Promo Code: Six Flags
http://www.sixflags.com/national/tickets/promocode.aspx?promo_code=twitter

Go to the above page, select your park, and a pop-up window will come up with the promotion (so have pop-up blocker turned off!). $10 tickets into the SF park of your choice. It was a special they were promoting on SF's official Twitter feed. Offer is only available until 4 pm EST today (Thursday June 11th).

This is a great deal, but I can't figure out how to turn of the pop-up blocker.

Yikes talk about giving away the gate.

  I wish I would have read this the other day! I needed to buy 6 for June 29th!  

They must be seeing some positives coming from these deep discounts.  I wonder if it's increasing their per cap spending by a wide enough margin?

It will be interesting to see what direction they head in coming out of bankruptcy.

The difference with Freestyle is the style of market.

FMP is in a market that sees people staying at the beach most of the day and then wanting to do something at night. The thing about this is, these people have been doing that for so long that it is hard to change their "routine" so you cannot expect them to stop doing that now and go to the park for the whole day.

SO what FMP is doing is rather genius -- giving the people that DO decide to spend the whole day a deeper discount then those who wait until later on in the day.  While that sounds absurb, it is actually working.  I talked to the Marketing director out at FMP on Monday and since the promotion has started attendance has gone up, as has in park spending.

The thing a lot of people do not realize about FMP is that it has very little debt.  When Freestyle organization bought the park, it was for a mere fraction of what Hard Rock Holdings had spent.  Thus they are pretty much out of debt already from the initial purchase so they can get do the discounts to "re-wire" people to spend the whole day at the park

The difference with Freestyle is the style of market.

FMP is in a market that sees people staying at the beach most of the day and then wanting to do something at night. The thing about this is, these people have been doing that for so long that it is hard to change their "routine" so you cannot expect them to stop doing that now and go to the park for the whole day.

SO what FMP is doing is rather genius -- giving the people that DO decide to spend the whole day a deeper discount then those who wait until later on in the day.  While that sounds absurb, it is actually working.  I talked to the Marketing director out at FMP on Monday and since the promotion has started attendance has gone up, as has in park spending.

The thing a lot of people do not realize about FMP is that it has very little debt.  When Freestyle organization bought the park, it was for a mere fraction of what Hard Rock Holdings had spent.  Thus they are pretty much out of debt already from the initial purchase so they can get do the discounts to "re-wire" people to spend the whole day at the park

I'm just bringing this up for the sake of argument.  I understand what you're saying and why Freestyle is doing what they're doing but I wonder what it will do to them long term.

If they take away the discount next year are they back to square one with regards to day time operations, meaning lack of peeps.  If they keep it does the increase in per cap spending do enough to offset what they lose at the gate.  An increase in attendance sounds good but if it's not a profitable increase then it's a stagnant business model with no room to grow.  Would taking the discount away cause a public uproar that could hurt the bottom line?

Not having debt is nice and all but minimal profit isn't going to allow them to do much in future.

Or their model could me working and I just wasted key strokes.

Well we will soon see as the special offer ends this weekend at FMP

Parking is $7 at FMP.
The food was very reasonably priced too.

I just really enjoyed the park and really wished it was closer to Missouri