Valencia Things to Do

This picture dates me, but I just had to share the fact that I had been enjoying this park since I was a official teenager. Of course it has grown and changed considerably since my younger years, but keeps amazing me with ever new ride that comes along. My son now enjoys this park since he attends summer fun camp. It has lots of entertainment for the whole family. It has tons of parking and a little park with shades tress and picnic tables located within the parking lot. Lots of local fast food establishments or nice family restaurants. Many hotels are located not far also.

Although the web offers much information, it would best to call to check on changes of park times and when the park is open or closed. Also to find out in advance of what rides are working or down for repair

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Children Under 48" $29.99
Kids 2 & Under FREE
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General Parking $15.00
Valet Parking (General vehicles) $30.00
Oversized Vehicle Parking
(RV, Trailer, Bus, etc.) $20.00
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A very unique feature this mall has that most don’t it has a authentic two level carrousel indoors. It is like the centerpiece of the mall. My sons wanted to ride this so bad and did three times. It was a two token ride, which was $2.00. They enjoyed it, even my 12 year old.

This place is hard to recommend, but loads of people go.

First, the good; the roller coasters are good to very good. IF they're running and IF the lines are tolerable. Go right when the park opens if you want to ride X (and Tatsu when it opens.) The later you get to the park, the longer the line is, and the line moves slow. Otherwise, the other coasters are all pretty good. Goliath was our favorite coaster; big and fast, not much of a waiting line. We liked Superman a lot, and the line for this was short and moves really quickly. Colossus is a really good wood coaster, again not much of a line. Batman coaster; get in the front row line; its worth it.

Now the bad; these people don't know how to run a theme park. They're maybe understaffed and the staff isn't really helpful. The $15 parking area is halfway around the park from the entrance. Lines move slowly, they don't run more than one set of cars on most coasters. And you're on your own when you get through the line to the ride. Most theme parks have a staff member at the entrance to direct people to waiting lines, or at least have lines marked and easy to see. At Magic Mountain, you get into the loading area and try to decipher what the numerous railings mean and they don't mean much at all! They should take down all the railings except the ones to enter the cars and put a person at the entrance!!! And when your coaster is getting pulled up to the top and you look around, you can see piles of scrap, vacant areas that collect trash, and all other undesirable sights that any other theme park keeps hidden. Then there's the closed rides. We were there 2 days and couldn't ride Deja Vu or Psyclone because they were closed both days, as were 2 of the smaller coasters and the tall sight-seeing tower. Also Ninja was closed down the 2nd day.

We live halfway across the country, love coasters and came away shaking our heads. It was cheaper to buy season passes than daily tickets, but we won't even think about using them again. We won't be back.

The latest ride when we where
there was Goliath, this coaster has a 61° first drop into a 120 foot-long (36.57 metres)
underground tunnel the speeds goes up to 85 mph (136.85 kilometers) and a maximum hight
of 255 feet (77.85 meters). We can tell you that first drop in the tunnel is awesome,
just like the rest of the ride. As you can see on the picture the first
drop is really big just look at how small the cars look.

From 11.00-13.00 Clint and Natasha chose more benign (and cooler) water rides whilst I tackled the Viper straight away as it was the most thrilling roller coaster in the park. Ironically the Golden Grahams cereal company sponsored the ride and the queues proved it. The theme must be, "have your breakfast and lose it too." In these interminable queues aggravated by the 104° (40°C) heat, I met the nicest group of young Asian students named Stephanie, Andy, Tran, Tiffany, and Chen. They were a group of 5 and needed a sixth to even out the lot- they appointed me. As we were queuing up, we noted how smart it was to strategically place frozen lemonade vendors to charge confiscatory prices for liquid relief. Stephanie and I paired up to ride the Viper as did Chen and Andy, Tiffany and Tran. The Viper features a 188 ft. (57 m.) drop, 3 vertical loops, a double-barrel boomerang, and a classic corkscrew at speeds of up to 70 mph (103 km. per hour). I absolutely loved the Viper. It was the highest roller coaster I have ever ridden. Although it wasn't the fastest, it was fast enough for me. The g-forces you get in the process of passing through the 7 inversions was phenomenal!

What turned out to be the final ride on our agenda was the Tidal Wave, a heart pounding plunge over a 49 ft. (15 m.) waterfall- a carbon copy of Diamond Falls at King's Dominion. We sure enough needed something that wet, a 20 ft. (6 m.), 50.000 cubic ft. (15.000 cubic meter) wall of water. It should be noted that the Best Western hotel chain sponsored the ride. Clint, ever the lawyer, is not sure that was such a good idea as it may imply that Best Western hotel rooms have faulty plumbing.

Because Clint was intrigued with the Colossus, another wooden roller coaster, he wanted to make a go of the Psychlone (that's really how they spell it). This wooden coaster has a 95 ft. (29 m.) drop angled at 53° with 10 more steep hills and 5 high speed banked turns. I was so tired at that point that I fell asleep on it.

The first thing out of the chute after lunch was the Jet Stream, a refreshing and scenic adventure with a splashy 56 ft. (17 m.) finale. The Jet Stream and other water rides were just what the doctor ordered for such a hot day.