Holiday in the Park at Six Flags Over Texas

I really don’t understand how this place has such a horrible rating. The set up is awsome and you can have a lot of fun here just walking around seeing all the decorations and shows.
Normally they open at 4, but on weekends they open at 2. If there is traffice there are back ways to get into the park. I came here with my 4 year old and had a great time. We have season passes so it is also pretty affordable.

So, yeah. I went thru all of Jenn’s reviews and made of list of all the reviews I never wrote. Yeah, I know. I’m a slacker. This is one of those reviews.
Well, I was the person in the passenger seat of the 2.5 hours worth of traffic. The last 2 hours of which where just from the exit off the freeway to the gate. The friends we were meeting were in another car about 3 or 4 cars behind us. There were txt messages flying back and forth complaining about the losers who thought that they were too good to sit in traffic and tried to force their way in.
Well, you should have seen how fast these late20-​early30 somethings were txting when one particular jackass decided to make a right turn out of the middle lane on a red light and the RedLight cameras started flashing. That was the only reason I even bothered with this review because this trip wasn’t worth 1 star.
The hot chocolate was decent. But standing around waiting for everyone else to ride some roller coaster and standing in line for 45 minutes to inhale a funnel cake while walking to the car just isn’t my idea of a fun time.
If we go again this year, we need to be there early and hopefully some of the rides that I will ride, like the train, merry go round and old-​timey cars will be working.

I was REALLY excited about going to Holiday in the Park. I’ve wanted to go to 6 flags since I moved here and never got time so when I saw a Holiday event AT NIGHT with LIGHTS and RIDES I was thrilled. It couldn’t get better! But wait! Hot Chocolate? Really? I’m SO there. The weekend my friends and I planned to go to HITP also coincided with my parents first visit to Dallas and I convinced them that HITP was the place to be so they came along too.
We left my place in North Dallas at 3:30 and got to the gates (and I’m not even kidding you here) at 6:00 pm. 2.5 hours of traffic to get to 6 flags. The only thing that didn’t suck about that was seeing the jerks that were trying to cut me off (and cheat the line) get caught by the red light camera when I wouldn’t let them in and they decided to go the other way.
We finally arrive (and pay the $ 20 for preferred parking) and rush in to the gates. The season pass processing center was amazingly quick to process my pass and take my picture, although their self entry computer system was not functioning and wasted another 10 precious minutes of my life.
So I’m there! Finally! We start walking through the crazy crowded sidewalks. We arrive at Judge Roy Scream and I’m psyched. A coaster — FINALLY! There were about 9600 screaming children in ride for this line — which if you’ve been required walking through a tunnel to get to it. Screaming kids + Tunnel = Torture. While enduring the screaming child line torture we look around the park and realize this MAY be the only coaster open since all the rest are dark and we don’t see them running. Anyway — 30ish minutes later I’ve riden my 1^st ride. Woohoo!
My peeps decide they’re hungry so we venture to a food stand. 45 minutes later my friends have food and I’ve got an apple cider (made of POWDERED apple cider mix and water — gross). We eat (or drink) and then decide to head to the train to go to the other side of the park. We’re waiting in what appears to be another 30 min wait for the train when we realize its almost 8:30. My parents need to be home at a semi reasonable hour and given the way things have been going (and the fear of the traffic being as bad on the way home as it was on the way there) we decide we better start heading out. One last stop for a funnel cake on the way out yielded us another 45ish or more minute wait and then we were finally free.
As we were departing we saw the Titan was running, but by this point I’d had enough HITP for one year so we kept on to the car. I’ll admit this experience might have been better had the traffic been less horrendous and I actually had time to see the other rides, lights, and snow hill, but alas I did not. Maybe next year I’ll go at noon and tailgate in the parking lot to avoid the traffic and beat some of the crowds.