Palace Playland

Palace Playland – A Jedi’s Guide to Beachside Thrills 🌊🎢✨ Strong with the Force, this seaside park is—but timing is key. Rides open around 4 PM on weekdays, earlier on weekends. Closing time? Usually after 10 PM, but crowd size and weather steer the ship. 🎟️ All-Day Pass = best value for back-to-back rides. Prefer arcades and midway trials? Reloadable credits can be used across the park—never expire, and are sharable. Bonus credits for big reloads, you’ll get. 👶👦🧔 Rides for every Jedi rank—just check height requirements before boarding your speeder. Lines mid-week? Often minimal. We visited on a Thursday and rarely waited more than one cycle. 🎇 Fireworks Thursdays at 9:45 PM (late June–mid-Aug). July 4th brings a bigger show. Best viewed from the beach—truly epic. Ride smart, choose wisely, and always follow the glow of the midway. This is the way.

Fun little amusement park by the beach. Large arcade, lots of carnival foods, games and rides plus a rollercoaster. Our family had a lot of fun, but money doesn't go far here. The rides are so expensive it's worth the all day pass, but the park doesn't open for rides until 4 pm weekdays so we didn't get much time out of it. The lines were short which was great, my kids were able to walk on to all of the rides on a weeknight.

Pretty cool place to take your kids to have a fun afternoon! Arcade and carnival games are paid for separate from rides so its gets pricey. Little kids can only ride about a dozen rides. Pretty good gf options for fast food at a few places. Beautiful views since you're right on the beach. Definitely do the ferris wheel at sunset!

A wonderful and comprehensive place where young and old enjoy themselves. The staff are very cooperative and fun. At night, the atmosphere is very beautiful. We returned at nine o'clock at night. One of the best things is that it does not close early

We came down to Old Orchard Park to do the "Boardwalk" experience. We went on a Wednesday evening in the summer so parking was fairly easy to find. It did cost $15, but that isn't too bad in my opinion. The parking was only a few blocks from the destination so that also made it worth the money. There are rides, carnival games and arcade games at this place. We were there primarily for the rides so didn't do any of the games. You buy tickets at kiosks (either manned or self serve like an ATM). You can either buy a rechargeable card or a day pass (if you are staying for an extended period do time say a week or more, there is a season pass that may make sense as well). We opted for the standard rechargeable card mainly because we wanted to "run out" of credits to make leaving easier with our two 9 year old kids. It was by no means the best financial option. If you are going to spend a few hours or more here, get the day pass. Its $50 per person or so (depends on the day of the week) and it gives you unlimited access to all the rides. Each of the more exciting rides is in the 25-35 credit range and a $50 rechargeable card gives you 210 credits or roughly 6-7 rides. The other thing is that all the games use the card too (cashless) if I am not mistaken so you would have to add cash credits to the card to play the different carnival and arcade games. Being a Wednesday evening it was fairly quiet and the kids got to ride without having to wait long (usually waiting for a ride to finish and unload). We didn't stumble across a ride they couldn't ride on their own. Younger/Smaller kids will have more restrictions. Most of the bigger kid rides you need to be 48 inches tall. It was a lot of fun watching them race to the next ride and scream their little hearts out!

Super fun. A bit pricey but we had a great time. $40 for my husband and I to go on the bumper cars, carousel and ferris wheel.

I guess I was too busy having fun to take pics inside the arcade 😅😎. We had a blast tho 🎉🥳🎂 happy birthday son. Big ticket wins, impossible cuts made to win a huge stuffed moose, delicious food and drinks everywhere, shop till you drop, beautiful sandy beach with life guards on duty, cool cars to rent, ocean was lovely as ALWAYS 💕, make your own cool ass hat ☺️ our birthday boy says EVERYTHING about this place was his FAVORITE 👏😅🥰 Definitely come play here 💯 WE VISITED ON FRIDAY

I have been coming here for years and this was the first year I was disappointed. The new card system that gives credits was confusing. I thought going to an actual person at the ticket booth would be better. But turns out I did not get my monies worth and I should have just used the card machine on my own. I was gypt out of 2 rides I could have gotten if they had told me I needed to spend 1 more dollar. My son is too small right now to ride their kiddie rides but could go on the carousel and Ferris wheel with a paying adult to hold him. $19.00 for 1 time on each was a ripoff and the young kids working aren't very approachable or informative on how things work. Maybe next year things will be better.