Some hotel guests were in the park for early ride time when officials made the decision to close the park. Hotel guests at the Hotel Breakers, Sandcastle Suites and Lighthhouse Point later were sent away as officials moved to close the hotels due to a lack of water supply. Guests are asked to contact the Cedar Point reservation office at 419-627-2106 to cancel or reschedule their reservations.
The Castaway Bay Indoor Waterpark Resort and Breakers Express remain open, as their water supply is located before the break in the main.
Cedar Point has announced that the park and affected hotels will remain closed Sunday, June 8, as repairs continue and the required water system flushing and testing follow. The park said that it intends to reopen on Monday.
The closure comes on what would have been a highly popular weekend, with excellent weather (finally!) in northern Ohio. Theme Park Insider Cedar Point correspondent Jim Koehl emailed: "This weekend here is absolutely gorgeous, and everybody I talked to was going to Cedar Point today. Not any more."
"From a very reliable source, the hotels won't open until Monday afternoon at the earliest, and that is if the health dept. gives the OK. boil warnings, etc. Nobody, not even the maintenance supervisors, are allowed on site, only fire dept. personnel and health dept. at least in the hotels. And everything was booked solid for this weekend. There was a terrible traffic jam this morning trying to get out of the park. They lost a huge amount of money. It sounds like Cedar Point is trying to do the best they can with a terrible situation, refunding money, honoring tickets later, etc. but some people still want to punch the moose! Most people, at least those on social media, are being understanding that this is an unforeseeable situation and Cedar Point is dong the best they can."
Cedar Point has said that not only will tickets for today be honored at the park on dates later this season, but Cedar Point tickets can be used this weekend at Wildwater Kingdom or Kings Island as well.
Were you affected by the closures at Cedar Point this weekend? Let us know in the comments.
Update: Here's a video from some fans who were there:
Cedar Point has (reportedly)announced that tickets are being honored at Wild Water Kingdom (their water park that is all that's left of Geauga Lake in Aurora, Ohio), and at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio (about 4 1/2 hours away). I don't know if they will honor them only today or throughout the summer.
This is a really changing situation and I'll find out when I can (when I'm not mowing the lawn today).
As for the water main issue... I wonder if the city or insurance will recoup some of CP's losses for the day. I am guessing upwards of 20k people would have been spending money in the park today....
Not being able to take a shower, flush the toilet, or get a drink of water out of the faucet in your hotel room is not a disaster. They've been without water for a day, so it's not a health and safety crisis either. Furthermore, we all know that the theme park is well stocked with bottled water. If a guest were in dire need of water there is plenty to be had.
Please give it a rest! It's valid news to report that Cedar Point is closed on a Saturday, but let's not portray this situation as something that it is not.
We had plans to visit Put-in-Bay today anyway, so we just left the hotel and park around 10:00AM. There was the usual line of cars heading into the park up the Causeway but we had a feeling that the day might not play out well for them.
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