Halloween Horror Nights 2013

[Marquibiri]

For those of you who are curious about the houses, YouTube has some videos from the media event. The media event lets media personnel from magazines and YouTube to videotape the inside of the houses. You will see a complete walk through of all the houses. I personally don't recommend it because it will ruin your in park experience. Thus I won't post the links here.

Thank you! I don't want to be tempted to watch them...

Cheers!

Marquibiri

 

[Metro West]

Had no choice in picking the night we'd hit HHN it had to be the 18th. Only able to do one night. Grand daughter's 16th birthday and this is the one thing she wanted for her birthday. Hate to hear it's going to be a bad night. We do have S&S passes and EP. Do you think we'll be able to hit all the houses?

Having been twice, this is what I would do to see the houses...

Since you will do S & S, the first house you will do is American Werewolf in London...which is awesome! I would then go to The Cabin in the Woods since it opens before the other soundstage houses. When you exit this house, you will be at the entrance to Evil Dead. Do that one provided it's after 6:30PM when it opens. Then tackle Resident Evil which is in the middle of the soundstage houses. That's all the soundstage houses so you can move along to Havoc: Derailed which is behind the Beetlejuice theater. That's the only house in that area.

Once you're over by MIB, do Afterlife and finally head over to the final two houses near ET. Make sure you do The Walking Dead first...the exit dumps you at the entrance to La Llorona. It will save you LOTS of walking to do these two houses in this order...don't forget.

If you are interested in the shows, you'll have to check the times when you're at the park and work around those.

If you've never done HHN before, make sure you understand the insane amount of walking you are going to do. My plan above will hopefully save you some steps. Since you will have EPs, don't use them first thing. Wait until the lines get to 45 minutes or so before using them. I know you'll be tempted but you only get one time through each house so use it wisely. Saturday night we saw people using their EP first thing when the line was less than 10 minutes!

I will be in the S & S area on 10/18 too if you want to say hi.

 

[keishashadow]

Todd - Taking notes, was hoping you'd post a good itinerary! Will follow it on our Thursday HHN, saving footsteps is a good thing.

 

[Marquibiri]

Having been twice, this is what I would do to see the houses...

Since you will do S & S, the first house you will do is American Werewolf in London...which is awesome! I would then go to The Cabin in the Woods since it opens before the other soundstage houses. When you exit this house, you will be at the entrance to Evil Dead. Do that one provided it's after 6:30PM when it opens. Then tackle Resident Evil which is in the middle of the soundstage houses. That's all the soundstage houses so you can move along to Havoc: Derailed which is behind the Beetlejuice theater. That's the only house in that area.

Once you're over by MIB, do Afterlife and finally head over to the final two houses near ET. Make sure you do The Walking Dead first...the exit dumps you at the entrance to La Llorona. It will save you LOTS of walking to do these two houses in this order...don't forget.

If you are interested in the shows, you'll have to check the times when you're at the park and work around those.

If you've never done HHN before, make sure you understand the insane amount of walking you are going to do. My plan above will hopefully save you some steps. Since you will have EPs, don't use them first thing. Wait until the lines get to 45 minutes or so before using them. I know you'll be tempted but you only get one time through each house so use it wisely. Saturday night we saw people using their EP first thing when the line was less than 10 minutes!

I will be in the S & S area on 10/18 too if you want to say hi.

Thanks dude!

It's odd, isn't the house by the Barney theater the one that exits right back there and the other house (TWD this year) the one that exits by MIB? I don't know, I am just trying to remember from these past years...

I might probably do Afterlife last, crossing from Havoc through Transformers walkway to La Llorona or TWD, whichever exits right there, then doing the other one and finally Afterlife since I'll be dropped out there...
Sounds feasible too??

and I'll be jogging from house to house... HHN is my yearly exercise routine...

Cheers!

Marquibiri

 

[macraven]

For those of you who are curious about the houses, YouTube has some videos from the media event. The media event lets media personnel from magazines and YouTube to videotape the inside of the houses. You will see a complete walk through of all the houses. I personally don't recommend it because it will ruin your in park experience. Thus I won't post the links here.

i go for the spoilers.
i always seek them out early and during the hhn event.

for me, it adds to the event.


going through some of the houses, that conga line is fast moving.
don't want to miss anything in there.

each year i do the UTH's, prior to the night event.
i appreciate all the details put into the houses which you can not always catch when inside the houses at night.

but, i never give any info out in advance on boards as i know many homies do not want to know it.
they like to experience it themselves first hand.

 

[rrali33tt]

Thanks for all the advice so far

So excited for HHN in 2 days!! Not so excited if it ends up raining all night. That will not be fun. If it rains really bad do they just cancel the shows? I would guess all the roaming actors would not be roaming around either and the only ride that would be shut down would be rip rocket.

Also, any advice on what to eat at HHN? I have only bought alcoholic drinks there (the special drink last year was delicious LOL ) Will be skipping dinner to get there at opening so we will def be hungry at some point.

 

[Brandis]

I reserved a table at Finnegans for 4:45 PM, so I can just quickly run out at 5 or so to get the wristband and then spend the wait until the early start eating.

 

[Metro West]

It's odd, isn't the house by the Barney theater the one that exits right back there and the other house (TWD this year) the one that exits by MIB? I don't know, I am just trying to remember from these past years...

TWD exits by Barney and Afterlife and LaLloroda both exit near the back walkway near MIB...which is why it doesn't make sense to have to walk all the way around just to do TWD if you do LaLlorona first.

 

[macraven]

I reserved a table at Finnegans for 4:45 PM, so I can just quickly run out at 5 or so to get the wristband and then spend the wait until the early start eating.

you don't have to do that.

at a few minutes after 5:00, TM's will walk thru Finnegans, scan your hhn ticket and issue you the wristband.

 

[chrisn]

Sorry if this has been asked...

So we have S&S and are doing early dinner (4:00) at Finnegan's. I was thinking to start at house A then work our way clockwise around the park. But now I'm reading...and assuming they maybe don't open the whole row that early? So we will have to backtrack anyway? Then I'm assuming we continue again clockwise?

Only been once. HHNXX. Thanks!

 

[macraven]

there should be 3 houses opened early when the s n s crowd is released from the holding area.

rest of the houses will open by 6:30 appoximately.

 

[Metro West]

So we have S&S and are doing early dinner (4:00) at Finnegan's. I was thinking to start at house A then work our way clockwise around the park. But now I'm reading...and assuming they maybe don't open the whole row that early? So we will have to backtrack anyway? Then I'm assuming we continue again clockwise?

Like I posted before...the S & S house is An American Werewolf in London which is open early as is The Cabin in the Woods but they are not right beside each other. Evil Dead and Resident Evil open at 6:30PM. Those are the soundstage houses. If you wanted to do the stage houses first, do it in this order: AWIL, The Cabin in the Woods, Evil Dead and Resident Evil. Then move to another part of the park and do those. Since the passholder party ends this weekend, I don't know which of those houses will remain open if there is a holding area near ET. All other houses should be open by 6:30PM.

I'm only suggesting a route that should save time and steps.

 

[DisneyMissy318]

Like I posted before...the S & S house is An American Werewolf in London which is open early as is The Cabin in the Woods but they are not right beside each other. Evil Dead and Resident Evil open at 6:30PM. Those are the soundstage houses. If you wanted to do the stage houses first, do it in this order: AWIL, The Cabin in the Woods, Evil Dead and Resident Evil. Then move to another part of the park and do those. Since the passholder party ends this weekend, I don't know which of those houses will remain open if there is a holding area near ET. All other houses should be open by 6:30PM.

I'm only suggesting a route that should save time and steps.

Thanks for posting! I've already written it down and will mark the map appropriately! So excited! Will be at HoS on Saturday, 10/5 and the first of 3 nights for HHN on 10/6

 

[DisneyInfinityFan]

i go for the spoilers.
i always seek them out early and during the hhn event.

for me, it adds to the event.

going through some of the houses, that conga line is fast moving.
don't want to miss anything in there.

each year i do the UTH's, prior to the night event.
i appreciate all the details put into the houses which you can not always catch when inside the houses at night.

but, i never give any info out in advance on boards as i know many homies do not want to know it.
they like to experience it themselves first hand.

Even if there is no post on the board, they can always find the videos on YouTube by themselves. I have done the UTH in the last two years, and I absolutely enjoy it. I think the best way to really appreciate the details that the A&D department puts into the house is by taking the UTH. The videos are basically walkthroughs with the fast moving or slow moving conga line. You won't be able to see everything in the videos. You can take pictures inside the house during UTH tour, and I always find something that I may overlook during my walkthrough during the nights.

 

[Metro West]

Thanks for posting! I've already written it down and will mark the map appropriately! So excited! Will be at HoS on Saturday, 10/5 and the first of 3 nights for HHN on 10/6

 

[lili1126]

That's during Hell Week and it's a Friday/Saturday...it's gonna be tough. Getting in early will definitely help but the lines will get long pretty quickly. Do what you can the first night and then come back ready to go on Saturday night.

Thanks Metro West! So it is doable without express passes? I have 13 people going (we're coming from NYC) for my birthday and not everyone wants to spend the extra money on express pass...we figured we'd try and do 4 houses one night and 4 houses the 2nd night (although I think I'll wind up wanting to do AWIL on both nights since everyone is raving about it! )

 

[macraven]

breaking up your touring by doing half the houses each night, will be good.

you will be able to see all of the houses and probably a show doing it that way.

hhn ends at 2:00 am on friday/saturday nights.

 

[Brandis]

Do Sunday HHN in early october usually sell out (fast)?

As I already have Universal tickets, I cannot buy the discounted S&S ticket online and will need to buy them at Universal directly.

If I want to go on Sunday, Oct. 6, do you think I will be fine getting the HHN ticket the day before or could they already be sold out by then?

 

[macraven]

Do Sunday HHN in early october usually sell out (fast)?

As I already have Universal tickets, I cannot buy the discounted S&S ticket online and will need to buy them at Universal directly.

If I want to go on Sunday, Oct. 6, do you think I will be fine getting the HHN ticket the day before or could they already be sold out by then?

see you there on the 6th!

i don't feel that the hhn ticket will be sold out in advance for that night.


it is more during the end of hhn that certain dates sell out.

buy the hhn ticket before 4:15 that sunday in the park.
lines at guest service can get long around that time as many decide to stay for the hhn event that day while they are in the park.

 

[goofyfigment]

Maybe I need to buy my hhn tix. I know when I'm going just haven't gotten around to buying my frequent fear pass. Maybe next week lol