The bathroom directly to the right of the entrance gate (at least the old gate) was the worst. And yes to the queue cover! So many ride queues are open or use that mesh like fabric that does nothing.
I live in Portland, Oregon and this is my favorite park. I just went to Six Flags Magic Mountain, but doesn't compare. I love the drive down the cosway and the views of the lake from the coasters!
Kinda begs the question, why no major parks (Cedar Fair or Six Flags) in the Pacific Northwest? It's not like Portland/Seattle/Vancouver, BC couldn't afford it... You being in Portland I can see why you have to drive down to California for your fix.
I am from MI, but now live in L.A. so, CP used to be the closest park to me growing up, so every time I visit MI, I go to CP. I also go to SFMM all the time now. The 2 parks are very different. The coaster lineups are nowhere near similar. But, CP can't be touched. Its coaster lineup edges out SFMM, even just looking at the top 5 at each. The environment is also much better. CP is beautiful. The terrain is easier to get around too. The only way, in my opinion, that SFMM beats CP is weather, longer operating season, and you never never never get bugs losing their lives as they slam into your face on a coaster, especially millennium force. Actually, you won't get bugs at SFMM at all. But that's it. CP has 6 coasters over 200 feet. I mean, that's special. And great food. MM has terrible food.
I went once in 2018 and three times in 2019. For my first trip I got to the park about 8:30PM on a Saturday and stayed through Tuesday. It was a great trip. I agree three days the first time you go is a really good plan. I went in May so I was able to get in a lot of rides. As far as food, the best option is Melt inside the park. I like that place. As far as Breakers go the hotel is good not great. The best thing about it is that it is on-site so if you want a mid day break it makes it easy to crash for an hour or so. I'm guessing that I will spend a long weekend at Cedar Point at some point in 2020.
That is definitely awesome having a room on site for that very reason. Everything is conveniently right there for you. From what I hear that place is always full so it seems reservations need to be made well in advance. I'm definitely gonna try Melt this year as I hear great things about it!
I'm not someone who has been to like a boat load of parks... but I've been to a pretty good cross section of different types of parks I think.... Cedar Point, Kings Island, Dollywood, Kentucky Kingdom, The Disney Orlando parks, The Universal Orlando parks, Busch Gardens Tampa,... etc. In my opinion. out of all the parks I've been to..... Cedar Point is DEFINATELY the best park I've ever been to. The coasters are just SO awesome... and there are SO many of them.... Not to mention, the atmosphere. The park, (while maybe it could use some sprucing up here and there) is just Beautiful.... The way it's just surrounded by Lake Eerie is phenomenal... and makes it feel unique. It's so weird... It feels like an oceanside park... with the Sea Gulls and stuff all flying around. I've been trying hard to get my health back to a position that I can take my little boys to experience it. Cedar Point will ALWAYS hold a special place in my heart... Even though I have to drive like 9 hours to get there lol
As a CP employee I completely agree with all of this! Also if you look at the google earth walk trough of CP from 2011 you can see just how many trees we once had, sad that so many are gone now! Also you are so right about KI's haunt blowing ours out of the water, great review!
Hey! It is so good to see you here! 🙂 I watch your videos quite a bit and you do excellent work. I always wonder too if I ever saw you at Gemini and didn't know it was you. I likely did since I went over 30 times last year. Where can I find that walkthrough from 2011? Can you do that straight from Google Earth?
@@coasterdaddy7123 Here is the link to the walkthrough: www.google.com/maps/@41.4787168,-82.6793786,3a,75y,354.12h,86.07t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sRnkaMqp0OtIkGWtPq6riNw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 And I am sure you prob saw me working last season! All well I will be back, perhaps we will meet up this year!
Cedar Point is an amazing amusement park if you’re solely interested in roller coasters. This review is very on point. Decades ago, prior to the roller coaster focus, Cedar Point was more broadly charming but world class in no categories: It was more scenic with more trees, more family friendly with its aquarium, its zoo, had more entertainment, had two low-key log rides, a ferry boat ride, etc. A big upside to the roller coaster focus is that you can ride historically phenomenal coasters like Gemini or Magnum with virtually no line as the flavor-of-the-year will pull away the crowds. The park is strong enough in coasters that it could spend years improving food, theming, or building a an experience for non-thrill ride visitors without removing the draw for thrill ride customers. Pushing the park into being truly family friendly again is the direction the park needs to move. The slightest reduction in the coaster focus would not only make the park more broadly appealing for families with small children, the elderly, expecting mothers, and anyone with motion issues-it would also make the park visitable on any rainy day. It’s kind of odd that a park located on one of the world’s largest fresh water seas becomes unvisitable every time the slightest amount of water evaporates from that large body of water and falls as rain.
Im always keeping Cedar Point as my #1 and have been to countless other parks globally but this one was my first park i fell in love with and have memories that are priceless. I hate the smelly musty olde town facilities that have amazing air conditioning and drinks but its like your in an old musty basement and i think this park is above having this kind of crap but its still my special place and im all about ripping out some water park crap and put more coasters out to replace them. Lookee like they are working on major upgrades in the beach n hotel resort . I have never had an issue with the resort and hotel/beach-ish area and even the surrounding Hotels they have purchased and renovated within that immediate surrounding properties have always been amazing too and its just easy for me when i go there .
You’ve earned yourself a new subscriber! Your voice is overall very soothing, and enjoyable. (No homo lol) I really enjoyed CP when I went, it’s a great park, with some great rides, but some very overrated ones too. Magnum has weak airtime, very rough, and I got trimmed to death on my ride. I also got a lot of head banging on raptor, and thought those 2 rides are very overrated.
You must have just gotten magnum on a bad day. I have found the ride to be very smooth in recent years and the airtime on the bunny hills at the end to be almost painfully strong.
I agree with top thrill. You had to have gotten Magnum on a very uncharacteristically BAD day! The airtime on the bunny hops is almost painful ejector. Thank you so much for the compliments, I appreciate seeing you around and hearing your thoughts on many topics in the future 🙂
Great review!! You're extremely fortunate to call this incredible park your home park. I visited in summer of 2018 and I got 3 1/2 days to experience mostly everything the park had to offer. The park had a lot of first time coaster experiences for me such as my first wing and dive coasters, first giga, first accelerator and first coaster with a beyond vertical drop. Because it was my first and so far only visit, I couldn't make out things that would have improved it, any park could use improvement and being that it's Cedar Fair's flagship park, I have no doubt they'll address any issues that need to be resolved. I can't speak much for the food as I only ate at Chickie and Pete's but that was great as it was. One thing that was somewhat of an annoyance were the constant swarms of mayflies, but you can't do much about nature as it was there long before the park was. That being said, Cedar Point is definitely a park that every enthusiast has to get to at some point and it's definitely not a place to visit only once. Can't wait to see what the future holds for this amazing park, perhaps a dueling inverting GCI or 500+ft T rex?
I'm really hoping for one of those fancy GCIs! 🤗 It sounds like you had a fantastic experience, that's awesome! Yeah, it is hard, especially for huge parks, to make out things that could be improved when you have limited time.
11:25 Wow, we used to have one of those at the Canadian National Exhibition here in Toronto! I think it was just called "The Derby". Loved it as a kid, it was taken down in the 1990's! I'm coming down to CP for the first time this May and was just going to get all the coaster credits in one day (it'll be a weekday and I'll have Fast Lane Plus so I hope it's doable) but I'm going to have to ride Cedar Downs for old time's sake!
You should be able to manage everything! Definitely don't skip Cedar Downs! One of only two racing derbies left in the world! It was originally at Euclid Beach in Cleveland, OH until 1967.
Platinum passes are so worth it. In my opinion, 3 days just at a park is a bit much, however, unlike most amusement parks, CP has a huge beach with water activities and you can also go to Put-in-Bay for a day and be back in time for evening and night rides for half a day at CP. SO, 3 or more days would be worth it in the Sandusky area with a variety of experiences available in addition to the park. Also, another benefit to parking by Magnum is that it's much easier to get back to your car during the day if you need to. And, Starbucks and the restaurant in Hotel Breakers are open early. I love being the 1st in that parking lot, walking to Starbucks and getting a coffee to enjoy on the quiet morning beach before going in the park right when it opens, especially with platinum early entry.
As a Midway Ambassador that worked the Frontier Town area: saying that the Chick-fil-a there is popular is understatement. When lunch hour hit, you had to be pulling your cans at twice the rate if you wanted to have both a well maintained Midway and a clean Chick-fil-a, especially when the sensors started going bad on the cans there. Our favorite day of the week would be Sunday, because you only had to maintain the big belly cans at Stockade and the other one that is slipping my mind atm.
I love Cedar Point. Best coaster collection in the world! However, Dollywood is my favorite park that I've ever been to. I will be going back to both this summer.
I love cp... frontier town is nice and very well themed, you can find many shaded and quite spots to take a break. The Gemini midway is like a fair and and the front of the park feels like a modern amusement park. Everywhere u go in the park is different.
Its my home park too so everywhere else I go is ultimately inferior. I completely agree with the food, I have mostly found it mediocre and I do hope that changes. I wish they would bring Intamin back for some new coasters. A woody and another sweet multi launch.
@@coasterdaddy7123 Its probably what I want the most out of anything. To get a better woody then El Toro would be amazing. The only downside is that it would likely come at the cost of Gemini. I would rather them tear out CCMR and do something with that area, though the pond right there kind of gets in they way.
The bad weather thing is honestly so true. CP is also my home park, and twice in the many times I've visited we encountered severe thunderstorms. One particular visit, it rained for about 45 minutes and many people went home. However, after the storm cleared, the weather remained beautiful for the rest of the afternoon and evening and most rides had no lines - Millennium had a 20 minute wait; I've never seen that before!
No need to apologize for CP for its lack of theming. It already has a theme: The Roller Coast :-) I've said on other videos, if you want great theming and lame rides ("it's a small world after all... it's a small world after all..."), go to Disney or Universal. if you want mediocre rides themed to DC Comics, go to Six Flags parks. If you want great rides, go to Cedar Fair parks. However, some minor touches would be nice; from pictures/videos, Cedar Point's midway looks like airport tarmac with those huge square slabs of concrete. Contrast with the former Taft parks (including my home park, Canada's Wonderland) which have all the footpaths paved with interlocking bricks.
I'm riding Orion in April and didn't have any solid plans to hit Cedar Point this season but your video just reminded me how much I love this place. I'm going to squeeze in an early May visit. Great review! You hit all the pros and cons!
@@coasterdaddy7123 I'll be there for pass holder preview on the 10th. And I'll be hitting CP on opening week in May. Hope we can link up! I'll message you.
I love intense coasters but in a small factor... I think the next attraction should be a small coaster for 4 or 8 passengers but in a high trilling intensity layout with lots of turns and invertions and evolutions near the ground a passing through the steel structures
I love going to cedar point on rainy days, cause less people, and a lot of people leave if there already there. 20 mins of rain is good, then the rest of the day will not be busy.
Yep. I went on one Sunday in May 2019 where it rained really hard for a couple hours. In two hours I got 3 rides on Millennium Force, 3 on Maverick and 4 on Steel Vengeance!!!
@@coasterdaddy7123 even without rain, every single time ive been to cedar point every coaster was a 5 minute wait except maverick and steel vengeance witch where half hour waits even in a hot july day! ;) ive been in may 3 times I think then june twice then july twice of 2019, no wait times, then I went on a coaster trip to every cedar fair park on the east coast no wait time at all at any parks, then the only time I had to wait alot were the last 2 days of cedar point being opened in 2019. closing day 2019 sucked everything was closed ;(, I went to cedar point injoyed the 2nd last day of cedar pint 2019, loved it, I got a hotel, expecting to go on stuff again, but everything was closed for the day ;(
Cedar Point was my home park from the mid 60s til 2000. I miss the the 2 dark rides, funhouse, double ferris wheel, the one really curvy turbo jet coaster, the mini golf course and the rug slide. I'm not even sure Fascination is still there. The Earthquake was the dark ride on the main midway. It was replaced by a Berenstain bears attraction in the 80s The pirate dark ride was over by Blue Streak. Loved it but it it went away round about when Raptor went up. The Double Ferris Wheel was in between the carousel and the the sky ride. The other things mentioned were on the back side of the midway where Gate Keeper and the giant Ferris wheel are now. As far as The Breakers go it's not as integral as it once was. Back in the early 60s my best friend's mom worked at Breakers. Cedar Point was really drawing BIG name entertainers. ELVIS left her a $100 tip one night.
Cedar Point has such a significant history with many big names of the past performing there. I know about all of those rides and really wish I could experience Pirate Ride, Jumbo Jet and Earthquake. I do have to point out that Breakers is probably a bigger part of the Cedar Point experience than it ever has been. It's been expanded in the 2000s and currently Cedar Fair is putting great emphasis on resort experiences at certain parks of theirs. One of those of course being Cedar Point. These hotels are doing incredibly well for the chain and we will be seeing many more resort offerings throughout Cedar Fair in the future!
Backbeatque is my favorite place to eat. Excited to see the new food options for 2020. Coasters i agree is lame, we have one at my home park in Michigan's Adventure its one of the primary food options there and its very generic. :(
Yeah the Coasters restaurant seems to be a mainstay for Cedar Fair. They seem really outdated and I wouldn't be surprised if they get removed or heavily overhauled into something different.
@@coasterdaddy7123 I would honestly welcome that for sure. I wish our park got some new food options. I can't wait to check out CP for the 150th so many things !
@@coasterdaddy7123 Aren't the Coasters restaurants formerly Johnny Rockets? They sure have that look, like the lease ended and Cedar Fair just replaced the JR signs with the almost identical Coasters signs. We have one at Canada's Wonderland too.
Cedar Point is my home park, I've gone nearly every year since the early 80's. I would also love to see a world class dark ride at Cedar Point. Perhaps a modern take on it's previous dark rides. Earthquake and/or the Pirate Ride. Both I remember fondly from my early childhood.
Cedar Fair parks, in general, are all excellent. Great maintenance, great rides, very little "prototypes" and excellent, old school, amusement park atmosphere. Cedar Point is by far the best park in the country, and Cedar Fair parks out-duel their closest counterparts. If I had a choice between a Cedar Fair park or say a Six Flags...CF all day. I will say the Busch parks are also excellent (I think owned by SeaWorld?).
Yes BG parks are SeaWorld Entertainment parks 🙂 I haven't been to a SF park yet, but I do think the CF parks are really nice and well managed and maintained. Most people prefer CF. SeaWorld parks look phenomenal, and they are a bit more expensive, but I feel as you pay for a more premium experience.
@@coasterdaddy7123 SF parks are "meh." Budget rides generally. Alot of them share the same rides,Maintenance is a big issue. A lot of downtime at SF parks. They are the budget line of parks. Cheaper, fairly cookie-cutter. CF somehow manages to keep the "local" parks feel the way they are supposed to. While being clean, having great landscapes, and very minimal downtime on their rides.
As a Six Flags Magic Mountain passholder, Cedar Point is still #1. Their Coasters are just quality. I actually really enjoyed Kings Island as well. Ohio wins on ride quality, California wins on ride quantity.
I feel like I would agree with all of that. Especially with Magic Mountain and CP. Magic Mountain seems great and has some truly great rides, but CP undoubtedly has the best coaster lineup imo
When you say it's your home park, do you live in Sandusky? Or just that it's not that far. I've always wondered what living in Sandusky is like. SN: We are at the BBQ place, Melt, and Chickie and Pete's. BBQ place almost ruined our day because we got so full lol. Food was great and there was a lot of it. We were scared to continue Riding, but we did it anyways. C&P was pretty disappointing. The "crab fries" were good, but nothing else was and the drinks were expensive and extremely weak.
I do not live in Sandusky, never have. Though I actually was born in Sandusky! I live about 35 minutes East of CP. Basically halfway between CP and Cleveland.
@@coasterdaddy7123 got it. I lived in Cleveland when I was younger. But always wondered like iv said what Sandusky life is like. It's definitely changed from the first time I went back in 1996. Last time I saw it before my most recent trip in 2019 was 2000.
@@cfrankbii9613 Yeah a lot has really changed! I didn't go from 2011 until 2018 and when I returned I was amazed at how drastically things had changed. I could only imagine seeing it after 19 years!
I need to go back to Cedar Point. It's been 10 years this coming August 3. I live an 8 hour drive away. It looks like it wouldn't be that far from north of Nashville, TN but... it is. My favorite roller coaster I rode was Millennium Force, and yes that includes Top Thrill Dragster. Top Thrill Dragster is a thrill like nothing else but it's over really fast. March 28, 2020 3:50 pm
Craig Lortie oh yeah that’s awesome. I may or may not get the FLP depending on how crowded it is, but I may just go for it anyway since I may not ever be back at least not for a while and want to get on SV at least 10 plus times
I love this park so much. Easily the best I’ve been to! Kings Island is my home park and every time I go to cedar point, I go home pissed that Cedar Fair doesn’t give us new coasters as frequently 😂
Cedar point has one of the best collections. I feel like they only need a gravity group. They also need a kids/ family coaster that is more intense, with a short height requirement. Other than that they have everything.
Cedar Point, Busch Gardens Tampa, and Holiday World are my top 3 parks. Cedar Point for a thrill seeker is nirvana, but like you pointed out it is not perfect. The food is getting better, but still is a work in progress (Yes Pink's is gone that is where the Mac Shack is going to be) The Main Midway is a little tired and will probably be a multi-year project. And a dark ride is very badly needed. Plus a true world-class wood coaster is a glaring hole in there line up. But enough criticism Cedar Point is the best amusement park in America. Every caster lover needs to get to the Point at least once in there life. And yes if you can afford it stay on-site it really takes Cedar Point to a different level.
Yeah no doubt that every coaster lover should get there. Thanks for the info on Pink's being replaced by Mac Shack. I do recall hearing that now. I do believe the management is fully aware of the issues that exist and will slowly work them out over time.
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I'm a Power Rider - and I can't do 3 days in a row at CP. I've done it - and day 3 is a dead day to me. I've ridden the park so much I can't do another ride. Trust me I'm talking POWER RIDER.
Yes I rode Disaster Transport many times 😊 It was a fun ride, closed after the 2012 season along with Space Needle to make way for Gatekeeper. CP also had true dark rides in the past such as Earthquake and Pirate Ride.
Most of the topics you covered I agree with as being my home park as well. I'm more of a Millennium rider so I usually park in the front and walk to the Marina Gate for early entry. Riding Magnum without the trim brakes is the better than riding with the trims breaks being on. Also, I feel like Windseeker runs 30% of the time because of lake providing wind 😂.
The single best park I've been to is Universals Islands of Adventure, The best park complex is Walt Disney World. The best coaster park is BY FAR Cedar Point!
CP is definitely Top 3 on my bucket list of parks to visit one day. Corporate parks are never really attractive for food offerings, though. So IDK, gonna need to think through those angles if I ever get out that way. XD
I worked at Cedar Point as a safety inspector/ maintenance and the maintenance schedule and the safety protocols at Cedar Point 100 times better than Six Flags where I used to work when there's a problem is fixed right not just patched like Six Flags and when you get a lot of those patches all adding up together can cause a disaster and I was always scared that working at Six Flags but working at Cedar Point I can sleep easy because I know their safety protocol is more stringent than mine would be and people don't believe me when I tell him this but rides like the Mine ride Blue Streak other older roller coasters actually a lot less safe then Millennium Force Magnum Top Fuel dragster any of them... I would like to know what other people think about their and anything else you'd like to say
Can you get to the park without a car? Since I wont be staying at breakers since it's so expensive only as 1 person.... About the souvenir drink bottle so I can drink all day can I bring that with me on the rides? Since I wouldn't have anyone to hold it for me
Here’s how my day went when I went last year: Run on Gatekeeper Catch the train to steel vengeance. (3 hour line.) Maverick (1 hour wait.) Lunch at Johnny rockets Fast lane for steel be game and top thrill dragster MaxAir Millennium Force. Cool down break and a show. Hit wind seeker and the beach. Go back to the park. Get ice cream Magnum XL Night ride on streel vengeance (I was the LAST CAR.) Hit the gift ship to get a steel Vengeance hat and lanyard. (Also play battle for cedar point through the day it’d awesome.) DONE.
Coaster Daddy its really fun. Trust me. And not to mention at the end of the day if your alliance won go get yourself a battle for cedar point pin of your alliance. Steel vengeance won when I went and I got a pretty cool pin for my lanyard.
Is the Raptor still there? The green and purple? Or was that the mantis? Loved that ride but it always messed my back up, it was so jerky. Been almost 20 years ago....i miss geauga lake too.
Geauga Lake was such a terrible loss, it was a fun place. Raptor is still kicking and running fantastic over 25 years later! Raptor has all green on track and supports (trains have a bit of purple). Mantis is no longer a standup coaster. For the 2015 season, it was renamed Rougarou and given floorless sit-down trains which make the ride much better. It was also repainted and looks fantastic with dark green supports and orange track! Thanks for watching!
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I know this is fairly old but it’s the most recent CP review video I could find, so I’ll ask here. Do any locals/frequent park goers know if there is public transportation from the Cleveland Airport to the park and back? I’m wanting to fly in from far away for the very first time and need to know whether or not I need to rent a car to get to the park and from the park back to the airport
I stayed at both the express hotel and breakers during my trip to CP. While they were both great hotels, but breakers is definitely overpriced. Cedar point is currently my third favorite park. Food is good, operations are average, and the rides are fantastic.
I missed out on steel vengeance Millennium Force Maverick last road trip so definitely next time I'm going to plan on staying for 3 days. It's so hard to get in and out of Sandusky and I drive from south FL
@@coasterdaddy7123 I honestly knew nothing about steel Vengeance, at the time I wasn't a coaster enthusiast but I was when I was younger and went to Cedar Point on a whim on a 15 state road trip after I got engaged with my fiance. I'm still frustrated with myself to this day the line was at least 2 hours long and I thought it was just a wooden coaster and gave up when Millennium Force was down
Planning on going from out of state, so I am interested in getting the fast lane pass. Since it's your home park, do you know if the season pass is mandatory for fast lane or can I just get it as a daily addon? I see Fast Lane Plus and the standard one, but nothing about the standard's pricing.
I go every summer from Arkansas and pre-pay for tickets, Fast Lane Plus, and dining and drinks package. A) It's worth every nickel B) It's easy C) Compared to Disney/Universal it's dirt cheap D) Stay at Hotel Breakers
Daniel Lilly I’m not going from nearly as far. I am coming from Pennsylvania, although that’s still like a 7 hour drive. How do you prepay for those? I was planning on staying for 2 days in Hotel Breakers too.
@@kamillq Call their reservations dept. at 419-627-2106 (FYI, they're not 24/7...'normal' business hours M-F, EDT) and ask for a package price that includes all the above. It also includes unlimited on-ride pix, too. GOOD CALL on Hotel Breakers....worth EVERY NICKEL!! If ONLY for the direct access/convenience of it. But there's MUCH more, the hour early entry, the 2 separate park entrances adjacent to it, the beach and all ITS activities, pools, hot tubs, etc. It's absolutely on par with the Grand Floridian Beach Resort at Disney World....but a third to half lower in cost. When you talk to Reservations, ask for your preferred dates at Hotel Breakers. They'll quote you a price based on dates, room type, etc, incl. tax. THEN, ask for the separate tickets, Fast Lane Plus ( and DO NOT get 'just' Fast Lane...that "plus" is ALL the difference in the WORLD), dining, drinks, and pix packages per person. They'll add it up, multiply by # of adults/kids and add it to the room. You can hold it a week or so just on a name, without credit card. Once you pay, you can opt for a recurring amount every month for _____ months or half now, half later ( up to ckin date). They're quite flexible and accomodating compared to airlines, Disney, or cruises. It's A BLAST! Worth ALL of it! 150 years in business, CLEARLY they're doing SOMETHING right, 'eh?
Dude, you need to stay at hotel breakers. Yes its expensive, is it the nicest hotel in the entire world? no, but its the experience of not having to walk to your car or anything after the day, walking into a nice hotel also with multiple restaurants, then to your air conditioned room (especially mid day when its hot asf) and waking up in the morning, already at cedar point and get to get in an hour early. I always LOVE staying at breakers, in my opinion, you dont get the full cedar point experience if you dont stay at breakers
No thank you! Lol Way too expensive, especially since I only live 35 minutes away. To me that would just be wasting money. I get the early entry with my platinum pass anyway as well. I understand the appeal of staying though for people travelling and who can afford it.
Was this considered the best park in the USA before SV opened? It seems to be much more popular since it opened. I live in California and am dying to get out to ride SV and I really didn't view the park that way before SV.
I'm really glad I found this video. I just got hired at CP (Stage Manager of their Celebrate 150 spectacular) and even though I live in Ohio, I've never been there. 😂😅 I'm so excited!
Having the choice between late August Friday vs Sunday which would be least crowded. I’m surprised there are no weekdays after the second week of August. I’m flexible and prefer not to visit in the height of summer.
Dude, at the beginning of the video, when you were introducing cedar point, you should have shown it as you're coming down the cause way, just as it's coming into sight. that's when you really start getting excited, when you can start to see the park, and the rides.
There are RUMORS circulating that they will open soon. Valravn is actually testing today and people have posted screenshots of a text they got from CP in regards to applications letting people know they want to set up an interview.
even though i live in ohio. i have never been to cedar point before. kings island is my home park since i live in cincinnati. i belive kings island almost on the same scale as cedar point. what do you think?
I don't recall major attractions being closed typically. I will pay more attention this year and see. Last year was my first time having my own pass and visiting on a regular basis for 12 years so I was stoked being back and active in the community. I think that gave me more of a Rose colored vision at the beginning of the season 😅
None the the big stuff would be closed unless there's some mechanical or electronic maintenance issues plaguing it. Some of the smaller flats, water rides, and children's rides are often closed for various reasons (reduced staff, not appropriate to the crowds that are there, not appropriate for the weather). Some of the bigger rides will run reduced train counts, but that's not all bad. For example Raptor usually runs without trims with 2 trains.
Staffing issues are real in May, but by-and-large rides are open. Don't expect Gemini to be racing, but if you're there all day you should see all the attraction mentioned in the video (coasters & maor flats) operational. Most shows however, are often not scheduled to begin running daily until after Memorial Day weekend.
If steel vengeance was the only roller coaster there, it would already be better than 75% of amusement parks
So fortunate to have that!!!
agreed
Cedar Point doesn’t need theming. It’s not a theme park. It’s an amusement park. It’s roller coasters and rides not about some nebulous “theme” 🤷🏻♀️
Yeah, that is precisely what I was trying to get across. It's a full fledged amusement park.
Agree
How to improve? Building more shade over some of the queues and the restrooms are heinous. Great park otherwise.
I agree completely!
The bathroom directly to the right of the entrance gate (at least the old gate) was the worst. And yes to the queue cover! So many ride queues are open or use that mesh like fabric that does nothing.
The best thing in Cedar Point Shores is Magnum XL200😂
I would agree hands up
Touche lol
It sucks.
The trap door slides are a lot of fun
I thought it was good😐
I live in Portland, Oregon and this is my favorite park. I just went to Six Flags Magic Mountain, but doesn't compare. I love the drive down the cosway and the views of the lake from the coasters!
Yeah cedar point has such a perfect setting. It really gives it an edge.
@Jake Groves SFMM does look amazing and I will agree with having some more innovative coasters!
@Jake Groves I would love to visit Magic Mountain as well!
Kinda begs the question, why no major parks (Cedar Fair or Six Flags) in the Pacific Northwest? It's not like Portland/Seattle/Vancouver, BC couldn't afford it... You being in Portland I can see why you have to drive down to California for your fix.
I am from MI, but now live in L.A. so, CP used to be the closest park to me growing up, so every time I visit MI, I go to CP. I also go to SFMM all the time now. The 2 parks are very different. The coaster lineups are nowhere near similar. But, CP can't be touched. Its coaster lineup edges out SFMM, even just looking at the top 5 at each. The environment is also much better. CP is beautiful. The terrain is easier to get around too. The only way, in my opinion, that SFMM beats CP is weather, longer operating season, and you never never never get bugs losing their lives as they slam into your face on a coaster, especially millennium force. Actually, you won't get bugs at SFMM at all. But that's it. CP has 6 coasters over 200 feet. I mean, that's special. And great food. MM has terrible food.
You're my favorite roller coaster youtuber. I support locals. O H I O!!
Thanks so much 😊
Ohio weather might suck esp near the lake effect snow but we have 2 awesome parks, 3 when i was growing up. RIP geauga lake.
@@shroomie108 RIP putt n pond in fostoria too.
@@gmoney2734 RIP Lesourdville Lake as well.
Cedar Point is definitely one of my favorite Amusement Parks. Cedar Express Hotel was a pleasant experience as well.
Good to hear 👍
I love going to cedar point I went their last summer in 2019 it's fun
I went once in 2018 and three times in 2019. For my first trip I got to the park about 8:30PM on a Saturday and stayed through Tuesday. It was a great trip. I agree three days the first time you go is a really good plan. I went in May so I was able to get in a lot of rides. As far as food, the best option is Melt inside the park. I like that place. As far as Breakers go the hotel is good not great. The best thing about it is that it is on-site so if you want a mid day break it makes it easy to crash for an hour or so. I'm guessing that I will spend a long weekend at Cedar Point at some point in 2020.
That is definitely awesome having a room on site for that very reason. Everything is conveniently right there for you. From what I hear that place is always full so it seems reservations need to be made well in advance. I'm definitely gonna try Melt this year as I hear great things about it!
I'm not someone who has been to like a boat load of parks... but I've been to a pretty good cross section of different types of parks I think.... Cedar Point, Kings Island, Dollywood, Kentucky Kingdom, The Disney Orlando parks, The Universal Orlando parks, Busch Gardens Tampa,... etc. In my opinion. out of all the parks I've been to..... Cedar Point is DEFINATELY the best park I've ever been to. The coasters are just SO awesome... and there are SO many of them.... Not to mention, the atmosphere. The park, (while maybe it could use some sprucing up here and there) is just Beautiful.... The way it's just surrounded by Lake Eerie is phenomenal... and makes it feel unique. It's so weird... It feels like an oceanside park... with the Sea Gulls and stuff all flying around. I've been trying hard to get my health back to a position that I can take my little boys to experience it. Cedar Point will ALWAYS hold a special place in my heart... Even though I have to drive like 9 hours to get there lol
Terrific 👌 I hope you improve and stay healthy and you get to experience Cedar Point together!
I normally cant handle peoples voices when they review parks....this guy is very mellow and chill, easy to listen to and he knows his shit
Thank you! 🙂
As a CP employee I completely agree with all of this! Also if you look at the google earth walk trough of CP from 2011 you can see just how many trees we once had, sad that so many are gone now! Also you are so right about KI's haunt blowing ours out of the water, great review!
Hey! It is so good to see you here! 🙂 I watch your videos quite a bit and you do excellent work. I always wonder too if I ever saw you at Gemini and didn't know it was you. I likely did since I went over 30 times last year. Where can I find that walkthrough from 2011? Can you do that straight from Google Earth?
Also, we should collaborate on something! 😁 Let me know if you're interested!
@@coasterdaddy7123 Here is the link to the walkthrough: www.google.com/maps/@41.4787168,-82.6793786,3a,75y,354.12h,86.07t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sRnkaMqp0OtIkGWtPq6riNw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
And I am sure you prob saw me working last season! All well I will be back, perhaps we will meet up this year!
@@coasterdaddy7123 Sure!
@@CoasterCollege awesome!
Cedar Point is an amazing amusement park if you’re solely interested in roller coasters. This review is very on point. Decades ago, prior to the roller coaster focus, Cedar Point was more broadly charming but world class in no categories: It was more scenic with more trees, more family friendly with its aquarium, its zoo, had more entertainment, had two low-key log rides, a ferry boat ride, etc.
A big upside to the roller coaster focus is that you can ride historically phenomenal coasters like Gemini or Magnum with virtually no line as the flavor-of-the-year will pull away the crowds. The park is strong enough in coasters that it could spend years improving food, theming, or building a an experience for non-thrill ride visitors without removing the draw for thrill ride customers.
Pushing the park into being truly family friendly again is the direction the park needs to move. The slightest reduction in the coaster focus would not only make the park more broadly appealing for families with small children, the elderly, expecting mothers, and anyone with motion issues-it would also make the park visitable on any rainy day.
It’s kind of odd that a park located on one of the world’s largest fresh water seas becomes unvisitable every time the slightest amount of water evaporates from that large body of water and falls as rain.
I love cedar point, but they were also the reason for the closure of my home park, geauga lake. Always overshadowed but never forgotten.
I miss Geauga Lake!!!
Im always keeping Cedar Point as my #1 and have been to countless other parks globally but this one was my first park i fell in love with and have memories that are priceless. I hate the smelly musty olde town facilities that have amazing air conditioning and drinks but its like your in an old musty basement and i think this park is above having this kind of crap but its still my special place and im all about ripping out some water park crap and put more coasters out to replace them. Lookee like they are working on major upgrades in the beach n hotel resort . I have never had an issue with the resort and hotel/beach-ish area and even the surrounding Hotels they have purchased and renovated within that immediate surrounding properties have always been amazing too and its just easy for me when i go there .
So awesome that you hold CP in such high regards after visiting many parks around the world!
You’ve earned yourself a new subscriber! Your voice is overall very soothing, and enjoyable. (No homo lol) I really enjoyed CP when I went, it’s a great park, with some great rides, but some very overrated ones too. Magnum has weak airtime, very rough, and I got trimmed to death on my ride. I also got a lot of head banging on raptor, and thought those 2 rides are very overrated.
You must have just gotten magnum on a bad day. I have found the ride to be very smooth in recent years and the airtime on the bunny hills at the end to be almost painfully strong.
I agree with top thrill. You had to have gotten Magnum on a very uncharacteristically BAD day! The airtime on the bunny hops is almost painful ejector. Thank you so much for the compliments, I appreciate seeing you around and hearing your thoughts on many topics in the future 🙂
Great review!! You're extremely fortunate to call this incredible park your home park. I visited in summer of 2018 and I got 3 1/2 days to experience mostly everything the park had to offer. The park had a lot of first time coaster experiences for me such as my first wing and dive coasters, first giga, first accelerator and first coaster with a beyond vertical drop. Because it was my first and so far only visit, I couldn't make out things that would have improved it, any park could use improvement and being that it's Cedar Fair's flagship park, I have no doubt they'll address any issues that need to be resolved. I can't speak much for the food as I only ate at Chickie and Pete's but that was great as it was. One thing that was somewhat of an annoyance were the constant swarms of mayflies, but you can't do much about nature as it was there long before the park was. That being said, Cedar Point is definitely a park that every enthusiast has to get to at some point and it's definitely not a place to visit only once. Can't wait to see what the future holds for this amazing park, perhaps a dueling inverting GCI or 500+ft T rex?
I'm really hoping for one of those fancy GCIs! 🤗 It sounds like you had a fantastic experience, that's awesome! Yeah, it is hard, especially for huge parks, to make out things that could be improved when you have limited time.
"Try to go in May"
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11:25 Wow, we used to have one of those at the Canadian National Exhibition here in Toronto! I think it was just called "The Derby". Loved it as a kid, it was taken down in the 1990's! I'm coming down to CP for the first time this May and was just going to get all the coaster credits in one day (it'll be a weekday and I'll have Fast Lane Plus so I hope it's doable) but I'm going to have to ride Cedar Downs for old time's sake!
You should be able to manage everything! Definitely don't skip Cedar Downs! One of only two racing derbies left in the world! It was originally at Euclid Beach in Cleveland, OH until 1967.
Platinum passes are so worth it. In my opinion, 3 days just at a park is a bit much, however, unlike most amusement parks, CP has a huge beach with water activities and you can also go to Put-in-Bay for a day and be back in time for evening and night rides for half a day at CP. SO, 3 or more days would be worth it in the Sandusky area with a variety of experiences available in addition to the park. Also, another benefit to parking by Magnum is that it's much easier to get back to your car during the day if you need to. And, Starbucks and the restaurant in Hotel Breakers are open early. I love being the 1st in that parking lot, walking to Starbucks and getting a coffee to enjoy on the quiet morning beach before going in the park right when it opens, especially with platinum early entry.
As a Midway Ambassador that worked the Frontier Town area: saying that the Chick-fil-a there is popular is understatement. When lunch hour hit, you had to be pulling your cans at twice the rate if you wanted to have both a well maintained Midway and a clean Chick-fil-a, especially when the sensors started going bad on the cans there. Our favorite day of the week would be Sunday, because you only had to maintain the big belly cans at Stockade and the other one that is slipping my mind atm.
Haha I believe it! The lines for that place are always nuts!
I love Cedar Point. Best coaster collection in the world! However, Dollywood is my favorite park that I've ever been to. I will be going back to both this summer.
Dollywood is really close for me! So many things are just done perfectly there!
The unlimited food 🥘 plan is worth it. Buy one & share food all day.
Yep, I would say! I got the seasonal meal plan this year (and drink plan).
I love cp... frontier town is nice and very well themed, you can find many shaded and quite spots to take a break. The Gemini midway is like a fair and and the front of the park feels like a modern amusement park. Everywhere u go in the park is different.
Great review. Cedar points atmosphere is unlike any other park, add in the amazing roller coasters and you have an amazing park
Thank you 😊
Its my home park too so everywhere else I go is ultimately inferior. I completely agree with the food, I have mostly found it mediocre and I do hope that changes. I wish they would bring Intamin back for some new coasters. A woody and another sweet multi launch.
An Intamin prefab coming to CP would just be out of this world. Just imagine!!!
@@coasterdaddy7123 Its probably what I want the most out of anything. To get a better woody then El Toro would be amazing. The only downside is that it would likely come at the cost of Gemini. I would rather them tear out CCMR and do something with that area, though the pond right there kind of gets in they way.
The bad weather thing is honestly so true. CP is also my home park, and twice in the many times I've visited we encountered severe thunderstorms. One particular visit, it rained for about 45 minutes and many people went home. However, after the storm cleared, the weather remained beautiful for the rest of the afternoon and evening and most rides had no lines - Millennium had a 20 minute wait; I've never seen that before!
No need to apologize for CP for its lack of theming. It already has a theme: The Roller Coast :-) I've said on other videos, if you want great theming and lame rides ("it's a small world after all... it's a small world after all..."), go to Disney or Universal. if you want mediocre rides themed to DC Comics, go to Six Flags parks. If you want great rides, go to Cedar Fair parks. However, some minor touches would be nice; from pictures/videos, Cedar Point's midway looks like airport tarmac with those huge square slabs of concrete. Contrast with the former Taft parks (including my home park, Canada's Wonderland) which have all the footpaths paved with interlocking bricks.
Some interesting analysis of the different types of parks. I agree that CPs "theme" actually lies in what they do best.
Cedar Point’s theme is simple: Immersion
I'm riding Orion in April and didn't have any solid plans to hit Cedar Point this season but your video just reminded me how much I love this place. I'm going to squeeze in an early May visit. Great review! You hit all the pros and cons!
Are you going for Orion's opening day? I plan on it! And you're welcome 😊
P.S. we should meet up at CP!
@@coasterdaddy7123 I'll be there for pass holder preview on the 10th. And I'll be hitting CP on opening week in May. Hope we can link up! I'll message you.
@@gpcoasters7824 great! 🤓 Also, can you get into passholder preview with your platinum even if Kings Island isn't your home park?
I love intense coasters but in a small factor... I think the next attraction should be a small coaster for 4 or 8 passengers but in a high trilling intensity layout with lots of turns and invertions and evolutions near the ground a passing through the steel structures
Good review theres no doubt there coaster line up is top notch and will probably get better over time.
No doubt! Hopefully we see a good modern wood coaster and B&M flyer in the next five years or so.
I got the platinum pass last year and went at least 5 times. I am so happy that I only live 2 hours away
I love going to cedar point on rainy days, cause less people, and a lot of people leave if there already there. 20 mins of rain is good, then the rest of the day will not be busy.
Yep. I went on one Sunday in May 2019 where it rained really hard for a couple hours. In two hours I got 3 rides on Millennium Force, 3 on Maverick and 4 on Steel Vengeance!!!
@@coasterdaddy7123 even without rain, every single time ive been to cedar point every coaster was a 5 minute wait except maverick and steel vengeance witch where half hour waits even in a hot july day! ;) ive been in may 3 times I think then june twice then july twice of 2019, no wait times, then I went on a coaster trip to every cedar fair park on the east coast no wait time at all at any parks, then the only time I had to wait alot were the last 2 days of cedar point being opened in 2019. closing day 2019 sucked everything was closed ;(, I went to cedar point injoyed the 2nd last day of cedar pint 2019, loved it, I got a hotel, expecting to go on stuff again, but everything was closed for the day ;(
They need more thrilling flat rides like CWL.
I absolutely agree!!!
Coaster Daddy They took out Witches Wheel witch I don’t understand why they was supposed to be replacing that with some type of flat.
Coaster Daddy Now if CP had as many high thrilling flats as they do coasters they would be the best park on Earth and well balanced.
Topple tower, taller drop tower in the frame of dragster.
cedar point is the best amusement park. cedar point deosn't need any improvement
More theming would be cool though and their water park definitely could be better
Cedar point is the best for thrill seekers. Nothings better! Disney is the best for families.
Perfectly said.
This park is perfect (other than the fact that you have to wait so long to actually ride stuff)
So it goes with a world renowned amusement park lol
Cedar Point was my home park from the mid 60s til 2000. I miss the the 2 dark rides, funhouse, double ferris wheel, the one really curvy turbo jet coaster, the mini golf course and the rug slide. I'm not even sure Fascination is still there. The Earthquake was the dark ride on the main midway. It was replaced by a Berenstain bears attraction in the 80s The pirate dark ride was over by Blue Streak. Loved it but it it went away round about when Raptor went up. The Double Ferris Wheel was in between the carousel and the the sky ride. The other things mentioned were on the back side of the midway where Gate Keeper and the giant Ferris wheel are now. As far as The Breakers go it's not as integral as it once was. Back in the early 60s my best friend's mom worked at Breakers. Cedar Point was really drawing BIG name entertainers. ELVIS left her a $100 tip one night.
Cedar Point has such a significant history with many big names of the past performing there. I know about all of those rides and really wish I could experience Pirate Ride, Jumbo Jet and Earthquake.
I do have to point out that Breakers is probably a bigger part of the Cedar Point experience than it ever has been. It's been expanded in the 2000s and currently Cedar Fair is putting great emphasis on resort experiences at certain parks of theirs. One of those of course being Cedar Point. These hotels are doing incredibly well for the chain and we will be seeing many more resort offerings throughout Cedar Fair in the future!
Backbeatque is my favorite place to eat. Excited to see the new food options for 2020. Coasters i agree is lame, we have one at my home park in Michigan's Adventure its one of the primary food options there and its very generic. :(
Yeah the Coasters restaurant seems to be a mainstay for Cedar Fair. They seem really outdated and I wouldn't be surprised if they get removed or heavily overhauled into something different.
@@coasterdaddy7123 I would honestly welcome that for sure. I wish our park got some new food options. I can't wait to check out CP for the 150th so many things !
@@dustinhinkle6109 I am so stoked to check out the new stuff!
@@coasterdaddy7123 Aren't the Coasters restaurants formerly Johnny Rockets? They sure have that look, like the lease ended and Cedar Fair just replaced the JR signs with the almost identical Coasters signs. We have one at Canada's Wonderland too.
You guys ever try Famous Daves?
Cedar Point is my home park, I've gone nearly every year since the early 80's. I would also love to see a world class dark ride at Cedar Point. Perhaps a modern take on it's previous dark rides. Earthquake and/or the Pirate Ride. Both I remember fondly from my early childhood.
I would love to see one of those return!!!
Cedar Fair parks, in general, are all excellent. Great maintenance, great rides, very little "prototypes" and excellent, old school, amusement park atmosphere. Cedar Point is by far the best park in the country, and Cedar Fair parks out-duel their closest counterparts. If I had a choice between a Cedar Fair park or say a Six Flags...CF all day. I will say the Busch parks are also excellent (I think owned by SeaWorld?).
Yes BG parks are SeaWorld Entertainment parks 🙂 I haven't been to a SF park yet, but I do think the CF parks are really nice and well managed and maintained. Most people prefer CF. SeaWorld parks look phenomenal, and they are a bit more expensive, but I feel as you pay for a more premium experience.
@@coasterdaddy7123 SF parks are "meh." Budget rides generally. Alot of them share the same rides,Maintenance is a big issue. A lot of downtime at SF parks. They are the budget line of parks. Cheaper, fairly cookie-cutter. CF somehow manages to keep the "local" parks feel the way they are supposed to. While being clean, having great landscapes, and very minimal downtime on their rides.
As a Six Flags Magic Mountain passholder, Cedar Point is still #1. Their Coasters are just quality. I actually really enjoyed Kings Island as well. Ohio wins on ride quality, California wins on ride quantity.
I feel like I would agree with all of that. Especially with Magic Mountain and CP. Magic Mountain seems great and has some truly great rides, but CP undoubtedly has the best coaster lineup imo
CP is the best park ever. Like it's the best park ever - and then it's the best park forever.
Very good
When you say it's your home park, do you live in Sandusky? Or just that it's not that far. I've always wondered what living in Sandusky is like.
SN: We are at the BBQ place, Melt, and Chickie and Pete's. BBQ place almost ruined our day because we got so full lol. Food was great and there was a lot of it. We were scared to continue Riding, but we did it anyways. C&P was pretty disappointing. The "crab fries" were good, but nothing else was and the drinks were expensive and extremely weak.
I do not live in Sandusky, never have. Though I actually was born in Sandusky! I live about 35 minutes East of CP. Basically halfway between CP and Cleveland.
@@coasterdaddy7123 got it. I lived in Cleveland when I was younger. But always wondered like iv said what Sandusky life is like. It's definitely changed from the first time I went back in 1996. Last time I saw it before my most recent trip in 2019 was 2000.
@@cfrankbii9613 Yeah a lot has really changed! I didn't go from 2011 until 2018 and when I returned I was amazed at how drastically things had changed. I could only imagine seeing it after 19 years!
Also, I would never want to live in Sandusky.
@@coasterdaddy7123 🤣
wish it was my home park but still only live 4 hrs away so not to bad but im obseed with cedar point and the wonderful collection of marvels
I need to go back to Cedar Point. It's been 10 years this coming August 3. I live an 8 hour drive away. It looks like it wouldn't be that far from north of Nashville, TN but... it is. My favorite roller coaster I rode was Millennium Force, and yes that includes Top Thrill Dragster. Top Thrill Dragster is a thrill like nothing else but it's over really fast.
March 28, 2020 3:50 pm
Yes get back as soon as possible! Just want until you experience Steel Vengeance!
@@coasterdaddy7123 mmm Steel Vengeance... I can't wait, it sounds awesome!
March 28, 2020 5:30 pm
Going the week before Memorial Day this year for 4 total days so hoping that I can maximize my time lol
Oh wow awesome 👍😀
you should have good wait times. every time my family went that weekend it was easy to get 8+ rides in before dark.
Craig Lortie oh yeah that’s awesome. I may or may not get the FLP depending on how crowded it is, but I may just go for it anyway since I may not ever be back at least not for a while and want to get on SV at least 10 plus times
Covid 19: ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT??
Wait is cedar point open or something?
I love this park so much. Easily the best I’ve been to! Kings Island is my home park and every time I go to cedar point, I go home pissed that Cedar Fair doesn’t give us new coasters as frequently 😂
You guys get a lot of coasters though honestly! It's been every 3 years for the past three.
Cedar point has one of the best collections. I feel like they only need a gravity group. They also need a kids/ family coaster that is more intense, with a short height requirement. Other than that they have everything.
I don’t know if you actually wanna hear this but I never been to Cedar point before him and I live in Wine Dotte4420 17th st!!!
My name is Oliver from that message
I live pretty close to CP. I went 60 times last year. But, most of those times was just to eat.
Nice! I know some people do that. How far away do you live?
@@coasterdaddy7123 20 minutes ( depending on traffic ). I am in Sandusky a LOT because I run an appliance business, so I have customers out there.
I wouldn't say Cedar Point is the best amusement park in the world but defiantly has the world's best rollercoasters!
Cedar Point, Busch Gardens Tampa, and Holiday World are my top 3 parks. Cedar Point for a thrill seeker is nirvana, but like you pointed out it is not perfect. The food is getting better, but still is a work in progress (Yes Pink's is gone that is where the Mac Shack is going to be) The Main Midway is a little tired and will probably be a multi-year project. And a dark ride is very badly needed. Plus a true world-class wood coaster is a glaring hole in there line up. But enough criticism Cedar Point is the best amusement park in America. Every caster lover needs to get to the Point at least once in there life. And yes if you can afford it stay on-site it really takes Cedar Point to a different level.
Yeah no doubt that every coaster lover should get there. Thanks for the info on Pink's being replaced by Mac Shack. I do recall hearing that now. I do believe the management is fully aware of the issues that exist and will slowly work them out over time.
Randy West Been at and Been to 8 Cedar Fair Entertainment Company Parks in USA 🇺🇲 and Canada 🇨🇦: Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio USA 🇺🇲, Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio USA 🇺🇲, Kings Island in Mason, Ohio USA 🇺🇲, Michigan's Adventure in Muskegon, Michigan USA 🇺🇲, Canada's Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario Canada 🇨🇦, Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pennsylvania USA 🇺🇲, Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia USA 🇺🇲, Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina USA 🇺🇲 / Fort Mill, South Carolina USA 🇺🇲,.
I'm a Power Rider - and I can't do 3 days in a row at CP. I've done it - and day 3 is a dead day to me. I've ridden the park so much I can't do another ride. Trust me I'm talking POWER RIDER.
i really think that valraven and gatekeeper should be headliners they are really great coasters. As well as ragarou :0
Until I've been to every amusement park in the world, Imma hold off on even considering it a candidate for best park in the world. I do love it tho.
Good luck! I don't think anyone's accomplished that before 😁
Randy West Love Snoopy at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio USA 🇺🇲.
Disaster Transport was a dark ride of sort. It closed less than 20 years ago I remember riding it the year before it closed and several years.
Yes I rode Disaster Transport many times 😊 It was a fun ride, closed after the 2012 season along with Space Needle to make way for Gatekeeper. CP also had true dark rides in the past such as Earthquake and Pirate Ride.
Most of the topics you covered I agree with as being my home park as well. I'm more of a Millennium rider so I usually park in the front and walk to the Marina Gate for early entry. Riding Magnum without the trim brakes is the better than riding with the trims breaks being on. Also, I feel like Windseeker runs 30% of the time because of lake providing wind 😂.
Right on! Yeah.....WINDseeker huh? 🙄 lol That's awesome though! It is good to get there early and try to get on a ride such as MF first thing.
The single best park I've been to is Universals Islands of Adventure, The best park complex is Walt Disney World. The best coaster park is BY FAR Cedar Point!
Steel vengeance, millennium force in top thrill dragster and maverick would still make this park #1
Cedar point has my favorite invert raptor
CP is definitely Top 3 on my bucket list of parks to visit one day. Corporate parks are never really attractive for food offerings, though. So IDK, gonna need to think through those angles if I ever get out that way. XD
I worked at Cedar Point as a safety inspector/ maintenance and the maintenance schedule and the safety protocols at Cedar Point 100 times better than Six Flags where I used to work when there's a problem is fixed right not just patched like Six Flags and when you get a lot of those patches all adding up together can cause a disaster and I was always scared that working at Six Flags but working at Cedar Point I can sleep easy because I know their safety protocol is more stringent than mine would be and people don't believe me when I tell him this but rides like the Mine ride Blue Streak other older roller coasters actually a lot less safe then Millennium Force Magnum Top Fuel dragster any of them... I would like to know what other people think about their and anything else you'd like to say
Fun fact
Kings Island and Cedar Point are around the same size in regards to land size.
Randy West Love Linus at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio USA 🇺🇲.
PipeScream is a credit... don’t @ me
Dude I agree
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This the best park
Can you get to the park without a car? Since I wont be staying at breakers since it's so expensive only as 1 person.... About the souvenir drink bottle so I can drink all day can I bring that with me on the rides? Since I wouldn't have anyone to hold it for me
Here’s how my day went when I went last year:
Run on Gatekeeper
Catch the train to steel vengeance. (3 hour line.)
Maverick (1 hour wait.)
Lunch at Johnny rockets
Fast lane for steel be game and top thrill dragster
MaxAir
Millennium Force.
Cool down break and a show.
Hit wind seeker and the beach.
Go back to the park.
Get ice cream
Magnum XL
Night ride on streel vengeance (I was the LAST CAR.)
Hit the gift ship to get a steel Vengeance hat and lanyard.
(Also play battle for cedar point through the day it’d awesome.)
DONE.
I've never bothered with that game. Maybe I'll give it a shot this year.
Coaster Daddy its really fun. Trust me. And not to mention at the end of the day if your alliance won go get yourself a battle for cedar point pin of your alliance. Steel vengeance won when I went and I got a pretty cool pin for my lanyard.
@@TheVloggerDude2018 oh wow that's nice! Never hear anything about that.
Randy West Love Charlie Brown at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio USA 🇺🇲.
Is the Raptor still there? The green and purple? Or was that the mantis? Loved that ride but it always messed my back up, it was so jerky.
Been almost 20 years ago....i miss geauga lake too.
Geauga Lake was such a terrible loss, it was a fun place. Raptor is still kicking and running fantastic over 25 years later! Raptor has all green on track and supports (trains have a bit of purple). Mantis is no longer a standup coaster. For the 2015 season, it was renamed Rougarou and given floorless sit-down trains which make the ride much better. It was also repainted and looks fantastic with dark green supports and orange track! Thanks for watching!
Randy West Home Amusement Park it's Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio USA 🇺🇲 Cedar Fair Entertainment Company Parks Platinum Pass Passholder / Cedar Point Season Pass Passholder Since 2003.
I know this is fairly old but it’s the most recent CP review video I could find, so I’ll ask here. Do any locals/frequent park goers know if there is public transportation from the Cleveland Airport to the park and back? I’m wanting to fly in from far away for the very first time and need to know whether or not I need to rent a car to get to the park and from the park back to the airport
I stayed at both the express hotel and breakers during my trip to CP. While they were both great hotels, but breakers is definitely overpriced. Cedar point is currently my third favorite park. Food is good, operations are average, and the rides are fantastic.
Good outlook on things!
I missed out on steel vengeance Millennium Force Maverick last road trip so definitely next time I'm going to plan on staying for 3 days. It's so hard to get in and out of Sandusky and I drive from south FL
Dang! Lot of driving. Yeah I'd definitely do three days if I was driving very far.
@@coasterdaddy7123 I honestly knew nothing about steel Vengeance, at the time I wasn't a coaster enthusiast but I was when I was younger and went to Cedar Point on a whim on a 15 state road trip after I got engaged with my fiance. I'm still frustrated with myself to this day the line was at least 2 hours long and I thought it was just a wooden coaster and gave up when Millennium Force was down
@@venzy215 oh no!!! That hurts! Lol
@@coasterdaddy7123 yup. Also got a speeding ticket on Route 6 pulling into Sandusky!
Uh uh 😬😲
Planning on going from out of state, so I am interested in getting the fast lane pass. Since it's your home park, do you know if the season pass is mandatory for fast lane or can I just get it as a daily addon? I see Fast Lane Plus and the standard one, but nothing about the standard's pricing.
Fast pass is for anyone to buy. You pay per day or you can do the all season one with your pass.
Coaster Daddy alright, cool. thanks
I go every summer from Arkansas and pre-pay for tickets, Fast Lane Plus, and dining and drinks package.
A) It's worth every nickel
B) It's easy
C) Compared to Disney/Universal it's dirt cheap
D) Stay at Hotel Breakers
Daniel Lilly I’m not going from nearly as far. I am coming from Pennsylvania, although that’s still like a 7 hour drive. How do you prepay for those? I was planning on staying for 2 days in Hotel Breakers too.
@@kamillq Call their reservations dept. at 419-627-2106 (FYI, they're not 24/7...'normal' business hours M-F, EDT) and ask for a package price that includes all the above. It also includes unlimited on-ride pix, too. GOOD CALL on Hotel Breakers....worth EVERY NICKEL!! If ONLY for the direct access/convenience of it. But there's MUCH more, the hour early entry, the 2 separate park entrances adjacent to it, the beach and all ITS activities, pools, hot tubs, etc. It's absolutely on par with the Grand Floridian Beach Resort at Disney World....but a third to half lower in cost.
When you talk to Reservations, ask for your preferred dates at Hotel Breakers. They'll quote you a price based on dates, room type, etc, incl. tax. THEN, ask for the separate tickets, Fast Lane Plus ( and DO NOT get 'just' Fast Lane...that "plus" is ALL the difference in the WORLD), dining, drinks, and pix packages per person. They'll add it up, multiply by # of adults/kids and add it to the room.
You can hold it a week or so just on a name, without credit card. Once you pay, you can opt for a recurring amount every month for _____ months or half now, half later ( up to ckin date). They're quite flexible and accomodating compared to airlines, Disney, or cruises.
It's A BLAST! Worth ALL of it! 150 years in business, CLEARLY they're doing SOMETHING right, 'eh?
Dude, you need to stay at hotel breakers. Yes its expensive, is it the nicest hotel in the entire world? no, but its the experience of not having to walk to your car or anything after the day, walking into a nice hotel also with multiple restaurants, then to your air conditioned room (especially mid day when its hot asf) and waking up in the morning, already at cedar point and get to get in an hour early.
I always LOVE staying at breakers, in my opinion, you dont get the full cedar point experience if you dont stay at breakers
No thank you! Lol Way too expensive, especially since I only live 35 minutes away. To me that would just be wasting money. I get the early entry with my platinum pass anyway as well. I understand the appeal of staying though for people travelling and who can afford it.
And I’ve been in a few of their haunted houses and they’re very good
Randy West Love Lucy at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio USA 🇺🇲.
Cedar point is my home park to I only live 8mins away
Wow nice!
@@coasterdaddy7123 yeah I just moved to Sandusky a week ago I used to live in Canton Ohio
Lucky! I live 25 minutes from Carowinds but it's no Cedar Point lol
@@alecscheerer_run Carowinds is a fantastic park though!
@@coasterdaddy7123 Absolutely! Yeah we do have a decent lineup considering Cedar Fair only started heavily investing into them not too long ago
Chick fil a is so good it made me happy that they had it at cedar point
Was this considered the best park in the USA before SV opened? It seems to be much more popular since it opened. I live in California and am dying to get out to ride SV and I really didn't view the park that way before SV.
Yeah it's generally been viewed in very high regards like that for many years now.
Best collection of coasters, not close
I'm really glad I found this video. I just got hired at CP (Stage Manager of their Celebrate 150 spectacular) and even though I live in Ohio, I've never been there. 😂😅
I'm so excited!
Oh wow that's so cool! Congratulations! I look forward to watching the parade this year! 😁
@@coasterdaddy7123 its gonna be a doozy. I'll be in charge of the show at the end, where Luminosity used to be
@@moelizabetht oh dang! Nice 🤯🤓
Late August on a Sunday is a great time to go.
Having the choice between late August Friday vs Sunday which would be least crowded. I’m surprised there are no weekdays after the second week of August. I’m flexible and prefer not to visit in the height of summer.
I am slowly becoming a cedar point fangirl. The only problem is I can’t travel up to Ohio because I live in Florida
I hope one day you can make it to Cedar Point to experience it's awesomeness for yourself!
Dude, at the beginning of the video, when you were introducing cedar point, you should have shown it as you're coming down the cause way, just as it's coming into sight. that's when you really start getting excited, when you can start to see the park, and the rides.
Yes I know. I thought I may have had some footage of that but I didn't, because I wanted to do that too lol
Is buying the fast pass actually worth it. Soon as that park open I'm there!!!!!
It really depends on a lot of things. How busy it is, how much time you have, how long the fast pass lines are etc.
The BEST Park in the world !!
They had distacter transport a few years ago and ik its been less than 20 years bc I rode and I’m only 18 but no hate and love your videos still
Disaster Transport was not a dedicated dark ride though.
I wonder if they will open by late June or July? I really hope so, I miss the summer vibes this park came with
There are RUMORS circulating that they will open soon. Valravn is actually testing today and people have posted screenshots of a text they got from CP in regards to applications letting people know they want to set up an interview.
I want to go back here so bad!!! I haven’t been since 2009🙄🔫
yes! best park
I went on a Wednesday in June, got in the park at opening and went straight to SV. It was already over an hour
That has been my experience lol
even though i live in ohio. i have never been to cedar point before. kings island is my home park since i live in cincinnati. i belive kings island almost on the same scale as cedar point. what do you think?
Absolutely! Two pretty different parks, but both huge in size and quantity of rides.
Coaster Daddy me and my mother’s plans to go to cedar point has been moved to 2021 due to the Covid-19 Pandemic
The melt is the bomb if they actually have spots open
Does the park have a lot of closed attractions on weekdays in May?
I don't recall major attractions being closed typically. I will pay more attention this year and see. Last year was my first time having my own pass and visiting on a regular basis for 12 years so I was stoked being back and active in the community. I think that gave me more of a Rose colored vision at the beginning of the season 😅
None the the big stuff would be closed unless there's some mechanical or electronic maintenance issues plaguing it.
Some of the smaller flats, water rides, and children's rides are often closed for various reasons (reduced staff, not appropriate to the crowds that are there, not appropriate for the weather).
Some of the bigger rides will run reduced train counts, but that's not all bad. For example Raptor usually runs without trims with 2 trains.
@@RadioMuse1 yeah that's what I remember from May.
Staffing issues are real in May, but by-and-large rides are open. Don't expect Gemini to be racing, but if you're there all day you should see all the attraction mentioned in the video (coasters & maor flats) operational. Most shows however, are often not scheduled to begin running daily until after Memorial Day weekend.
@Downhill Adrenaline That's not a weekday!