Halloweekends 2012

Question for you CP regulars... Is there someplace where visitors can be dropped off without paying for parking, if someone is going to drive the car away and not park?

A small group of us Scareacters from KI are coming up to CP to visit our Screamster cousins this weekend, but none of us have Platinum passes. Mrs. Gator will also be coming with us but is only going to the park on Saturday (no sense paying $35.99 for her to go for the 2.5 hours we'll be there on Friday night, after leaving right after our day jobs). So our plan is to have her drop us off, and she can check in to the hotel and hang there while we run amuck at the park Friday night.

KI has an easily accessible visitor drop off area, but I wasn't sure if something like that existed at CP. We don't want to pay to park if we're not parking a car there, and I didn't see the answer to this on CP's website. Thanks!

Oh, and... holla!

Hey Man, glad to see you make it up, coming to see anyone special?

Your best option is to have her pay for parking, drop you off and then on her way out stop at the toll booths and she will be reimbursed.

That's kind of what I thought we might have to do, but I wasn't sure.

There's a couple pirates in Castaway Cove that I know (one I know is returning, one I haven't heard if she's returning or not). Other than that, no one specifically, we just like the fact that you guys open a week before us. This will be my 4th year going to HW opening weekend with various other scareacters, so it's become a tradition for us.

That sounds awesome! let us all know how Eden Musee and Cut Throat Cove is!

Employees of other Cedar Fair parks get free parking, just show your ID at the tolls. Also only one person in the vehicle needs their ID. If you haven't started yet at KI then your best bet is to tell the Tolls person that you are just dropping off, you will still have to pay the $.50 toll fee though.

Titandwedebil said:
And don't forget looking at the park while going up the lift hill and seeing it submerged in a layer of fog.

2 words, Maverick & fog. Those 2 things alone are on the top of my list of things to be excited about for this year's HW.

That and I suppose the new haunts. :)

^Definitely.

I just wonder how they're going to keep the fog out of the station.

That station usually has a decent breeze blowing through it anyway. I doubt fog is going to be an issue. I do wish I could get a ride on Maverick while the zone is open though. :)

The fog won't hold in that area very well anyways. There is always a good breeze blowing over by Maverick. I think the fog will be the same as when Carnevil was over by Oceana, non-existent because of the breeze.

Morté615 said:
Employees of other Cedar Fair parks get free parking, just show your ID at the tolls. Also only one person in the vehicle needs their ID. If you haven't started yet at KI then your best bet is to tell the Tolls person that you are just dropping off, you will still have to pay the $.50 toll fee though.

Thanks! We've always had a person in our group with a Platinum pass before so it wasn't an issue. We all have our KI employee IDs already.

But a $.50 toll fee? I don't think it's been that low for many, many years! LOL

50 cents for using the causway. You would be refunded 14.50 of the $15 parking fee.

Huh, I never knew about that... Learned a couple new things today!

Does anyone know if they put the hearse out by the front gate this year? I went to the park the 2nd last week of August and didn't see it out front. I believe they usually had it out then in previous years. My friends and I have always taken a picture in front of it and would like to keep that tradition going!

Just looked at the weather for Friday night. Looks like there is going to be 10-20mph winds, Can't see that Maverick fog sitting in there for very long.

Does anyone know what is going into the Palace Theater for Halloweekends? I would pay a $5 upcharge to see the Poe readings again, but you need to pay me $10 to sit through Dr. Cleaver!

Rugrats2001 said:
Does anyone know what is going into the Palace Theater for Halloweekends? I would pay a $5 upcharge to see the Poe readings again, but you need to pay me $10 to sit through Dr. Cleaver!

Answering myself, I just called Cedar Point and was informed that there will not any show at the Palace this year, because they put its budget into the Skeleton Crew 'Cirque' style show on the Luminosity stage.

While Dr. Cleaver certainly wasn't on the better end of HalloWeekend shows it was the last remaining bit of small theatrical performances (like the Poe readings) that were a part of the earlier years of the event.

I've only been twice to CP and only ever been to ride the coasters. I'm returning this weekend with my family and I was thinking if we got on everything we wanted in good time, we'd try some of the haunts. what are ones I shouldn't miss? Anyone have favorites and explanations to why?
THANKS!!!!

Definitely do all of the walkthroughs. There's no line, so there's no reason not to do them - for the most part you can go through them on your way to whereever else in the park you're going.

As for the haunts that you have to wait in line for.... All are decent, but I'd say that Eerie Estates is probably the best one. I also think Cornstalkers is kinda cool, because you walk through the Thunder Canyon trough, which creates a foggy, claustrophic feel. The new one, Eden Musee, will probably be good as well.

Great. Hmm, the Halloweekends website is just NOT working on my computer, could you maybe tell me which ones are the walkthrough haunts, just so I can look out for names as we're going around?

I will definitely do Eerie Estates and Cornstalkers, the idea of going through the trough sounds so so cool.

Carnevil, Screamworks, Blood on the Bayou.

Maybe Cut Throat Cove.