We (my two friends and I) went to HHN last night and I thought I'd tell you guys our take on the whole thing.
We arrived in Universal Studios about 7pm got some food at CityWalk and then went on to HHN. It was pretty crowded right off the bat and only got more crowded as the night went on. None of the three of us however, really mind large crowds so that wasn't a problem (at first).
Going in we headed straight for The Walking Dead themed house. While I don't consider myself a "diehard" fan, I do enjoy the walking dead and watch it whenever I can. When we got there the line said it had a 60 minute wait, so we waited. It took longer than that though, we were actually in that line about 90 minutes.
So, we enter the house and... nothing special, at all. It was such a cookie-cutter Halloween House, nothing special, nothing unique, nothing to even remind you of The Walking Dead other than the zombies, which without the Walking Dead signs could have been any regular zombies from anywhere.
We are funneled though the house pretty quickly in a massive line and then exit after about 3 minutes.
My friends and I didn't really talk about the house after leaving it, we just continued on through the scare zones and around the park until we reached the Penn & Teller house.
We stand in line for another hour and a half to be let into another run-of-the-mill Halloween House, very similar to any other one but with 3-D glasses (which made it no better) and black lighting. We are once again funneled though in a massive line and exit about 3 minutes later.
After that we went to the bakery across from the I Love Lucy store and got something to drink. Where we talked about the night so far.
To make a long story short we all agreed it was a let down and the houses were what you'd find at a county fair. By this time the lines had increased with wait times upwards of 100 minutes.
We left, and aren't going back.
We just got back from our 11 day vacation. We went to discovery cove, Disney (4 days all parks including
MNSSHP) sea world and universal studios.
Our least favorite wad universal studios. The rides were good, but the wait time for rides was ridiculous! I'm not sure the rides were really worth the wait.
This is a less crowd time of year too.
We also thought the fact that they have a " fast pass" but, you pay additional money for it was a real joke too. You pay enough for your tickets, you shouldn't have to pay more money yet for this.
There were a couple different rides that people who had paid extra for universals fast pass version, were in the same exact spot in line, as we were ( and we didn't pay extra for the " fast pass". In fact, a couple times we ended up in front of these people and got on before they did.
There were some of these folks loudly voicing their opinions about that too. One guy said, this was a joke, he felt he had wasted his money on this, as he was still standing and waiting a long time and even being passed by non paying fast pass people.
I can't blame him, I would of been annoyed too. And, I'm glad I didn't spend the extra money for the 5 of us in my family!
The other complaint is that we paid full price for our tickets and had to leave early ( 5pm) so the Halloween horror nights could begin. Another joke! 5pm, really?
Between the long wait times, the fast pass thing, and closing the park at 5pm, we won't go back!
Also, in addition to all that, the people who work there have poor attitudes, and are not very friendly either. Sone if them seemed darn right grumpy! That topped the cake for us!
Universal studios have some things they could learn from the other parks!!