Canada’s Wonderland
Ontario, Canada
Six Flags Entertainment
 Park News - (11/28/2025) Canada’s Wonderland got an early Christmas present from the closed Six Flags America park this week as new 2024 trains from that park’s Professor Screamore’s SkyWinder coaster have now arrived in C
anada for use on Flight Deck next season.
(10/18/2025) New Attraction Guest Survey Concepts
(5/6/2025) Canada’s Wonderland is now finding itself under fire (with a lawsuit) over “allegedly making false or misleading price claims online.” The issue at hand is an unadvertised $9.99 processing-fee for online purchases. The lawsuit from the “Competition Bureau” calls this “drip-pricing” for some reason, and they’ve taken similar legal action against other companies such as Cineplex, SiriusXM Canada, TicketNetwork and others for similar tactics. In fact, it says they won the case against movie-theater chain, Cineplex, for $38.9 million last fall, though Cineplex is currently contesting that ruling.
2026???? - Water Attraction - Status Unknown - (11/27/2025) It’s been a year since there was any mention of a water attraction for 2026, so the project may have been pushed back and put under reevaluation.
(11/14/2024) A press release from Six Flags today confirmed that the company is planning to spend over $1 BILLION on the parks over the next two years. Some of this will come in the form of enhancements to the guest experience, such as new themed areas, dining upgrades and technology enhancements. While we’ve seen the 2025 capital projects ($500 million) already announced, they decided to post a list of teasers of what they are already confirming will come to some of the parks in 2026 as part of another $525 million capital investment plan.
Canada’s Wonderland was included on the 2026 attraction list, promising to bring “a new record-breaking water attraction” to the park. This sounds similar to an entry for Carowinds as well, and we’ve seen a lot of similar attraction concepts shared between these two parks as of late. Both are listed as record-breaking attractions, only with the CW version listed as a “water attraction” while Carowinds was described as a “water ride”. While the word play could have just been put into effect to not sound repetitive, to me the use of the phrase ‘water attraction” also includes the possibility of this being something for the water park, while Carwoinds is described more clearly as a “water ride”.
???? - New Attraction Guest Survey Concepts - (10/18/2025) Six Flags has begun sending out surveys to select guests to get feedback about possible future addition concepts that may be in the works. Keep in mind that not every concept they pitch for any given park may actually be intended for that particular park, as sometimes the chains will pitch ride concepts to other markets as well to gain some broader feedback on certain concepts. With that said… let’s dig into what is currently being pitched for the various parks.
Canada’s Wonderland guest survey shows off some unique concepts like as new themed Log Flume ride, a Mack Rides Xtreme Spinning Coaster and a proposed general expansion to the waterpark. If these aren’t enough, the park also asked guests their thought on adding a Hybrid coaster to the lineup, specifically a “world-record breaking steel-wood hybrid coaster.” Nothing was said about converting any of the park’s existing woodies into this, though the concept artwork shown was of Cedar Point’s Steel Vengeance.
???? - Hyatt Place/Hyatt House - INDEFINITE HOLD - (5/16/21) At this point, it seems Canada’s Wonderland has opted to cancel their long planned hotel addition. This may be a temporary thing, as they failed to start construction during the time limits of the building permits they had. There is a good chance that Cedar Fair could have just opted to shelve the project for the time being until the company gets their financials back on solid legs and we have put the COVID-pandemic behind us. This could also be a reflection of the more strict lockdown rules in Canada, and Ontario in particular, that are keeping the park closed for longer than it’s American cousins who are all opening up this month.
(4/18/20) While Cedar Fair has not issued a new timeline for the hotel, it would seem likely that the closures would push back the ‘late 2020’ planned opening of the hotel until sometime in 2021.
(8/29/18) As we had been hearing for some time now, Cedar Fair will open a new hotel at their Canada’s Wonderland theme park property. Now we have a few more details as posted by BlooLoop. This will be a dual-branded Hyatt Place and Hyatt House hotel with 203 rooms that is set to open in late 2020. Construction is expected to begin sometime in the first half of 2019.
(4/29/18) Remember those rumored hotel plans for Canada's Wonderland? They aren't a rumor anymore, as the plans for the new hotel were confirmed in a planning meeting. The new hotel will be 8-stories with 603 rooms and built under the Hyatt Place brand name, to be built on park property on Wonderland Drive near Rutherford Rd and Highway 400. Construction should begin soon actually, but I’m not sure if it will be ready for 2019 or 2020. \
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