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[quote=Anonymous]Our twins did not age out of DW until about age 8.  We went from about 4-8 years of age.  The reason that they didn't age out was that there were always things that they wanted to do when younger than they couldn't do until they were older, like some of the rollercoasters.  With the Lagoon water park, they always loved going there.

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You can find discounts for the tickets on-line.  Buy them ahead and get the discount.  Then go the evening before and stay over.  With DW tickets, you can go for the last 2 hours or so the night before as a "preview" and it's a good way to get a little more bang for your buck.  We would do some rides and especially later in the season, when it gets dark a little earlier (like mid-to-late August), my kids loved to ride things at dusk when the lights went on the rides.  So we would go in the afternoon, get an earlyish dinner and then head to the park for the last two hours.  Go and check into our hotel or airBnB and then in the morning pack up the car and get breakfast off-site before hitting the park when it opened.

We usually planned to do the water park (Duke's Lagoon) around 3-5pm in the afternoon, give or take.  It was the hottest part of the day and the best time for water fun.  So we usually planned around that.  This also gave us a way to get the best deal on parking.  If you park in the close in spots nearest the gate, it is double (used to be $10 instead of $5).  But after 5pm, it is free to parking anywhere in the lot.  So, when we came in for the preview 2 hours the night before, the gates were up and parking was free.  On the full day, we would park in the cheap $5 spots.  Then when we were ready for the water park, my wife would take the kids to the stand by the entrance and would get them ice cream, while I walked out to the car and grabbed the bag with our water clothes.  I'd get back around the time they were finishing their ice cream and we'd head to the park.  After we played in the water park, my wife would take them on a ride, like the train by the entrance or some other rides near the entrance and I would walk back out to the car, dump the water clothes and then drive the car over and park it right by the entrance.  There would be plenty of spots because the people with younger kids who paid for the $10 parking were gone.  I could usually park within about 20 ft of the entrance.  Then go back in.  When we were done for the night, the car would be close to the entrance.

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