Is Knott's Berry Farm worth it?

[Disneyland1084]

Thank you everyone for the great responses. One Diser made a good point and said Knott's isn't the same park I remember at age 9. I'm 45 now. I just wanted to relive the memories. I'm not a roller coaster junkie anymore. It's too soon to know if my son will be one. The Snoopy area sounds fun. I'm not ruling out a visit there during my next trip to So. Ca, but might put it off until I attend Knott's Scary Farm in a few years.

 

[ngl]

Trying to read all the Knott's posts to determine if we should check it out so thought I would post to see if the OP made the visit last year! We live in FL about an hour + from WDW. We are DVC and AP so visit there a lot. Fortunate that we have been to DL and DCA many times as well and plan on going this March for Spring Break in conjunction with college visits for our oldest. Our kids enjoy the thrill rides but always love all that is Disney. Not sure if we should spend a day at Knotts or not. From what I gather, seems similar to a Busch Gardens? Thrill rides, maybe not the best upkeep of the park grounds, some fun rides. Would appreciate any thoughts. We most likely would go on a Sunday if that makes a difference. Thank you in advance!

 

[irlandaise]

Trying to read all the Knott's posts to determine if we should check it out so thought I would post to see if the OP made the visit last year!

From the first posting in this thread: "I'm in the planning phase for a summer 2026 trip." So 'fraid you'll have to wait quite a bit longer for that information.

 

[ngl]

From the first posting in this thread: "I'm in the planning phase for a summer 2026 trip." So 'fraid you'll have to wait quite a bit longer for that information.

Good catch! Sorry, since it was posted in December I think my mind read 2025!

 

[Mike_M]

My family’s tradition back in the 80’s was that we would do a half day at Knotts before our Disney days. It was the warm up park for us.

Once DCA came into being, (and I was the parent instead of the kid), Knott’s fell off the radar for us.

I finally returned to Knott's about 7 years ago and while a lot had changed, it was still pretty great and worth its place as a warm up park.

I agree with the other posters though that it’s thrill ride heavy so depending on if that is your thing or not will really judge the value of it.

 

[TinkAgainU]

Just did Knotts this week (Thanksgiving week). Got a good Season Passholder rate at the hotel by booking months in advance if you can do that. Hotel is very nice and super convenient for parking and a relaxing breakfast. At Knotts Farm the shows are cute, Camp Snoopy is well decorated for the holidays - as is the whole park but not wow, just cute. Lots of live entertainment and shows, food, even hot chocolate and hot spiced wine (low alcohol lol). Some of the shows - Ice Show, Main Stage Show, Christmas Carol (40 min and a bit intense for kids) were nice. Rides are understaffed so wait times were not good. If Disney is not in the budget, do Knotts, since an annual pass (with discounts for food) is about the same price or less than one day at Disney. But no, it's not Disney, and a bit smaller than California Adventure. Knotts opens at 10am most days, so you can sleep in and still rope drop lol.

While on "alternate" Disneyland Parks, if you have littles, hit ADVENTURE CITY (5 miles from Disneyland) in the morning (by afternoon it's too Filled with large low budget families), it's a super cute, clean, tiny park with such easy access compared to parking at Disney or Knotts! Starbucks and inexpensive fast food onsite. I'd say geared to 2 year old to 5 year old range but my older kids enjoyed it since I mostly let them run around on their own while (two together) while I took the 4 year old on everything. He is overwhelmed by Disney so this actually works great for him. Petting zoo, trains, and small size rides he loved.

 

[pennym]

What I really love about Knotts is the beautiful flower arrangements all through Ghost town. They do beautiful fresh flowers! This time of year, the little Marketplace booths are cute, and I find the shopping better and much more reasonably priced than Disney. However, if possible you need to go on a less packed day, because rides are so poorly managed that wait times are phenomenal. Get Fast Lane if possible, and even then you could have very long waits, as there is little monitoring of that either. I think it's worth a visit for the decor, shopping, food and unlike Disney currently, plenty of live entertainment.

 

[China Expat]

Just did Knotts this week (Thanksgiving week). Got a good Season Passholder rate at the hotel by booking months in advance if you can do that. Hotel is very nice and super convenient for parking and a relaxing breakfast. At Knotts Farm the shows are cute, Camp Snoopy is well decorated for the holidays - as is the whole park but not wow, just cute. Lots of live entertainment and shows, food, even hot chocolate and hot spiced wine (low alcohol lol). Some of the shows - Ice Show, Main Stage Show, Christmas Carol (40 min and a bit intense for kids) were nice. Rides are understaffed so wait times were not good. If Disney is not in the budget, do Knotts, since an annual pass (with discounts for food) is about the same price or less than one day at Disney. But no, it's not Disney, and a bit smaller than California Adventure. Knotts opens at 10am most days, so you can sleep in and still rope drop lol.

While on "alternate" Disneyland Parks, if you have littles, hit ADVENTURE CITY (5 miles from Disneyland) in the morning (by afternoon it's too Filled with large low budget families), it's a super cute, clean, tiny park with such easy access compared to parking at Disney or Knotts! Starbucks and inexpensive fast food onsite. I'd say geared to 2 year old to 5 year old range but my older kids enjoyed it since I mostly let them run around on their own while (two together) while I took the 4 year old on everything. He is overwhelmed by Disney so this actually works great for him. Petting zoo, trains, and small size rides he loved.

My son loved going to Adventure City in the 90s!

 

[JerrodDragon89]

I went to Knotts Merry Farm last weekend and saw all Major shows besides the Tree lightening (this was only because one of the Snoopy on Ice's didn't happen...and so my schedule was messed up and missed the Tree lighting)

All the Major Holiday shows they do are great to amazing

The only issue can be Capacity, the shows can fill up and the Snoopy show I waited over an hour for...which its just a lot when your used to being able to show up 20 mins or less for say Aladdin at DCA or heck even WOC or the fireworks

I will say all the shows big or small were very festive and I think if your looking for a park to see shows in, this is a great one if Disneyland can't work out

If your looking for a park through where you can get on rides and see shows with a little more easy, Universal studios. If you rope drop Universal studios you can do most if not all shows and rides in a day at USH and unless you get unlucky many rides wont be over 60 mins. Not saying it can't happen but mostly lines at USH last weekend went to 60 mins match while at Knotts Ghost ride is always 2 hours, lol