We were only able to spend one day of the original plan of two days here. One of the ride workers told us that we were smart to come on a Wednesday instead of our originally planned Saturday because of the light crowd. It seemed pretty crowded to us though. That same operator said that since the new waterpark opened the park crowds have been really low as it pulls 5-10,000 people everyday. Take that with a grain of salt.

Overall thoughts

This is the nicest Six Flags park I have been to so far. It has great coasters, good ride operations, great themeing and is clean and just fun. The park goers here were much nicer than I have seen at a lot of the other Six Flags parks, there was no line jumping or other mis-behaivior. Maybe it was because it was a weekday?

I have to laugh at Six Flags though for charging so much for their food. The parking lot was full of people eating out of their trunks because of the ridiculous food prices inside the park. Even us, who are used to the expensive park food were shocked at the prices. $5 for a small funnel cake? Ugh.

Monica: I had heard that this was one of the nicest Six Flags parks. I wasn’t sure what to expect since I am normally not a huge fan of Six Flags, but after a recent trip to Six Flags over Texas, I began to appreciate the original goal of what Six Flags was meant to be before they started to buy out smaller parks and fill them with duplicate rides. I really liked this place. I loved all of the themed areas. It was really different from any other Six Flags. There was lots of walking space and it had an atmosphere of fun.

The Rides

Viper

I was expecting a rough ride with a short line and I got a fun ride with a long line, but it was worth it. I would imagine the ride gets even better as it gets later in the day, it seemed just a tad sluggish.

Good operations here, they got each train out of the station as the other was returning and they controlled the traffic in the station itself which is something I wish more parks would do. I hated the corporate park headrest PTC trains though, I never really got the point of these.

Raging Bull

What is with that trim brake on the second hill? It kills so much speed so early that the rest of the ride is gimped from that point forward. If I had never been on another hyper coaster before this would probably be my #1, but since I have it was just OK. Was the layout inspired from Titan and Goliath at all?

Monica: This was my favorite ride of the day. It reminded me of Nitro at Great Adventure which is always a good time.

Ragin’ Cajun

This was my third installation of this ride, and was just as good as the others, Exterminator and Crazy Mouse. The themeing of the ride was nice and followed the rest of the New Orleans area nicely. Well done. The queue could be less jam packed however.

Monica: This ride had the slowest line of the day. It was the same thing as the Exterminator at Kennywood, but was outside. I like the inside experience much better.

Whizzer

What a neat ride this was. Monica and I sat in the same car and smiles on our faces from the spiral lift hill until the ending brake run. I hope the rumors about this ride being replaced are not true, or it is relocated somewhere else.

American Eagle

It is quite a hike to get to this station! The eagle is a racing coaster that if it were maintained better would be a top ten coaster in my opinion. I liked the backwards side more, but what is the point of the head dividers? Typical corporate park not keeping their woodies in good shape.

Monica: This was another frontward/backward racing coaster. It was an interesting experience and the line was short. Don’t pass this one by!

Iron Wolf

I could have done without this coaster, stand ups are not my thing. Monica: eh! Nothing special.

Déjà V

We waited to ride Deja as the line was pretty long and the intervals were long. I was determined to wait as long as it took though just because it looked so damn cool! Man, what a waste of time, the restraints suck. They were the typical vekoma harnesses and don’t clamp down far enough. When I am going 90 degrees I want to feel secure. The bottom of the drops felt like we were hitting the ground, not a pullout.

Logger’s Run

A bumpy old log ride with an extra large ending splash.

Monica: This ride was nuts. It was in the upper 70’s or 80’s the day we were there so I wasn’t interested in getting soaked on a water ride, but in general the log fumes don’t get you that wet. We are big fans of log rides so we rode it and got absolutely drenched. There is a secret rapid at the bottom of the hill that gives you an extra splash. Boy was I cold when we got off that one. I would absolutely love it on a hot day.

Food

Monica: I was disappointed that there weren’t a lot of vegetarian options. We ate at the Mooseburger Lodge which had overall good food, but the ordering process was a nightmare. I wanted to get French fries on my salad instead of chicken as a vegetarian version of the salad. They could not understand this. I thought for sure that I was getting chicken on my salad. The salad came out without the chicken, but the fries were missing. They did not seem to be used to special requests. But if I hadn’t ordered a special request I would have starved, there was nothing on the ordinary menu for me.

Accommodation

Courtyard Marriott Waukegan

Monica: There was nothing special about the hotel. It was nice and what you expect from a Marriott property. It was an exit away from the park and it looks like there is going to be a lot of new development in this area. In a year this area could be really nice, but now it was nothing special. One perk was that it was within a short drive of an IHOP which is a must stop on vacation since we do not have one in the Pittsburgh area.

Reasons to go back

• We didn’t get to go to the water park
• It’s a big park and we did not get to ride things multiple times.
• Great ride operations kept the lines moving.
• Great atmosphere

Question Marks

• Expensive food ($5 for a funnel cake !@$&*&^#)