HHN this Saturday...

[Jason71]

In the words of Bill & Ted, whoa.

According to Screamscape, over 50,000 tix have been sold; they are planning on keeping parts of IoA open to help alleviate crowds. With 75 minute waits routine on Sunday/Thursday, I cannot even imagine how it is going to be tomorrow.

 

[ChrisFL]

If this is true, at what point do they stop selling tickets?

 

[Fan2CSkr]

If this is true, at what point do they stop selling tickets?

I was wondering the same thing! Isnt crowd attendance speculation? We were there 10/13 and 10/15 and were told crowds hit 47,000 on 10/14. The source of that info was a TM at USO standing at the entrance from IOA into the parks for HHN. BTW...what a great way to enter the park for HHN! Our RIP tour guide told us to do that and it was a great tip!

 

[GreyStr0ke]

According to the HHN website They extended the Hours on Fridays and Saturdays from 5pm-2am.

On Saturdays they will open up Marvel Super Hero Island for a part of the night to help with crowd control.

I also wonder when they will stop selling tickets.

 

[Fan2CSkr]

I guess adding more hours may help but who wants to go when its light outside still? HHN is best when its DARK, especially the scare zones.

 

[Jason71]

On Saturdays they will open up Marvel Super Hero Island for a part of the night to help with crowd control.

I'm curious if they do any last minute theming of the path between the parks. If not, I am not sure Marvel Island is going to be enough of a draw to get people to walk over. Most people go for the houses, not the rides.

 

[robvia]

They've oversold the event. Not much they can do now. People won't stay until 2am, unless they show up late. Those who show up on time will have tired feet by 11pm from standing so long. They'd have to get the word out they're staying open longer and the lines die down from midnight to 2am.

To fix things for next year, they've got to put the S&S between the soundstage houses and make it so those people can go thru them at 5pm. Those houses are dark because they are inside, so it doesn't matter if you go thru them with the sun out. But the entrances to them are in the park, so they have to close down USF before they can let people in.

If they could re-route the entrances of the sound stage houses for the S&S people, and open them all at 5pm, it would help. The S&S people would get thru all the soundstage houses, move on to the shows and be done by 10pm.

 

[Luv2Roam]

Two years ago we were at HHN (our first time). It was when they had both parks open. Without Express Pass (but with PAPs) we started on the backside and went forward.
We were doing great until silly me wanted to explore IoA mid evening. What a major mistake. I have never been in a park that was so crowded. And that includes MK on NYE. (MK at it's craziest. )
It was literally shoulder to shoulder, front to back. We could not even walk where we wanted. We were just part of the crowd and had to go with the flow in a sea of slowly moving bodies. It was horrible.
So yes, USO does oversell. We have experienced it.
When people say Disney oversells their hard ticket events, they don't know how bad it could be. No Disney party is worse than what we experienced that night at HHN.
Although LEAVING MK on NYE was pretty bad. But that night at HHN still beat even that.

 

[F-L-A]

If this is true, at what point do they stop selling tickets?

They don't, apparently. It's been like this all month. They're putting profit above customer satisfaction, which doesn't sit well with me. They better be prepared to offer a larger, more intricate event if they want to keep this up.

 

[nerdboyrockstar]

They don't, apparently. It's been like this all month. They're putting profit above customer satisfaction, which doesn't sit well with me. They better be prepared to offer a larger, more intricate event if they want to keep this up.

I find it to be kind-of bizarre. HHN sell-outs used to be common, but now they just keep selling tickets? And then sell more Express because, you know, about an hour in line is still Express compared to 2-3 hours in line.. AND jack up the prices?

I just hope they put these profits to good use.

 

[ChrisFL]

I find it to be kind-of bizarre. HHN sell-outs used to be common, but now they just keep selling tickets? And then sell more Express because, you know, about an hour in line is still Express compared to 2-3 hours in line.. AND jack up the prices?

I just hope they put these profits to good use.

Actually I dont know if they're selling that many express passes, my experience last Sunday where the wait times were 75+ minutes for houses, express lines were very short, and the tickets were sold out for express too.

But I agree about the overall ticket sales, I used to see the website and how it used to show the regular tickets and being sold out on certain nights.

If they're selling as many as possible, they'd better open both parks and spread the people out, though we all know that means less scare zone interaction

 

[jpeppers]

2 of the 3 nights we were there this year were way to crowded. On Sunday the 8th it was a 10-15 minute wait just for a drink not to mention the houses. Friday the 13th was terrible even with the express passes. I have been 4 years in a row and had never had a negative experience but this year was miserable and I was very unimpressed with the majority of the houses and the scare zones (in 3 nights we only saw video on the globes 1 time). I still love Universal, I just wish IOA would have been opened up so the rides could have helped alleviate the crowds.

 

[macraven]

this is why i only attend the first or second weekend of hhn.

since the first weekend did not include the sunday, i went the second weekend.

only the 8th had crowds and was no advantage of using the s & s areas.


i use the ep and go early in the month cause i know how the crowds will be during hell week.
even on saturday the 7th, lines were long until the end.
last year i could do walk ins to the houses at 1:45 but not this year.

i'm sticking to the first or second weekends to hit hhn.
crowds give me the willys........

 

[tink606]

We went Sat. Oct. 21st with express passes and did not wait more than 10-15 minutes in every single haunted house. We got there at 8:00pm left when the park closed which was 2am. We did all houses, bill and ted, the arrival, and robosaurus w/ a little bit of the directors cut. We have no complaints, had a great time, yeah at times the crowds were pretty bad, but it wasnt unbearable, i actually enjoy it when there are people there than when its totally empty. oh and i forgot to mention that we rode the mummy also. The only complaint I have is that yeah, there was a lot of underage drinking and those are the ones you saw at the side by the bushes throwing up, other than that it was awesome and we had a great time. The alcohol lines were not that bad either, the longest we waited was 5 minutes but it was normally just walk up, so like i said we have no complaints and go every year around the 20 or the 21st we've been going since 2000. my sister and I attend a teacher's convention at the wyndham, and thats when they normally have it every year.