Festival Fun Parks - Raging Waters Ticket Prices Class Action Settlement

Drip Pricing · Claims Open

Current Status

Claims are open and close November 24, 2026, online or postmarked. The deadlines to exclude yourself or to object come first, on September 28, 2026. The Superior Court of California for the County of Los Angeles has set a final approval hearing for November 9, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. — two weeks before the claim window shuts, which does not shorten it. No final approval order has been entered and no payment date has been announced. Festival Fun Parks, LLC denies any liability or wrongdoing, and the court has not decided who is right.

What Changed Recently?

The claim period opened after the court granted preliminary approval on June 22, 2026 in Andrea Velazquez v. Festival Fun Parks, LLC, Case No. 24STCV20667, and directed that notice go out to the class. That date does double duty: the settlement agreement defines the class period as running from June 1, 2020 through the preliminary approval date, which is why the class cutoff is June 22, 2026 rather than a round number.

The case was filed on August 15, 2024 and pleads two counts under California law — a violation of the Unfair Competition Law and a quasi-contract or unjust enrichment claim. The complaint alleges that Raging Waters advertised one ticket price and then added a mandatory "Processing Fee" several screens into checkout, after a buyer had already selected a date and a ticket type. In the example pleaded in the complaint, a general admission adult ticket displayed at $47.99 on the date calendar became $51.99 at the order summary once a $4.00 processing fee appeared in small type.

The settlement came after the case survived an early challenge. Festival Fun Parks moved to compel arbitration on December 4, 2024, arguing the named plaintiff was bound by an arbitration clause; the court denied that motion on January 17, 2025 and opened discovery. The parties mediated in Los Angeles on July 22, 2025 without reaching agreement, and accepted a mediator's proposal two days later. Festival Fun Parks denies all liability, maintains that the challenged disclosure practices were not unfair or unlawful, and agreed to settle to avoid the cost and risk of trial.

Who Qualifies?

The settlement class is all persons residing in the United States who purchased admission tickets from ragingwaters.com between June 1, 2020 and June 22, 2026 and paid a "Processing Fee." Three parts of that definition are worth reading closely.

It is a nationwide class, not a California one. The original complaint proposed a California-only class, and the settlement broadened it to U.S. residents — so an out-of-state visitor who bought tickets online for a trip is covered on the same terms as a Los Angeles local. It is also limited to online purchases from the Raging Waters website; tickets bought at the gate or through a third-party reseller never carried the processing fee at issue and are not part of the case. And the fee itself is the qualifying event: a class member has to have actually paid a "Processing Fee," which is what the settlement administrator will confirm against the company's records.

The class is a defined list rather than an open invitation. Festival Fun Parks supplied the settlement administrator with a customer list naming each class member and the total processing fees each one paid, and the administration budget was priced against a class of 157,737 people.

Excluded from the class are anyone who validly opts out; governmental entities; the parties' lawyers and their firms; Festival Fun Parks along with its parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, independent service providers and their officers, directors and employees; the presiding judge, their immediate family and judicial staff; and anyone who already signed a release with the company covering the same processing fee allegations.