As a former employee of Cedar Point (one of the sister parks in the CedarFair Company), Carowinds does not exceed what Cedar Point has to offer.\n\nMy biggest disappointment, as Cedar Point offers their HallowWeekends in their daily passes, Carowinds has you pay an additional amount to experience the Halloweekends events (haunted houses, shows, etc).\n\nAlso, I was surprised that tax was not included in their food and beverage prices (again, after being a Cedar Point employee and working in the foods division - this surprised me).  Not sure if this is because the park resides in two different states.  Which brings me to another point.  One of my friends had bought a bottled drink early in the day and bought another one several hours later, only to find the price went up slightly due to the different taxes in SC & NC.\n\nThe only plus was that we had very limited wait times (the park was not that crowded).  The longest we had to wait for one of the coasters was around 20 minutes - and I am sure that would be longer if we came during the summer months.