hitching rides

Does any employee ever recall some of the rides they hitched with guests? I must have gotten 20 rides from guests into the park when the toll gates were at the beginning of the causeway. Always a neat start to a day!

I may have a time or two but only ones that I knew already...

redbrigade said:
Does any employee ever recall some of the rides they hitched with guests? I must have gotten 20 rides from guests into the park when the toll gates were at the beginning of the causeway. Always a neat start to a day!

That's quite interesting...to say the least

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Cedar Point rules...=)

Once I got into a cab with some guests! We were on our way back to CP on point! They were staying on their boat! It was really really weird! They just kept talking and talking and talking and talking but hey they payed for my cab. Later that day they showed up at Fridays and kept talking and talking and talking. Some guests are kind of weird!

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TGIFridays
Costumed Character
Screamster
Camp Snoopy Escort

Some guests are kind of weird!

aww, its all part of the experience.

i never got a ride on-point with guests...but one day waiting for a cab at the mall a nice old couple pulled up and offered a ride back to commons. They said they havent been out that way in years. Very nice people, and their dog was awesome. wouldnt take my money tho.

hehe, then there was a cab ride we took with a prostitute and some guy who picked her up. Man, we stopped at about 20 motels (they never did find one.) And here is pavla (my buddy from the czech republic) in the backseat screaming at the cab driver that he's insane and she 'wants to go home right now.' hehe, it was a funny hour. we never did pay the guy.
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:james
magnum crew 2002
*** This post was edited by magnumjames 1/4/2003 12:26:34 AM ***

This is kind of off topic! But those taxi cab companies were crazy! Some were really good like Dependable! and others were over priced like Safe and Reliable!! and then there was the super creepy guy at City Taxi! He scared me! Riding in cabs scared me! And I never knew if I was suppose to tip them!

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TGIFridays
Costumed Character
Screamster
Camp Snoopy Escort

On the 1st lovely parking ban night( i think july 4th) about 5 of us stopped a pickup truck and hopped in the back and rode all the way to commons, we had to duck down to hied from silver tags! I'm just glad i didn't try to get in the bus while it was moving!

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Matt - '02 WT crew
Guest- "Are the towers supposed to move??" Me- "No, I just sit in a chair underneath it all day long, hoping it collapses on my head."

That was a real time saver. I think we walked into Commons at 1 am, while there was still hundreds of others waiting for the bus. There was no way I was going to wait almost an hour just to get on Blue Thunder.

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VertiGo rides: 32
2002 Raptor Crew
"Hey, Cool. My voice is on the lift"

Montu said:
That was a real time saver. I think we walked into Commons at 1 am, while there was still hundreds of others waiting for the bus. There was no way I was going to wait almost an hour just to get on Blue Thunder.
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VertiGo rides: 32
2002 Raptor Crew
"Hey, Cool. My voice is on the lift"

LOL, I don't remember it being called Blue Thunder, maybe Blue Lemons :)

Hopefully, they will have the transportation system a little better this year. The long waits seems to be a reoccuring observation (when I was there to say the least).

I have to admit, I have hitched a ride or two from other people because I was either running late or didn't want to feel like a tin can :)

A minor improvement could be to use the guest shuttle busses for post-close trips to off-point housing. I would suspect that most resort guests are tucked in for the night within an hour of the queue lines being closed, leaving most of those shuttles idle. They aren't very big, but could take at least a few more people.

Of course, based on some of the waits I've had to get the guest shuttle, there might only be one. :)

Yeah, this past 4th of July was absolutely insane. There must have literally been hundreds of employees waiting for the bus, and more kept coming every minute. I had to wait for four or five buses to go by before getting on one, and even then I was lucky to be able to. CP definetly needs to do something about the shuttle situation on days they know will be busier than usual (and when the parking bans are in effect).

They had both busses running, but even that was not enough. From my experience, the shuttle situation isn't normally too bad, it's when they have the parking bans that things start to get crazy. Using the guest shuttles is a good idea, but even that wouldn't be enough. They need an extra bus or two for those busy days...it is just ludicrous for the employees to be stuck at the park until the middle of the night waiting to get home.

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Park Services '01-'02

I presume that CP owns the employee shuttle busses.

It would be silly to buy more busses for the K days per season with parking bans. However, renting a few extra for those days might make sense. Often, bus companies want minimum rental durations of several hours---clearly not needed here. But, they might bite on short rentals on several different days as a package.

now i never hitched a ride with guests but the best spot to catch a random employee going back to commons was the cross walk by marina gate, whenever i'd miss the bus i'd just stand there by those dumb posts that guests liked to attempt to hop over(many fail and it's hilarious) and as soon as i see a car with the cp parking sticker on it i'm like HEY!!!...GOING TO COMMONS????....and i never got in trouble for it

Genevieve, I can so picture you doing that!!

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~Lee~

Group Sales ATL '01
Group Sales TL '02
'03 -- TBA
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"The greatest leaders don't take credit for their actions; they don't have to."

Right on Genevieve.. Hope everything is going good for you. :) Are you returning this summer? (Jason)

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2001 - Admissions Host/Resort Gate
2002 - Admissions Host/ATL Resort Gate
2003 - ????

Genevieve better be returning especially since she made me reapply for this summer ;)

and back on subject...

I've never hitched a ride since I had my own car but I knew quite a few people who did and from what they told me, it seems like quite a experience.

Nycki

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Challenge Park '01 & '02
"What Ocean is that?"
"Where is the entrace to Cedar Point"

Decades ago catching a ride with a park guest was easy and relatively safe. The park guests were always pleased to have an employee ride with them and the conversation although repetetive was positive.They would always ask what I thought was the best ride and where the beer was;the same stuff every time.Meeting girls was fairly easy too...

Cat said:
Yeah, this past 4th of July was absolutely insane. There must have literally been hundreds of employees waiting for the bus, and more kept coming every minute. I had to wait for four or five buses to go by before getting on one, and even then I was lucky to be able to. CP definetly needs to do something about the shuttle situation on days they know will be busier than usual (and when the parking bans are in effect).
They had both busses running, but even that was not enough. From my experience, the shuttle situation isn't normally too bad, it's when they have the parking bans that things start to get crazy. Using the guest shuttles is a good idea, but even that wouldn't be enough. They need an extra bus or two for those busy days...it is just ludicrous for the employees to be stuck at the park until the middle of the night waiting to get home.
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Park Services '01-'02

Thank god i was living in gold that year.. in 2001 waiting for the bus was freaking nuts lol

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Kelly aka TazMaster
CP@LE RR 2000
White Water Landing 2001
Wicked Twister/Kiddy Kingdom 2002
Team Leader GCA 2003
RIP STEVEN CROWE 8-6-82 1-4-03
FALLEN ANGEL....

4 Of July was Crazy , ppl jumped the bus driver almost they had to call rent a cops and i was so pissed we called a 2doller taxi and as i left i felt bad for the ppl waiting for blue to card um back to commons..hehehe

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Cedar Downs/Midway Carousel '01
Giant Wheel Triangle '02
~~Ur Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile~~

I worked that night. I was sitting near the back of the bus when the driver stopped and walked off. If only people would just give the poor drivers a break and just sit down and shut up and listen to directions... I found out later that she was the only one driving on July 4th due to a staffing error -- I would have been stressed out, too!!

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~Lee~

Group Sales ATL '01
Group Sales TL '02
'03 -- TBA
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"The greatest leaders don't take credit for their actions; they don't have to."