Don't buy your tickets online! In fact, don't buy them at the gate either. Just stay away or you'd be greeted outside the gate of Carowinds by an evil blonde witch who somehow became a manager. Even proof of purchase isn't enough to prove that you brought the tickets, so you have to buy new tickets in front of her hideous face, just so you'll be able to enter and reenter (if you decide to leave the park and return later that same day). Staffs are disrespectful and don't want to help at all.
Getting in cost an arm and a kidney. Drinks and food cost the rest of your other important body parts.
Lines are short and fast because the place is near empty. Most we had to wait was 10 minutes.
Even so...
Avoid! Go to Wet n' Wild Emerald Pointe Water Park instead!