May 23, 25, 26, 27

A little late here, but I thought I post up my experience at the point.

Arrived in Sandusky late Monday after an AWESOME Cleveland Indians game (come from behind win). Stayed at the Super 8 in Milan which was extremely cheap and very clean.

Tuesday me and my buddy headed to the point to get our Platinum Passes. We did this for a couple reasons: First, to get the Millennium Force ERT on Thursday, second because we were going so many days, and finally for the free parking because we were going so many days.

Tuesday: Got to the park around 9:30 and didn't know if we should ride Millie first or wait for Dragster to open up at 10:00. We decided that Millie was highly anticipated, and after going on Kingda Ka last season we had an idea of what Dragster had to offer. So we beat feet to MF for the first ride of the season for us (I have been on it many times before, my buddy never had been). Later on in the week we would find this decision to be very wise. MF was running one train (the blue train) for which we waited about 10 rides for the front. I was never impressed by the back on MF, so the front is definitely the best seat on this ride. My buddy loved the thing.

Next we hit up Mantis. I vowed after my last visit in 2007 to never ride it again. Well, my buddy thought the idea of a stand up was "very cool and fun," and having never been on one I figured I'd tag along to hear him complain about his legs. I told him before the ride "its going to hurt" but never told him what was going to hurt. He thought it was going to hurt his family jewels, but the moment the train hit the brakes he looked over at me and said "your legs." Didn't bother me as much as last time, but we didn't ride it again.

Then the rain came. We decided to leave the park for a bit and grab a bite to eat. Came back and did Dragster, Maverick, Wicked Twister, Magnum, MaxAir, Skyhawk, Demon Drop, and then called it a day. Lots of time in the next couple of days for re-rides and the other coasters is what we figured.

Went to another Indians game on weds. May 24 to see another indians victory.

Back to the park early morning Thursday. Got 3 rides on Raptor with the Platinum Pass perk thing, then headed over to Dragster for another run before the rest of the people were let in. After that, we did a 3 ride marathon on Magnum with no lines and headed over to Gemini. We were waiting for the back of the red side (only side running) and were next in line when it started to rain. All coasters in the park closed, and rather than getting wet we decided to just chill in the station and wait for the rain to pass. So we stayed in the station with 2 other people for about an hour. The crew was great and was working EXTREMELY hard to get the thing back up in between rain showers so the four people in the station could ride, but were forced to close back down just a few minutes before they were about to open when it started to rain again. We got out of line and went into town for something to eat at a nice little pub down the road with great fries and burgers (50 cent tacos on tuesday and Fridays apparently). Returned after that, and saw something dangling from MF's lifthill. MF was closed so we did Maverick, Skyhawk, Power Tower, MaxAir, Wicked Twister, and Mine RIde. We were feeling pretty down so we headed back to the hotel to rest up for that nite's ERT on MF. I checked Pointbuzz and saw people talking about the busted catch car and figured ERT was done. Checked the CP blog and saw they switched it to TTD and Magnum, so we headed back down rt. 250 (with an awesome stop at ColdStone) and got there at 7:30. Hit up Gemini finally, then Maverick with a line that was in the station (shortest I've ever seen it) and headed over to TTD. About 50 people participated in the TTD ERT, so we got 8 rides in within the span of about 50 minutes. Tony and the ride crew were fantastic, thanks to them for stepping up when MF was down and really making the Platinum Pass worth it to us.

Friday was more of the same but with nicer weather and a PACKED to capacity park. At one point, Maverick, Top Thrill Dragster, Magnum, AND MF (obviously) were all broken down at the same time. But we got rides on Blue Streak, Iron Dragon, Wildcat, Maverick (we were walking to Mean Streak but as we passed Maverick it opened up which mean a 15 minute wait for us), Mean Streak (much rougher than I ever remember it being, and very boring as well), TTD when it opened up, and two night rides on Maverick (got in line at 9:55 for the second one, line closed at 10:00). Decent day, we left in the middle because we didn't want to fight the crowds, busiest I've ever seen the point.

Saturday before heading back to NY, we got to the park at 9:30 and hopped in line for Dragster for one last victory lap. After some down time we finally got our final front seat ride on the puppy, and headed down the midway one last time before leaving Cedar Point in my rear view mirror.

Some observations:

First, Cedar Point's policy with rain sucks. It rained alot when we were there, and while I understand the whole reason behind not running the coasters when its a downpour, they shouldn't close in a passing sprinkle or light light rain. It not only makes it boring for the patrons, but also for the ride crews.

Second, why does Maverick need brakes coming out of the launch? That would be a great airtime hill but they had to go and throw brakes on the thing to slow up the pace. Doesn't make that portion of the ride feel too "out of control."

Third, great perk for platinum passholders to hold ERT on coasters. If I lived closer I'd make a special trip just for the ERT, its a great to offer that. It felt so personal, we had one of the tallest and fastest coasters in the world at our personal disposal for an hour without any lines. How cool is that???

Fourth, while bummed MF went down, I am so glad we got our ride in on that thing. Almost didn't happen.

Finally, great trip overall Cedar Point. Employees were working hard and having a good time.

I went colubous day weekend in 2008. One lady told someone in our group that they had 53000 admission that day and it was almost at capacity. That was the only time i had to wait 1.5 hours for mean streak!

I think there severe weather policy stinks too. I went to busch gardens Williamsburg and they ran appolos chariot in really heavy rain. I asked if they had a rain policy, they said "is long if there is no thunder or lightning, we will run the ride at full capacity!" I think it is stupid that they can only run one train on each ride! I am really confused on why they do that. :)

You missed the best day at the park - Wednesday. Prior to the rain at 3:00, the lines were 10 min to walk on for all the rides. (see my report 104 rides in 4 days). If the rain had held off, I believe I would have beaten my record of 53 BIG coasters in one day. Also, I managed to ride Millenium (my favorite ride) 20 times from 9:00 - noon!

Wait. I was one of the two peeps in Gemini's station!!!!!!! (: (:

Sooo true. That was thee best day I've ever gone to the park. We rode almost everything in an hour and a half. (:

I was there Tuesday, and Wednesday that week, Tuesday night Maverick was a complete walk on, and on Wednesday night during the last hour the wait was so short for Millennium they had the handicap gate open in the station so you didn't have to walk all the way around.
I don't like the rain policy either, I remember riding Millennium in a heavy downpour in 2006, what a painful ride! Good thing there are other parks that still run their rides in the rain.