After a successful debut in 2021, Grand Carnivale, the “Spectacle of Color, Unlike Any Other” has returned to Carowinds (and multiple other Cedar Fair parks) this season. Described by the park as a “day-to-night, larger-than-life, global celebration,” Grand Carnivale, taking...
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The Coaster101 Podcast: SEAdar Fair? Iron Gwazi? Vipere?
When your podcast drops on a Monday, there’s often news that is certain to drop on a Tuesday. That was of course the case this week, as SeaWorld offered to buy Cedar Fair for a lot of money. In other...
Continue reading...What Your 2022 Cedar Fair Season Pass Will Cost You
That sound you hear? It’s the return of theme park normalcy (almost, anyway.) After significantly shortened seasons (if even opening at all) in 2020, all of Cedar Fair’s amusement parks returned to a “closer to normal” schedule for 2021. While...
Continue reading...The Coaster101 Podcast: Cedar Fair Reopening Roundtable with Valleyfair, Kings Dominion & Schlitterbahn
Stop us if you’ve heard this before. 2020 was a roller coaster of a year. The good news is, it’s now 2021, and theme parks are getting ready to open again. All of Cedar Fair parks open later this month,...
Continue reading...Cedar Fair Parks Update COVID-19 Policies and Protocols
Cedar Fair parks across the country are preparing to open for the 2021 season — some for the first time since 2019 — with new or updated health and safety protocols to keep guests safe and combat the spread of...
Continue reading...Knott’s Berry Farm Extends Season Passes Again
Back in the Spring Cedar Fair, in a very guest friendly move, announced all 2020 season passholder at any of their parks would have their passes extended to include the 2021 season. That included year-round park Knott’s Berry Farm. With...
Continue reading...One Team: Cedar Fair Comes Together for Cedar Point’s Fall Fest
If there’s one word to describe the past eight months in the theme park industry, interesting feels like a strong candidate. (This is assuming that we can’t use a bunch of choice “four-letter” words, since this a family-friendly website.) What...
Continue reading...Cedar Fair Sells Former Geauga Lake Land
For those longing for the days of Geauga Lake, SeaWorld Ohio, or even Six Flags Worlds of Adventure, hoping that a theme park may call the Aurora, Ohio area home again, unfortunately, we have some less than exciting news for...
Continue reading...20 Years of Millennium Force – The Coaster101 Podcast
This week on the Coaster101 Podcast we’ve got an audio version of our recent 20 in 2020 article about Millennium Force at 20 years old. Nick Weisenberger joins us to talk about everything he learned researching the history of the...
Continue reading...Pricing Out a 2021 Cedar Fair Season Pass
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but…2020 has been a weird year, especially for theme parks. Across the Cedar Fair family of parks, all of their properties had to delay the start of their operating calendar. Some parks...
Continue reading...20 in 2020: Millennium Force at Cedar Point
The next stop in our 20 in 2020 series takes us to the Ohio peninsula of America’s Rockin’ Roller Coast. High above the shores of Lake Erie sits what might be the most popular roller coaster of the past two...
Continue reading...Dorney Park to reopen July 8th with new health and safety protocols
Dorney Park is the latest Cedar Fair owned amusement park to set an opening date for the 2020 Season. The park will initially open to Season Passholders exclusively on July 8 and subsequently to daily ticket holders on July 11...
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