Six Flags Marine World

10/23/08

Discount offset with price gouging for everything else!

by Me22222

Six Flags Marine World is offering discount tickets and making up for it with price gouging that starts at the front gate.

They confiscated my grandson's small jackknife and told him that he could only get it back if he rented a $9.00 locker - otherwise they would throw it away (sure they would). We buried it in a planter outside the gate and retrieved it on our way out. Seven of the nine over-priced souvenir toys for my younger grandson disintegrated in my daughter's hand before we got back home - one before we even left the park! Some of the toys were broken in the store. My daughter wanted to assemble an intact toy from a combination of one broken toy and another similar intact one. She was charged full price for the broken toy! A lead pencil with the Six Flags logo, similar to the imprinted pencils sold at the Dollar Store for $1.00/dozen, is $1.49 at Six Flags for one pencil. The price of food and drinks is outrageous. There are water fountains - but try and find one. If you do, the water is warm and nasty, the fountains are filthy. A bottle of water, which sells at WalMart for $3.29/case is $1.49 and we know they buy it wholesale. Being on a limited budget, we were hungry all day. I could afford only a lemon drink for each of us - at $5.00 each. Subway advertises a $5.00 foot long sandwich - but the Subway at Six Flags has no such bargain. A "family" fast food lunch is $40.00, not including drinks at $5.00 each.

If you plan a visit to Six Flags, be prepared to spend a lot of money. They won't let you bring in food and your bag will be searched to make sure you don't.

The on-line advertised closing time for the park is an hour later than the time they actually closed, so be prepared to leave early.

• Pros: Fun rides and shows
• Cons: Price gouging at every stop.