Sometime around noon, their was a power outage and additional 4 rides were closed. Four out of 12 rides were closed for maintenance. Even though it was a weekend, many animal exhibits, shows were closed. I saw the 70000+ ratings and saw the videos of the rides and decided that this is a must place to visit during our trip. 5 months ago Okay, I will try to give my unbiased review about the park. I truly hope the management can get these problems corrected otherwise the park I once new may never be the same.ĢABHIJAY P. I’m chalking up the problems I encountered to this corona pandemic situation. Idk but many of us even with young kids walk to our cars at 10pm at night.

It seemed as though they were using like only three trams. I’ve never in 40 years seen half the patrons walk so far to their cars because the tram wait was going to be so long. Many areas could also use some serious remodeling.īy the end of our visit the line to get on a tram to take us back to Adventure Island was crazy in comparison to the number of trams being used so we decided to walk the 30 minute hike to our car along with at least half the other visitors. The lack of staffing caused a lot of areas in the park to be very chaotic. Also the game area had one attendant running 3-4 games at the same time. At least half the refreshment stands weren’t open and the ones that were had longer lines than the rides. It seemed to me that the park was extremely understaffed. What was very disappointing was the lines for refreshments and snacks. Most our visit my kids waited 30-60 minutes for the coasters and a few times even less.

I don’t understand why we we’re directed to park so far away. The park was decorated beautifully and it really didn’t seem overly packed. When we arrived, just before the parked opened at 12 pm, we were already being directed to an over flow parking lot at adventure island? I thought for sure the park was going to be absolutely packed and almost turned back but for the kids I went ahead and we took our chances. I decided to get my kids and I season passes and visit the park for the holiday light show. It was always a positive experience of my childhood and teenage years. 8 months ago I’ve been going to Busch Gardens for 40 years. Overall though, we enjoyed this visit and the Christmas decorations were cool.ģAasya M. The rest of the places have your standard pizza/burger fare. (Overpriced but what theme park isn't?) But with the mid-park pretzel place opening later and the Garland Gate never opening, as far as I could tell, I was getting a little annoyed with the lack of real food options. For those of us looking for beer, the Serengeti Overlook did have great tap beer. Some places opened later than anticipated, like the beer and pretzel place near Scorpion. They had signs for the Christmas season but they never did open. For one, there were a lot of food places that never opened. This visit was great like last time but I have a few observations. Roller coasters do not disappoint enthusiasts. Wait times are reasonable for most rides 2. My family loves this park for many reasons: 1. 8 months ago I have been here three times in my life: once when I was four, then again in 2016 and then last weekend. Everyone loved our day in Busch Gardens, we’ll definitely be back.ĤClaire S. My husband with older kids had a blast on all the crazy rides. did some family friendly rides, which were too much for me anyways (I just can’t do any roller coasters). The rides are awesome, me and our youngest kid 9y.o. We also went on Serengeti safari tour and loved it: got to feed the giraffes and see all the animals up close. Mind: you still have to wait in lines to get food in restaurants, so we didn’t even go to a BBQ place that smelled so good, the line was probably more than an hour long there and we didn’t want to waste time. It doesn’t include any snacks or other food vendors. All day dining includes an entrée, a side or desert and a fountain drink in any of 5 main restaurants every hour. These triple the cost of your ticket but are well worth it, if don’t want to spend all the time in lines and have several teenagers in the family who eat a lot like we do. Quick queue passes and all day dining made our day really easy and stress free. It was Monday, December, 3rd, the last day of Christmas break and it wasn’t very crowded. 7 months ago We went to Busch Gardens for a day when it got a bit chilly for beach fun.

Busch gardens quick queue