Cedar Fair Reride Policy

Krafty said:
What noone has mentioned is the idiot guest factor. 99.99 percent of people would be fine with a common sense reride policy. It is the 0.01 percent that will cause a scene if someones is waiting for their row when there are other available rows. There is always one that ruins it for everyone else.

I'm insulted that you think idiots go to Cedar Point. I've never seen an idiot at Cedar Point.

trapt3 said:

TwistedWicker77 said:
Guests don't understand that re rides don't help numbers at all. If 10 people want to re ride each time the station isn't full, ride hosts can't keep track of the amount of people. Re riding is kind of enforced within the line jumping policy.

But rerides do help numbers. On both Raptor and Magnum I was fortunate enough to get rerides and what the ride ops did was asked who was reriding. We rised our hands and they took a count and flipped the turnstile the amount of times people were reriding.

You failed to tell me how re rides help numbers.

By filling empty seats, which are counted. You can keep arguing the same point but that doesn't make it true.

^ He stated that the ride ops took a count of how many people were re-riding. Therefore ride ops do keep track of the numbers and re-rides are included in the total ridership numbers for a ride.

TwistedWicker77 said:
You failed to tell me how re rides help numbers.

By using the little-known mathematical operation known as "addition".

;)

People need to go through the turnstile. It helps keep the ridership of each ride "accurate." End of story.

Thank you ChrisC. Especially considering nobody still told me how re rides help ridership, but would rather try to tell me how a ride op is supposed to use addition when re rides aren't accurate let alone permitted. I worked as a ride op for 3 years at CP, and I know what rules to follow.

I just ask that you don't go to a ride and expect a ride op to break the rules for you, just because you can't walk back around to the entrance. Just as it has been stated before, right before park closing, re rides are possible. I would never send somebody to go back through the entrance, knowing that the line is about to be closed and there are still a few more guests waiting on the platform.

Rerides when allowed do increase ridership numbers when tracked properly. Rides like MF when you exit the train on the exit platform you are then walked through the special access entrance and then through the turnstile on the loading platform therefore counting you again as an additional rider. On the following coasters Raptor, Wicked Twister, Blue Streak, Iron Dragon, Corkscrew, Dragster, Magnum, Gemini, Mean Streak, Maverick, and Mantis (I have yet to experience this on Gatekeeper but I assume it to be the same) the ops will count how many reriders are on the train then manually turn the turnstile the same number of times as the number of reriders. This would be addition and increase ridership numbers.

I thought people already mentioned it. When I have seen re-rides permitted, I have seen one ride up signal back to the ride-op near the turnstile the number of people re-riding. That second ride-op then spins the turnstile the number of times for those re-riding. At that point, you have an accurate count of the number of riders riding the ride.

And it can help numbers if any of the people who were able to re-ride would have instead gone on to another ride had they not been able to re-ride the first.

I can assure you Wicked Twister and Blue Streak do not allow re rides unless it is closing time and there are still guests on the platform.

TwistedWicker77 said:
I can assure you Wicked Twister and Blue Streak do not allow re rides unless it is closing time and there are still guests on the platform.

I can assure you that it may not happen all the time but I would say that those two rides have allowed it more frequently in my experience then others and not just at closing time. In august my youngest god daughter and I rode blue streak 6 times with out exiting the train, and twister 3 times without exiting plus an additional time by switching seats without exiting the platform. It may be against policy but it does happen.

And at what time of the day was this? Just curious. Not trying to prove a point here. I'm just trying to say, re rides are against policy for a reason. We are encouraged to enforce it.

Roughly 2pm and 4pm.

Hmmm, that's interesting.

TwistedWicker77, i'm just curious, do you work on Wicked Twister?

I've always thought rerides should be allowed, no matter the ride or time of day. I don't understand why anyone would be "against" it. If nobody is in line for your row, why does it matter?

Egos.

Lego my ego instead of Lego my Eggo :) anyone remember that commercial?

Maverick00, this pretty much sums up what I think.

On another note, does anybody know how Six Flags handles rerides? They allow rerides 99.9% of the time. Are they not as diligent in counting ridership? I imagine it would be a pain to spin the turnstiles, considering the number of reriders at SF. SF's turnstiles tend to be at the exit, but I don't know if they spin them. (I've never seen the "spinning" at CP, for that manner.

On another note, what's up with the "2 reride max" policy? Is it just liability because they think somebody will sue after partially greying out for a few seconds (a fairly normal occurence) after reriding a lot?

It has nothing to do with egos. I mean, I don't think a ride operators pride would be hurt if you wanted to ride again when nobody was in there row. It's just a policy that is asked to be enforced.

AlexGillman, I used to work at Twister for 3 straight seasons. Not anymore. Gotta take school more seriously and graduate. I do miss working there though. And I highly recommend it to any college student.