Nickel & Dime

My cousins and I went to Six Flags Great Adventure yesterday. It's actually a tradition that we go to the park once a year together. I heart doing these things w/ my family. This year we asked Dhruvi, Bhavik, Sagar B. and Yaggy to come along with us and it was pretty fun. We were rolling 10 deep! Sagar B. and Yaggy's dad made us sandwiches from his deli too. They were soo good! We got to the park around the time it opened and went straight to the new Dark Knight ride. If anyone reading this post is planning on going to the park, take my advice and don't bother even trying to get on this ride. It sucks so bad. And on top of that it wasted about 1.5 hrs of our day.

One thing that's apparent is that Great Adventure is blatantly nickel & diming the masses. They used to have little cubbies to put bags and stuff near where you boarded a roller coaster. However, now they make you put your bags and loose items in lockers for $1, and each coaster has a locker area near it. You're not allowed to even get on line with a bag! That seems so petty to me. We've pretty much gone to G.A. every year since we were little and they always let the girls drop their bags by the roller coaster control desk. Is there a real need to nickel & dime you like that after you've paid an outrageous amount to get into the park?

Another annoyance is the Flash Pass. This little device is what I'd like to refer to as legalized line-cutting. There were so many times when we'd get to the front of the line after waiting a long, long time and the security guard would let the Flash Pass holders go ahead of us. I'm not blaming the pass holders because they paid good money for it. But now G.A. is basically distinguishing between the Have and Have Nots. We paid $275 for tickets, at least $50 for gas, $30 for parking, and at least $175 in food and drink. We weren't going to pay another $202 (yeah you read that right, it's $202 for 10 people) to get a Flash Pass.

So I guess nickel & diming the average Joe (or Raj) is a sign of the times. They must need that money to operate if they are going to resort to that right? I wonder how else they could raise revenue without taking these measures? lol, go green?