Magic Mountain

[mistyisjafo]

I love the rollercoasters at Magic Mountain but last Saturday made me really appreciate how well Disney runs things.

Magic Mountain was extremely busy on Saturday before Halloween. To be expected because of the Halloween goings on. I didn't mind the long lines but my issue with the whole place was crowd control. We waited in line for Goliath for 3 hours because Goliath had ONE train running and every other train was used for "handicapped" (I say it in quotes because 90 percent of the people I saw that were handicapped were NOT) and for fast pass. So if they only loaded the train half way with both groups no one else in line could get on. Some of the handicapped groups even rode more than once!!! This was like this on every ride we went on - all 3 of them!!!

To make things worse, at around 7pm we wanted to get some food. 3 of the places we went to were either running out of food, only had specific items left or only had certain sodas or water left for serving!!!!! My friends & I settled on a turkey leg (cold and dry), mashed potatoes (old), and corn (watery). Soda wasnt available so we had water.

I noticed how apathetic the employees were, how dirty the park was, how terrible the food was and said to myself - "We should've gone to Disneyland". My friend went to Knotts Scary Farm the night before and said it was very well organized and under control in comparison to MM which was just a guest control nightmare!

I'm not planning another trip to Magic in a long time. It makes me a little sad.