Park launches pay-per-ride line-skipping option
Knott's Berry Farm has torn a page from the Disneyland and Six Flags playbooks with a new pay-perride option that will let riders skip the line on the most popular roller coasters and dark rides without paying for an all-day Fast Lane pass.
Knott's Berry Farm has quietly rolled out a new pay-per-ride option that charges $7.50 and up per individual ride as part of the Fast Lane front-of-theline program.
The new Single-Use Fast Lane pass option was introduced as part of the recently updated Knott's mobile app.
You have to be in the park to purchase a SingleUse Fast Lane pass. The Knott's mobile app displays the available pay-perride attractions after 2 p.m. each day.
The single-use passes start at $7.50 per ride and the dynamic prices vary by ride, day, time of day and time of year. You can buy as many single-use passes as you want per day. Knott's will limit the number of single-use Fast Lane passes available each day — just like the park does with the traditional all-day Fast Lane pass.
The new Fast Lane payper-ride option is available on eight Knott's rides: Bear-y Tales, Ghost Rider, Hang Time, Jaguar, Pony Express, Silver Bullet, Tim- ber Mountain Log Ride and Xcelerator.
The all-day Knott's Fast Lane pass that costs $74 to $119 covers all those rides plus seven more. The $675 Fast Lane season pass lets you skip the line on one ride per visit.
The first roll-out of the Single-Use Fast Lane passes at Knott's received positive feedback from visitors and employees, according to the latest Cedar Fair Investors Presentation.
In the coming months, Cedar Fair plans to roll out the Single-Use Fast Lane pass option at Carowinds (Friday), Dorney Park (April 12), Kings Island (April 19), Canada's Wonderland (April 20), Cedar Point (May 4) and Schlitterbahn water park (May 18).
Cedar Fair tested the Single-Use Fast Lane passes at Ohio's Cedar Point and Kings Island theme parks, selling the passes at kiosks stationed near ride entrances.
Disneyland charges $16 to $28 for the Individual Lightning Lane pay-perride option on Rise of the Resistance and Radiator Springs Racers, according to Touring Plans. The Disney Genie service debuted in 2021 as a replacement for the retiring FastPass and MaxPass line-cutting options.
Six Flags Magic Mountain launched a Flash Pass Skip-the-Line single-ride option in 2022 on four coasters: West Coast Racers, Twisted Colossus, Full Throttle and Goliath. Flash Pass single-ride prices ranged from $5 to $25 per person and varied per ride and by day when the program was introduced.