Tip #5 In The Roller Coaster Park

This is my favorite tip of all.  I hate spending all the money on airfare, then on the entrance fee then wait in line for 2 hours for 1 ride.  So I go  online to the city where the park is and I check when they have school.  Things like when spring break is, when the summer vacation starts and when they go back to school.  Then you need to compare that against the park dates and hours.  We have learned that our school gets out a week before the Bay Area, so we head down on the last day of school and the park is very empty.  Our kids used to have a 4 day weekend in May and we started using those dates to go to parks, because no one is off the first weekend in May, so many parks were empty.  The lines were so short we began keeping logs of how many times we went on certain rides.  One time in May we rode the Indiana Jones ride in Disneyland 13 times in 3 days.  And no it never got boring.