Attendance in 2025

[CoasterRattler🐍]

Okay, I’m curious about this since we are basically 2 months since Great Adventure opened for the season:

If anyone home park is Great Adventure, how has the attendance been for this year? Crowded, light-crowd or empty?

 

[Nitro230]

I’ve been to the park twice, this Friday and opening day.

Opening day was absolutely packed, everything had a long line.

This Friday the crowds were definitely lower but it was still a decent turnout. The park definitely started to get crowded around the time everyone was out of school.

Do have to say that Plaza De Carnival, Best of the West, and the boardwalk are definitely less crowded than the rest of the park. Wonder Woman had an hour long line and El Toro was a walk on. I stayed in my seat on Toro for a half hour lol.

 

[GASM]

Best of the West/Frontier Adventures has been pretty dead outside of Saw Mill Log Flume and Skyride for a long time now, so with Skyride gone that’s not too surprising. Boardwalk makes sense given the fact that it was gutted, but Plaza del Carnaval is interesting. Granted, it’s been short on rides for a long time (even more so since Rolling Thunder/El Diablo were removed), but still, El Toro is kinda the main draw to the park.

 

[bill s]

Sunday 2 weeks ago was very good while not quite dead. Longest wait was JLBFM when Flash went down, but then the Flash wait wasn't bad. Flash was walk-on last 10 minutes. After my first, wouldn't have thought I could handle 2 rides close together on it, but started learning to feel how to ride backwards, and it cooled off. Could get messy midsummer.

 

[Great Adventurer]

Attendance has been in flux for the most part (opening day was the most crowded by far, and fairly good draws on other days with warmer weather), but one of the things that's been extremely noticeable on every single visit has been the ramification of the offseason ride removals. Everything on the "Right" side of the park (relative to the entrance gate) tends to get packed: Flash, Nitro, Justice League, Wonder Woman, Batman, and Jersey Devil all see 30+ minute waits on a fairly routine basis on moderately crowded days. During that same time, Toro, Superman, Medusa, Houdini, etc. will all be walk-ons. Between the opening of a shiny new ride on one side and several closures on the other, there's been a major balance shift in where people tend to flock.

I've still yet to see any of the Boardwalk eateries open on any of my visits this season. It may just be the days I picked, but it still speaks to how desolate that sector of the park has become. They were open all the time last year.

 

[Centraljerseycoasters]

Do have to say that Plaza De Carnival, Best of the West, and the boardwalk are definitely less crowded than the rest of the park. Wonder Woman had an hour long line and El Toro was a walk on. I stayed in my seat on Toro for a half hour lol.

Right on about the Boardwalk. I am in rides this season and was placed in the Boardwalk/Fantasy Forrest. so, when I'm working in the Boardwalk its much harder to tell the actual crowd level of the park, compared to when I am working in Fantasy Forrest.

 

[Great Adventurer]

The park was mostly barren when I visited on Friday and, from what I've been told, had a downright tiny crowd yesterday too. The Flash Pass website (which is often trustworthy) is showing every ride as a walk on today.

It's been a sunny weekend with temperatures in the 80s. Unless guests diverted to Hurricane Harbor en masse, these past 7 days will look rough on the accounting sheet.

 

[MrBradferd]

I don't know wether to laugh or feel sorry for them tbh

 

[Thriller]

The park was mostly barren when I visited on Friday and, from what I've been told, had a downright tiny crowd yesterday too. The Flash Pass website (which is often trustworthy) is showing every ride as a walk on today.

It's been a sunny weekend with temperatures in the 80s. Unless guests diverted to Hurricane Harbor en masse, these past 7 days will look rough on the accounting sheet.

Cost cutting leads to a worst guest experience which leads to attendance drop.
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Additionally, this company just chases the same lower spending customers with the same kind of attractions. Instead of trying to pull in new customer bases. They are $5 billion dollars in debt and adding debt for new attractions just to retain the same customers.

 

[Nitro230]

Attendance today was absolutely abysmal, everything was a walk on. It’s legitimately worrying to see. Shouldn’t be nearly as dead as it was on a beautiful day in July.