Knoebel's Amusement Resort Reviews

Good:
Great prices, family friendly, wide variety of entertainment.
Bad:
No extreme rides, small-ish park.
TLDR:
Great place for family fun on a budget.

There's a lot to cover here so I'll break it down into categories:

Rides:
Good variety of rides for all ages thrill levels except for those seeking the crazy extreme. I highly recommend impulse, one of the newer metal coasters, similar to Fahrenheit at Hersheypark, but not as high or as fast. Rides are cheap to buy individual rides. $2-$3 per ticket with discounts for buying books of tickets, but the all day passes are the true value.

Entertainment:
Free shows and concerts throughout the day and a variety of games/activities.

Food:
Cesaris Pizza is to good to be true. Not only is it fantastic pizza, the prices are unbeatable. $18 for a large specialty pizza that's big enough to feed my family of 5 and still have leftovers!
There are several other vendors as well selling everything you'd expect and some you wouldn't; try the gator bites!

Pool:
Great cheap way to spend a hot day. At just $7 for a pass (slides extra) the pool is another family friendly option. There are 2 slides that on a less busy weekday are completely worth the extra $7.50 for an unlimited pass.

Awesome campground and park! Super busy on Saturdays.

Good value, lots of exciting rides, lovely location and family focused. Safe and clean.

My family and I love it hear it's a great place to bring little kids. They have stuff for everyone to ride on and things to do

First time there and it was awesome!! Very kid friendly and free admission, tickets for rides so it saves you a lot of money!

Best amusement park ever. Only place that doesn't charge you admission, parking, offers you picknic tables and your alowed to bring you own food. They offer many local choices for food and even that is well priced for an amusement park. Best place for children for they have many rides for them and even little ones. They offer a unlimited wrist band during the week and pay per ride on weekends.

#1 financial thing I LOVE about Knoebels.... You dont pay to park or to enter the resort.

Love this family pet friendly park..
For 10 + years our family of 12 would show up with a huge picnic basket and use the park's grill and head out to rides while someone started grilling up the food and setting up the picnic tables
Loved taking the dogs for walks around the park and picking up ice cream and kettle corn to take home

Took my daughter tonight and as always, we had a good time. Some of the employees there are just miserable.. shouldn't be working at an amusement park and running games or rides if you're that type of person. They should also be told to stay off their phones and pay attention to the rides and the people on them. Food was not good, we got soft pretzels that were cold, hard n tasted stale. The fish fry was awful. All you can eat for $10...no thanks. Funnel cakes we're good. Will continue to go every year though...positives still out weigh the negatives.

An amusement park where it's free park your car and you can buy individual tickets...not an all day pass to ride the Phoenix roller-coaster. It's like stepping back in time. Dogs are welcome too.

Even in the Fall, this place can never disappoint. On a rainy day, the crowds were light, but every employee was friendly

Great Day out! Free parking and paying for only rides you get on is Awesome.
Phoenix food stand has good burgers.
I wouldn't get the hand stamps, better to just use tickets and pay per ride.

We love this place! Enough big thrills for the older kids, and enough mild thrills for the younger ones! Highly recommended! Try the kettle corn!!!

Knoebels is a fun, family-friendly park that is a good place to spend the day. The food is good and the rides are fun.

Enjoyed walking around the park. Very active pokemon community as well, with a dense pokestop cluster.

Best family amusement park around. We are near Hersheypark but would rather drive 1.5 hours to go here! Reasonable food prices, variety and many mature employees!

Always a pleasant experience, one of my all time favorite places to be in the summer

Never had a bad time here...been going for 30 years.

Love the park free admission and great food prices best park in pa for younger kids

Free admission. Inexpensive food/ rides. Lots of fun for the whole family!

Love Knoebels & have enjoyed it since I was a child- now take my little boy & we have a great time!

Best place on earth. We don't ride the rides but we enjoy the food.

Great free park and pay as you ride. We did not plan for enough time and want to go back soon.

Always the best place on Earth!! Camping and rides and food and entertainment. Fun, food and fantasy and a ton of laughter!

Nice place for the family. I like that you can bring your own food. It has shown improvement over the years.

What a glorious experience! Wife kids and my awesome self had the best time!

Always a great time at Knoebles. I love that you can walk around without actually paying for anything. I did notice a price increase on wrist bands this year, but the fact that everything else is still really reasonably priced if not just plain cheap it really does make up for it. I just got home from a family vacation and spent way less then when we go anywhere else. I will be booking next years trip VERY soon.

Love the free admission, love the bargain nights they have every year! Love the food! Love that it is easy to afford since you can pay per ride, or one price to ride all day! It is hands down on of our favorite summer spots!

Oh my gosh I dont know how to explain this park I've been going there ever since I was a little girl and the rides still seem to thrill me still if I could give more then 5 stars I definitely would

I had a blast. I love the rides and the pay as you go option so you can plan for whats right for you. Its wholesome and family friendly and the scenery is gorgeous.

Free to get in, good food and cheap prices for the rides.

Best amusement park ever. Did i mention best park in the united states love how they keep the old rides alive and mix new in love this place

Excellent time. Clean safe fun for all ages. Great time today. As good or better than 14 years ago the first time I went there!

Best family amusement park east of the Mississippi. Free parking, great rides, delicious food. Great way to spend the day.

My husbands job did a work picnic there , wanna come back in the summer next time so we can try the water park ( it was closed). Also next time we're camping there though cause there just isnt enough time to hit everything. Had an amazing day there ....lol ( p.s. i did fail to mention we did eat at one of the park restaurant and the food was the worst sorry . Service was so slow and it barely had anyone in it. The server kept messing up thinks and forgot my stepsons meal. Just over all bad. Should have had the pizza it was right in that area and smelled so good.)

Great place but take plenty of money. And buy the day pass

IT'S A REALLY HUGE AMUSEMENT PARK AND CAMPGROUNDS HAVE STATED NAMES THAT'S PRETTY DAMN AWESOME!!!!!

Great park for families. No admission charge, only pay to ride. You can just buy tickets or you can purchase a "ride all day" arm band. This can save a family a lot of money if any of the family members do not want to ride, but want to spend the day with the family. There are food and drink vendors throughout the park. Food is very good and reasonably priced. The French fries are great!!!! There is plenty of shade and lots of benches for resting. There are picnic pavilions for larger groups. The pool is also very nice: large area with small slides in the pool, platform diving, fountain, and larger water slides (additional fee). Even if you use the pool for an hour or two it is worth it on a hot day! I have visited this park since I was a kid. There is something for everyone here! I'm so glad they have maintained their "mom and pop" park feel, while bringing in newer "commercial park" attractions! Thank you Knoebels for good family fun!!!

Great fun my Grandmother took the whole family here one summer and we all enjoyed it even with the many different ages in our group.

This was our first family vacation here and we couldn't have loved it more! The cabins we stayed in were cozy and safe. The location between the cabins and the actual Park couldn't have been easier. The park was enough to entertain our kids, 6 and 10, as well as ourselves, 48 and 49. There's definitely something there for everybody! Local restaurants we're easy to get to

Cant beat the price. Free parking and admission. Plenty of restrooms throughout park. They were having craft fair on my visit.

Nice, clean family fun at a great price. You don't have to rush around trying to cram in as many rides as possible since it is pay-as-you-go. The food is good and the customer service is usually top notch.

A lot of great rides. Most are for kids but there are enough bigger rides to keep adults happy. Tons of food at good prices. Free to park and get in!! You can buy tickets for the rides or get an all you can ride pass.

I've been to Knoebel's quite a few times over the years. Then I moved from Pa. to Fl., and my next door neighbors, who were in management there would give us free passes to Disney. So I went there quite a few times. Then we all moved out west, so we got passes for Disney Land a few times. In between, I also paid an awful lot of money for our own family passes. Don't get me wrong, it was ok at Disney....BUT, when I'd get back up to PA, and we'd make the trip with grandkids, or my now grown kids, it is SO much more pleasant. In some ways, its like you cant quite put your finger on any one thing. It is everything about the park. The history, the player organs, carousel, good food, free for older folks to walk around and enjoy watching their youngsters and grand kids have fun. The train ride through the woods. The sky ride, the setting in the gorgeous mountains of PA. But more importantly, everyone is having a good time. as you walk through Disney, and see all the stressed out people, because they spent many hundreds of dollars, and are feeling the disappointment of hour+ lines, getting on maybe 4 or 5 rides through a day of waiting in lines, all the crying and up tight parents. Vs in Knoebels, I'm as relaxed as I can be, there's always a place to sit with my wife, I can do as much as I want or as little as I want. Other than adding some things here and there, I hope they never lose sight of what makes Knoebels such a great destination. Thank You for all the nice memories.

We love coming here... family friendly atmosphere, friendly and helpful staff, and cheap fun. I've spent all day in the park on less than 20 dollars

Brought my 2 year old niece and she loves it, not too long of a wait for rides of you get there around 11. Loved the cool automatic music machines, especially the one playing The Beatles and other 80s hits!

By far one of our family's favorite summertime spots! Love the free parking and free entry. Not to mention the amazing food and huge variety of rides available!

A rare amusement park that doesn't try to milk families for every dime. Admission is free. The kiddos can get wristbands, parents can get tickets (or not) for individual rides. Picnicking is encouraged, and it's perfectly safe and ok to leave coolers by the picnic tables just outside the park. Dogs are allowed. There are rides for every age group, send the water rides are perfect for a hot summer day.

Have gone for years and it's a great place for all young and old.

Was only at Knoebels for a couple of hours. the four big rollercoasters are great

Fantastic park. I've been coming here for decades. It's still my favorite park. Everything is clean and well kept. The staff are friendly and helpful. A true family oriented environment. My 83 year old grandmother and my 2 year old son have no issues getting around the park

No better place to take your family or a group love the atmosphere love the food love the prices

Free parking, free entrance and pay as you ride. Live entertainment all over. Picnic areas shaded by trees(and so is most the park area) to bring your own food, not to mention they offer great food as well..

I have been going to Knoebels since 2003. Since 2008 I have been renting cottages. I had my wedding there in 2013. Guest "services" is terrible. Specifically Jeannie Reedy. We had all 6 of our cottages for 2 different dates May, Oct. cancelled without warning. These cottages were reserved a year in advance with a $600 deposit made. When I called I was told all 6 were re-rented.She knows that we travel with a special needs group and these cottages make it very convenient and accessible. She told me there was nothing she could do. I asked why I wasn't given a call, because I would have settled up immediately. Im in that office 6 times a year and they know me by name. She deferred to customer service and hung up on me mid sentence. Customer service rep Eric was zero help. Im sure he was in the office with Jeannie at the time of the call. He stated that I was upset because I was not getting my way... REALLY??NO compassion or empathy.For a reservation system that is super informal.i.e no emails or online reservations, no contract to sign, they pencil your name in book . It seems drastic to cancel without a courtesy call. Any reasonable person would expect that ,especially a customer who has brought more than 300 new people to that park in the past 15 years. (not including 225 wedding guests, many who were 1st time knoebels attendees. The familiarity and family run atmosphere made this appealing to me. I found out that does not matter. Your a number.

I thought maybe management didn't know. Also I was told by Jeannie that she answers directly to the KNoebels family.I sent two certified letters to explain our issue. One to Dick Knoebels(whom i have had several conversations with over the last 15 years) and one to Susan in the PR dept. Several weeks later I received a letter that said the issue was resolved in their eyes and that I was notified on numerous occasions of the policy change(untrue). In The time it took Jeannie to address two envelopes, draft two letters, erase my name in 6 spots in the reservation book and call people to fill the six cottages, a 2 minute call would have kept a VERY loyal customer happy.The letter was NOT signed by an individual. It said The KnoebelsAmusement resort. Shame on them if they allow Jeannie to be the voice of knoebels.Im just one person but my company provides services to over 500 families and more that a dozen provider agencies. They all will know that we will not be returning to KNoebels and why. Im very shocked at the treatment and disappointed that I cannot return because I will not give them another dime.

Awesome amusement park..always clean!! Family owned & they def take pride in their business;) no parking or entrance fee which is a plus! If you're looking for a day of fun without spending much this is your place. You will not be disappointed..

Many of the rides weren't open but the lines were super short. The staff was doing everything possible to make sure the rides were clean and people were spread apart. Great place doing an amazing job during these challenging times.

Such a great place to spend the day with family of all ages!

Great fun, free admission and parking. My family had a blast

None of the coaster rides were open and that was disappointing. What can that have anything to do with the fakedememic.

Place is great but prices are starting to go up . They keep moving the regulars u each year instead of keeping them at the same weeks .

It was our first visit. We were blown away at how nice the park was! Clean and very affordable! Food & snacks were well portioned and very inexpensive! The rides were great and the lines were fast to move ( we went on a weekday in August) We will be returning soon!

OMG knobels is one of the funnest parks in the world in my opinion i love the roler costers so thx for reading my review

Free admission, free parking. Pay as you go or pay one price. Too bad covid came about some attraction shut down.

Inviting amusement park with something for everyone. Beautiful country setting and great food.

We love Knoebels! The rides are super fun and there's lots of benches and shade where you can chill out. Parking is free and you only pay for the rides you ride. You can bring your own food too! It's great value for the money. We love it!

I can't say enough good things about Knoebels. I always love coming here, it's such a unique place. The food is always fantastic, the thrill rides great, it's no wonder they're consistently topping or near the top for various categories of amusement parks across the country

This is one of the camp grounds. Close to Amusement park, store, bathroom, fire wood and small kids park.
Loved it!

Every year we go with the family and we always have a good time,

Very clean, people are so friendly, food is excellent, rides are awesome, plants and flowers are all around, so beautiful

My favorite amusement park very family friendly atmosphere

Well I went to see the wood Carver but it was closed. Ate lunch and enjoyed an awesome band

Who doesn't like food? How about Fabulous stomach-lurching roller-coasters? Or peaceful, beautiful views from the scenic skyway? People, this is where memories are made to last a lifetime! Just....make sure you get there early because the park attracts people like piranhas to a cow! Get your parking spot ASAP!!!

It's a great family place with food food and reasonable prices.

A great place for the kids lines were hardly any today tired kids makes for a great ride home :)