OT St. Louis Opening Weekend

by **RollerCoasterFavRide** on March 12th, 2016, 11:25 am

I'm considering going to St. Louis for their opening weekend. Do you think it'll be packed? I remember SFGAM last year was ridiculous and nearly impossible to get on any rides. If St. Louis is going to be like that I'm not sure it's worth the drive/hotel stay.

Thoughts?

by **CoasterDave316** on March 12th, 2016, 12:09 pm

I wouldn't be too concerned with crowds at Six Flags St. Louis. In my many visits there, I have only seen the park packed once. Most of the time you can ride all the coasters multiple times by 3 or 4pm without a problem.

It is easily worth the drive.

by **Guy_With_A_Stick** on March 12th, 2016, 2:19 pm

I would go. It's not in as densely packed of an area as GAm is. Have fun!

by **RollerCoasterFavRide** on March 12th, 2016, 4:07 pm

Thank you both for your replies! That definitely sounds worth it!

I really didn't want to drive 5-6 hours, pay for a hotel, etc only to get on a few rides because it's opening weekend.

by **Coaster Justin** on March 12th, 2016, 5:42 pm

Ride Justice League first thing.

Also remember that with a Six Flags dining pass, You get free food at St. Louis too.

by **CoasterCale** on March 12th, 2016, 9:16 pm

The only times I've visited SFStL have been Opening Weekend or the weekend after. I've never had any problems. Don't be surprised to see one train operations on most coasters, but it shouldn't matter. That's how it was during my visits and still got on everything, nothing was more than a stairs wait. Love the park because of this. Not to mention it houses Screamin Eagle and American Thunder, which are both in my top ten.

by **stockboy300** on March 25th, 2016, 7:34 pm

Went to Six Flags St. Louis. For opening day. Got on just about everything with no problem. The Boss coaster was closed due to cold temperatures. Crowd's weren't to bad but getting food and refills had long wait times.

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by **stockboy300** on March 25th, 2016, 8:21 pm

The other problem I encountered was i wanted to add gold dinning to my gold pass and was told I couldn't. Because my my gold pass was issued at GA they couldn't add dinning. So anyone thinking about doing this you can not. So no food at the park for me!

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by **Dan The Coaster Man** on March 25th, 2016, 9:34 pm

^ cold be worse. When I was activating my 2016 season pass, a lady was trying to activate hers but they wouldn't let her because she bought them on Six Flags America's website. Hope she didn't have to go to Maryland just for that lol

by **CoasterCale** on March 28th, 2016, 8:35 am

Yeah just play it safe and get a pass at your homepark and get it processed with all the add-ons you like before visiting another park.

by **RollerCoasterFavRide** on March 29th, 2016, 1:23 pm

We also went and it was fun. We got on the Boss on Saturday afternoon and it was worth the wait! We got on quite a few rides, but we didn't even attempt to go on Justice League.

The worst part was the food lines. We had another person come with us and they have a membership. We tried to attach their season dining to the membership and after 2 hours in line and some rude people with EAP's cutting in front of us we were told it wasn't possible. I spent 1/4 of our day in that line. :/

We got a snack on Saturday afternoon and it took over an hour in a line to get pretzels and nachos. We didn't use our dining pass for any meals because it was ridiculous!

Overall, it was fun and worth the 5 or so hour drive (we're in SE Wisconsin). The weather was great for the parks and the kids had lots of fun riding on different coasters.

by **CoasterCale** on March 31st, 2016, 8:13 am

Hmmm... That's odd. I never had any problems with food lines and I was there all three days. However, I am also realistic and conservative about which lines I actually stay in. So I guess that might also be part of the reason I didn't have problems. Oh well. :roll:

by **RollerCoasterFavRide** on March 31st, 2016, 8:50 am

The lines on Friday were okay for food. We just grabbed a snack and it took maybe 10 min. The lines on Saturday around 3ish were terrible! I thought it would be okay since lunch was nearly done and dinner wasn't quite there yet, but it was bad.

I did take the survey they sent and mentioned that if they can't get the lines to a reasonable level they really need to allow people to bring in snacks. If we had some peanut butter crackers or something the kids would have done so much better and I would have skipped the snack line.

by **FParker185** on March 31st, 2016, 9:35 pm

Lines at Lions choice a mile or so away from the park are always reasonable.

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