2016 Platinum Passholder Benefits

WolfBobs said:
My main reasoning in which asking the park directly when you have a policy question, or any question that is best answered by the park is that we all now that "policies can change without notice." What was okay on Friday may not be okay on Sunday due to an incident, abuse, sales ending, etc.

I usually find out about change of policies by someone complaining on this forum long before I hear anything from the park or their website.

That's odd, CP usually runs all of their policy change decision by me first, I thought they did that for all enthusiasts.
Sometimes, when I don't feel like responding in long form, I'll just go to the CP Policies Survey Monkey Page and do a quick online survey and in just a few clicks I get shopping points too!

Maybe I just miss the press releases they send out to CNN and Fox breaking news every time they make a meal plan change.

Jason Hammond said:
True enough. But, if I ask a question here, I still feel that 9 out of 10 times I'm going to get a quicker and more accurate answer than if I call the park.

And I always feel like I'll get 9 or 10 answers.

Now, I work in a theater box office, so I'm on the receiving end of the "but I read on the Internet that you do x....." questions, which likely colors my take on this matter. ("What do you mean you don't discount your main floor center seats by $50 on the day of the show? I read it on your website, generic-chicago-theater-tickets.com!")

I'm not discounting the accumulated expertise on Pointbuzz. Just saying I'd rather have an employee of the park to name when there's an issue. "I spoke to Joe in customer service last Thursday, who told me i could wear my Hello Kitty fanny pack on all the rides. Please explain to me why I'm being told I can't," is, I think, going to get me a lot farther if there's an issue than "Most of the people on parkfanz.com said I could wear it on all the rides."

Geez this sure is a lot of chatter just for me pointing out something appeared to have changed just in case someone was counting on using a benefit that may not work as they had planned.

There sure was, but thanks for sharing your experience. I don't check the CP website numerous times a day for changes, nor do I call them everyday to see if something changed from the night before. As I said, I usually find out about new things or changes here as I'm on this site everyday.

Paisley said:
Geez this sure is a lot of chatter....

Paisley, dear. You didn't just get here, did you? By now it should come as no surprise. :-)

P.S. Don't you dare mention Mean Streak.

Mean Streak....Mean Steak...Mean Streak... ;)

Three times. NOW you've done it.

Jason Hammond said:
True enough. But, if I ask a question here, I still feel that 9 out of 10 times I'm going to get a quicker and more accurate answer than if I call the park.

If that were really true, the park staff would have some major problems.

Pete said:If that were really true, the park staff would have some major problems.

Well, I don't ask many questions. And when I do, I know who to listen to.

This might be really old news, but we've been opting out of Platinum Passes for the past couple years in lieu of Disney trips, so I haven't purchased them in awhile. I just realized that when purchasing a new PP for 2017 you can now take your own pic to get loaded onto the pass instead of waiting in a line for CP to take it on the day you get them processed. They also gave you the option to upload and crop a pic.

Like I said, probably really old news to many of us here, but hey, it was new to me!

They offered that service last year as well. I uploaded my picture from the computer and got to the park and had to have a visit to the season pass office to re take my picture. Then we went to Kings Island and they needed to re-take the picture for me to be admitted to the park. When we went to Michigan's Adventure, they needed to have the picture re-taken and also at Canada's Wonderland. I do have to apologize to the staff at Wonderland as I was a little short and snarky with them then.

The pass worked at Kings Island last week without a hitch!!! Yea!!!

Geez how many times do they have to take a picture to make a pass work?

I uploaded pictures last year for 4 passes and haven't had any issues. I had to upload pictures for renewal this year as well. I just used the same pictures as before.