CedarFair MaxxPass Question

First post, Hello all!

Getting ready to make the drive from Charlotte - 3 miles from Carowinds - to super park of my growing up in Ohio.

We have a cottage booked at Lighthouse Point. We will be using our 2007 CedarFair MaxxPasses to visit CP. It looks like using a non-CP purchased MaxPass requires a visit to guest relations to enter CP.

Now (finally!) the question: Can I make this Guest Services visit at the gate closest to Lighthouse Point?

Yes, it's just to the right of the entrance.

I also have a question.. I have the Maxx Plus card so I could go to KI's waterpark, since I live in Cincy. Really the only reason I opted to go for the Plus add on was for Boomerang Bay. Now I hear that it's all inclusive still. That the park and waterpark are just one ticket still. Is this true? And with just a regular Maxx card, will I be able to get into Boomerang Bay?

GregInCharlotte is my father, our questions are the same, I had started writing mine before he posted his, combine threads if possible so as not to choke things up.

Yes, the Kings Island water park is included as part of the park.

The standalone waterparks that are not included with the regular Maxx Pass are Soak City in Sandusky, the three Knott's-branded parks in southern california, and Ocean's of Fun in Kansas City. All of the others (Geagua, Kings Island, Great America, Carowinds, ???) are included.

dang, that sucks... Think It would be possible to get a refund on the plus part of the card?

Whats this about having to visit the guest services if you have a non cp max pass. I got mine from Kings Island so do i have to visit the Guest service first. I have never heard anything about this.

Each day you enter the park for the first time, you have to go through guest services so they can write your pass number down.

Since your pass has no photo on it, really anyone could use it.

MI Adventure water park is included too.

*** Edited 5/18/2007 1:20:07 AM UTC by 0g***

Loopy, I thought the same thing. But actually, well at least at KI, when they scan your pass, a picture of you shows up on the screen of the scanner. So your picture is taken, and its on file, but whether or not the person on the gate actually looks at you to verify it actually is you is a whole different story.

We just spent a couple days at the Point from Toronto (Canada's Wonderland Maxx Pass) and we had to go into guest services to have them write down our pass number, they did not scan them. However, they do have the sign-in sheet at all the entrances, we had no problem both mornings getting in the Magnum Entrance so we could get our morning TTD rides in.

pyro, what you don't know is that the Cedar Point gates don't have any type of monitors.

So, like I said, you'll have to go through guest relations each day and since your pass has no photo on it, really anyone could use it.

I'm well aware that KI and KD have monitors at their turnstiles, CP does not.

Interestingly, this year Knott's photocopied my CP MX+ pass, and then transcribed the number onto their comp tally sheet. In past years, they only wrote the number down, no photocopying. *** Edited 5/18/2007 5:19:10 PM UTC by Brian Noble***

What a waste of a tree!!! I hope they used re-cycled paper!! :)

Sometimes, on busy days they will write down pass numbers right at the turnstile... I have a MA Maxxpass and that was the case last Saturday... no visit to Guest Relations necessary.

But the MA passes do have photos on them.

I'm pretty sure the people at Knott's have no clue how passes from other parks operate. It took me an hour to get into the park when I was there in January because they acted like they had never seen a Cedar Point season pass before.

^-- I had a similar experience when CF bought out Michigans Adventure. It took about 15 minutes for 3 of us to get in. Shivering Timbers made it completely worth it though.

Loopy, yea, we ran into that today.. A few buddies and I went to Cedar Point today and they made us go through guest services. We didn't know why. Kinda slows things down a bit, and slightly inconvienent. They really should work that all into one system. Now it makes sense, but like I said, they should all go to the same system. Would make sense IMO.

...sorry about that Loopy.. shows what I knew before today... haha ;)

*** Edited 5/20/2007 3:46:58 AM UTC by pyrocoasterkid***

The thing is every park uses a different kind of bar code system, so what scans at one park doesn't at others. They changed CP, GL and KI this year to all be compatible with each other, but I'm sure it would take a fairly major overhaul to bring all the parks up to the same system. For most parks, it's just not worth it due to geographic distance. The only other one I could see being useful is Michigan's Adventure, since I always see an abundance of those coming to the CP gates.