Hi! My friends and I were at the Halloween party on Friday 10/15, so I'm here to give a little review
My friend has most of our pics from the party on her camera, so I'll post a couple later in the week when I get them from her....just words for now!
First of all, NEVER go on that weekend! Lol the park was CRAZY crowded! I had heard before we went that it was likely to be crowded because of school breaks in Utah (and Nevada I think?) but man I did not expect it to be as busy as it was!
Anyway, back on track! The party was soooo fun! Our Peter Pan group kept decreasing in size and we ended up with only 6 people. We had Peter, Tink, Wendy, John, Michael, and Hook. A lot of people didn't recognize the boys, even with the rest of the group, which surprised me. But our Tinkerbell was my friend's dad, who is a large Mexican man, and he got a lot of laughs! He was stopped by at least 10 people asking to take pics with him, and I'm sure many more were snapped without us knowing
It was so funny to see the little kids looking at him; most of them just didn't seem to know what to think
We showed up to the park around 4:30, but it was too crowded then to do much of anything so we just wandered around a while, then we met my cousin for dinner and rode Haunted Mansion with him. He's an Imagineer working on the Little Mermaid ride, so it's awesome to talk to him about it
After that it was 7:00 and the party was starting. Cast members were out in force checking wristbands, but after about 7:30 or 8 they didn't seem to be looking a whole lot. I really don't think many (if any) people stayed behind to try and "sneak in" to the party though; the regular guests seemed pretty good about getting out when the announcements were made.
We spent most of our time getting pictures taken; I think we only went on 1 or 2 rides during the night. We got a spot to watch the fireworks at 9:00, then watched the cavalcade (which was REALLY cute!) at 10:30. We did just a little bit of trick-or-treating, but we got enough to satisfy us, and it's mostly yummy chocolate
. A good thing to note is that all the trick-or-treat trails go both ways! Towards the beginning of the night the lines were really long, but usually only in one direction, so we just got in line going to the other way and it was pretty quick!
We saw Maleficent with the villains, and also Hades (didn't get a pic, he came out right when we finished), which I thought was really cool because I had never seen him before and didn't even know they had a Hades costume or anything! He and Maleficent are both only out for the party.
We all had a lot of fun during the party taking pics with characters, watching the parade and fireworks, and seeing everyone's costumes, and I definitely thought it was worth the money. But I didn't think there was enough time! I would have liked more time to just wander and see all the decorations and effects and take pictures of that stuff, and also time to take advantage of the shorter lines for the rides. I'm really, really glad they have fireworks and the cavalcade during the party, but watching them both certainly cuts out a chunk of time!
Overall though, like I said, the party was awesome, and we are already making plans for next year!
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