http://www.visitkingsisland.com/season-passes

Click on the "3 EASY PAYMENTS" tab, and at the bottom, you'll see that it very clearly states that Halloween Haunt and Howl-O-Fest will NOT be included with regular season passes.

What do you think about this?

What if we have already bought or Gold Passes last fall?

Then your pass will allow for entry into haunt, as you have a Gold pass not a Regular Season Pass.

It clearly states " Free and Unlimited visits to our fall events!" Right under the " HALLOWEEN FREE" Section. So I don't know where your coming up with this nonsense? http://www.visitkingsisland.com/season-passes

Regular Season Passes end Labor day, Gold Passes are good for Haloween Haunt and Howl-o-fest.

It clearly states " Free and Unlimited visits to our fall events!" Right under the " HALLOWEEN FREE" Section. So I don't know where your coming up with this nonsense? http://www.visitking...m/season-passes

Read closer:

Buy your Gold Pass online now for:

Halloween Haunt

Your Gold Season Pass allows unlimited admission to the bloodcurdling horror and mind-bending terror of the most immersive horror experience around, Halloween Haunt at Kings Island.

Howl-O-Fest

Little Ghouls and Goblins absolutely love HOWL-O-FEST! There are all kinds of things that are fun-scary, not scary-scary. Use your Gold Season Pass to experience this family-friendly Halloween event this fall.

(emphasis added)

It's included with Gold Passes, not regular passes.

Oops sorry, But I thought regular season passes were never good for those events.

I think that's awesome!

Honestly, you get what you pay for.

If someone tried saving $5, and didn't read the fine print, they have no one to blame but themselves.

Remember things may change between now and october.

I could be wrong, but I thought it was the same way last year; Gold included admission to Haunt and regular did not.

Yeah, I think Regular pass admission ended on Labor Day last year, too.

Yea, I'm fairly certain that this is nothing new.

I honestly don't even know why those passes are even offered.

Free parking alone is worth the upgrade to Gold.

Gold generally goes away around Memorial Day. After that, it's regular season pass plus a parking pass or a Platinum Pass, at least in years past (or should I say passed? )

The opportunity to get a Gold season pass for the 2012 season ends Memorial Day, May 28. After Memorial Day, as mentioned above, Regular and Platinum are the two season pass options available before 2013 passes go on sale in the fall.

We'll have the expanded list of the one-hour of early rides every public operating day for Gold and Platinum passholders posted on our website within the next few days.

Regular passes did work after Labor Day last year. Both my kids had regular passes last year since the only perk we used was the free parking and they didn't need it. On the last day of the season last year I did upgrade them to gold passes for this season as I'm pretty sure it was stated back then that they would be only good till Labor Day this year.

yea my daughters regular pass worked too on one of the last sundays after labor day

Really, it is a good decision. I think not even Gold should include Haunt. I think that if they had a "Haunt season pass that only cost maybe 20 bucks, then they could put a LOT more money and time into making the event awesome.

Maybe a good change for you, but for people like me with kids that only used our passes for Sunday afternoons after Labor Day it's not. I'm not sure what the price difference between regular and gold was when I renewed ours, but I bet it could probably cover our gas money for another trip to the park.

Maybe a good change for you, but for people like me with kids that only used our passes for Sunday afternoons after Labor Day it's not.

Why would you only use your Season Pass then??

I guess I could have worded that better. While we did go many times during the summer, after Labor Day we only went on Sunday afternoons which are pretty much just a regular day in the park with some candy added. So for this season I had to upgrade my 8 and 10 year olds passes to gold to get those last few Sundays. If they made a seperate pass for the Haunt like CoasterGeek101 suggested we would either lose those last few days, or have to buy another pass even though we don't really do the Haunt stuff.