Without trips to amusement parks, the most exciting thing to happen to most families would be the periodic elections to determine who gets to be Dad that week. Shake things up with this Groupon.

Choose from Four Options

• $66 for two-person admission to Dinosaurs Alive! ($129.98 total value)
• $132 for four-person admission to Dinosaurs Alive! ($259.96 total value)
• $198 for six-person admission to Dinosaurs Alive! ($389.94 total value)
• $264 for eight-person admission to Dinosaurs Alive! ($519.92 total value)<p>

Each option includes:

• One single-day admission ticket per person to the main theme park (up to a $59.99 value each)
• One ticket per person for the Dinosaurs Alive!<p>

Kings Dominion

Thirty stories below, the Kings Dominion amusement park—with its assortment of roller coasters, bumper cars, and water slides—sprawls among 400 acres. From this height, visitors are nearly eye-to-eye with the top of a 1/3-scale replica of the Eiffel Tower, yet there isn’t even a floor beneath them. Instead, their feet dangle from swings on the WindSeeker—a thrill ride suspended more than 300 feet from the ground.

The WindSeeker is only one of the most recent attractions at Kings Dominion, which since its construction in 1975 has steadily added both thrilling attractions and laid-back family activities. One of the park’s oldest attractions, Rebel Yell roller coaster lurches at speeds of up to 45 mph, and everything from a classic carousel to gas-powered antique cars keep families from arguing over which lucky sibling gets to ride in the trunk later. Other attractions include the dinosaur-themed attractions Dinosaurs Alive!, an outdoor forest populated by animatronic dinosaurs and Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia a new 3D film, narrated by Donald Sutherland, that combines CGI dinosaurs and live-action footage of a South American archeological dig. Kings Dominion also features a 20-acre water park where visitors cool off on twisting slides and a 650,000-gallon wave pool nearly as large as Louis XVI’s bathtub.