Anyone know any nice living area within 30-40 miles of the park?

Vermilion is the nice, but expensive. It would be one of my first choices if I was a regular year-round employee. As a college student working as a seasonal employee, there's not much to choose from a finacial standpoint. I suggest staying in Sandusky.

SSL488, I actually enjoyed my times living in dorms at college and while working at CP in the late 80's. I found the experience enlightening and made some great friends for life. And, to think at 40 I am about to be living in dorms again this January while interning at Disney for 6 months.

Corkscrew Follies said:
SSL488, I actually enjoyed my times living in dorms at college and while working at CP in the late 80's. I found the experience enlightening and made some great friends for life. And, to think at 40 I am about to be living in dorms again this January while interning at Disney for 6 months.

Just throwing this out there, Disney's housing isn't exactly "dorm style" living... even Vista Way is ten times nicer then Cedar Point's dorms.

Also, I'm actually a College Program Alumni, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask!

Corkscrew Follies said:
I actually enjoyed my times living in dorms at college and while working at CP in the late 80's. I found the experience enlightening and made some great friends for life.

While I am worried about the overall quality of the dorms, that is something that I can deal with. What I don't like is that you are not allowed to have visitors stay the night.

I live about an hour and a half away from the park and from what I have heard about the 6 day work weeks, I will not be making the drive home very often. My girlfriend and I have also been going out for almost 3 years and I would like the have her, as well as my other friends from home, come out and visit and spend some nights. Since you can't have guests stay in the CP dorms, thats why I would like to try and find an apartment.

99er said:
The biggest thing to remember is that after a long shift at work, the last thing you want to do is a 30+ minute drive. That doesn't sound like a long drive but after working 12+ hours it feels like a 2 hour drive. There really are plenty of places within Sandusky that are nice and are not that pricey. You just have to do some research and look around.

I have to agree. Especially if your shift ends late at night and all you want to do is get home and it's been a busy day traffic will turn the 30 minute drive into about an hour.

Living in housing isn't that bad. Bayside was a dump, but it was a fun experience. I'm sure it depends on who you end up with. It's also dirt cheap. I worked there in 2009 and made some great friends from it, whom I would have never chosen to live with otherwise.

Nothing good 30-40 miles from the park. It's all in Ohio!

SSL488 said:

Corkscrew Follies said:
I actually enjoyed my times living in dorms at college and while working at CP in the late 80's. I found the experience enlightening and made some great friends for life.

While I am worried about the overall quality of the dorms, that is something that I can deal with. What I don't like is that you are not allowed to have visitors stay the night.

I live about an hour and a half away from the park and from what I have heard about the 6 day work weeks, I will not be making the drive home very often. My girlfriend and I have also been going out for almost 3 years and I would like the have her, as well as my other friends from home, come out and visit and spend some nights. Since you can't have guests stay in the CP dorms, thats why I would like to try and find an apartment.

I was in the same situation as you. Cedar Point wants them to spend money for a place to stay in one of their hotels. Not for free in the employee dorms. Besides, the rooms aren't even big enough to have a lot of your friends stay the night. Not to mention, the floors are cold and hard in the dorms.

Question for those of you that work or have worked for the park...

Do you always work a 6 day week? And if you wanted to request like 2 days off one week to go home, would they accept it?

Either way, I'm still 100% certain I want to work there. It would just be nice to be able to go home for a day or 2 and just relax.

SSL488 said:
Question for those of you that work or have worked for the park...

Do you always work a 6 day week? And if you wanted to request like 2 days off one week to go home, would they accept it?

Either way, I'm still 100% certain I want to work there. It would just be nice to be able to go home for a day or 2 and just relax.

In the three years that I've worked there, we were only given the option of having two days off a week when we had very good staffing (this was in 2011). I would count on working 6 days a week, approximately 60-70 hours per week.

My understanding is that this policy may be changing/has been changed for permanent employees.

Wow 60-70 hours? Those are going to be some big checks. $.$

Is the hourly pay different for a marketing intern compared to the other? I did hear from one of my friends who works at the park say that he thought the marketing interns got paid differently compared to everyone else.

Honestly, they could just give me college credit and I'd be fine with that.

I believe they make around $8.25 an hour, not 100% sure though, it could be less.

Pete said:
Vermilion is a nice place, and it's about half way between Cleveland and the park which makes for easy access to some big city amenities when the mood strikes.

Cleveland is a city people actually want to visit?

Actually, yes! Outside of terrible sports teams, Cleveland has a ton of stuff to do and see.

All I want to see is the terrible sports teams... and go to the zoo. Other than that, I find no interest in cleveland. haha

I don't get why people like to call Cleveland a dump. When you compare it to other great lakes rust belt cities like Chicago, Detroit, Toledo, Buffalo, etc. I don't see where it comes up so short. The sports teams suck, sure, but aside from that where is the big problem?

Paisley said:
I don't get why people like to call Cleveland a dump. When you compare it to other great lakes rust belt cities like Chicago, Detroit, Toledo, Buffalo, etc. I don't see where it comes up so short. The sports teams suck, sure, but aside from that where is the big problem?

It really is a dump, and I go there a lot. It's slowly taking a turn for better. But compared to all the other big cities I've been in it doesn't even come close. It just seems like a city for business, not really entertainment.

It's a great city if you're willing to do a little bit of your own work in finding things to do. Like many places, if you tell your cabbie that you want to be taken to where the 20-somethings drink, you won't be impressed. But I'd defy someone to visit Ohio City, Tremont and Cleveland Heights and not concede that they are interesting, vibrant places. Hell, I even live in upper-west Akron now, but I'm not really at a loss for things to do there, either.

And somewhat counter-intuitively, the NE Ohio area is amazing if you hike or cycle. I had no idea of that aspect until I moved up here.