Safer. The Best Way To Pay. At Knott's Berry Farm, we want you to have an fun time with your friends and family, without sacrificing safety in any way. That's why we're moving toward all cashless payments throughout the park.
Knott’s Berry Farm transitioned to a completely cashless system primarily to enhance the safety, security, and efficiency of park operations. By eliminating physical currency, the park facilitates faster transaction times, which significantly reduces wait lines at food stands and souvenir shops. From a security standpoint, a cashless environment minimizes the risks associated with handling large volumes of cash and reduces the potential for theft or human error in bookkeeping. In 2026, the park supports all major credit cards, debit cards, and mobile payment platforms like Apple Pay and Google Pay. For guests who only have cash, the park provides "Cash-to-Card" kiosks where visitors can convert their physical bills into a prepaid Visa debit card with no transaction fees. This modernization is part of a broader industry trend toward contactless environments, which gained momentum for hygiene reasons and has remained the standard because it allows theme parks to better track sales data and streamline the overall guest experience.
Knotts Berry Farms Tickets (when bought online at the time of publication) are about half the price (or more — depending on when you go) of Disneyland. That is HUGE. If you have other things you'd prefer to spend your money on, but still have a fun vacation, that makes Knotts a great option!
The move to an all-cashless system is becoming increasingly common as parks look to not only save on labor costs but also speed up service and reduce the potential for theft.
Guests ages 15 years old or younger who are found inside the park unaccompanied by a chaperone will be subject to ejection. This chaperone requirement applies to all Knott's Berry Farm, Knott's Scary Farm and Soak City Waterpark ticket and season passholders.
Boomerang was a Vekoma Boomerang roller coaster located at Knott's Berry Farm, in Buena Park, California. The ride replaced the former Corkscrew. It was dismantled on April 23, 2017 to make room for a new coaster, called HangTime. It now operates as Boomerang Hyper Coaster at Trans Studio Cibubur in Indonesia.
Knott's Berry Farm Vs Disneyland Comparison: Family Rides Both of these titans of the theme park world are ostensibly geared towards kids, though Disneyland definitely has the upper hand here, both in terms of pester-power, instantly recognizable characters and child-friendly attractions.
In short, if it's thrills, spills and squeals you're after, Six Flags Magic Mountain is the LA theme park for you. This is an impossible category for any theme park to win when pitted against Magic Mountain, but Knott's Berry Farm holds its own admirably, with a fine selection of rip-roaring hair-raisers.
Disneyland opened in Anaheim in 1955, but Knott's Berry Farm, established by Walter Knott in Buena Park, can trace its history all the way back to 1920, and its incarnation as a theme park to 1940.
When Walt finally presented his plans to Burbank's city council, the plans were rejected because local politicians didn't want to bring a “carny” atmosphere into Burbank. This and the reality that Walt's expanded vision for the park had quickly grown far larger than 16 acres, compelled Walt to look outside Burbank.
Knott's is only 57 acres, compared with Disneyland's 100 acres, but there are so many more rides at the berry farm. There are 40 rides squeezed into that tiny footprint, as opposed to the 29 in Disneyland park, but what Knott's loses in that tradeoff is space to sit back and soak in the atmosphere.
Since then, the once small family farm has grown into today's 160-acre family fun destination.
But if you're purely picking based on price, which is cheaper: Disneyland or Disney World? Disney World tends to be cheaper overall for stays of one night or more, largely due to Florida's lower hotel prices. But for some expenses, like tickets and food, Disneyland is cheaper.
While Magic Kingdom will be priced at or above the theme parks, Disney's Animal Kingdom has the cheapest price range. The new prices for each park are listed below: Disney's Animal Kingdom: $109-$159. Disney's Hollywood Studios: $124-$179.