Alright. So I was looking through the reviews and ...

Alright. So I was looking through the reviews and seeing many negative things said about our precautions at Cedar Point. I will admit, I am biased as a member of the staff, being a Park Services (janitorial) associate. I'd like to clear the air a bit on some of the points. On the topic of a good deal of things being closed for the first 2-3 weeks, I'll tell it bluntly. Park services, who run the restrooms, and Ride Operations had very very limited staff. My department before we got in new arrivals from our other parks was sitting probably somewhere around the 50-60 area, with about 7-10 have a day off per day. Now that might sound like enough to operate a park, but it's simply not. To open up the restrooms that were open, we required 2 people (male and female) to do about 2-3 a day, for 13 hours. We'd on average have just enough to cover our main area restrooms, ie. Raptor, Public, Main Gate etc. Minus also 2-4 for the marina bathrooms, five for secretaries, about ten for upper management, four for area management, and 2-3 for our warehouse and you are basically running a park that standardly needs 12 restroom attendants, about 10 midways, and at least one team lead for each area (so this year it would be three) and running it with 5 midways, 7 restroom attendants, and one team lead if we are lucky. We didn't have the people in the beginning, and they actually contracted out some of the work after the bathrooms became a common complaint. Now I don't know about the rides, but from what I heard and what I've observed, they were running the best number of coasters they could with the people they had, Dragster being the exception due to it having need for maintenance like it always does. We tried and now it is improving enough that my branch has started to teach the interns about some tech that quickens up our work a bit (which is a life saver). Onto the safety guidelines. The masks are simple to explain because we've all heard the itches and hard to breath argument. Heck I've made a few of my own gripes about it in our break areas, along with a handful of coworkers. Simply though, we are doing it to ensure guest and employee safety, and provided relax zones in the event you need to take a break from the mask for a second. Same with the tempature checks, which employees also have to do every morning, indicated by the colored wristband that you see us wear. Can it be a bit much sometimes? Yes very much so but it is simply to make sure that we are as sure as possible that both guests and employees will be in a safe place once they enter the park, to ensure as much as possible that you can have as much fun as you can.