In a area identified for world-class theme parks, Knott’s Berry Farm stands out in Southern California because the oldest California theme park. Owned and operated by Cedar Honest (which operates many different parks within the US), Knott’s Berry Farm gives thrill rides, Camp Snoopy, scrumptious meals, festivals, a ghost city, a individually ticketed water park, and far more. Whereas I feel the Knott’s Berry Farm rides are a few of the most enjoyable, there are undoubtedly different issues to get pleasure from as properly.
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My go to was included as a part of the convention ticket I bought for the AWEsome Retreat. I additionally paid for my very own keep on the Knott’s Berry Farm lodge.
It can save you cash on tickets by buying via Get Away In the present day. These tickets are supplied at a reduction, and may additionally comprise coupons and different gives. You can too buy a Southern California trip package deal via them, which can comprise tickets and a lodge. Use the code FTM10 for $10 off a package deal of two days or extra.
Information to Visiting Knott’s Berry Farm
Location of Knott’s Berry Farm
Knott’s Berry Farm is situated in Buena Park, California, inside Orange County. It’s about 20 minutes from each Lengthy Seaside Airport and Disneyland Resort. There are many accommodations within the space, in addition to the Knott’s Berry Farm Resort, situated adjoining to the resort.
You’ll have a number of airports to select from while you ebook your tickets. LAX, John Wayne Airport (SNA), Hollywood Burbank Airport (BUR), Lengthy Seaside Airport (LBG), and Ontario Worldwide Airport (ONT) are all choices. I flew in via Lengthy Seaside Airport and out via LAX.
With this many choices, it may be comparatively straightforward to discover a moderately priced flight that works together with your plans – particularly if you’re keen to go out and in of separate airports. Usually, whereas I discover the smaller airports simpler to navigate, it may typically be extra inexpensive and handy to fly into and out of LAX.
Knott’s Berry Farm Tickets
You’ll discover a number of choices for Knott’s Berry Farm tickets, together with ticket add-ons. Pricing varies by the date, so that you’ll want to decide on your particular trip dates earlier than reserving. Anticipate to pay extra for busier occasions together with weekends. Soak Metropolis, when it’s open, has a separate admission, and people tickets are good any day.
Along with normal admission tickets, you too can buy season passes, and add-ons such because the FastLane (the place you possibly can skip the road to common points of interest), FunPix (entry to photographs taken of you), all-day or all-season eating, and stroller leases. Tickets to common festivals, just like the Boysenberry Pageant, are additionally supplied through the season.
In case you are visiting Southern California on trip and wish to go to Knott’s Berry Farm, you possibly can undoubtedly get away with simply single-day tickets. You are able to do nearly every little thing in a single single day together with lots of the Knott’s Berry Farm rides.
Learn extra about Southern California theme parks right here.
Knott’s Berry Farm Rides
As you enter the park, you’ll first stroll via the California Market, a row of outlets and eating places that don’t require admission to go to. Then, while you stroll via the entrance gate, you possibly can enter the Outdated West Ghost City, the place you’ll discover a working blacksmith and different previous west buildings. Youthful youngsters are more likely to recognize the quaintness and old-world attraction of those buildings.
Thrill seekers will love the variety of thrill rides and world-class curler coasters at Knott’s. Throughout our go to, we went on a number of, together with the Silver Bullet. I used to be so impressed with how clean that trip is. We additionally went on Supreme Scream, which works up 252 ft for a implausible view and super-fast drop. Different thrill rides embrace the next:
- GhostRider
- Hangtime
- La Revolución
- MontezOOma: The Forbidden Fortress (MontezOOma’s Revenge)
- Sol Spin
- Xcelerator The Trip
- Calico River Rapids (river raft trip beforehand often known as BigFoot Rapids)
- Calico Mine Trip
- Timber Mountain Log Trip
For a lot of of those rides, you gained’t wish to tackle luggage or any form of free sneakers. Cubbies can be found to carry these items, however they aren’t secured. If a member of your social gathering isn’t driving, it’s in all probability finest to depart cameras and purses with them.
Youthful youngsters will completely love Camp Snoopy, the place they’ll trip Peanuts’ gang-themed household rides, together with the Grand Sierra Railroad. Whereas I didn’t go on any of those rides, they seemed like a number of enjoyable for little ones.
There are additionally character interactions and reveals that happen on an everyday schedule inside Camp Snoopy. We stopped to observe one in all these reveals and it was so cute and enjoyable. My youngsters would have beloved it after they had been youthful.
Whereas little ones will get pleasure from Camp Snoopy, and older youngsters will love the joys rides, I seen that there aren’t as many points of interest that attraction to youngsters between these two ages. There are a number of slower coasters, however there aren’t tons of them.
For those who’ve bought youngsters which are too younger for the Peanuts gang however too previous for thrill rides, you could wish to maintain out for a number of years earlier than visiting.
One essential be aware: I’d suggest checking the scheduled trip closures earlier than your journey. Throughout our go to, a number of of the extra common rides had been closed for upkeep. At the moment, Fiesta Village is present process renovation.
You’ll wish to just be sure you can do every little thing that you simply wish to do throughout your trip. I might be disenchanted if I’d visited and some of my must-ride points of interest had been closed.
Knott’s Berry Farm Meals
For me, at the very least half of the theme park expertise is the meals. Fortunately, Knott’s Berry Farm has a great deal of scrumptious meals choices to select from. Arrive hungry so that you could attempt the total choice. However time your thrill trip experiences so you possibly can eat in between them.
The preferred is Mrs. Knott’s Hen Dinner Restaurant. It first opened in 1934 and encompasses a scrumptious, iconic hen dinner that features biscuits, fried hen, salad, mashed potatoes with gravy, and pie.
Whereas I didn’t dine on the restaurant, I used to be in a position to attempt the hen dinner through the convention I attended. The meals is scrumptious and is unquestionably price making an attempt. The restaurant is situated within the California Market, and reservations are accepted by way of OpenTable. Due to the placement exterior the ticket gates of the park, you don’t want Knott’s Berry farm tickets to dine there.
There are different eating places situated throughout the theme park and the California Market. These embrace fast service places, in addition to Starbucks, Panda Categorical, TGI Fridays, and Johnny Rockets.
As a nod to their roots, Knott’s Berry Farm additionally gives totally different Boysenberry-flavored snacks. These embrace Boysenberry pie, Boysenberry Corn Canine, and Boysenberry Mushy Serve, and you could find these all through the parks at numerous quick-serve places. I attempted the Boysenberry mushy serve (as pictured above), and it was scrumptious.
Knott’s Berry Farm Festivals
The park hosts numerous common festivals all year long. These embrace the Boysenberry Pageant, which takes place from late March via most of April. Through the pageant, you possibly can expertise reside leisure and scrumptious meals, together with over 75 Boysenberry dishes.
There’s additionally Knott’s Scary Farm, which takes place round Halloween. This pageant isn’t essentially kid-friendly however has a number of scary and thrilling haunted points of interest. It’s finest for older teenagers and adults.
The far more kid-friendly Knott’s Peanuts Celebration takes place on weekends originally of the 12 months. It consists of Peanuts gang character encounters, leisure, and extra.
Different festivals taking place all year long embrace Knott’s Spooky Farm (a extra kid-friendly occasion) and Knott’s Merry Farm over the Christmas holidays.
Knott’s Berry Farm Ticket Add-Ons
Stroller and wheelchair leases can be found on the park when you want them. They may also be pre-purchased on-line to avoid wasting time and guarantee availability.
You can too select so as to add on FastLane, which helps you to skip the road at the preferred points of interest. We didn’t have it, and didn’t wait in strains for too lengthy. Nonetheless, if it’s an particularly busy time, it could be price buying so it can save you time throughout your go to.
FunPix is one other add-on you should buy. With FunPix, you possibly can obtain digital photos for the entire photos taken of you through the day. Images are taken on choose points of interest, in addition to character meet and greets. This can be price it if you will the points of interest the place it’s used.
Along with the rides and leisure, you’ll additionally discover different issues to do within the parks, together with halfway video games supplied for a further payment.
Knott’s Berry Farm Resort
Observe that the Knott’s Berry Farm Resort is present process an entire renovation, together with visitor rooms, r, the restaurant, and customary areas. The lodge will keep open through the transformation.
Throughout my keep in Buena Park for the convention, I stayed at Knott’s Berry Farm Resort, situated adjoining to the park. It’s extraordinarily handy in case your plans embrace a while at Knott’s Berry Farm as a result of it’s a fast stroll over to the park.
Room varieties embrace king rooms, normal queen rooms, and single queen rooms. Adjoining rooms can be found when you’d wish to get separate rooms on your youngsters. As a result of I used to be alone for this journey, I bought a single king room.
Earlier than arriving, I acquired an e mail that included choices to replace my room to a better degree and/or a pool view. Observe that the pool is open late (11 pm throughout my go to), so when you go to mattress early, you in all probability gained’t need a room overlooking the pool. It may be fairly loud.
My room had a pull-out chair that might accommodate one particular person however didn’t have a fridge or microwave. The room additionally had a secure.
The Knott’s Berry Farm Resort additionally gives a full-service restaurant on the property known as Amber Waves. Though I didn’t eat there, I did obtain a coupon for 20% off lunch or dinner there once I checked in.
Bundle offers are typically obtainable on the lodge that features tickets to the park and/or the park festivals. Aside from proximity and these offers, there aren’t essentially every other particular advantages to staying on the property when visiting the park.
The lodge does additionally provide a complimentary shuttle to Disneyland. That must be booked upfront for capability causes. I booked the shuttle once I arrived on the lodge however canceled as a result of I took a trip share with some others.
Knott’s Berry Farm Soak Metropolis
From mid-Might via a part of September, the Knott’s Berry Farm Soak Metropolis is open (verify the calendar for particular opening dates – it’s not at all times open day by day). It’s the biggest water park in Orange County and options 25 water rides and points of interest.
As a result of my go to was in March, I wasn’t in a position to go to Soak Metropolis. However, if you’re planning to go to in the summertime, it seems like the proper strategy to cool off on a sizzling day. I’d in all probability plan for a separate day on the water park.
Suggestions for Visiting Knott’s Berry Farm
- Get your tickets upfront via the Get Away In the present day hyperlink listed above.
- Take into account the FastLane if you’re visiting throughout a busy time.
- Arrive early within the day to keep away from strains for the extra common rides.
- Take into account a go to if in case you have thrill-seeking youngsters or Snoopy-loving kids. Children within the center might not get pleasure from their go to as a lot.
- Make a reservation for Mrs. Knott’s Hen Dinner Restaurant.
- Get pleasure from a few of the Boysenberry treats obtainable on the park.
