Carowinds And Six Flags Theme Parks

So I'm busy here trying to organise stuff to do on my off days in America and we'll be in the vicinity of Carowinds theme park in Charlotte NC and Six Flags theme park in Fortworth TX.

They look pretty nifty from what I can see but has anybody ever gone to them and if so, what were they like?

 

I've been to carowinds - I'm kinda scared of theme park rides nowadays but it was always a lot of fun back in the day. It has a couple of great wooden roller coasters which I think are the best kind.

 

Yeah, I like the rattles and clanks and clinks.
The one at six flags is meant to be a giant roller coaster. Looks old and scary. yay!

 

I haven't been recently, but I used to go every year.

This park has evolved a lot over the years. It used to offer a lot of different kinds of entertainment, but now they specialize only in the big, serious rides. Lots of coasters of every possible kind, lots of thrill rides that involve water, and a water park with a giant wave pool and changing rooms.

If you can work it out to be there on a weekday, the lines will be a lot shorter.

 

I think it's actually going to be closed in October when we are over. How disappointing. We'll have to find other things to do. Charlotte, there's gotta be things.

 

I guess everywhere like that is, but six flags is expensive as fuck - like twelve dollar pizza slices and six dollar cokes and shit like that. And you have to go past the gestapo to get in - patting you down for your outside beverages and shit and pretending to be real cops n' such.

The rides and water stuff and such is marginally fun, but not worth the lines or oppressive atmosphere or nasty people or any of that.

If you have that much money to blow, buy a bag of weed and a remote control helicopter or drone or some shit, you'll have more fun.

 

Remote control things aren't that fun to me. I'd prefer packing my own lunch and drinking water, but then again I never travel on a budget, so the $$$ doesn't really bother me.

 

I like to go to six fags. It's very fun. Me and my buddies go all the time. We always come back a little closer

 

october? ,, many the theme parks open for Halloween .. but not all.

 

Hmm. Well what else is around? :d

I guess we could spend few more days in Atlanta.

 

Might be weekends only by then.

Atlanta's Six Flags isn't bad. I've been there once.

Six Flags Over America is supposed to be the largest of all the Six Flags parks. It's halfway between New York City and Philadelphia.

 

charlotte is okay but you might be better off spending more time in atlanta. Stop in for a bite to eat and a beer in my town of Greenville, SC on your way from charlotte to Atlanta.

 

Oh there's a six flags in Atlanta too? Cool.

 

So far we'll be in Concord/Charlotte area and Roanoke and Martinsville. Possibly swinging by Danville on our way back to Atlanta.

Wish the NFL would release dates so I know where to be to catch a game hehe.

 

That's not far from the mountains of North Carolina and Virginia, which are absolutely spectacular in October! Make sure you use I-77 and I-81 between Charlotte and Roanoke, not the I-85 and US-220 route that mostly avoids the mountains.

Downtown Roanoke is cute and interesting, less generic than downtown Charlotte. There isn't much in Concord, Martinsville, or Danville.

 

Atlanta???!!!

 

Its been years but I've been to both Six Flags and Carowinds.

I liked Six Flags better, but that's just me...and plus it was multiple years ago.

Plus, I had this "talent" (curse) in that whenever I would go anywhere out of town to have fun at a theme park type place, it would ALWAYS ALWAYS rain. (well, 90% of the time) lordhavemercy that would be awful.

 

lol going on vacation to atlanta. better order your body bag

 

Knowing that she's a big racing fan, I'm sure she'll be in Charlotte at least long enough to check out the Charlotte Motor Speedway and the NASCAR museum.

Party! My husband loves the strip clubs. Best in the South, he says. I went with him once, to an all nude club in Midtown, about two blocks from the subway. Great club, lots of fun.

The main party district of Charlotte is centered on the Hearst Building, and goes out about a block in all directions.

In the big region that's being talked about for this trip, one of the most popular tourist destinations (especially with Europeans) is Asheville. Atlanta people can't get enough of it.