Paula Werne aka RavenMaven, of Holiday World PR, has made the following statement on rec.roller-coaster on USENET:
As I'm sure you can imagine, it's a complicated schedule ... no matter
when we hold HWN, someone will be upset and there will always be other
events held at the same time.
As I understand it, CM is the first Friday of June. Sometimes this
falls on the weekend following Memorial Day and other times it's two
weekends after the holiday. So for us to hold HWN on the first weekend
after MD, we'll overlap with CM three out of every six years. If we'd
push later than those two weekends, then we're up against the ACE Con.
After that, our park's closing hours are later, so ERT would end up
going past midnight, which we'd rather not do.
Earlier in the season is tough because we hold breakfast ERT in
Splashin' Safari ... and May can be iffy regarding temps (especially
overnight, which affects water temp). And, frankly, Memorial Day
Weekend is hard on our staff, as there are many local graduations and
such.
So it's a little bit of everything that brought us to choose the first
weekend following Memorial Day for HoliWood Nights. Hope you can make
it!
Thanks, Paula
Holiday World PR
