I just booked my room for BWAI, and they said it was almost sold out (19th-21st), hard to believe since the web page shows multiple types of rooms and they only gave me an option of 2.... who knows.
I am not worried, just interesting for middle week dates.
That sort of surprises me and sort of doesn't surprise me based on the past couple of years. The whole Halloween season has gotten
so much more popular in the last two years, so more folks want to go (I remember 2008 was the year when even the CM's were saying they were not prepared for/expecting the crowds they were seeing, and then in 2009 it was even more crowded).
Meanwhile, the DLR hotel rates are still high. I would guess that many of these new-to-Halloweentime people are trying to go at times when they think it would be the least busy, like mid-week, and they are staying offsite because it's much cheaper. So the Good Neighbors are probably going to see more sell-outs at times when they didn't get them before, like mid-week. I imagine Christmas will be like that as well.
No, they don't care at all.
Last year two stations had those mini Ghiradelli squares. I think I got in line 4 times in a row at one. The CM was very amused, but it wasn't a problem.
oh how did iI miss that station never saw any Ghiradelli squares.
I mentioned a couple of days ago that they had Ghirardelli miniatures in 2008, but I don't know if they were only at two stations or not (we didn't hit all of the treat stations). Last year I did not go to the TOTP so I didn't see what was there,, but they were definitely handing out Ghirardelli in 2008 too.
I don't think we're going to get an official press release this year
I think what the webpage says it what we're getting. We'll just have to wait for the halloween website to go up.
I was thinking the same thing.
That's kind of what I was trying to get at yesterday (two pages ago) when I said that I suddenly got to thinking about last year being the debut of the Halloween Screams Fireworks. So even though the long press release thing from
D23 did not solely focus on the HS fireworks, and it outlined a bunch of things to be seen/eaten/found during HalloweenTime (like Zero's Ghostly Ghoulash!), my feeling now is that they (DLR) probably wanted to draw people's attention to HalloweenTime earlier than normal last year because they were adding in something brand new to the TOTP. Hence, the July 18 press release. They wanted people to know well in advance that they were putting on this big Halloween fireworks show. Also, the fireworks were shown all season long and not just for the party, so they wanted people to see them all season long, I guess.
This year, if they are not adding in anything new to the general Halloween agenda (no parades, no new things that have been transformed), they may not feel that need to press release anything. They already told us about the MHP - that blog about it moving to DL was way back in late May/early June. And we already know about the fireworks being exclusive to the MHP. That might be the main "new" thing they wanted to alert everyone to this year, well in advance.
Otherwise, if it's the usual Halloween stuff all season long and nothing added in or removed from last year, perhaps DLR didn't feel another press release was necessary. They may have just felt that the early MHP info and the cool Halloween mini-site (when it goes up) will be enough 'news.'
Hopefully I am wrong because I would like to see at least an updated bullet point list of Halloween highlights (Candy Corn Acres? Yes or no?), but it just hit me yesterday that a lack of anything new to the season
might be why we are not getting more info sooner.
And 60 days left for me tomorrow.
