Author Topic: The Great and Not-So-Great at Six Flags Great Adventure (Read 15830 times)

rjholla2003 · « **on:** January 03, 2006, 09:07:55 PM »

http://themeparks.about.com/b/a/232433.htm

chilled182 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 03, 2006, 10:07:18 PM »

that was a little bland. I was hoping he would elaborate on what he thinks should happen.

rjholla2003 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 03, 2006, 10:35:52 PM »

I was looking for a page two. It was like he was just getting started and oops! He ran out of space.

ChuckR · « **Reply #3 on:** January 03, 2006, 10:40:23 PM »

Yeah, I really think he could of went on longer.

DianaR · « **Reply #4 on:** January 03, 2006, 10:43:09 PM »

I have a slight problem with Un-inspired food, I think we have one of the best food diversities I've seen of all the parks I've visited and especially all the SF parks. We cater to almost every nationality that steps foot in the park, how is that Un-inspired? Only one coaster has been dormant and, we are not the only park to have ever been guilty of this. :shock: He can't fault us for KK without mentioning TTD and Intamin IMO. :roll:

blazzinmatt · « **Reply #5 on:** January 03, 2006, 10:55:07 PM »

I agree with Diana 100% I think we have definitely some of the most diverse food of all parks in general. And the KK reference cannot be talked about unless you say something about how much downtime TTD had when it first opened. I don't care what anyone says, I still love Great Adventure and will see it as one of the best parks out there.

Nitro1118 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 03, 2006, 11:17:55 PM »

I agreed with the article, but as said above, it was way too short. It was a nice little overview of the park and pin pointed some key ideas about Snyder's new regime (such as him toning down additions of new thrill rides).

I agree about food. Except for Nathan's, Wok and Roll, and Granny's, the park lacks any good food places.

rjholla2003 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 03, 2006, 11:44:58 PM »

I never ventured out too much with eating in the park, but the places I do eat I'm usually somewhat satisfied. The best food I've ever had at a SF park was definately SFNO. The food in New Orleans is incredible, and the park followed suit 100%. I had a seafood gumbo that was so good that I would have paid for seconds if I wasn't full. It was simply heavenly.

Nitro1118 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 04, 2006, 12:00:29 AM »

Yeah, NO is supposedly amazing with food. The best SF food I have had was at GADV...Nathan's. LOVE the cheese fries. But actual park food would go to SFNE and their pizza and chicken fingers. Very good food.

Robert T Ackerman · « **Reply #9 on:** January 04, 2006, 03:10:23 AM »

As Diana said... "He can't fault us for KK without mentioning TTD and Intamin IMO"

That is very true... but we must also look at it from a different perspective. The average Joe that walks into GADv on any given day doesn't want to hear that Intamin makes unreliable rides so it's understandable why he would say this, they just automatically assume that GADv is to blame, and wont listen to any other excuse. This journalist might very well be a part of the GP, so he might not have EVERY fact right. We can however, call this guy a bad journalist for not getting all of his facts right.

As far as food goes... I agree and disagree with what was said in the article... We do have a wide variety of food in the park, but to me, it all tastes like "cafeteria" food. There aren't any places in the park I really enjoy spending my money at to eat. I still have yet to try out the place behind the Nitro exit, and I always see the Meatball Hoagie, Chicken wings, ribs... I dont know why I always pass it, this year I will give it a whirl.

Rob

DianaR · « **Reply #10 on:** January 04, 2006, 09:18:45 AM »

My comment about the food has nothing to do with how it tastes, it has to do with how many differant types of foods we have. We have Italian, Jamaican, Chinese, Mexican (I am sure this will improve with the new section) , burgers and fries, I am wondering if the La Cantina is going to rival BOTW which I hear has decent food. Me personally? I eat burgers and fries when I am at the park because I have good home cooked healthy foods all week LOL. To me they taste no differant then BK or McD's. Sorry Rob :lol:

Bubba Z · « **Reply #11 on:** January 04, 2006, 10:26:13 AM »

I'm surprised to hear that about the food. All I hear are good things about Best of the west , La cantina , Outpost grill , Wild side pizza, Wok & Roll, Chippy's fish & chip, Funnel cakes, pretzels, Fried oreos, Nathan's, Butterfly fries, Central park deli , Mamma Flora's, Character cafe , Waffle cones, Granny's and the burger place in Movie town to name a few.

Maybe He went to a different Sfgadv ?

WadeJ · « **Reply #12 on:** January 04, 2006, 10:36:53 AM »

I think Gadv has better food than the majority of the Disney counter style places. And trust me, I think I've eaten at all of them

ChuckR · « **Reply #13 on:** January 04, 2006, 11:14:38 AM »

Lake Compounce has some awesome food.

Just whatever you do, don't get food at SFA. Rob can back me up on this...

sir clinksalot · « **Reply #14 on:** January 04, 2006, 11:17:37 AM »

We didn't eat at GADV (we were crunched for time) but there were a few places that we wanted to eat. The food offerings were certainly MUCH better than what is found at SFMM.

As for best food though, I have to say SFOT would have to be the best in the Six Flags chain. At least IMO.

WadeJ · « **Reply #15 on:** January 04, 2006, 11:33:37 AM »

I agree. I ate at a few of the places at SFOT (that were open) when I was there 3 years ago and they were really good.

Apparantly, this dude didn't eat at Best Of The West though. They had awesome food and were open almost the entire season for the first time in a long time.

chilled182 · « **Reply #16 on:** January 04, 2006, 12:42:36 PM »

Quote from: "Nitro1118"

I agreed with the article, but as said above, it was way too short. It was a nice little overview of the park and pin pointed some key ideas about Snyder's new regime (such as him toning down additions of new thrill rides).

I agree about food. Except for Nathan's, Wok and Roll, and Granny's, the park lacks any good food places.

What about MAma Flora's and the HBO backlot? Great if you ask me. And Wildside is pretty awesome as well.

WE have some good food. The funnel cakes are up to par, we offer butterfly fries AND kettle korn, not too many parks have both of those.

Next year la cantina will be open and we will once again have mexican food as well.

There is no need to criticize the food here. Except for maybe the prices...

ChuckR · « **Reply #17 on:** January 04, 2006, 12:47:41 PM »

Wildside is great. That steak burger, oh man its great.

coastermom · « **Reply #18 on:** January 04, 2006, 01:53:28 PM »

Well we always eat at grannys chicken the food is pretty good and with picky kids who will eat it that says it all for me. I think all parks have highs and lows with food and food prices are expensive in all parks feed a family of 5 in almost any park and try to do it for under $50.00 . It really isn't happening . But at grannys with the family feast for 25.00 that and some small extras we eat for almost under $40. Pretty good huh. I guess he didn't look around enough on the food side. As for the rides he has a point the lines are out of control on most days summer ,spring ,fall all are pretty packed . and many rides are not open all the time nor are they running full or all of the trains for all of the coasters. All parks need work and some are just in need of better management maybe with synder there will be a change only time will tell.

blazzinmatt · « **Reply #19 on:** January 04, 2006, 02:47:41 PM »

Butterfly fries are definitely at the top of my list. They are just so tasty and me and my friend usually split them and that makes them cheap. That and a smoothie in Boardwalk can make my day.

stew560 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 04, 2006, 03:51:47 PM »

Awwww man! Now I want butterfly fries!

Only 87 Days to go!

WadeJ · « **Reply #21 on:** January 04, 2006, 04:23:02 PM »

I was hooked on the pretzels over by Nitro all last year. One of those is = to a complete meal! mmmmmmmmm

chilled182 · « **Reply #22 on:** January 04, 2006, 04:26:35 PM »

mm, sorry about the butterfly fries mentioning. haha.

I want some kettle corn.

I have no problems with our food.

ChuckR · « **Reply #23 on:** January 04, 2006, 04:35:12 PM »

Quote from: "WadeJ"

I was hooked on the pretzels over by Nitro all last year. One of those is = to a complete meal! mmmmmmmmm

Oh man, a cinnamon-sugar pretzel from there is awesome!

sfgadvfreak · « **Reply #24 on:** January 04, 2006, 05:28:25 PM »

GADV actually does have some really good food. I can live off of butteryfly fries, lemonade, and the Backlot pizza by Batman. That is the best pizza I have ever had at a theme park, and one of the best I have ever had period. I can live off of West Side food. :lol:

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Author Topic: The Great and Not-So-Great at Six Flags Great Adventure (Read 15830 times)