Lake Compounce Ticket Fee Settlement

The Lake Compounce Ticket Fee Settlement resolves claims that Festival Fun Parks, LLC failed to properly disclose a processing fee added to electronic tickets sold on the Lake Compounce website, in alleged violation of Connecticut's ticketing statute. Festival Fun Parks denies breaking any law. A $500,000 fund is being divided pro rata among claimants according to the processing fees each one paid. Four things decide whether this is worth your time, and three of them cut against the headline. First, one park and one website are the whole test. The class covers tickets bought on www.lakecompounce.com between October 1, 2023 and June 12, 2025 — a single park in Bristol, Connecticut. Tickets bought at the gate, over the phone, from a reseller or from any other third-party seller are not covered, however large the fee was. Second, the $500,000 is not $500,000 for class members. Notice costs, administration costs, attorneys' fees of up to about $166,667 and a $5,000 service award all come out of that same fund first, and class payments are what is left. The Notice's own hypothetical starts from $280,000 available for distribution — roughly $220,000 below the headline. Third, there is no per-person estimate. The Notice offers one illustration — about $14 if $280,000 were split among 20,000 valid claims — and says outright your payment could be higher or lower than the processing fees you paid. It is a share of a pot, not a fixed award. Fourth, this is not the Raging Waters or Splish Splash settlement. Festival Fun Parks settled ticket-fee claims over those parks separately, in other courts, with their own funds and their own claim forms — and the Raging Waters claim deadline is also November 24, 2026. Buying a ticket to one park does not put you in another park's class, and filing on the wrong site does not count. The deadline for claims, exclusions and objections is November 24, 2026, and the final approval hearing is set for December 8, 2026.

Do I Qualify?

You may be eligible if:

• You purchased tickets to Lake Compounce on the park's own website, www.lakecompounce.com. This is the whole test in the court-approved class definition, and it is where most people searching for this settlement fall out
• The purchase fell between October 1, 2023 and June 12, 2025. The class period is closed — a ticket bought in the 2026 season is outside the class and cannot be added to a claim
• You paid a processing fee on that purchase. The payment formula is built on the total processing fees you paid, and the claim form asks you to confirm under penalty of perjury that you bought electronic tickets on the website in the class period and paid a processing fee
• You are in the class whether or not you kept the confirmation email. The court-approved Notice sets no receipt requirement and describes no documentation tier — what it requires is a timely, complete Claim Form by November 24, 2026
• You did not submit a timely and valid request for exclusion by November 24, 2026
• WHO DOES NOT QUALIFY — THE BIG ONE: anyone whose tickets came from anywhere other than www.lakecompounce.com. Gate and ticket-window sales, phone sales, resellers, ticket marketplaces, and group or discount programs are all outside this class. Lake Compounce is one park in Bristol, Connecticut, and only its own website is in the deal
• ALSO DOES NOT QUALIFY: buyers of tickets to Festival Fun Parks' other parks. Raging Waters in California and Splish Splash in New York settled ticket-fee claims separately, in different courts, with their own funds, deadlines and claim forms. A Raging Waters ticket does not make you a member of this class, and a Lake Compounce ticket does not make you a member of theirs
• ALSO EXCLUDED BY THE NOTICE: the judicial officer assigned to the case and that officer's immediate family and staff; attorneys who filed an appearance for a party and their immediate families; any entity in which Festival Fun Parks has a controlling interest, and its officers and directors; Festival Fun Parks and its subsidiaries, parent companies, successors and predecessors; anyone who opts out; the legal representatives, successors or assigns of any excluded person; and Class Counsel
• NO STATE RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT. The class definition has no residency test. An out-of-state visitor who bought online is in the class on the same footing as a Connecticut resident

The court-approved Notice asks for no receipts — but the online filing route runs through a credential gate, and those are two different things. What the Notice requires. The Notice describes one thing you must do to be paid: submit a timely and complete Claim Form no later than November 24, 2026. It sets out no receipt requirement, no order-number requirement and no documentation tier, and there is nothing you can attach to increase what you receive. What the form relies on instead is an attestation: you confirm, under penalty of perjury, that you purchased electronic tickets to Lake Compounce on the park's website between October 1, 2023 and June 12, 2025 and paid a processing fee in connection with the purchase. Signing that when it is not true is perjury, so do not file on a hunch. The online form appears to open with a Unique ID and PIN. Epiq emailed notices to the class members it identified from Festival Fun Parks' own purchase records. The research write-up on this settlement reports that the online claim form is opened with the Unique ID and PIN printed on that email, and that the downloadable paper form also asks for the Unique ID. The court-approved Notice itself does not mention a Unique ID or a PIN — it says only that Claim Forms can be found and submitted through the settlement website — so treat the credential requirement as what the settlement site presents in practice rather than as a term of the Notice. Either way: if an email notice reached you, keep it. It is the fastest route to a filed claim. Never got a notice? You are not excluded. This is the point most worth being clear about, because a login screen reads like a closed door. Eligibility is set by the class definition in the Notice, not by whether Epiq's list found your email address. The Notice states that a paper Claim Form can be downloaded from the settlement website and mailed to the Settlement Administrator, postmarked no later than November 24, 2026, at Lake Compounce Ticket Fee Settlement, P.O. Box 2954, Portland, OR 97208-2954. If you qualify and have no Unique ID, call the Settlement Administrator at (877) 327-7930 and ask how to file — do that in October, not in the last week of November. Documents worth keeping anyway. Even though nothing is required, a Lake Compounce order confirmation email showing a processing fee line is the cleanest way to satisfy yourself that the purchase really ran through www.lakecompounce.com in the class period before you sign an attestation about it. What will not substitute. A ticket stub from the gate, a reseller confirmation, a marketplace receipt or a season-pass record from a different Festival Fun Parks park proves the wrong thing. The class is defined by a purchase on the Lake Compounce website, and no amount of documentation about some other kind of purchase moves you into it.

What Happened?

Festival Fun Parks, LLC, which operates Lake Compounce, the amusement and water park in Bristol, Connecticut, agreed to settle Linders v. Festival Fun Parks, LLC, Civil Action No. 3:25-cv-00659-SVN, a class action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut before Judge Sarala V. Nagala. The case was filed April 25, 2025 by class representative Alexandria Linders

The lawsuit claims Festival Fun Parks failed to properly disclose a processing fee charged on electronic tickets sold through the Lake Compounce website, in alleged violation of Connecticut General Statutes section 53-289a, the state's ticketing statute. The practice at issue is drip pricing: a ticket price presented as the price, with a mandatory fee surfacing only further into checkout

Festival Fun Parks denies that it violated any law and agreed to the settlement to avoid the uncertainties and expenses of continuing the case. The Notice states plainly that the Court has not decided whether the plaintiff or the defendant should win

The Court preliminarily approved the settlement and Epiq, the Settlement Administrator, emailed notices to class members identified from Festival Fun Parks' own purchase records and opened the official settlement website at www.LakeCompounceTicketFeeSettlement.com

The monetary relief is a single $500,000 Settlement Fund. Payments to class members, the cost of administering the settlement, the cost of notifying the class, Class Counsel's attorneys' fees inclusive of litigation costs, and a $5,000 Service Award to the class representative all come out of that one fund. Class Counsel's fee petition will seek no more than one-third of the fund — about $166,667 — and the Court may award less. Class Counsel must file the fee request by November 10, 2026

Class payments are pro rata, weighted by the total processing fees each claimant paid. The Notice publishes no projected per-person payment. Its only figure is a hypothetical: if $280,000 were available for distribution and 20,000 valid claims were filed, the average payment would be approximately $14, which the Notice says would exceed the average processing fee paid

The settlement also carries prospective relief. Festival Fun Parks agreed to maintain the Lake Compounce ticket purchase flow so that it charges no fees on ticket sales, or, if fees are charged, clearly and conspicuously discloses the total cost inclusive of fees before a ticket is selected for purchase — unless and until section 53-289a is amended, repealed or otherwise invalidated

Class Counsel are Philip L. Fraietta, Stefan Bogdanovich and Eleanor R. Grasso of Bursor & Fisher, P.A., in White Plains, New York. Defendant's counsel is Wystan M. Ackerman of Robinson & Cole LLP in Hartford. Class members are not charged for Class Counsel

The Final Approval Hearing is set for 10:30 a.m. on December 8, 2026 in Courtroom One at the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, 450 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103. The Notice warns the hearing may be postponed without notice other than on the Court's docket and the settlement website. If the Court approves the settlement, approved claimants are paid within 60 days of the settlement becoming Final, and checks expire 180 days after they are issued

Festival Fun Parks resolved ticket-fee claims involving its other parks in separate cases. Raging Waters in California and Splish Splash in New York were settled in different courts with their own funds, deadlines and claim forms. These are different settlements that happen to share a defendant, and the Raging Waters claim deadline is also November 24, 2026 — an overlap that makes it easy to file in the wrong place

How to File Your Claim

1. FIRST, CONFIRM THE PURCHASE WENT THROUGH THE PARK'S OWN WEBSITE. The class covers tickets bought on www.lakecompounce.com and nothing else. Gate sales, phone sales, resellers, ticket marketplaces and group or discount programs are all outside this settlement, so check where the order actually came from before spending any time on a claim. Look for a Lake Compounce order confirmation email with a processing fee line on it
2. SECOND, CHECK THE DATE. The purchase has to fall between October 1, 2023 and June 12, 2025. The class period is closed and a 2026 ticket does not count
3. THIRD, FILE ONLINE AT THE OFFICIAL SETTLEMENT WEBSITE. Go to www.LakeCompounceTicketFeeSettlement.com, the Epiq-administered site named in the court-approved Notice, and submit the Claim Form there. The Notice states Claim Forms can be found and submitted through that website, and it sets the online cutoff at 11:59 p.m. EST on November 24, 2026. Epiq emailed notices to class members it identified from Festival Fun Parks' own purchase records — the research write-up on this settlement reports that the online form opens with the Unique ID and PIN printed on that email, and the paper form asks for the Unique ID, so if an email notice reached you, keep it and file from it
4. FOURTH, IF NO NOTICE REACHED YOU, DO NOT ASSUME YOU ARE OUT. Eligibility is set by the class definition, not by whether Epiq's mailing list found you. The Notice says a paper Claim Form can be downloaded from the settlement website and mailed to the Settlement Administrator, and that a mailed form must be postmarked no later than November 24, 2026. If you qualify but have no Unique ID, call the Settlement Administrator at (877) 327-7930 well before the deadline and ask how to file — do not wait until November
5. FIFTH, PICK HOW YOU WANT TO BE PAID. The Notice lets each claimant elect payment by PayPal, Venmo, Zelle or check. This is a delivery method, not a benefit level — the dollar amount is identical whichever one you pick, and a check goes void 180 days after it is issued. WRITE DOWN NOVEMBER 24, 2026. That one date is the deadline for claims, for requests for exclusion and for objections. Mail to Lake Compounce Ticket Fee Settlement, P.O. Box 2954, Portland, OR 97208-2954. Doing nothing means you release your claims and receive nothing.
6. Visit the official claim form: https://www.lakecompounceticketfeesettlement.com

How Much Will I Actually Get?

THERE IS NO FIXED PER-PERSON AMOUNT IN THIS SETTLEMENT, AND THERE IS NO MENU TO PICK FROM. Every valid claimant receives one thing: a pro rata share of whatever is left in the $500,000 Settlement Fund, weighted by the total amount of processing fees that claimant paid. Paying more in fees means a larger share; there is no tier to select, no upgraded amount for claimants who can document a larger loss, and nothing that stacks on top. THE $500,000 HEADLINE IS NOT $500,000 FOR CLASS MEMBERS, AND THE GAP IS LARGE. This is the single most misleading thing about the number in the headline, so read it carefully. Under the Notice, four things come out of that same $500,000 before any class member is paid: the cost of administering the settlement, the cost of notifying the class, Class Counsel's attorneys' fees inclusive of litigation costs, and a $5,000 Service Award to the class representative. Class payments are the residual, not a protected slice. THE ONE-THIRD CAP APPLIES TO THE LAWYERS' FEES ONLY, NOT TO THE SETTLEMENT AS A WHOLE. The Notice says the fee petition will seek no more than one-third of the Settlement Fund, inclusive of costs and expenses — roughly $166,667 on a $500,000 fund — and that the Court may award less. Nothing caps notice and administration costs, and nothing in the Notice guarantees any minimum share for the class. THE NOTICE'S OWN ARITHMETIC ASSUMES ABOUT $220,000 NEVER REACHES ANYONE. The only figure the Notice puts on a payment is a hypothetical, and it is worth quoting for what it concedes: if $280,000 of the fund is available for distribution and 20,000 valid Claim Forms are submitted, each class member would receive on average approximately $14, which the Notice says would exceed the average processing fee paid. That $280,000 starting point is $220,000 less than the headline — about 44 percent of the fund assumed gone before the split. THE $14 IS AN ILLUSTRATION, NOT AN ESTIMATE, AND NOT A FLOOR. The Notice publishes no projected per-person payment. It states plainly that the amount of your individual payment depends on the number of valid Claim Forms submitted and on the other payments made from the fund, and that it could be higher or lower than the processing fees you actually paid. Heavier claim volume means a smaller share each; lighter volume means more. Nobody can tell you today what you will get. PAYMENT IS NOT SOON, AND IT IS NOT CERTAIN. Nothing is paid unless the Court grants final approval at the December 8, 2026 hearing. Approved claimants are paid within 60 days of the settlement becoming Final under the Agreement, which is later than the hearing date because it follows the appeal window. You may elect PayPal, Venmo, Zelle or check; checks expire and become void 180 days after issuance, so a check left in a drawer becomes nothing. THE NON-CASH PART OF THE DEAL IS A PROMISE ABOUT THE WEBSITE. Festival Fun Parks agreed to maintain the Lake Compounce ticket purchase flow so that it charges no fees on ticket sales, or, if fees are charged, clearly and conspicuously discloses the total cost of tickets inclusive of fees before the ticket is selected for purchase. That commitment lasts unless and until Conn. Gen. Stat. section 53-289a is amended, repealed or otherwise invalidated. It is worth something to future ticket buyers; it is worth nothing to your claim.

Last reviewed: September 29, 2026 | Information verified from court records and official settlement documents.

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