Savings on Season Passes

If you didn't get your Season Passes purchased before May 2, by now you've noticed that the price is no longer discounted.

From here on in you'll need a coupon to save on a Season Pass purchase. Said coupon will save you $30 off General Admission Season Passes and $20 off Guests-under54" and Senior (60+) Season Passes.

How to get this coupon? It'll come right to your Inbox tomorrow if you sign up for our e-newsletter. Just click here to sign up.

Look at those pretty smiles

Uh...in the background, that is.

Say ahhhhhhhhhh....

Somehow I didn't expect to be able to see Monkey Boy's uvula (you know, that hangy-down thing in the back of your mouth).


...but it looks like he already had his tonsils out.

Sweet Mother of Pearl. Take the picture. Now.

Your turn.

What is Santa saying? (Post a comment using your most extreme cleverness.)


Actually, Santa is flanked by two dear men who traveled all the way from West Virginia. They're members of a "Secret Santa" organization which helps 3,000 children; the trip was part of a fundraiser.

What do you win?

My praise. That's it.

What more could you ask?

Plugging another park? Why not...

Will was recently asked by the Indianapolis Star: What was your best trip ever?

Here's his reply.

Food, glorious food

I was pondering how to talk about our new allergen-free food initiative, when this email dinged in my Inbox.

This happy mom says it much better than I could:

I just read online in The Courier about your new offering of allergy free food. Thank you SO much for doing this. I have a 3-year-old son who has allergies to wheat, egg, milk, barley and nuts, so it is always hard to find things he can eat. I always feel bad when we go to places and he can't eat what others are having. We are from Evansville originally, but live in the Chicago area now. We always like to come back for visits and come to your park, and this will make it even better when we come later this summer. I also appreciate that you all have taken care to make sure there is designated equipment for preparing the food. Many people don't realize that reactions can occur just from coming into contact with the food on their skin.

Thank you again. You are all wonderful.

Kim B.

Aurora, Illinois

Happy Food Allergy Awareness Week!

Breaking the rules

Over on CoasterBuzz, they have a rule against "X versus Y" opinion posts asking forum members which coaster they prefer.

Every once in a while someone sneaks one of those forbidden topics in, and it takes a few minutes before the moderators lock the thread.

I happened to catch this one earlier today.

Play the day away

Another Play Day has come and gone.

The weather wasn't the best, but no one seemed to care. Laughter filled the air.


I especially enjoyed watching one young fellow riding HallowSwings. He was having the time of his life.

I got dizzy just watching and had to turn away. But I'll never forget the complete and utter bliss on his sweet face.

A tweet so sweet

Justin emailed me he'd been wanting to write an article about Twitter for the Evansville paper.

He seemed quite pleased to have a local business to use as an example.

I may tweet, but I'm not a twit

Are you familiar with Twitter?

You may have noticed, we added a feed to the right of the latest HoliBlog post ...

It's a micro-blog. With a maximum length of 140 characters (not words) per post.

So you have to choose your sassy comments carefully.

Once we're open daily (Saturday), it's our intent to provide running commentary about the day. If you're in the park and have the feed text-messaged to you, you'll know which rides have the shortest lines. If you're not in the park, you might still get a kick out of knowing that stuff.

Apparently the Motley Fool likes the idea.

As I was typing this, Eric called. He'd just read the latest column from the Motley Fool and saw that we were mentioned. He wanted to know: What's Twitter?. After my brief explanation, Eric sighed, "Wow. I'm getting old." That made someone who is old enough to be his mother feel pretty good.

We now interrupt this regularly scheduled blog post

Well, that's certainly nice.

We get quite a few positive comments about our customer service, but this time it's about me.

We don't often get asked about "hot spots" in the town of Santa Claus, but it's nice to know there are at least two.

Are you a freeloader?

We'll that's not a very nice question to ask...

(Although anyone old enough to remember comedian Red Skelton's "Freddie the Freeloader" character should know Red was from Vincennes, Indiana.)

Anyway, this radio station is looking for "freeloaderz" to sign up for a chance to win free Holiday World & Splashin' Safari tickets.

Lights! Camera! Action...

John over in Marketing has written his first HoliBlog post. So let's be gentle...

Here goes:

If you've always wanted to get your sweet mug on a commercial, this may be your big chance.

We need volunteers to be extras this Friday, May 9.

As extras for the new Holiday World & Splashin' Safari TV commercials, you’ll be asked to try out our new Kima Bay water-play attraction in Splashin’ Safari.

Interested?

We can’t promise to make you a star, but we will feed you and give you a free ticket as a token of our esteem.

The timing for this is 12:00 noon to 5:30 pm CDT this Friday, May 9. (Weather permitting)

To sign up, please contact us no later than noon on Thursday by sending us an email at mintern2@holidayworld.com (or call 812-937-5280 and ask to speak with Braden or Patty).

We’ll answer your questions and will provide you with more information, such as: please wear a swimsuit that is modest in design; bring plenty of towels and warm cover-ups and a change of clothes, plus something to pass the time during down-time (there's always down-time). This is a first-come, first-served opportunity; adults and families are particularly welcome. (Sorry, children must be at least 36-inches-tall to ride on certain slides and 42-inches-tall for others.) Infants and toddlers may be present at Kima Bay however they may not have a role.

And before you ask "is Kima Bay’s water heated?" You bet! We use solar heating and as long as the sun is shining, the water is warming up.


This photo is from last year's commercial shoot.