Half-Price Ride Tickets Available Online This Year
Ocean City Boardwalk amusement rides offer annual spring discounts for online purchases.
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The annual half-price sales on Boardwalk ride tickets have long been a rite of spring in Ocean City.
But this year, both of Ocean City's amusement centers will offer the same discounts for online purchases.
"For many years now, Gillian's Amusement Parks have been offering discount tickets to our parks online during the November through December holiday season, and, in person only, during Palm and Easter weekends," Gillian's announced in a Facebok post on Tuesday. "It is with great pleasure to announce that the Gillian family is now offering our annual Easter Ticket Sale online."
Playland's Castaway Cove has offered its spring ticket sale online for five years and will continue this spring.
- Gillian's Wonderland Pier: Discounted tickets for Gillian’s Wonderland Pier, Gillian's Funland, as well as Gillian’s Water Park and Adventure Golf may be purchased by visiting https://store.gillians.com/default.aspx between March 19 and March 31. Half-price tickets also will be available in person noon to 5 p.m. on the weekends of March 23-24 and March 30-31 at Gillian's Wonderland Pier (Sixth Street and Boardwalk) and at Stainton's: A Gallery of Shops (810 Asbury Avenue). Sale price is 25 tickets for $10 (normally $20).
- Playland's Castaway Cove: Half-price tickets at Playland will be available by visiting http://www.playlandstore.com/ between March 23 and April 7. Half-price tickets also will be available in person noon to 5 p.m. daily at the Dairy Queen (in front of Playland's Castaway Cove at 10th Street and Boardwalk) during the same dates. Sale prices include 40 tickets for $20 (normally $1 per ticket).
The rides at Gillian's Wonderland Pier range from one ticket for the carousel to five tickets for rides including the log flume and giant Ferris wheel. At Playland's Castaway Cove, the marquee Double Shot thrill ride asks for six tickets.
The spring ticket sales have long been a popular way to help offset the costs of a summer night on the Boardwalk.
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Gillian's Wonderland Pier
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Stainton's Gallery of Shops
810 Asbury Ave, Ocean City, NJ -
Playland's Castaway Cove
1020 Boardwalk, Ocean City, NJ
Wyatt
6:28 am on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Presumably one must prove Ocean City residency to take advantage of this. Isn't it a violation of a local ordinance to make discounts available to shoobies?
holly buck
7:20 am on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
@ wyatt- get your head out of the sand!
David Chick
7:35 am on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Wyatt there is no OC without thousands of good hard working people coming down to the BEST shore point in the summer.
CD
7:45 am on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
I've got to chuckle at Windbag. Everyone knows Wildwood's boardwalk is far better. That's where my money is going.
kathy Scharff
8:44 am on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
The web site for the half price amusement rides is not working--it will not take my credit cards. I have tried several times. KS
John Hay
8:51 am on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
WOW. This is great. Thank you Wonderland.
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Frank
9:14 am on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Wyatt - why must EVERYTHING be questioned and turned into a problem?
Lisa Anderson Yoskin
9:37 am on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
@CD although Wildwood has more rides this is true, especially for the older set, Ocean City is much cleaner,safer and closer for me. It's great especially if you have little ones coming to visit. I go to Wildwood on occasion, but I would never trade my beloved OC for it! Thank you for the ticket offer!
Donna
10:50 am on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Lisa, I'm with you. Growing up our family spent our summer vacations in North Wildwood. Loved it there. But once I was old enough to drive and hence getting married, OC was my place to be. We did go to Wildwood with our children a few times and stayed but we eventually rented in OC long before buying our wonderul OC place in the southend. We love OCNJ.
Donna
10:51 am on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Forgot to mention, we're headed down there this weekend once again. Staying longer than the weekend b/c my husband is retired now. Enjoying it even more. :)
Bob fetterman
12:35 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Lighten up people
It was a joke!
Granted. A cheap one but still not worth getting riled about
jlb
6:55 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
BOO! People took the drive down on the weekends to buy the half price tickets. Now they can do it on their couch. So no more $$ spent on pizza, salt water taffy or other products. Less revenue for the stores=less need for employees=less money for the economy. First it was looking at summer rentals online and now its buying half price tickets. This will kill another much needed spring weekend for the rest of the merchants.
gary@divref.com
9:32 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Talk to Wyatt, he has the answers ?
Or NOT !
Wyatt
6:22 am on Thursday, March 21, 2013
This concern is irrelevant if the no discounts to the shoobies ordinance is followed for this offer. Only the locals could take advantage of it so no reason for the shoobies to come to town for these tickets. However, as usual, the shoobies should continue to send money here.
Lisa Anderson Yoskin
7:26 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
@jlb...humm that's a good point!
Frank
8:32 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
very good point
Jane Markey
8:59 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
I paid for the tickets on a charge card, but I never got an email confirmation. How do get the tickets?
Ann
8:45 am on Sunday, March 24, 2013
Paid and never got a confirmation. Four days later, no tickets? uh oh.
Patricia Germano Fortuna
2:19 pm on Sunday, March 24, 2013
Paid on line, got confirmation # and was told tickets should be here in one week
KMeaney
9:39 am on Thursday, April 11, 2013
We paid too... Got confirmation # and recvd nothing...calling all morning..phones not picking up! Mmmmmhhhhhhh hello Gillian's? Please answer your phone! Maybe the volume was so high they are trying to catch up!!!!!!
KMeaney
3:17 pm on Thursday, April 11, 2013
UPDATE: I spoke too soon..just got my tickets out of the mailbox!
Mary
3:32 pm on Sunday, March 24, 2013
Hey Wyatt: My grandmother's generation used the term "shoobies" or maybe great grandmother's generation. (No one in my family was ever tacky enough to use that insulting term.) So since it is tacky and since it is so outdated - why don't you drop that term from your vocabulary? Because regardless of what you say, it makes you sound really stupid. Maybe you are stupid in which case, it confirms it.
gary@divref.com
5:17 pm on Sunday, March 24, 2013
Don't pick on Wyatt, it's not nice to pick on the mentally challenged? If doesn't understand that Shoobies keep the island thriving, that's his problem!
Let's in turn realize there are so many more people out there that appreciate the the popularity of O.C. No matter where they're from!
O.C. Rocks !
togoodjr
9:00 am on Thursday, March 28, 2013
Has any one tried to look on the positive side of internet sales? For example, we are going to be at Walt Disney on Easter so having the flexibility to buy tickets without having to go to the pier is excellent. We spend over $5,000 a summer taking grandchild on Sundays to ocean city. If we save money on discounted tickets, it gives more money to spend on food and shopping.