Not sure I would have paid for it, but it was just something to do when other experiences weren't available. I heard the Magic Mountain drive thru takes about 30 minutes, but that's a bigger park. We finally went in through normally closed areas including an employee parking lot. Maybe a few characters here or there, although I didn't see Santa. There really wasn't that much other than lights and music. From that point we just drove slowly through the park. We flashed our reservation but it wasn't scanned. They were checking maybe four at a time and did it through an open window. Then they checked the vehicles in an area where it's possible to exit if one doesn't have a reservation and/or ticket. They just went in that way and then looped back through the normal bus/official vehicle lane. There's a long single-file line to get in starting from the parking lot - maybe 15 minutes from the start of the line. We left home a little too late to get there by our reservation time, but it wasn't really an issue. I thought that maybe the reservations would be scarce but there were plenty of available times when I checked around early afternoon on Christmas Day. We didn't have much to do on Christmas Day so we decided to do it. I personally liked the land much more before it was turned into the park-lovely golf course (and an area the local teens considered a bit of a lover's lane). when mare island closed and other factors created a huge tanking of vallejo's economy the only thing that kept that place afloat was the financial benefit of retaining the 'marine world' classification. that park also had massive lawsuits from adjacent housing during the planning stages that caused concessions by the developers to dramatically restrict what could/could not be done with portions of the land it sits on, hours of operation and types of activities (this was why, at least back then, the park was not permitted to be open late into the evening except on restricted occasions like it's 'fright nights' which still closed hours earlier than ones offered at other strictly amusement parks). Don't know if it's still the case but pre six flags ownership the animals/aquatic life was the basis for HUGE tax breaks and special funding for the park.
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