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- From: pab@po.CWRU.Edu (Pete Babic)
- Newsgroups: rec.roller-coaster
- Subject: Re: KI Attendance/GA Cyclone (was Re: Top 40...)
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 15:10:56 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, aq009@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David A. Johnson) says:
- >
- >If I'm not mistaken, this makes Kings Island once again the top seasonal
- >park in North America. (I wonder what spurred the 12% increase... Must
- >have been the Scooby Zoom.)
- >
- >Anyway, this led me to a question. Why is it that, whenever I go to Kings
- >Island, the lines in general seem much more reasonable than they do at a
- >lot of other parks (such as Cedar Point, SF Great America, and [so I hear]
- >Great Adventure)? Attendance figures alone would seem to indicate longer
- >lines at KI; however, that doesn't seem to be the case.
- >
- >Or (the boring explanation):
- >
- >* Kings Island has a slightly longer operating season than some other
- >seasonal parks.
-
- I think that's it. KI opens up (I think) in early to mid April and runs
- through until mid to end of Oct. CP opens on the second Sat. in May and
- runs daily through Labor Day and then weekends in Sept. There is a significant
- difference in the climate between southern and northern Ohio in early spring
- and late fall. I'm pretty sure that CP has a higher average daily attendence
- then KI. Also, don't forget the weather factor. We had absolutly AWFULL
- weather last summer here on the southern shore of Lake Erie. I'm actually
- amazed the CP's attendance was higher in '92 then '91. If the are few nice
- days the attendance isn't as spread out over the operating season as it would
- be on a typical summer as everyone wants to go on a nice day.
-
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