Where Are You Going in 2019?

Definitely:

Waldameer (home park, I can go get a lap on Ravine Flyer over my lunch break)

Darien Lake (first time with the season pass)

Maybe:

Hersheypark (My sister lives in Harrisburg and gets free tickets from Bears games)

Conneaut Lake Park

Six Flags Georgia (Work sometimes sends us to Atlanta for training, so it would be kind of nice to hit up a second Six Flags park)

It is going to be a lower park total for me this year as my wife and I are expecting a new baby in January. That makes park-going a bit harder.

Without a doubt:

Kentucky Kingdom

Kings Island

Holiday World

Dollywood

Carowinds

Possibly:

Cedar Point

Six Flags Great America

Definitely:

Universal Studios Florida

Islands of Adventure

Kings Island

Cedar Point

Knott's Berry Farm

Disneyland

Disney's California Adventure

Magic Mountain

Santa Cruz Boardwalk

California's Great America

Discovery Kingdom

Possibly:

Sea World San Diego

Belmont Park

Aaand not much else, as those trips to FL and CA are pretty much killing my vacation budget for 2019 (both money and time-off from work)

Definitely:

-Silver Dollar City

-Nickelodeon Universe

-Adventureland

One of the following:

-Six Flags Over Texas

-Six Flags Over Georgia

-Six Flags Great America

Likely:

-Valleyfair

Doubtful, but it could happen:

-Six Flags St. Louis

Definitely:

Holiday World

Dollywood ( If I don't visit before the end of the year.)

Carowinds

Possibly:

Kings Island

Kentucky Kingdom

Maybe:

Busch Gardens Willamsburg

Kings Dominion

Now that I've got a nice new job, I can actually afford to start taking longer trips. I would be going to more parks but I'm also going to Vegas for my friends bachelor party and then Hawaii for his wedding. I might actually be doing Dollywood this Decemeber and if I do, I might ask my mom if she wants to go visit my aunt in Virginia in the spring 2019 and hit up BGW, KD and Carowinds on that trip. If I do that, then Kings Island and Kentucky Kingdom will be pushed back to 2020 and that's alright since Kings Island seems to be getting something big in 2020 anyways!

Definitely SFGAdv, but the rest are a bit up in the air. It's looking like our trip to Niagara is getting scrapped / pushed back to 2020, but we may still be on for visiting friends in Colorado and my sister in San Fran, so that means SFDK, CGA, Elitch, and whatever that tinier one in Denver is that I'm too lazy to look up right now.

lots of places, still not completely locked down on all of em.

but for sure Fiesta Texas (a BUNCH of times) and SFoT at least twice

All of this is as good as confirmed;

Annual visits

Efteling

Walibi Belgium

Walibi Holland

Toverland

Phantasialand

Bobbejaanland

Germany

Holiday Park

Tripsdrill

Fort Fun Abenteuerland

Freizeitpark Plohn

Belantis

Bayern Park

Legoland Deutschland

Hansa Park

Heide Park

France

Parc Astérix

Disneyland Paris

Walt Disney Studios

Futuroscope

Walibi Rhône-Alpes

Parc Spirou

Italy

Rainbow MagicLand

Cinecitta World

Gardaland

Mirabilandia

Denmark

Farup Sommerland

Djurs Sommerland

Legoland Billund

Finland

PowerLand

Linnanmäki

Särkänniemi

Ireland

Tayto Park

Norway

TusenFryd

Spain

Port Aventura

Ferrari Land

Confirmed (by default):

Walt Disney World

SeaWorld San Diego

Knott's Berry Farm

Six Flags Magic Mountain

Dollywood

Highly Possible, but Not Confirmed:

Six Flags Over Georgia

Legoland California

Fun Spot America (Kissimmee)

Possible, but Not Too Likely:

Carowinds

Cedar Point

Disneyland Resort

Busch Gardens Tampa

State Fair of Texas

Summer Road Trip (Possible, but Not Too Likely):

Six Flags St. Louis

Silver Dollar City

Frontier City

Six Flags Over Texas

Six Flags Fiesta Texas

Home Parks (various visits throughout the year):

Busch Gardens Tampa

SeaWorld Orlando

Returning to:

Six Flags Over Georgia

New To Me Parks (June 2019):

The Park At OWA

Six Flags Over Texas

Six Flags Fiesta Texas

SeaWorld San Antonio

ZDT's (possibly)

Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier

Kemah Boardwalk

Possible:

Carowinds

Foregone conclusions:

• Luna Park / Deno's (proximity)
  
• Rye Playland (proximity)
  
• Dorney Park (proximity to family / CF platinum passes)
  
• Sesame Place (SW platinum passes)
  
• Six Flags Great Adventure (nearest SF park, cheapo gold memberships)
  
• Knoebels (didn't make it out there once this year and I'll be damned if we let that happen again)

Almost certainly:

• Morey's Piers (hoping to pull trigger on season passes during Black Friday sale and spend more time down the shore with the family)
  
• Six Flags New England (memberships)
  
• Kings Dominion (CF platinum passes)
  
• Busch Gardens Williamsburg / Water Country USA (SW platinum passes)

Hopefully:

• Cedar Point / Kings Island (most likely end of season or the very beginning, either or)
  
• Kennywood (whenever Steel Curtain opens, or for Phantom Fright Nights again)

Depending on the kiddo's height:

• Knott's Berry Farm / Six Flags Magic Mountain (would like to hit up West Coast Bash for his birthday if he makes it up to 54" by then)
  
• Hersheypark (probably an off year since there's nothing new, but if he makes it to 54" you better believe he's making a beeline for Skyrush)

Depending on the family's finances:

• All the Florida parks (BGT, SWO, Universal, Disney, Fun Spots etc...)
  
• Canada's Wonderland (also dependent upon height, but need to get passports for the kids)

2019 is going to be a pretty slow year for us... Not going to a "lot" of theme parks, but instead we are going to a few parks that we have REALLY been wanting to go to!!! So for 2019 we are going to: (and these are pretty much in order)

- Knoebels

- Hershey Park

- Phantasialand (The park I am most excited about visiting in 2019!)

- Magic Kingdom

- Animal Kingdom

- Hollywood Studios

- EPOCT

- Busch Gardens Tampa

- And of course SDC a few times!

I just found out about the trip to Phantasialand a few days ago and I am SO freaking excited!!!

Hopefully 2019 will be (hopefully) a big year for us. We have a couple large trips tentatively planned and a few smaller ones. A lot of new parks for us. * = new park

SFOT (home park)

SFFT

ZDT

Sea World San Antonio

Kemah Boardwalk *

Galveston Pleasure Pier *

Silver Dollar City

Worlds of Fun *

Frontier City *

May/June Trip

Dollywood *

Carowinds *

Busch Gardens Williamsburg *

Kings Dominion *

Dorney Park *

Hersheypark *

Kennywood

August Trip

Kings Island

Holiday World *

Kentucky Kingdom *

Cedar Point

Beech Bend *

^ Going to Dorney and Hershey but not Knoebels?

Going back to Carowinds is possible - but we're leaning towards staying home so we can do this in late Spring 2020:

Kolmarden

Liseberg

Energylandia

Phantasialand

Holiday Park

Europa Park

BPB and Alton Towers

Arriving in Norway, and leaving from the UK. Any advice from seasoned Euro-Trip veterans would be appreciated. We scratched Heide Park and Walibi. Although I think heading to PortaVentura would be worth it, we can't scrape that much time off. It's looking like 3 weeks as it is. Our taste tends to like ejector air more than floaty.

Definitely:

The big USA trip

- Coney island New York (* = First time visit)

- Six Flags Great Adventure (*)

- Busch Gardens Williamsburg (*)

- Kings Dominion (*)

- Carowinds (*)

- Dollywood (*)

- Holiday World (*)

- Kentucky Kingdom (*)

- Kings Island (*)

- Kennywood (*)

- Cedar Point (*)

- Six Flags New England (*)

- Walibi Holland

Canada's Wonderland: Home park. Looking forward to Yukon Striker.

-WDW Florida: our annual Snowbird vacation. Doing the Disney runs round MK and Epcot this February for the first time. Am looking forward to that (probably a major coaster fan sin...running round the park rather than walking!)

-Universal Florida: Same as above minus the running part!

-Kings Dominion: Our "new" park for 2019. Father and son have "I305" and "Volcano" on our respective bucket lists. Will be perusing the forum for tips and advice in the early new year. Thankyou already to the people who have given advice on travel and operating schedules.

-Busch Gardens Williamsburg: Back to where it all first started for me in North America. Revisiting the first park I visited outside of Europe. We are very much looking forward to it (loved Apollo's Chariot back in the day) as there have been so many additions. We also loved the historical part of Williamsburg when last there, and plan to spend a couple of days in the area.

Two Disney Cruises, one to the Bahamas. One to Norway. Looking forward to the Norwegian cruise as it is out of my home country (UK) and my parents will be joining us for the first time on a cruise.

S***loads of overtime required between now and these trips!!

2019 is gonna be a much smaller year for me than this year, but this is what I've got planned.

Defiantly:

Six Flags Magic Mountain

Knotts Berry Farm

Disneyland

Disney's California Adventure

Sea World San Diego

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom

Six Flags America

Dollywood

Carowinds

Busch Gardens Williamsberg

Kings Dominion

Possibly:

Six Flags Over Texas

Oaks Park

I haven't planned much at all, but few things are already for sure.

Definitely:

- Connyland

- Europapark

- Phantasialand

- Efteling

- Walibi Holland

Probably:

I have a few trips in mind to do but I'm not sure yet which ones I'll be doing.

(Poland, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Australia, UAE)

Confirmed (* indicates home parks)

-Busch Gardens Tampa*

-SeaWorld Orlando*

-Universal Studios Florida*

-Islands of Adventure*

-All four WDW parks*

-Six Flags over Georgia

-Lake Winnepesaukah

Possible

-Carowinds

-Dollywood

-Kings Dominion

-Silver Dollar City

-Wild Adventures

Should be an interesting 2019.

Small update:

Annual visits

Efteling (home park)

Walibi Belgium

Walibi Holland

Toverland

Phantasialand

Bobbejaanland

Movie Park Germany

Germany

Holiday Park

Tripsdrill

Europa-Park

Fort Fun Abenteuerland

Freizeitpark Plohn

Belantis

Bayern Park

Legoland Deutschland

Hansa Park

Heide Park

France

Parc Astérix

Disneyland Paris

Walt Disney Studios

Parc Saint Paul

Futuroscope

Walibi Rhône-Alpes

Parc Spirou

Italy

Rainbow MagicLand

Cinecitta World

Gardaland

Mirabilandia

Denmark

Farup Sommerland

Djurs Sommerland

Legoland Billund

Finland

PowerLand

Linnanmäki

Särkänniemi

Ireland

Tayto Park

Norway

TusenFryd

Spain

Port Aventura

Ferrari Land

Planned (* first time):

 

Cedar Point

Kings Island

Carowinds

Kings Dominion

Busch Gardens Williamsburg

Busch Gardens Tampa*

Sea World Orlando*

Six Flags Over Georgia

Kennywood*

Six Flags Fiesta Texas*

Six Flags Over Texas*

Sea World San Antonio*

Waldameer*

Darien Lake*

 

Possibly:

 

Worlds of Fun*

Silver Dollar City*

Six Flags St. Louis*

SIx Flags Great America*

Kentucky Kingdom*

Holiday World*

Fun Spot Kissimmee*

Going to Texas in ten days. Going to knock out SFOT, SFFT, and SWSA. We might even hit Park at OWA on the way home. We may have to actually ride a Wild Mouse and some flats to make that one worth it.

Definitely:

Cheap Beer and Fish Park

Seaworld's Waterpark

Park not associated with Blackfish

Busch Garden's Waterpark

Pandora Place

Star Wars Land

Food and Wine

Logistical Nightmare Kingdom

Parkhopper Plus Add on #1

Parkhopper Plus Add on #2

Harry Potter World

Hollywood Studios

Moana's Happy Interstate Waterpark

Kids School Group Florida Resort

Likely

Fun Spot

Disneyland

Calfornia Adventure

Knott's

Six Flags Magic Mountain

(Queen Mary's Dark Harbour)

Wild Adventures

Six Flags over Georgia

Hopefully depending on work and cheap flights (*new to me)

*Six Flags over Texas

*Six Flags Fiesta Texas

*Seaworld San Antonio

*Schlitterbahn

*Kemah/Galveston

*Six Flags Great America

*Little Americka

*Mt Olympus

Carowinds

Cedar Point

I'll probably be light on the US this year since, I'm returning to Europe this summer focusing on Scandinavia and Poland. Not sure of all the European Parks, possibly.

Walibi World, Efteling, Toverland, Energylandia, Legalandia, Liseberg, Kolmarden, Grona Lund, Phantasialand, Tivoli Gardens, Wonder Island, Linnimaki

US Parks are likely to be Northeast based: SFGAdv, SFNE, Kennywood, Knoebels, possibly some small New England parks. Last minute sales will impact my decisions this year as I did not renew with Busch or Cedar Fair.

Next season we will kick it off like this last season by attending Coaster Campout at CP. My brother and sister in law want to come with us this time, which will be cool. They have never been to CP before. Over the last two years they have come to KI, SFGam, and SFSTL with us. They dig it.

Right now, we're planning a summer vacation to include SFGadv and CW. This has spawned probable sight seeing in Philadelphia, New York City, Niagra Falls, and Toronto. We're also going to fly to Carowinds for a weekend trip and we'll drive north to SFGam on some Saturday. Other than that, a few beers spread over a couple nights at SFSTL will also take place.