Although ticket prices are headed up in 2010, the Cedar Point’s new pricing schedule represents only modest increases in the cost of admission compared to 2009 rates. The park announced it’s new pricing structure in early December.
The price of an adult ticket for 2010 will be $46 — an increase of $1 over the cost of admission in 2009. Meanwhile, junior and senior ticket prices will remain at the 2009 price of $20.
Standard season passes are now $112 (a $2 increase over 2009), while platinum season passes are holding steady at last year’s price of $160.
The 2009 adult ticket price represented a $2 increase over the previous year. However, the combination of ticket price increases and difficult economic conditions — which hit Ohio and other midwestern states particularly hard — helped drive Cedar Point’s attendance downward in 2009. By the end of July, 2009, Cedar Fair reported a 10 percent drop in attendance at all of its parks over the same period a year earlier, spurring a flurry of discounting in August and September in an effort to boost attendance.