Six Flags New England Review

I was recently given 4 complementary tickets to Six Flags New England. My family visited on August 12th, 2015 and here is a recap.

Six Flags New England is located in Agawam, Massachusetts and actually opened in 1870 as Riverside Park and was renamed Six Flags in 2000. Six Flags New England is the oldest amusement park in the Six Flags chain. There are 11 roller coasters at Six Flags New England and it is home of Bizarro which is one of the top rated steel coasters. They also have over 60 rides ranging from mild thrill factor to maximum thrill factor, so they really have something for everyone! Six Flags New England also features Hurricane Harbor which is a water park featuring 17 attractions and is open Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day.

The website says parking starts at $20 but when we arrived we found out that parking starts at $25 for regular parking and $30 for preferred which was full by the time we arrived. The parking lot was a little bit of a mess, there was no one direction traffic so it was a little bit chaotic but we were able to pay for parking and get to a spot pretty quickly. The parking lot we parked in is VERY far away from the park and the park is up a GIGANTIC hill so I highly suggest waiting a few minutes for the free tram that runs all day so you can hitch a ride to the park without having to walk up the gigantic hill.

 When we arrived in the park there was a GIGANTIC line for the ticket booth so I highly suggest buying your tickets ahead of time online to save some time.
Ticket Prices are:

General Admission $61.99

Children Under 54″ $51.99

Children 2 & Under FREE

You can save money by purchasing tickets ahead of time online, as they start at $46.99.

You can purchase an season pass for as low as $74.99 and you can even pay monthly which is as low as $6.25 a month. The gold season pass includes unlimited admission to ALL Six Flags theme parks, bring a friend free on select days, includes park admission to both Fright Fest and in park savings. They also offer regular passes and thrill passes. You can also purchase season dinner passes which includes lunch, dinner and a snack every visit for $94.99 per pass.

Six Flags New England also offers two VIP tours to choose from.

The first one is $149 per person and includes

2015 Season Pass
Private tour guide for group for 4 hours
Front-of-the-line access for rides for 4 hours
One meal with reserved seating at restaurant of choice
One snack
Souvenir sport bottle
Preferred parking on day of tour
Reserved show seating
Private autograph session with Looney Tunes characters
One additional fee attraction at no cost
1 Funny Money book – $30 worth of games play

For $249 per person you receive

2015 Season Pass
Private tour guide for group
Front-of-the-line access
Unlimited food
Souvenir sport bottle
Theme Park admission
Preferred parking on day of tour
Reserved show seating
Private autograph session with Looney Tunes characters
Unlimited additional fee attractions at no cost
Hurricane Harbor luxury cabana
Hurricane Harbor premium line access
2 Funny Money books – $60 worth of games play

Review

We arrived at the park about an hour after it opened and it was already packed. When you arrive you go through a metal detector and they search all of your stuff, I felt very uncomfortable as my husband was the only one in the party of four that was patted down and searched longer then all of us even though we all beeped through the metal detector. We went directly to the water park,once inside the water park lockers start at $14 and it took a lot of careful packing to get all of our stuff to fit. One ride in the water park was closed the day we went but other then that we were able to ride all the rides. You can rent inner tubes but most of the rides do not require you to do so. The water park was relatively clean and I expected it to have an overwhelming chemical smell like most pools do and I was presently surprised that it didn’t. I wish they had an attended in the changing rooms because it was udder chaos with people pushing and shoving. We spent about a hour an hour in the water park and then proceeded to head into the actual park. I was considering buying one of the refillable cups for my party to share since regular bottled drinks start at $4.50 but I noticed that most of the soda machines were dripping soda constantly which caused it to spill all onto the floor and COVERED in swarm of bees, I watched at LEAST a handful of people trying to fight off the swarms of bees to refill their cups while the attend just stood there, that instantly turned me off from buying the refillable cups. We walked around the park and rode a few rides. I highly suggest leaving ANY purses or bags in the car if you are not prepared to pay for the locker fees as they can pull you out of line and ask you to put your stuff in a locker. I honestly found most of the staff to be rude and uneducated about the park. I asked a few for directions since this was our first time visiting and the map was a little confusing and most of them just shrugged their shoulders and ignored me or said they have no idea. We did not eat the whole day as the food was very expensive and since Six Flags does not allow you to bring in any outside food or drinks and they search your bags we ended up leaving early because we were STARVING!(meals start at $15.25 each) I wish I did more research on Six Flags New England before we arrived because I had NO idea that it was so expensive. The website claims they are strict about behavior and clothing but I found most of the folks around to be super rude, swearing, screaming, yelling, pushing(I got hit in the face at the Adventure River) and found a lot of vulgar clothing including ones with bad language. I also noticed a lot of line cutting which is prohibited on their website. We went on the Houdini – The Great Escape ride TWICE because the teenagers in there were obnoxious and fake screaming through the whole video they show in the beginning so my daughter and I ended up missing everything that was said. A lot of guests also tend to scream and be loud when the ride instructions are talking so its very hard to hear what is being said to you. I was very disappointed to see a lack of enforcement of the rules. I also noticed a great deal of people smoking outside of the designated smoking areas. Towards the end of our visit one whole side of the park was closed due to a “private event” which was a little discouraging.

In the end my family had fun, but there are some MAJOR improvements that need to be done before we would consider visiting again. We drove over 2 hours and my whole party felt disappointed. I know management cant control the actions of others but it would of been nice to see some enforcement of the rules. I made very sure everyone in my party was dressed appropriately and we rented a locker because the site claims you are not allowed outside of Hurricane Harbor if you are wearing a swim suit but I saw folks walking around all day in 1 and 2 piece swimsuits.

Even though I received tickets for free we ended up spending $55 just for parking, the locker and 3 drinks. If you added the price of food for a party of 4 it would of been around $94.00 depending on what food items we got. You can easily spend $200+ here in a day so spend wisely and do a lot of research and saving before you arrive!

Maybe the above I mentioned is the typical things you deal with when you go to an amusement park, but it has defiantly affected our decision to visit again in the future. I highly suggest you visiting though and forming your own opinion.

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