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I’m taking my 16-year-old son to Magic Mountain this week for 3 days (flying in from Utah). This is our third trip and we’ve always gone this time of year. Great weather, reasonable crowds, etc., but there’s a small problem I’m trying to figure out how to navigate.

This is something my wife and I do for our 2 kids every year. They get to pick their own “kids trip” every year. We have a small regional airport near us with cheap flights to California (we do SNA for Disneyland and BUR for Magic Mountain) so these trips are actually pretty cheap.

The problem this year is we told both kids they could bring a friend. My daughter’s trip to Disneyland is the first week in November and her best friend is coming with us. My son’s friend had been saying for the last few months that he could go and…long story short…turns out his parents had no intention of letting him go. They just kept finding new, lame, excuses even when we offered to fully cover the cost of airfare, tickets, food, etc. I just really wanted my teenage son to have someone to hang with other than Dad (me). I’m not the worst person to be around but I’m not his peer either. Plus I can’t handle some of the more extreme coasters due to migraine issues so I just keep him company in a lot of lines (last time I rode Tatsu in my 20s I almost barfed from the migraine it triggered).

What I’m looking for are any ideas on how to kind of plus up the trip to make up for his friend not coming. Budget is about $400 since that’s what I was willing to spend on having his friend come. Been considering fast lane passes but wondering if there are other good options I’m not aware of. We have season passes for this trip (the cheapest one - gold I think?). We did the Halloween stuff last year but he’s not really interested in doing those again. This is purely an adrenaline junkie trip.

TIA for any help/suggestions!

Making the drive from Austin but would prefer to go on a day not as crowded. With the holiday on monday and school being closed, I wonder if that day will be more busy than Sunday (tomorrow). Any thoughts?

Hi there and thanks for any insight you guys might have. we have been planning for ages to do Fright Fest tomorrow however the weather looks terrible with the remnants of the hurricane. what are your thoughts on what might be operating and is there a chance that they may close? I have still not bought all of the tickets for my party due to that fear. it looks like the rain will be less in the evening so we're thinking about adjusting our arrival time and only doing Fright Fest versus doing any rides.

Anybody familiar with Great Adventure and how they deal with rain and wind?

I think Airtime Thrills thinks Kings Island and Carowinds are currently runners for getting ArieForce One not Great Adventure, I saw his some videos, I don't why Great Adventure isn't part of this, others like Coliwood Studios that Great Adventure is also runner for getting it. I think Great Adventure has might most likely to getting ArieForce One than Kings Island and Carowinds.