u/Difficult_Pain_9208

Will be up in the area the weekend of 9/11 and decided to visit BGW for the first time. We are up there the same weekend most years but we aren't booked up on Friday as usual and would love to check out the coaster offerings. I just found out that the day we have tickets for is the first night of HoS so I'm now minorly worried about crowd levels.

Spouse and I aren't concerned with hitting the houses or shows (well... maybe Fiends...) BGT is our home park so we are familiar with HoS and just want to get the coasters in. I see it's part of park admission rather than separately ticketed like down here, so not sure if that's going to make lines worse or better (like are the crowds going to be focused on HoS activities leaving us free to do our rides?). Plus BGT is a continuous mess so that leaves me a bit anxious in itself although I've heard BGW is typically in better operational shape.

Thrill-Data shows that wait times are predicted pretty low but I'd really like to hear from you guys that have been around the park on HoS nights!! Looks like according to the site all coasters will remain open which is great. Thank you!!

For me, queue time is mostly introvert time (and try-not-to-die time because I have POTS), but sometimes it can be so magical to just strike up conversation with people around you.

I'm mostly just being emotional but I'm reminiscing about my recent (and first!) trip to Carowinds about a month ago.

First off, super cute that everyone flocks to Fury at sunset for sunset/night rides. Humanity is adorable. Secondly, my partner and I met these guys behind us while in line for our night ride that were just the coolest guys ever. Not only did they look like some guys we'd meet at one of our local punk shows (they were giving local-music-scene-staple-elder vibes. that's a compliment. my partner and i are practically there ourselves) but they made for amazing conversation too. Funny and personable, which is what I would expect anyway based on just looking at them. The magical part? There was a girl behind them, I think she was like 11, riding for the first time. Solo. She was anxious yet confident and these two dudes basically temporarily adopted her... like the cool uncles that take you do to things your parents tell them not to. They put her at ease and we all had a really good time up to the station.

Partner and I got called ahead to fill seats so we didn't ride with them, but I hope that young new thoosie had a blast and I hope those two guys have had both sides of their pillows cold every night since and until eternity.

Anyway. Wanted to share since I've been thinking about it and open the floor for discussion about random awesome times everyone has had in coaster queues that would have been standardly mediocre otherwise. This community can really bring joy to each other when we aren't debating on the usual things and I think highlighting those moments would be fun for us all :)

(Hope this kind of discussion is allowed since it's just barely coaster relevant? If not just yeet me out of here)