Six Flags Over Texas

I’ve been to Six Flags a milllion times. I used to work there. My mom used to work there. I know that park like the back of my hand. I like it less and less each year, but I’m pretty sure that’s partly because I’m getting older.
We old farts, us.
We have membership passes so it’s easier to go for just a couple hours in an evening and it’s no big deal. I do wish the flash pass worked like Disney where it doesn’t cost anything and you still wait, but elsewhere.
I like the food here, and it won’t do any good to lament the cost since every amusement park is expensive. I’m grateful we can pay monthly with the membership so it doesn’t seem so tragic.
The rides are fun, I like the coasters best. Plenty of rides for young kids as well.
I appreciate the disability passes a lot, since my kids are on the autism spectrum and it helps to let them wait outside of the line. I just wish the employees were better versed in the policies and trained on how to deal with special needs kids… I’ve run into some indifferent and/​or straight up rude workers when I presented them with my son’s disability pass.
My family loves going to Fright Fest. Arania’s Nightmare has been my fave show for years.
It’s a good park for small kids and thrill riders. Would be nice to have a cleaner, more organized atmosphere like Universal or Disney. I still enjoy going anyway, but never on a Saturday or a holiday… way too crowded.

Fell for advertising to get season passes. First day here. First ride temporarily closed after standing in line 30 mins. App says most of good rides are closed for season or temporarily closed. Don’t fall for this gimmick.

Really disappointed after our third trip to Six Flags over Texas and deeply regret getting season passes. First trip was last summer — long lines, which I can accept, but two of the rides we waited in line for over 90 minutes each broke down. Second trip was during Halloween season — again, Batman breaks down after waiting over an hour. Tonight, in line for almost two hours for the Justice League ride and it breaks down.
I cannot recommend this park to anyone because they clearly do not know how to manage maintenance of their attractions. Fail.

If you go twice in a year, but the season pass and you’ll save money. My wife and I bought the season pass and a meal pass for the next year. We will no longer have to pay to park, enter, each lunch, dinner, snacks, or drinks. Also, if we lose our cup, we get a new one for free. It’s nice to be able to go for just a few hours when we want to now and we don feel like we have to kill ourselves by staying from open to close. Stop at guest services when you add things to your passes. We waited in a line for food but the couldn’t accept the card.

The rides are fun. That’s the only positive. Now for the negatives.
Prices for tickets were increased. Now a single day ticket costs what a season pass cost not long ago ($ 60)
The lines to even get inside the park are ridiculously long.
Lines for popular rides are routinely on a 2 hour wait. It’s not uncommon to only ride 3 major attractions in an entire day due to lines
I expect amusement park food prices to be high but $ 10 for a small kids Pb&j sand which?
One of the biggest negatives are the RESTROOMS! It appears that the restrooms have not been remodeled/​updated in 30 years. They are old and crazy filthy. My worst nightmare is one of my young children needing to use one of those disgusting toilets. They have a level of filth that can’t be cleaned. Dried feces smeared on toilet seats, walls, floors, urine everywhere. Seriously, I would rather leave the park and go home then have my kids sit on those toilets.

Absolutely fantastic customer service. Every person (of tons and tons today) that was employed that we encountered went above and beyond and was incredibly welcoming and friendly! Exceptional job!!! Big, huge props esp to the SantaLand crew for everything!!! Thank you so much!!! :)

The older I get the less fun sixflags is for me. The lines are usually so long that you can’t really enjoy all the rides unless you are there all day.
Luckily, since I’ve lived here all my life I’ve enjoyed every ride probably more than once. In the summer the heat is awful so you might want to go as the sun is going down. And hey, take some food to picnic with because the prices are ridiculous. $ 3 for a drink out of the soda machine and I forgot how much the food is but it’s even more ridiculous. Basically $ 12 per person! Definitely wear appropriate shoes as well if you don’t want to end up with blisters and trust me all the games are rigged!
Now the rides are definitely great! And you can have so much fun with your family just make sure you avoid the problems listed above!

Never again.
We got a pretty decent discount on tickets and it still wasn’t worth it.
$ 43 dollars for tickets. $ 35 to park. And we rode exactly 2 rides, admittedly we left early because we didn’t see any point in getting in line for a 3^rd like when the park closed in an hour and a half.
From exiting the freeway to park– 1 hour wait.
From parking to entrance 1 hour wait.
1 ½ hour wait on each ride= 2 rides.
Operators were sending half full cars down while the lines are backing up. Half the big rides were closed. Park seemed very under staffed.
The park was only open from 2pm to 10pm– which seems ridiculous given that you’re paying so much and can only get on 2 rides a night.
The cashier at the funnel cake joint didn’t like the «statement» my sweatshirt made and proceeded to lecture me and explain why he hates society.
Horrible experience.

Two stars is generous and based mainly on the rides… the rides are pretty great. Most of the employees are entitled little punks who act like they’re being bothered by having to serve you. I understand it’s a sucky job but nobody is forcing anybody to work there. We had a couple of really good experiences with customer service there though, the lady that helped us upgrade our passes to season passes was very nice and the lady taking our order for lunch was cool too.
The place is kind of dirty and seems a little old and tired. It was awesome when I was a kid.

Six Flags sucks. This whole new introduction of the fast pass is pretty bull shit. If you have $ 100 to spend, go ahead and cut in front of everybody in line. Because if you have money, you are more important. I get it. I get it. But in my mind, you aren’t.
So this makes middle classers like me wait longer in line. For the Justice League ride, I waited 1 hr to get to the front of the line that allows you to get in line inside. What happens? I wait another 30 minutes at the front of this line and watch endless amounts of fast passers go in.
The f is this six flags. Really? I paid for a combined six flags/​whatever your waterpark is called to ride the line ride. It’s beyond frustrating.
My childhood nostalgia got bashed. Bashed hardcore. Thanks Bug Bunny. You corporate chimp.

Poor customer service, high prices, filthy bathrooms, and staffed by employees who may be completing a community service sentence. We went on Columbus day and it was not a good experience. First, even with pre-​purchased tickets, there was a 30 minute line @ the ‘alternate’ gate. The finger print, ticket scan devices are the slowest most useless, high delay start to a day.
The day we went, it was hot, so having anything to drink was a must. The majority of shops and stores were closed, so those that were open had ridiculous long lines. After waiting 40 minutes in a line to buy an over priced drink, the girl at the register has an attitude when stating that one of the drink machines isn’t working and continues to chat with her Co-​worker.
The lines for rides at the park are expected; Long and un-​supervised. Lots of line jumping teens who needed an ass beating and seem surprised by being told they can’t pass our spot in line. The «call if you see someone line jumping» phone number
is unanswered.
The park is based purely around profit and not a positive experience. Don’t expect a Disney experience here. Think of it more like an immobile carnival. The only reason for 2 stars is that the kids had fun.

My fiancé came to Six Flags for an adult/​big kid-​filled weekend and had a blast! Yes, it’s expensive, but what them park isn’t? I’d also recommend getting the Flash Pass on a weekend. We got the middle level for an additional $ 65 per person, and that level doesn’t work on the Texas Giant or the new Justice League ride, but we just went straight to those first and waited about 30 minutes in line for each, then on to rides where we could use the flash pass. It probably saved us a couple hours of waiting in line so we definitely got some extra rides in.
Favorite ride was Mr. Freeze. I hadn’t been to Six Flags in years, and was a bit of scardey cat when I was young, so this was my first time riding it and my oblivious self had no idea what to expect and thought the whole thing was inside. It was a fun surprise!

This is not the Six Flags that I remember, its now the land where the stupid and greedy run free.
Apparently selling a ticket and paying someone to take that ticket was far too easy so they had spend millions on useless scanning machines that they pay trained apes to watch you with a blank look as you attempt to scan your own ticket It took 45 minutes to move through a line that should have been 10. I wonder how much ticket prices were raised to buy this crappy technology? This was just getting in the door…
Inside the park, the rides were great and the park was clean. The prices for EVERYTHING are abhorent, but I guess that is to be expected in a modern theme park.
My son wanted to ride the gocarts before we left and man was that a joke. They charged $ 10 to ride (really lame after you’ve already dropped $ 400) but $ 20 later we were off the drive the gocarts. There was no line so we got into the carts quickly, but then the clownery started. The doofas employees seemed to be on some weird power trip with one another. We set in the carts for close to 20 minutes while I can only guess they took a break. Once our wait was over they let the slow double cars go first to make sure they were in the way of the faster single cars, we were able to get in a WHOLE 5 LAPS, but unfortunately not a single lap at full speed (which is slow) because the super clods enjoyed playing with the speed control. What a complete waste of $ 20. However in Six Flags defense, a manager Sabastian took care of the issue for us, so ultimately we only wasted time.

I’m a big amusement park fan, but for some reason it took me over two years of living in the DFW area before I finally got to try Six Flags Over Texas. My parents and I went on a Monday in August to celebrate my birthday, and I gotta say, it was pretty great.
Yes, the lines are long (sometimes really long) but if you’re not willing to wait an hour for a thirty second ride, you can pay twice the price of your ticket and get the Flash Pass. Personally, I like the waiting. The anticipation is exciting. It gives you time to have deep philosophical conversations with other bored people waiting around you. Or at least plenty of time to stand on your tiptoes and catch a glimpse of the girl who fainted getting off the Superman Tower of Power.
The website says no outside food or drink, but we brought water bottles in and no one stopped us. In fact, every place with a soda fountain refilled our water bottles for free, any time we asked. All available food is terrible, overpriced amusement park food, but if you eat at Primo’s Pizzeria in the France section of the park you can get a giant slice of mediocre cheese pizza and a huge not-​too-​terrible garden salad for $ 9.99. And unlike trying to eat at the All American Café, there’s no line at Primo’s.
Favorite rides include Titan, Mr. Freeze Reverse Blast, New Texas Giant, and Superman Tower of Power. My mom, who hates rollercoasters and only came to the park because she’s awesome and wanted to humor me on my birthday, actually had a great time on the Roaring Rapids ride (perfect for a hot summer day) and the El Aserradero log flume ride. The view from the Oil Derrick observation deck can’t be beat.
Thanks, Six Flags, for making my birthday memorable :)

Again, it would be good if Unilocal incorporated a half star option for more dramatic effect.
Six Flags. Time would’ve been better spent punching myself in the groin, or thereabouts.
Showed up around noon, it’s 5:30 PM and we’ve been on two rides.
Hell, we tried to kill our pain will multiple beers at La Famiglia (one of a couple of fenced in game preserves for a post-​prohibition beer) and 45: min later at the cash register we aborted the mission…“sorry no Bud Light I’ll have to go out back and find some…” says the boat anchor/​log jam of a psuedo pizza purveyor. Heck, the entire store was caught in a time warp.
Please Mr & Mrs Six Flags, let me blow another $ 70 on beer at your park, but your employees are so slow and deliberately incompetent that I can’t even do that.
Ok, last straw was 1.5 hrs in line to get on Aqua dude after being told Battle for Metropolis was… closed for the day.
Seriously? The entire day!?! YGBSM.
However, I blame myself for being optimistic that a theme park could be well run enough to make a summer day’s visit at least – well at least not so bad that we will walk out four hours before the clock expired.
I’m a local, and Six Flags Over Texas, you’re jamming me. We’re out of here.
Wait! Walking by Battle for Metropolis… is now open… Maybe we should stay… Not.

Solid southern hospitality and terrific Lone Star thrills.
Six Flags’ original park is easily one of – if not THE – best in the operating chain. Employees were polite and professional, ride operations were surprisingly good, and there was juuuuust enough shade to keep us from roasting in the unforgiving Texas heat.
To start with, SFOT boasts an impressive lineup of thill rides: Titan, The New Texas Giant (which is SO different than the rickety old version), Mr Freeze, the Texas SkyScreamer, Justice League Battle, and others. There’s a Bugs Bunny land for kid’s rides and the obligatory ‘Gotham’ area, but most other zones are based on Texas history.
For instance, the La Vibora bobsled coaster is located in the area dubbed ‘Mexico & Spain’ (which hilariously features a spinning ride modeled to look like a giant sombrero #notracist). The ‘Boomtown’ area includes the world’s first mine train coaster and the park’s railroad attraction. In fact, the train locomotives are oil-​burning and steam-​powered, dating back to SFOT’s inaugural 1961 season. The train engineers take pride in maintaining a ride that has remained virtually unchanged since it opened more than 5 decades ago. Kudos to them!
Twice during our visit did things break down, once while waiting in line for Runaway Mountain and once for Justice League, but they were back up and running again in no time. The ride crew for Titan was especially good, and the dispatch team reminded me of the ‘Raptor Squad’ from Cedar Point who are known for their candor (or should I say condor?) and efficiency. Other personnel in gift shops, etc, were exceedingly friendly and appreciative of park guests.
Those who know me understand how much I abhor eating inside a Six Flags. Often times I would rather mash my genitals with a bowling pin than subject myself to the insane pricing and low-​grade quality of SF park food. Alas, my dad and I were hungry so we found ourselves inside a fantastically air conditioned eatery where he got the chicken strip basket and I, the pizza combo. He got fries with his and I got an apple, which was a nice change of pace. The pizza was what you’d expect from a theme park, which is to say, closer to cardboard with cheese than actual pizza. BUT they had a huge redeeming factor in serving ice cold beer ($ 6 for a pint) that totally hit the spot.
The park was a little tough to navigate, and some ride entrances were damn near impossible to find (Titan had virtually NO signage), although the abundance of trees and benches was great to see. Too many amusement parks nowadays are a vast concrete jungle, but not SFOT. With light crowds, we had free roam of the park and got on everything we wanted to plus double rides on several.
TL;DR–
Things are better here than at most other Six Flags properties, but that’s kind of like calling someone the tallest midget. To season passholders, I would recommend this SF before all others; to the general public, plan on spending a full day here to make the most of your visit. I was pleased and impressed by the way this particular park was run, which coming from me is a HUGE compliment.
Great America, are you taking notes? Y’all should be! Take care of your guests and provide them with sufficient creature comforts (A/​C, benches, trees+shade, cold beer), and they will return. So essentially, try and better emulate SFOT.
Cuz down h’yeah in Texas, they do it right.

I’m a 2014 & 2015 Season Pass holder. I like the Six Flags+Hurricane Harbor experience and the Season Pass is cost effective for me.
For the visit on 5/​17, there was alot of confusion on park hours. Web said open until 10p, yet 3 different signs driving into the park said 6, 7, or 8pm. After talking with the security guard, it was settled to be 8pm. We arrived at 7pm for 3 hours of fun, but was stuck with just one.
So, we dashed in and hit Texas Giant, but was a no-​go due to safety issue. Next was Titan, Yosemite Sam’s, and closed out with the Shockwave. Park staff were all very profession and it seemed to be their pleasure to answer questions as we went through to find certain rides.
For an hour’s fun, it was well worth it. Wished it could have been longer.
Bottom Line: Six Flags is a great experience for all. Park is well maintained for ride, cleanliness, and friendly staff. I’ll continue coming back with my Season Pass in hand.

This park has some great action packed rides, but their line management needs serious help! They could learn a lot from Disney on how to manage a park. We waited an hour in line just to even get into the park! People were herded like cattle into one crazy maze-​like line.
Once inside the park most of the big popular rides had at least an hour wait. I did encounter a few rides with only a 30 minute wait, but not many. The food lines were all crazy long as well.
I also find it ridiculous that they want to charge you an extra $ 45-​$ 100 for their «Flash Pass» when you you already paid $ 60 for a park ticket.

So many rides for my 4 year old son and 7 year old daughter. They said it «Was the best day ever»
Food and drinks are very expensive.

Spent the week in Arlington with four days going to Six Flags Texas. My family and I had a great time and purchased Season Passes and are planning to return a few times this year.
On another note, I lost my wallet on a ride and was pleasantly surprised it was found and returned to security.
I recommend purchasing the season drink cups if visiting more than one day.
Also helpful for those who may be on the heavy side, with the exception of the Batman Coaster and Texas Giant, most all rides were accessible. I’m 6’2 and 315lbs!!!