~Anyone been to Six Flags America near Baltimore D.C.???

[loveysbydesign]

I see they have a small Thomas the Train area for little ones. There are alos rides my older kids would ride and a waterpark. We have Buy 1 adult get 1 child free coupons from the Post Pebbles cereal boxes.
We were thinking of going to the Six Flags in NJ but then I saw the America one in Baltimore/D.C. one ...is it worth a 3 hour drive from the Allentown area???
I'm a little freaked out by tripadvisor reviews saying that the area the park is in is not the safest.

 

[LukenDC]

I visited Six Flags America twice and was not impressed. The park was dirty and the landscaping needed serious work. There were many rowdy teenagers. The final straw was when my safety harness partially failed on an upside down rollercoaster. Thankfully the belt that buckles into the harness as an additional safety measure held it in place. I thought that perhaps I had imagined it---after all, things like that are not supposed to happen---but when the coaster returned to the station a crying child and his irate father claimed that their harness had failed too.

I will not be returning to Six Flags.

 

[wvjules]

I visited Six Flags America twice and was not impressed. The park was dirty and the landscaping needed serious work. There were many rowdy teenagers. The final straw was when my safety harness partially failed on an upside down rollercoaster. Thankfully the belt that buckles into the harness as an additional safety measure held it in place. I thought that perhaps I had imagined it---after all, things like that are not supposed to happen---but when the coaster returned to the station a crying child and his irate father claimed that their harness had failed too.

I will not be returning to Six Flags.

 

[ndelaware]

I went there with my daughters' chorus for a choral competition two years ago.

I wouldn't go back. It was like a run down and dirty Hershey Park. Of course we haven't been to Six Flags in NJ in ten years so that maybe just as bad.

And we were on a bus so I wasn't driving, but it seemed much closer to DC than to Baltimore.

 

[MomNeedsVacay]

its kind of grungy... fine if you're 15 years old... but too trashy to take a family and not worth the drive

 

[budmonster]

I use to live in Baltimore and went there when it first opened and was known as Wild World. I stopped going there when they installed metal detectors at the entrance.

 

[wdwmom0f3]

I visited Six Flags America twice and was not impressed. The park was dirty and the landscaping needed serious work. There were many rowdy teenagers. The final straw was when my safety harness partially failed on an upside down rollercoaster. Thankfully the belt that buckles into the harness as an additional safety measure held it in place. I thought that perhaps I had imagined it---after all, things like that are not supposed to happen---but when the coaster returned to the station a crying child and his irate father claimed that their harness had failed too.

I will not be returning to Six Flags.

I guess we will not be doing that park this summer!

 

[loveysbydesign]

egads...I guess we won't be going to it! I wonder if the one in NJ or at Lake George in Ny is any better?

 

[Christine]

The main problem with this park is that it is located in one of the more problematic suburbs right outside of Washington, DC. High crime rate and fairly congested--not the sort of thing you imagine when you think of where a theme park is situated. It just always seemed to be a weird place for a theme park. I remember back in the 70s, it started out as a drive through wildlife preserve. The area it was located was much more rural back then and so it was okay, I guess. It then changed to Wild World and was more of a water park. It's just never had a good rep. I think people hoped that the Six Flags name would spruce it up and, believe it or not, it has to some extent, but not that much.

My son has gone there for two band trips. We live about 45 minutes from there so it is an easy school trip locally. The kids enjoy it there but even my son says the place is a bit off.