Is Dan Snyder nuts? He has been known to nickel-and-dime his customers, but this would be the ultimate insult to theme park patrons. No more leaving the camera in the car, leaving a change of clothes or your lunch in the car, or heaven forbid leaving the parking lot to grab a bite to eat at a slightly more affordable and higher quality restaurant. Those practices may soon be history at Six Flags, and guests will have to bring everything they may potentially need into the park with them and rent a locker to store everything, at an extra charge, of course. Six Flags may have found a way to increase revenue by locking guests into the park with nowhere else to go without having to pay a second admission to get back in the gates of the park, but how many people will just not bother going in if they can't leave to take a rest or change their clothes?
LET THE COMPLAINING BEGIN....
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Also, if this is a new policy, it's certainly possible that season passholders will be subject to it as well, so I wouldn't necessarily assume that this change is intended to convince people to get season passes. More likely, they want to force people to buy their expensive, crappy food instead of picnicking in the parking lot.
I think what Robert is saying is that gusts can purchase a season pass, and return on another day if they do want to spend the whole day locked in the park, and don't want to spend $45 to come back.
Six Flags has also increased season pass prices at its more popular parks for the 2006 season (Six Flags Magic Mountain, Six Flags Great Adventure, and Six Flags Over Texas).
FWIW, I was assuming in my first post that the same-day-reentry-ban would not apply to season passes, but just to one-day (or, rather, one entry) tickets. Otherwise, Six Flags would have to check at the turnstyle to see that a season pass had not yet been used that day when admitting a passholder.
Then again, I wouldn't be surprised if this was a test message to feel out the marketplace. I guess the only way to find out how people will take it is to leak it. I sure hope it doesn't happen for the paying publics sake.
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"Oh, you want to go get a change of clothes for your baby? Well, you'll have to buy another ticket for $42.99 if you want to get back in. Or... you can spend just $12 to upgrade to a Season Pass and come and go as you please all year long! So, which would you prefer, ma'am?"