It's was fun, but.... we had to leave after just a few hours. I read up online on hershey's website all about how great they were with handling food allergies, my ds has a peanut & tree nut allergy. We get there- we tried 4 different food places & not 1 was prepared to handle his allergy- not one could provide us w/ the menus that list the allergens (online it said inform person taking order, they'll get a manager & provide you w/ the allergen listings, etc)- no one there knew anything I was talking about. One food worker actually said " i don't know if it's safe or not, but i'll sell it to you if you want it"
I asked to speak to a manager, the guy said there's no manager back there, just a bunch of kids....
We left. We tried a Subway stand, finally thinking it'd be ok. Told them his allergies, asked if it was safe to order a sub there (pretty sure it was as we've had subway here many times) the 2 older women working the stand said they had no idea what was in the stuff but said they were pretty sure there bread had nuts in it- I go to leave as I think they're totally whacko now- and the woman calls back to me "ma'am, ma'am- yeah now I remember, the bread has the soy-nut in it! so, yeah, there's nuts in the bread- soy nuts are in the bread." huh? soy nut? soy is now a nut?
"oh, but we're all out of bread anyways but I can get ya a wrap".... ugh.... Needless to say, now my ds is scared to eat at Subway ever again. We finally had to leave the park and found a burger king so ds could eat.
We wanted to get a Santa picture but the line was too long. The posted wait time was like 100+ minutes. We did get to go to the barn and saw the Reindeer though. They were cool looking. The candybar characters were dressed up in winter / christmas clothes - out and about posing for photos. My son liked driving the 2 different kinds of cars around the tracks- I believe one was a race car and the other was like the old time antique cars.
I'm sure we would have had more fun if the whole food thing didn't put a damper on everything. My son is very nervous about eating away from home because of the severity of his allergies, and well...this trip added big time to his fears. All of the other times when he was younger and we went to Hershey, we never ate in the park. We always stayed at the Hotel and went back there for our meals- which the staff was nothing but A+++ top notch, no issues at all. We liked eating outside at their pool area too.
I hope you have alot of fun and a great time! Are you from PA, too? It's only about 2 hours from me, so it's not a bad drive. We did Knoebels park on the 4th of July. That's always a fun trip- and very inexpensive. We usually go a few times over the summer. We were surprised how uncrowded it was on the 4th- we stayed all day- til after 9 pm and had alot of fun.
Thanks for any info / advice / reviews!! 
