Cedar Point: New Area, Restaurants, and Festival

Greetings readers!!!!

So today I bring news out of Cedar Point with updates on dining and a festival plan.  I have made a nice little outline for everyone to read; it was actually how I wrote it up and it just makes sense to write it up that way.

So I'll start with the new area:

I grabbed this from Cedar Point's website

Forbidden Frontier on Adventure Island

• Replacing Dinosaurs Alive
• Entrance is through former Shoot the Rapids station
• Unlock puzzles and physical challenges
• Interact with characters
• Multiple different endings depending on what secrets are discovered

Honestly it sounds like an outdoor escape room to me with the puzzles and challenges and secrets.  Usually things like this don't interest me, but I might give this shot considering there are multiple endings and ways to figure things out.

Next up is the two new restaurants:

Cropped from Cedar Point website

BackBeatQue

• Located at the previous site of the Witches Wheel; near the Magnum XL-200 park entrance.
• Smokehouse Barbecue
• Live Music
• Outdoor Dining Space
• All food is made from scratch
• Will have 2 or 3 smokers for meat

Carrie is excited for this since she LOVES barbecue while I'm okay with it.  Not a huge fan, but that's mostly because I don't like messy food (I'm weird like that).  Although if majority wins we'll absolutely try it out.

Cropped from Cedar Point website

Hugo's Italian Kitchen

• Replacing Midway Market
• Traditional Italian fare and desserts
• Located next to Raptor
• Gas-grilled and Open flamed brick pizza oven
• Hand made pasta

Since Carrie and I are both Italian this one sounds pretty awesome although I was a fan of the Midway Market and am sad to see it go, but it's nice that CP is updating it's dining options.  Also, both of these restaurants will be on Cedar Point's Dining Plan.

Finally the festival:

Cropped from Cedar Point website

Frontier Festival

• Brew & BBQ will be incorporated into this new festival
• Old west type street festival
• Featuring local artisans
• Will have kid's crafts and games
• Continuous live entertainment
• Food and drink outside of the Brew & BBQ food
• Extra fee for food and drink cards
• Open daily on June 7th to 30th from 4pm to 10pm

We are SUPER excited about this because Carrie and I killed the food and different drinks last year and greatly enjoyed the Brew & BBQ fest that we're both excited to see how Cedar Point is going to update this.

 

I'm honestly glad to see Cedar Point updating and trying new things because I feel like for the last couple of years they seem to have been riding on their name and being the "Roller Coast" blah blah blah.  Since we are a whole 3 hours away from Sandusky everyone can rest assured that ISI will be checking it again this year.

Best wishes ISI readers!!  

HersheyPark- New for 2014

HersheyPark, who has been rather quiet on the topic of the 2014 season has finally spoken up. It looks like the park will be getting three new ride additions and two new food options in the upcoming season!

  Coming to "The Hollow" we'll see the addition of a Tea Cups and Happy Swing family rides.  Both appear to be fairly stock options but it is unknown right now if they'll receive a special "Hersheys" themed make-over.

 A 'Family Coaster' which appears to be an off-the-shelf model will be making it way into "Music Box Way" allowing younger riders to enjoy some thrills. Again, no real information about this ride but it appears to be a stock kiddie coaster.

 Also coming in the 2014 season, Chickie & Petes (A Philadelphia Tradition) as well as a new Frozen Yogurt stand.  No information yet about the location of these two new food options as they haven't yet been added to the parks website.

Universal Orlando Resort Announcement- CityWalk Updates and Additions!

Today's Big Announcement at Universal Orlando- CityWalk Updates and New Additions

Today at 11am Universal began a massive press conference to release information about their new and re-made CityWalk project for the 2014 season. Much of this construction is already underway at the Orlando resort property but now we know what they are!