Parks compared

My husband and I took our children, ages 4 and 6, on a mini vacation.

A friend of mine recommended Holiday World to us last year and we drove to spend the day at Holiday World and then drove back home when the park closed at 10.

This year, we stayed in one of the family cabins, which was really nice.

The park was very clean and nice. We stayed Friday night 7/6/06 and Saturday 7/7/06.

On Saturday we visited Holiday World and just like the first visit last year, the park was super, super clean. The associates were all very friendly and helpful. They seem to really enjoy "family" and enjoy people.

I am impressed with the entire visit to Holiday World. The park was super clean, the food was reasonably priced and of good quality for the money. Of course the free pop was nice, too. The pool water was crystal clear and didn't have a bad odor either.

We had recently visited Kings Island in Cincinnati, Ohio, and that place is a dump compared to Holiday World. Their pool was not crystal clear but very cloudy and hadalot of dirt in it and had a "pee odor." This was at the beginning of the day too. Their food is way, way too expensive and now my family mainly visits them for the rides and pack our food and go back to the car to eat due to their prices.

To give you an example, they wanted $8.00 for a soybean burger, $6.50 for a funnel cake, $3.50-$7.00 for a soft drink. How can a family afford this after paying admission, too? Maybe someone from Kings Island needs to visit Holiday World and get an idea how a real amusement park should be. They need to take note on how clean your pool water and the over all Holiday World Park is and apply that knowledge at Kings Island. Plus they charge $10.00 to park! Now how in the world would you get up there without having to pay to park? $10.00 is steep.

Holiday World is great, Kings Island has issues.

Well, thank you for allowing me and my family have fun, not feel like we need to take a loan out to pay for admission, food, games, everything. Surely the money that Kings Island charges, they can afford to keep up with their park much, much better and the bottom line is they are way over-priced on "everything" and Holiday World is reasonable.

Thank you so much for having such a beautiful park and campgrounds and for allowing folks to feel they can enjoy themselves without feeling they are being over-priced.

Holiday World..................YOU'RE THE BEST !!!!!!!!!!!!

See ya next year !

Karen P.
Northern Kentucky