Mt Olympus Water and Theme Park 6/16/10 "Report Card Day"

Yesterday, I decided to make a trip to Mt Olympus Water and Theme park, in the Wisconsin Dells. I knew it was a special event day called "Report Card Day", a day that anyone with an "A" on their report card could get in free. As expected, Report Card day is very busy, due to people wanting to save money in the Dells! One thing that should be noted about this special event day, is that bring your report card with an "A", will only get you as far as the waterpark. For $10 extra, you can upgrade your pass to admission to thet dry reides as well. Which includes; all of the roller coasters, the go cart tracks, and the small kiddie area.

Getting to the park a little after 9:00, we started our day off with a ride on my favorite wooden roller coaster, Hades. All who visit this park, should keep in mind that all rides on Hades should be done right away. Or else you will find yourself waiting in lines over an hour very early in the day! This is something I like to call, "One Train Operation". One, Five-car train is all that Hades has to offer, therefore making the line over two times longer than is could be. This is one thing that really annoys me about Mt Olympus. Hades' station is very small, and the ride ops are very slow and lazy, with no one with a microphone to get riders excited or pass time in line.

Despite this awful capacity, Hades is truly an amazing ride. The drop out of the station, and pre-lift section really get you excited for the ride. Three pops of airtime before even getting to the lift hill! The drop is really intense and the underground tunnel is awsome. If 90 degree banked turns in pitch black isn't good enough, you burst out of the tunnel on the other side of the parking lot, only to experience another great airtime hill into a head chopper back in the tunnel that is sure to get everyone in the train covering their heads! Coming out of the the second tunnel, you encounter one last airtime hill and two more forceful helixes.

The ride really makes up for the long line, and lack of worker friendliness! Hades is the ride that keeps me coming back to Mt Olympus frequently. We rode it five times in a row early in the moring before the line got really bad.

Next we headed to Zeus. This ride has never really felt safe to me. The ride itself is good with some airtime and a decent drop, but is very rough, with trains that need some serious attention.
Luckily part of Zeus got some much needed retracking in the turn around. On the note of retracking, I also hard heard that Hades got some retracking in part of the ride!

Opa! the parks spinning wild mouse coaster was next in our coaster tour. It is located in the Pathenon indoor theme park, and is a nice little ride. It only runs three cars, which makes the line move very slowly. To add to this slow line, the green car was having technical difficulties coming in the station. It wasn't spinning. that's when I realized that the train only held one person, therefore not being able to spin in a full rotation to return to the station. The two other cars were stopped in block brakes for a while, when they resolved the problem. We were also stopped in block brakes in our ride, while they were still trying to work on the green train. That made our long awaited ride much slower.

By this time, we were ready to ride Hades again. It was about 12:00 and we waited in a 45 minute line to ride this time. Please Mt Olympus, put another train on Hades!

After that excellent ride on Hades, we decided to eat the luch that we had packed. So we went out and ate luch in the car, because Mt O. does not let you carry anything inside the park. They don't even let you bring water inside!

We the decided that it was time for some water rides, because it was now the very crowded peak of the day. First we went to the other thing that makes a visit to Mt Olympus worthwile. Poseidon's Rage surf pool. The huge wave that appears ever 90 seconds is insane! When everybody first sees it they start screaming like it was a big surprise that it was coming. You get blown back by the wave and seriously trampled by others. Although quite painful, its one of the best rides at Mt Olympus.

We then checked out their new Sand beach that they added this year since we were in that area of the park. It was pretty cool. Its wasn't the biggest beach ever, but still a nice little addition for a theme park in Wisconsin.

Since we were still in that area of the waterpark, we rode Triton's Challenge six lane mat racer a few times because it didn't have a line. I enjoyed it alot, but didn't have enough ait on the drops to be my favorite mat slide. The Plunge at Noah's Ark still holds that title.

Because it was almost time to go, we decided to check the line for Opa! again, but it was too long. So we rode their small bumper cars. It was actually a surprisingly fun little bumper cars for fitting in such a small indoor area. On our way out, we check Hades line one last time but was too long, so we skipped it.

It was a very good day at Mt Olympus. We were there from 9:00 to 4:30, and got alot of rides in. I'll be sure to visit Mt Olympus again sometime very soon.