r/CanadasWonderland

Hey guys,

Our family lives in Buffalo and it’s a short drive to the park, but we want to stay the weekend and wanted to know the best option for places to stay. I looked at some Airbnb’s which is around $430-$500 for our family and then park tickets are $45/ticket. There will be 6 of us total. If I book via the website, I can get a hotel+park package for around $770.

My question is, is there cheaper hotels within 25 miles of the park I could get that’s less than an Airbnb? We are only in need of 2 nights and won’t be spending much time other then to sleep and relax after a busy day.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

I know it's talked about a lot here and nobody knows how long the lines will be. But I have never been to Canada's Wonderland, so I have no idea what to expect. We are going to the water park this Tuesday and the rest of the park on Wednesday. I know there will be lineups for popular slides and rides. But should I be expecting like 45 ish minute waits or closer to 3 hour waits? And how are food lines usually? We are taking children so it would be good to have an idea of what to expect!

I had no idea until actually talking with some of them yesterday after the watchtower show that some of those guys are also the Victoria falls divers as-well. They essentially finished the show, run to the next show area, throw their wet clothes into the dryer(that surprises me lol they don’t even have dried extra costumes) do the falls divers then wait for the drying to finish, swap outfits again and go back to watchtower. Rinse a repeat all day everyday.

All to say these guys are super friendly and nice and also great with children (made my daughter so happy getting her photo with them) I just had know idea of what the actual job fully included. I’d love to see a full behind the scenes or a day in the life of with these divers.

Super impressed and makes me stop to see the shows more and appreciate the non ride attractions much more.

My daughter is 8 years old and loves rides and coasters. We have gold passes this year and she is teal/orange, right on the line. Would it be OK for her to wear shoes with a bit of a platform to make her hit the orange height requirement? Of course if it causes any safety issues I wouldn't want to risk it, if any park employees have advice I'd appreciate it!

I'm visiting next week for the first time in about 30 years. I'm looking for information on which rides have the most snug fitting restraints so I can be prepared. I fit on everything at Cedar Point which is known to not be a particularly plus size friendly park, but a few of those seatbelts are tough to buckle. Any rides I should be aware of heading in? I'm not too bothered by needing help buckling but I like to know before I get in the seat if I'm going to have a tough time fitting or if it'll be a snap.

So, I bought a gold pass during the sale this year in preparation for a pretty long trip I was taking with my friends. Do i get any sort of early entry/access to Wonderland or its rides with the gold pass? Their site says yes on select days, but I'm not 100% sure what that means. We plan on going for our first day tomorrow.

We have a gold pass. We tried buying the 2 all day dining passes for $50 special. The transaction went through but we did not receive an email confirmation. Now we don't know how to access the passes. Has this happened to anyone before? Any suggestions? Customer service wasn't helpful because we don't have the email confirmation, only the bank transaction.

And I don’t mean like just leaving to get food or drinks for themselves or others in the group due to long wait times and then coming back maybe 10ish mins after, cuz I see people doing that all the time and honestly I get it cuz sometimes you might get really hungry or thirsty when the wait times are over 1.5 or 2 hours. Recently I was at Canada’s wonderland and we were waiting to get on AlpenFury. The wait time was approx 1hr 45 minutes that day and it was extremely hot. There was a group of 5 people in-front of us and about 15 minutes into the line, 4 of them decided to leave. And then they came back around the time when we were about to get on the stairs. Almost after 1 hr and 25 minutes min in. And since the line was getting longer and longer, I think someone from the end of the line probably reported them for line jumping because right before going onto the stairs the security came and took them out of the line. Honestly I felt really bad for that one guy who waited for so long. But they took all of them out of the time, and as me and friends were waiting on the stairs we noticed that they were talking to security and police for good 10 minutes but they didn’t let any of them back in.

What are your thoughts on people who do this? And the thoughts on this story itself.

Holy crap is the park DEAD today.

There are almost NO lines. It's 11:30 and I could have ridden the same trai again on Behomoth.

Earlier I was th ONLY rider on Wild Beast.

The last few summers my kids have loved the show I'm the Canterbury theatre that was similar to a mini cirque de Soleil. I can't find it on the list of shows this season. Is it no longer running?

as a food n bev worker, i get that a lot of you guys are tired and sweaty and probably exhausted from being in lines all day. however, that isnt a valid excuse to treat us bad and yell at us in a rude tone. a lot of us are literally just teenagers and r following the rules that are given to us by supervisor. ive literally had sm ppl almost make me cry these past two days by yelling at me and getting extremely agressive. guys pls just chill and voice ur concersn in a nice tone and i promise ill try my best to fix them

I went around 20:15 to 20:30 and the single rider lane was completely clear. Was my second time going to Wonderland and trying Yukon Striker. The lines were pretty good for other rides too. Thanks to the poster that mentioned the crowd levels were good today. Otherwise I would not have bothered in the heat lol.

Some guy in the row behind me must’ve taken off their seatbelt as when a ride operator climbed the lift hill there was suspicion on them and security were waiting when we got back to the station. I’ve read about delinquencies - really sucks experiencing them

I've been coming to wonderland with my kids for 3 years now, and not that I'm complaining but does anyone else feel like planet snoopy has been a little more dead throughout the week this year compared to previous ones. I understand staying out of the park with kids on hot days, but like generally whenever I'm there it's been extra dead

Dose anyone know why surya kadam and amusement insiders are so problematic I keep seeing things and can't figure out why with such following they have they would be like that