Quick Six Flags Great Adventure Questions & Answers
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Hi everyone,
This is quite a specific question but on the six flags great adventure website, it says the park is open on 28th to 31st May but it wont let you buy tickets for those dates. Anyone know why this is? I have contacted support about it and they give conflicting information.
If anyone could help with this, I would appreciate it, thank you.
This is quite a specific question but on the six flags great adventure website, it says the park is open on 28th to 31st May but it wont let you buy tickets for those dates. Anyone know why this is? I have contacted support about it and they give conflicting information.
If anyone could help with this, I would appreciate it, thank you.
I'm planning on heading to the park on a weekend somewhere at the end of June, beginning of July (not the holiday though) - if I wanted to ride all coasters and maybe a few flats, could I do it in roughly 5-6 hours or would I need a fastlane pass?
NJ schools get out mid to late June, that’s a timeframe I historically avoided the park when I lived there. That said, I was a passholder who lived an hour away and wasn’t going to buy Flash Pass.
Beginning of July is a good call if not the holiday weekend. I made the mistake of going that weekend one time, 11 years ago, and it was a complete shitshow.
Beginning of July is a good call if not the holiday weekend. I made the mistake of going that weekend one time, 11 years ago, and it was a complete shitshow.
In the past 5-6 years I've only had to use Flash Pass once and that was during Haunt.
Most days you can run in and clear all the majors well before park close. You don't even have to get there at rope drop. Not sure if the park has gotten more crowded since. I live 5 hours away and consider GAdv to be a home park. I can leave Williamsburg around 8-9, get to the park by 1-2 and be done with everything I want in 2-3 hours.
Flash may have a long line throughout the day, but I managed to get 5 back to back rides at the end of the night last year.
I'd suggest buying FP the day of
Most days you can run in and clear all the majors well before park close. You don't even have to get there at rope drop. Not sure if the park has gotten more crowded since. I live 5 hours away and consider GAdv to be a home park. I can leave Williamsburg around 8-9, get to the park by 1-2 and be done with everything I want in 2-3 hours.
Flash may have a long line throughout the day, but I managed to get 5 back to back rides at the end of the night last year.
I'd suggest buying FP the day of
If you either arrive around park open or stay until park close, I don't think you'll have any trouble at all. Flash is the only really difficult one with its single train, but if you hit it right away or save it for last (I've seen it continue running about 15-20 minutes after closing to accommodate the line), you should be good. The $8 single-use Fast Lane is a nice alternative if neither time is an option for you - also gives you the freedom of playing things completely by ear day of.
The only roadblock I can really think of: Joker could be a sneaky tough one with a potentially long (centrally located) and slow-moving (inherent to 4D coasters) line. Remaining rides on multi-train ops shouldn't give you much trouble. Unless Superman sees a resurgence following Shoreline Pier, that line is much more bearable than it was a decade ago.
Wonder Woman routinely gets 40 minute lines and would probably be my only real warning as far as flats go. NebulaZ and water rides could also pull crowds when they open.
Even if you don't use Fast Lane at all, I'd highly recommend having the website open on your phone (if you bring it into the park with you) throughout the day. I've found the wait times on it to be impressively accurate and often use it to optimize my day. You don't have to be in the park, or even be logged in, to see the wait times.
The only roadblock I can really think of: Joker could be a sneaky tough one with a potentially long (centrally located) and slow-moving (inherent to 4D coasters) line. Remaining rides on multi-train ops shouldn't give you much trouble. Unless Superman sees a resurgence following Shoreline Pier, that line is much more bearable than it was a decade ago.
Wonder Woman routinely gets 40 minute lines and would probably be my only real warning as far as flats go. NebulaZ and water rides could also pull crowds when they open.
Even if you don't use Fast Lane at all, I'd highly recommend having the website open on your phone (if you bring it into the park with you) throughout the day. I've found the wait times on it to be impressively accurate and often use it to optimize my day. You don't have to be in the park, or even be logged in, to see the wait times.
Ok - yeah, there's a concert that evening in Asbury Park in interested in starting around 5-6 (the headliner in interested in probably won't go on until 8-9ish), otherwise will be there probably from opening. I don't think there's much concern about the 4-D Freespin since it's just a bigger version of Tumbili.
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@Jonesta6 , As @Great Adventurer said, keeping a site up with wait times is a great help, but I prefer to use Queue Times instead of the official pages. The page is a lot lighter, so it will load a lot faster (if you are on the shitty in-park WiFi) and use less data (if you have a metered data plan), and it pulls data from the official source APIs so it's just as accurate.