We go to at least one and sometimes more events like Kennywood’s “Phantom Fright Nights” or Camden’s “Spooktacular”. The latter is a big favorite since the park is basically built on an old Indian burial ground. I keep hoping for a major melt-down ala Poltergeist. We tend to try different ones different years rather than the same over and over with the exception of Knoebel’s Phoenix Phall Phunfest and maybe one of their Hallo-boo Weekends.
Like you need an excuse to go to an amusement park. :rolleyes:
We used to do Halloween in Hershey every year because of super short lines & dirt-cheap pricing (I once did Great Bear 2x in 12 mins, including ride time, down the exit ramp, walking back to the entrance, going thru the ride queue & back into a car). It’s both more popular & more expensive now (& no more Boo-loon Festival either :() so it’s not the incredible deal it used to be.
I did Hershey last year, I don’t remember it being that expensive, I thought it was $20 or so a ticket. We got there right on time and had no real lines for a couple of hours. I go to the Six Flags America Fright Fest most years. I don’t think I did much last year though. I don’t like paying the extra $20 for the haunted houses as they don’t scare me, though they do have a really cool 3D haunted house.
Not me. Our local amusement park (Geauga Lake) is closed down and the big one (Cedar Point) is 90 mins away.
My friend goes, though. She loves amusement parks and loves fall, so she has a season pass to CP and has already gone once. Unfortunately it’s a million degrees still here in Ohio so she has skipped the last two weekends as it’s not very fall-like just yet.
We’re driving the 3 hours to Knoebel’s this year for our 2nd Phunphest. (See you there, Kopek!)
I have gone to the Halloween celebration at Conneaut Lake Park before and had a great time. They have 13 haunted houses throughout the park, along with creepy mazes and other fun stuff. I’d love to hit up Kennywood, too. I wish everything wasn’t so darn far from Johnstown.
I want to go to universal and knotts berry farm for Halloween at least once …tho I’m told universals isnt for kids (they even post signs saying it starts at pg 13)
Universals, Kennywoods and a lot of the other big name parks various Halloween events aren’t for kids unless the kids have basically grown up around things like that (in your face scares) or have really responsible parents who prepare them for it. Some of the stuff in Cedar Point a couple years back was even a little over the top for me. They had this tunnel thing where the plastic was inflated around you and even though I’m not claustrophobic I would have taken a bail-out door if I could have found one.
Yes I have gone to King’s Dominion and Busch Gardens Williamsburg, they both do a good job of decorating the park and transforming it into something at least somewhat spooky. King’s Dominion transforms at dusk and they break out the fog machines and have costumed actors roaming the park. They even had a guy in a bush costume that would stand around and go “BOO!” when you walk by. Plus they have a bunch of “haunted house” buildings to walk through that are partly disorienting and partly scary.
Overall fairly fun, and riding a coaster on a crisp fall night will take your breath away, literally. It’s chilly!
We tend to try different ones different years rather than the same over and over with the exception of Knoebel’s Phoenix Phall Phunfest and maybe one of their Hallo-boo Weekends.