Six Flags Marine World - (707) 643-6722

Six Flags Marine World is offering discount tickets and making up for it with price gouging that starts at the front gate. They confiscated my grandson's small jackknife and told him that he could only get it back if he rented a $9.00 locker - otherwise they would throw it away (sure they would). We buried it in a planter outside the gate and retrieved it on our way out. Seven of the nine over-priced souvenir toys for my younger grandson disintegrated in my daughter's hand before we got back home - one before we even left the park! Some of the toys were broken in the store. My daughter wanted to assemble an intact toy from a combination of one broken toy and another similar intact one. She was charged full price for the broken toy! A lead pencil with the Six Flags logo, similar to the imprinted pencils sold at the Dollar Store for $1.00/dozen, is $1.49 at Six Flags for one pencil. The price of food and drinks is outrageous. There are water fountains - but try and find one. If you do, the water is warm and nasty, the fountains are filthy. A bottle of water, which sells at WalMart for $3.29/case is $1.49 and we know they buy it wholesale. Being on a limited budget, we were hungry all day. I could afford only a lemon drink for each of us - at $5.00 each. Subway advertises a $5.00 foot long sandwich - but the Subway at Six Flags has no such bargain. A "family" fast food lunch is $40.00, not including drinks at $5.00 each. If you plan a visit to Six Flags, be prepared to spend a lot of money. They won't let you bring in food and your bag will be searched to make sure you don't. The on-line advertised closing time for the park is an hour later than the time they actually closed, so be prepared to leave early.

You enter through metal detectors and any bags are thoroughly searched. I was relieved of a 1-1/2 inch combination nail file and pen knife. When I objected, a supervisor bucking for a Homeland Security promotion intervened and threatened me with an unnamed one choice. Rather than embarrass my granddaughter with a scene I gave them my weapon of mass dysfunction and swore never to return to this noisy financially struggling theme park.

Marine world is great. So is six flags. But they are not great together. Before the inclusion it was fund to take the kids to see all the animals, but now there are the roller coasters placed in random places which only make it more difficult to navigate to your destination. Since the rides are so big, you have to walk around them for like 5 minutes to find their entrance, on the way you get to see an animal or two but you are not really enjoying doing either. You have to walk up lots and lots of hills, and the parking lot is SO far away that you have to wait for the shuttle. Its not fun waiting for over 5 minutes for a shuttle in the mid day heat either. Its a place you might want to visit once, but not a place youd hold season passes for.