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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Opening Day!
« on: March 18, 2021, 06:07:24 PM »
Two of my sons and I made a quick trip down to SDC for opening day. After a wet start, the weather cleared and we had a beautiful day. The park ended up being a lot busier than I expected, given the mid-week opening and poor weather forecast. I don't have any numbers, and the park wasn't even close to being full, but there was a 50 minute wait for Time Traveler at one point (they were only running 1 train). Fire in the Hole, Powderkeg, Outlaw Run had 30 minute waits at various times. I didn't check the wait time for Mystic Rivers. Speaking of Mystic Rivers, if you are not a fan of the "shark joke" its not going away anytime soon. They now sell shark teeth and a Mystic River Falls shark T-shirt at the kiosk by the ride. I bought one of the shirts. Go shark!
I had a fun conversation with one of the train conductors. He got a chuckle that I knew who Ichabod was. He said the park was hopeful that they would be able to get rid of the mask requirement by the end of June. So, here is hoping for that. I also had a good visit with Terry Wayne Sanders.
All of the rides appeared to be open at various times of the day. I didn't notice any shut-downs on Mystic River once it finally opened.
The lines for food weren't bad. It was great to sample Cinnamon Bread and the SDC made frozen lemonade.
I only had two disappointments in the trip: 1. Since the weather was bad, they didn't do an opening ceremony on opening day. I understand why. But it was a bummer. 2 We hadn't received our 2021 season passes yet. So, I called customer service to see what I needed to do before we came down. Customer service told me that my 2021 passes had been printed and would be mailed soon. But our 2020 passes were still good until June, so I should still be able to use the 2020 pass to get into the park. WRONG! I got to the gate and I was told my 2020 pass was no longer valid, because my new passes had already been printed. So, I had to go back to the ticket windows and get a 2021 pass printed out. Fortunately, there wasn't a huge line. So if you have extended your 2020 pass, and don't get your 2021 passes before you go down, you might plan on making a stop by the ticket window.
All in all it was still a fun trip down to the City.
I had a fun conversation with one of the train conductors. He got a chuckle that I knew who Ichabod was. He said the park was hopeful that they would be able to get rid of the mask requirement by the end of June. So, here is hoping for that. I also had a good visit with Terry Wayne Sanders.
All of the rides appeared to be open at various times of the day. I didn't notice any shut-downs on Mystic River once it finally opened.
The lines for food weren't bad. It was great to sample Cinnamon Bread and the SDC made frozen lemonade.
I only had two disappointments in the trip: 1. Since the weather was bad, they didn't do an opening ceremony on opening day. I understand why. But it was a bummer. 2 We hadn't received our 2021 season passes yet. So, I called customer service to see what I needed to do before we came down. Customer service told me that my 2021 passes had been printed and would be mailed soon. But our 2020 passes were still good until June, so I should still be able to use the 2020 pass to get into the park. WRONG! I got to the gate and I was told my 2020 pass was no longer valid, because my new passes had already been printed. So, I had to go back to the ticket windows and get a 2021 pass printed out. Fortunately, there wasn't a huge line. So if you have extended your 2020 pass, and don't get your 2021 passes before you go down, you might plan on making a stop by the ticket window.
All in all it was still a fun trip down to the City.
