Six Flags St Louis

It’s been several years since I’ve visited Six Flags and although some things have changed, there were always those few things that reminded me of the very first time I set my foot inside this Six Flags location. The smell of fudge, caramel apples, and funnel cakes that greets you as you enter the park, the heat you feel within your feet from the concrete, the screaming children and the nonsensical teenagers passing by (okay… I have to admit, these 2 are not exactly my favorite but this place appeals more to the younger crowd). You put all these things together along with the blood-​pumping rollercoasters, you have yourself a good time.
My first coaster ride ever (probably when I was 19 or 20) which has become my favorite is Mr. Freeze. I am so happy to know that my memories have not been tarnished by a change of name for my favorite ride. When my friends were visiting from the islands, they were regretting not riding any of the rollercoasters during our many visits to Six Flags and only doing it the day before their flight back home. You really do get some excitement from these various thrill rides. Some may not be for certain people (I can’t do spinning ones due to my vertigo issues) but you are sure to find something that you will love. Yes, some of them can be scary initially but they are so much fun!
My most recent visit, a friend of mine was asking about the safety of these rides. We fortunately got to the park early enough that we were able to watch them do runs before the park opened to the public. She felt better seeing the checks, especially since her son was very anxious to get on one of the rollercoasters (The Boss).
What about when you have children too young to ride the rollercoasters or are not meeting the height requirements, you ask? Fret not. They have a section for younger children to enjoy as well! The park also has a waterpark section which can be enjoyed by the whole family! This area is complete with dining places as well so you don’t have to pack up the family to grab something to eat when you’re hungry.
The entire park is always well-​kept, in my opinion. You can always find someone walking around if you ever need help.
The one complaint I have is the price but compared to taking a trip to Florida for their amusement parks, this place is a deal. Additionally, you can always find some deals online for a day visit or buy their season passes if you are planning on stopping by more than once or twice. I’ve had a season pass 2 years in a row back in my college days and they were worth while. You do get some freebies as well as a coupon book to share with your friends and family.
If you haven’t been to Six Flags, come and visit and if you have, well… Have another go!

Six Flags treat their season pass holders like crap. We purchased a season pass one day and went to the park the next day. After getting to the park we decided to upgrade our passes to the gold membership. Online the price difference was $ 15 per ticket. When we asked to upgrade they were going to charge us $ 49.99 per pass for the upgrade. When this was brought up to their attention, all the supervisor would say is then you should have paid that price when you bought it online but now it’s going to cost you more since you didn’t. This company sucks doing business with and I very seriously doubt we will ever buy another one from them again. By the way, we have been season pass members for the past 5 years. After this year no more!!! Please be careful when dealing with this company

This is a decent Six Flags, or at least it COULD be. Unfortunately, it’s terribly run. Lines for the rides aren’t usually too bad – you have to expect them to be worse on bring a friend for free days. I do feel like the rides are kept up well and have never felt unsafe on any of them. That’s it for good things to say about this place. It’s horrendously managed and the staff is horrible. Everyone seems to be learning to do their job, but no one ever gets a real handle how the park works. They serve beer at a few of the «restaurants» but there’s never anyone of age to pour it; it takes about 20 minutes for an adult to arrive just to handle the beer. The staff appears to be completely unmotivated and are usually rude. This place has the parts to make a great theme park but no one working there knows what they’re doing.

I would not advise going near six flags on a holiday weekend. Especially when they are having bring a friend free deal going on at same time. Lines are very long for food and rides. Many rides had to be shut down. Very few workers. Not one available chair in water park. It was AWFUL

I purchased four season passes, 2 dining passes and 2 drink cups for this season. We spent one day there and it was packed with a musical festival, my kids only got to ride one ride the whole time. Lines were ridiculously long even to get a drink.
Six Flags promoted a bring a friend free on the same day as the musical festival which made the park extremely over crowded. When we left, the parking lot was so full, people were parked on the grass.
I’ve been to Six Flags many times since I’ve lived in St. Louis for years and would probably give them a better review but if someone went on just this day without season passes, they would likely not return so with that visit alone I would have given them two stars.
However, after returning home, my son put the drink cups in the dishwasher on accident, they are not dishwasher safe (and I didn’t catch him before it happened) and of course they shrunk. We used them once. I contacted Six Flags not once but twice before they finally responded and all they said was «I’m sorry your cups melted, unfortunately we do not replace sport cups.» After spending as much money as I have on Six Flags and these two experiences, I am quite disappointed. This is horrible customer service. And just another way for them to force people to spend more money.

Although my senior class and I came on a day with bad weather, I was a little disappointed. I didn’t go on any of the rides because of the bad weather. I just played a few games, enjoyed some food, and that was it. The service was on a down side because there were no lids to the drinks. What if they spilled? The variety was a little disappointing because many rides and dining establishments were closed. There was a disappointment in comfort, but that’s mainly the weather, which is beyond the amusement park’s control. Therefore, I give Six Flags a 3-​star rating and hopefully we can come back on a later date (hopefully nicer weather) and the park can earn some stars back. Final grade: ³⁄₅ (60%)

Have been to this park just once and not sure I will return despite being a seasons pass holder.
On our first visit:
Several rides were closed.
2 Rides broke with us on them.
–one of them being brand new — literally opening day
–the other a rollercoaster that we we stuck on the top of
The worst part of all of this was the customer service. As we were stuck on the rollercoaster the woman who came up to «help» gave us to choice of waiting fro them to restart it or to get off and as we were in direct sun with no idea how long it would take to get restarted we asked to get off. This was met with complaining by the staffmember about how she’d have to walk down the ride and then back up with a safety crew and how that was going to take forever anyhow yet as we had no water and were getting quite dehydrated we insisted on getting off and then she shamed us to the other passengers «Sorry everyone, since ONE person wants to get off, you ALL have to get off»
By the time they got us off my wife was suffering from heat exhaustion and they had to take her to first aid. A teen at the bottom of the ride offered us a singe pass to jump a line on another ride later that same day in «compensation.» It was laughable. Not a single person even apologized.
I emailed them about this experience and got an autoresponse that said «Your message is being forwarded to the appropriate department at the park and we will contact you as soon as possible (definitely within seven days, but usually much sooner).» Here we are 7 days later with no response of any kind from Six Flags — who apparently doesn’t care at all about customer service.

This place is just terrible the rides were lame, the fireball is a rip off and it se that ever ride was closed

Was there 3÷25÷16 for opening day. Weather was beautiful, six flags was not. We went there to go on the roller coasters but only managed 4 rides from open to close. The lines were incredibly slow even though the place didn’t seem very busy at all. The worst part was lunch at Panda Express. Waited in line for an hour to get up to a counter covered in spilled soda and ants crawling around. That was gross. They were understaffed and unclean. I told them all this in a survey but they didn’t even respond.

Things we liked: trees, friendly security cards asking frequently if they can be of help, and their smoked turkey legs.
Things we didn’t like: parking in BFE at high prices; high ticket prices; mostly gross and grossly overpriced food with an extremely limited selection (I hope you love gross pizza and a sorry excuse for burgers – and omigod avoid that greasy sad-​ass oblong object they call corn on the cob); mediocre rides with long lines; meandering pathways making it difficult to get around or find anything; and a map with two sections using green markings and the greens are nearly imperceptible.
One can expect exorbitant prices in the shops, but it’s still always shocking.
Overall we were not impressed enough that we’d ever go out of our way to visit again. This park is not as nice as Cedar Point.

Six flags is a great amusement park they got tons of rides & my favorite thing about six flags is thunder river I also like Mr freeze, hurricane harbor, I would definitely like to go back

in 2010, I started going to amusement parks for my birthday. SFSL was the first one we covered. It was my 18^th birthday and I was feeling giddy, due to Six Flags being a nationwide name, in amusement park fun. The best times to go are NOT WEEKENDS. Of course, with every amusement park, the food pricing is ridiculous. Also, the rides were great! The weather started sprinkling nearing the end of the day, so as the crowd dispersed, we rerode Mr. Freeze multitudes of times. This is also one of the only places that I’ve seen the rare RED Full Throttle energy drink. Since then, I’ve only seen it at ONE RANDOM gas station.
Despite the bad experiences that other reviewers have had, I hope you give this SF park a chance!

Love six flags, but the St Louis extension seems to get the worst rides… The people are definitely friendly, though they are really absent minded half the time, being that it’s 99% staffed by 15 – 19 year olds. I just got a free ride pass, and we were really disappointed that the new Justice League ride wasn’t included. Having seen this in fine print after walking all the way to the destination, we decided to just stand in line anyway. The line projected an hour long wait, so we didn’t expect to get on quickly, however we ended up waiting upwards of three hours just to get on this 3 minute ride… It’s definitely cool and worth checking out, but wait until this ride is a little older and has less of a line! Not to mention it kept breaking down as we were in line, and thus had extended our wait period dramatically.
As far as the food goes, don’t even think about it. Nope. Not even that funnel cake. Everything costs triple what you would reasonably pay elsewhere due to the continence factor of having you trapped within their walls. Expect to pay $ 40 for a pizza easily worth $ 8. Yes, those are the actual numbers. Even getting a dining pass isn’t worth it unless you plan to come out here every weekend. However, if you feel desperate, getting food here is a hassle. The lines are even longer than the ones for the rides, and the 15 year old stuck in this tiny stand will usually get your order wrong and won’t know what to do when you confront them about it.
The games are pretty cool though and definitely worth trying. Especially the ladder climb. It’s just a fun challenge, and you can definitely win huge prizes!

I love six flags. I spent my only thirtieth birthday here and I have no regrets. However, six flags needs to invest in st. Louis.
Peeling paint, rust, inefficient management, sad kids working on the rides.
Strange «deals» like, pay 6 dollars for a «re-​usable bucket» for popcorn. I don’t want to carry a popcorn bucket around six flag.
Anyway, do better six flags, I like you.

A nice, mid-​sized Six Flags park in mid-​America.
I made a trip from Chicago (roughly ~5 hours) just to visit this park, and I’m glad I did. Having a season’s pass allowed me to visit two days in a row, and both occasions were pleasant with minimal wait times for rides.
Six Flags St Louis [a.k.a. SFSL] boasts three fantastic wooden coasters – those being Screamin’ Eagle, American Thunder, and The Boss – and a real crowd-​pleaser in Mr Freeze Reverse Blast. Ninja and the River King Mine Train are thoroughly uninspired, but they’re coaster credits nevertheless.
Apart from coasters, the park has a giant drop ride, river rapids, SkyScreamer (a 200ft tall swing ride), giant ferris wheel, log flume, and the new-​for-​2015 Justice League Battle, an interactive dark ride shooter. They also have several ‘carbon-​copy’ coasters that can be found nearly anywhere (Batman, Pandemonium, Boomerang), none of which are special. In fact, Boomerang was closed on my visit, but I wasn’t disappointed in the slightest since it’s a Vekoma shuttle that’s likely a nominee for the «Most Unoriginal Coaster Award». I say this because there are literally 52 Boomerangs operating worldwide.
As I was recovering from a mysterious insect bite (radioactive spider, fingers crossed), use of the waterpark was a no go for me, hence I cannot comment on Hurricane Harbor which is included with a season’s pass but not with a single visit admission. The park itself is a little tough to navigate in and around; I got a wee bit lost several times but eventually figured it out. I found general ride operations to be fluid and the coaster dispatchers highly efficient. There was a great amount of camaraderie amongst the station attendants, many of whom were smiling or playfully cracking jokes.
Care to guess what the longest lines in the park were? If you answered ‘the food’, go ahead and treat yourself to a $ 6 corn dog because you’d be right! I talked to one woman who waited upwards of 30 minutes for a BBQ turkey leg. To be fair, that thing looked delicious (she claimed it was worth the excruciating wait), but half an hour is waaay-​hay-​hay too long to be standing around for noms. I never bothered with eating inside due to the high prices and long waits; all I got was bottled soda from vending machines equipped with credit card readers – nifty!
3.5÷4, but I feel like rounding up because all three wooden coasters were sensational and exclusive to SFSL. Workers were friendly and the park was kept surprisingly clean. This Six Flags property is more on the modest size (in line with SFFT in San Antonio), but I had a pleasant enough time to give them the benefit of the doubt. Were I around the area again, I would return.

So we decided to visit Hurricane Harbor before they closed for the season. The situation is UNREAL. Literally 60% of the slides are closed. The slides that are open are running under capacity. About half of the food locations both in Hurricane Harbor and the main park are closed, wth the remaining locations drastically understaffed. The result is predictable: Massive slow moving lines.
Six Flags’ new plan seems to revolve around advanced sales of unlimited plans: season passes, bottomless cups, and meal plans. While these plans SEEM like a good a good deal, the result is again predictable: Unless you dramatically increase supply, you end up with massive lines for everything. This is even more true when you CUT supply, as Six Flags has done.
Do yourself a favor and find something else to do next summer.

We picked a rainy day to avoid the waiting after reading the pithy complaints of the previous reviews, that people like to come on sunny days in the summer, wait hours for a ride while enduring the tanning under the scorching, blistering sun. Luckily the anticipated rain storms didn’t come and it was mostly cloudy. 50 min was our longest wait for the Justice League (a 4D video game) and less than 10 min all other ride waits.
Roller coasters of all sorts. Fast with great twists, steep drops and overwhelming helix, centrifugalization and exhilaration and beyond. Some roller coasters are a little shaky and I’d suggest reconsideration if you have neck issues. I’d bring knee pads next time too. Got bruised knees when the Screaming eagle plummeted down the steep dive…
Some of the staff does come off rude though. My friend was purchasing a ticket for the Speed O’Drome and apparently buying a ticket is too much of an irritating inconvenience for him. Ride staff was enthusiastic and energetic. The park was rain-​washed clean. Lots of restrooms.

We visited three different Six Flags parks in the last month.
Our favorite so far is Six Flags Fiesta Texas — San Antonio! To be fair the park was washed out by hurricane Katrina so it is really new. They refurbished all the coasters and they are really smooth. Just don’t go when it is 100 degrees. Superman and Iron Rattler are the best rides.
Six Flags Great America-​Chicago was our second favorite. Has some good coasters. The only one I really didn’t like was the new one called X-​flight. The harness locks down so tight I could barely breath and gets tighter as you ride. If you have a hard time being confined this is not the ride for you. We both liked the Raging Bull and the Superman rides. Fun and clean park. They are the only park with healthy food options — Fresh Café. We had the strawberry Spinach salad and it was really good but huge so share it with someone.
Six Flags St Louis — if you have a season pass it is good if you have nothing else to do. Even the new ride is not all that great and it had a 90 minute wait. Only good ride is the Mr Freeze Reverse Blaster. Go during the week when no one else is there because there isn’t much there worth waiting for. Many of the roller coasters are so old it feels like they could knock out your teeth. Expect a headache when you leave. They need to redo these coasters.
We didn’t do any of the waterparks so we can’t comment on those.
All in all compared to Cedar Point in Sandusky OH (which we compare all amusement parks to) Six Flags Fiesta Texas wins due to the smoothness of all the rides. Plus the landscape is really cool there. If you are down in San Antonio and like to ride, don’t miss this one. Next up for us will be Dallas — but we have to wait for fall. Can’t do it in 100 degree weather.

I usually make it a priority to come here once a year, since its always brings back the kid in me! Over the years though, I feel like either I just can’t handle the rides that jerk too much or I’m just getting old :(. Also through time, its not very cool the way Six Flags charges people up the rear for just about everything… the first being parking. I do remember a time when parking was $ 10 (or less than that), and now its $ 20! Hey, I’ll walk from the gas station across the street but I’m sure they’ll get the idea I cheated (laughs)! While they advertise that Hurricane Harbor is free and included with your ticket, they charge $ 13 to rent a locker there. They know that everyone will use a locker so technically I wouldn’t consider it ‘free’. Hurricane Harbor is fun though and its a great alternative to most water parks. By the way, the Bonzai Pipeline really freaked me out!
I normally don’t come there hungry, after all, riding the rides so much in the heat doesn’t make me hungry. Luckily yesterday I went on a day where it wasn’t so humid or sunny so I didn’t buy any drinks (water fountains can be found throughout the park even though the water tastes like crap). Another piece of advice is: always go on a day that won’t likely be busy like Monday-​Wednesday. And do it in May or June, while local families are on vacation. That way you won’t have to wait so long in lines. One other positive is the lockers in the park charge $ 1 for 2 hours, which is fair enough (in contrast to Hurricane Harbor).
Despite of my review sounding negative, I’ll still give it four stars because at the end of the day, its always a great thing to do and I’m always glad that I still ride the rides and I can be a kid again at heart.

Shabby, maintenance issues. The park has really gone down hill. There is chipped paint everywhere. Broken light fixtures. Went on Father’s Day and several rides were closed because they were broken. Screaming Eagle closed, Tidal wave closed, Mr. Freeze closed. Mine Train closed. Waited in line for 2 hours for new ride and it broke and closed. I have contacted Six Flags about the issues and they don’t care.
On June 21 took my family of 6.
Several rides were closed. Screaming Eagle, Mr. Freeze, Mine Train. We waited in line for 2 hours for the new 4-​D super hero ride and it broke down. The weather was clear no storms to cause weather closure. The tidal wave was closed. What is going on? We used one of our bring a friend free tickets and they had a horrible time. You wasted our time and money.
Thank you for emailing us about your issue. I would like to apologize for the inconvenience you experienced here at Six Flags St. Louis. The pass week here at the park wasn’t a good one due to the weather. The weather plays a big part in how the rides operate but not all the time. These are machines, and they tend to have technical difficulties. I will inform you that even though they were closed when you tried to ride them they were not closed the entire operating day. One of the first priorities we have here at Six Flags St. Louis is the safety of our guests and employees. If there is one small glitch in the system, we will shut that system down in order to fix it. We’ll have it up running as if its brand new as soon as we can. Sometimes that process takes longer than what we want it to.
On Sunday there was no weather issues!!!
I asked them if they had so many rides down due to weather why not shut the park down instead of take people’s money for half an amusement park.
Shame on You Six Flags Rip-​Off!!!