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Originally Posted by Mosbonian
I learned my lesson about going during Thanksgiving about 15 years ago.....never the hell again. Not only are all the Parks packed and it's wall to wall crying kids.....but when you leave on Sat/Sun morning and head north on either 75 or 95 it's like rush hour in LA. You are lucky if you manage to go 45 MPH for 75 miles.
We have gone the first week of December for the past 8 years....and been happy. It's not so crowded and you don't get rammed by the damned Double-Wide Stroller crowd or the person who never learned how to use the ECV correctly.
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Few things are as shitty as an amusement park, any amusement park, on a holiday weekend. Hell, any weekend generally sucks. I remember my mom took me to the Six Flags near St. Louis over the 4th of July weekend once when I was a kid. It was awful. Hot as ****, completely packed, and the lines took forever. I think I was able to get on four or five rides all day. After that we went during the week. I think that was the genesis for my lifelong hatred of crowds and hot weather.
The last summer I was stationed up at Great Lakes, I finally could afford to move off base and rented an apartment about 10 minutes from Six Flags Great America in Waukegan. My buddy and I got season passes, and we'd go a couple of nights a week. That was great. Go for two or three hours, and if you miss something, hit it the next time. The temperature was reasonable and it wasn't crowded at all. The season pass basically paid for itself after the third visit.