than our rental time on accident and they wanted to charge us more to open the locker, so we had to wait for someone to open it for us.
I never write reviews, and I realize that we re in a pandemic, but I feel like we were completely ripped off and the whole Cedar Point park system is messed up. If they are working so hard to limit social distances, why would they have the park open for 3 days a week, for only 11am to 8pm, and make these stupid access passes that didn t make anything more socially distant. All of those things cause more people to be all in the same place. And supposedly the park was at 20% capacity, but it felt like it was as full of people as it possible could be. Maybe they meant only 20% of the park can be experienced.
Giving 2 stars because the rides were really awesome and the employees were nice and helpful. Saw employees actively enforcing face masks, which I was not expecting but enjoyed seeing.