Carowinds for Android

Pros: Map & navigation is decent as is park category layout. Cons: OMG! Wait times are pathetic!! App said no wait time for Nighthawk. Nope!! Actual 45 minutes! 😭Improve this one thing, which is most critical piece of all and app can be golden. Also, could be helpful to add detailed menus for all major food places in park.

Used it for Scarrowinds. The wait times didn’t change for any ride the whole time we were there. So completely inaccurate. Went to a ride because it said 15min. Got there and it was closed. App said 15 min whole tome. Copperhead said 45 the whole night. Took 1 hr 45min. The GPS is awful and laggy. When in map view, everything should be labeled so you can actually follow and tell where you are instead of just looking at shapes with no labels.

The app is an enormous help. At least it was for us as we were new to the park. Everything we interacted with on the app was great with the exception of the paths or destination route it plots for you when you want to go somewhere. I think the map itself is a bit outdated and the accuracy of the path is only about 50/50. It might be more helpful for Carowinds than it was for Carowinds as certain areas were blocked off and this was NOT reflected on the map or in the routes it plotted for you. Great concept. Could use some improvements.

First let me start out by saying that I love Carowinds! The park is awesome and the fury 325 is on another level but the app could definitely use some work. It actually looks great visually, it’s not dated or confusing, but there’s a couple problems that I think would be pretty easy to fix. First, the navigation is ok but not amazing. It doesn’t seem to know exactly where you are or which way you’re facing. I was facing camp snoopy and it said I was looking at the intimidator which are obviously in opposite directions, so if anything it just needs to load faster. However, the biggest problem for me is the wait times. They literally might as well not even be there. It seems like they didn’t even try to make them accurate. Afterburn said 5 minutes, it was 50 minutes. Fury said 5 minutes which I didn’t even stop to consider that being correct, and yep, it was 1 hr 30 mins. That seems like such a simple thing to fix. Have someone whose already working at the coaster just take a look at the line every 10 minutes or so and update the app. It doesn’t have to be down to the minute accurate. Nobody expects that. Just accurate enough so I can know what coasters to hit when. So yeah, fantastic park, descent navigation, absolutely terrible wait time estimates.

App is garbage the ride wait times aren’t even close to realistic! 5 mins? Try 2 hours.