Horror nights questions

[palmtreegirl]

Going to horror nights This week, what time should we arrive? What time do the gates open? Is there a house we should see first?

Thanks!!!

 

[imprint]

Are you going to be inside the park before it closes for the Stay and Scream? Are you staying on-site but will not be in the park before HHN? Are you staying off-site and need to go through the main gate?

Knowing that will help advise when to arrive and which house to start. I believe the main gate opens around 6:30.

 

[palmtreegirl]

Outside the park, we only have HHN tickets.

 

[Metro West]

Outside the park, we only have HHN tickets.

Get to the gates as close to 5PM as possible to avoid the mob scene outside. I would suggest doing 25 Years of Monsters and Mayhem first since you will come to that house at Despicable Me. Continue on to American Werewolf in London, Freddy vs. Jason and The Body Collectors...in that order. Those are the soundstage houses and you would be done with that side of the park. Run: Blood, Sweat and Fears would be next behind Beetlejuice. Then walk around past MIB and do Insidious...this house is extremely popular so the line will be long. Then do The Walking Dead and The Purge (in that order) to finish up that side of the park. Asylum in Wonderland is the last house (located in the Shrek building). Pick up a map once you get inside and have a great time. I'll be going again Friday night for my seventh visit this year so I'm very familiar with where everything is located.

 

[palmtreegirl]

Get to the gates as close to 5PM as possible to avoid the mob scene outside. I would suggest doing 25 Years of Monsters and Mayhem first since you will come to that house at Despicable Me. Continue on to American Werewolf in London, Freddy vs. Jason and The Body Collectors...in that order. Those are the soundstage houses and you would be done with that side of the park. Run: Blood, Sweat and Fears would be next behind Beetlejuice. Then walk around past MIB and do Insidious...this house is extremely popular so the line will be long. Then do The Walking Dead and The Purge (in that order) to finish up that side of the park. Asylum in Wonderland is the last house (located in the Shrek building). Pick up a map once you get inside and have a great time. I'll be going again Friday night for my seventh visit this year so I'm very familiar with where everything is located.

Thank you!!!!!!

 

[Brenda Kim]

Just a note, we were there on Sunday and thankfully bought the Express Pass because the Insidious house was a two and a half hour wait. We thought the worst house was Run. Also long waits at Walking Dead and Purge each almost reaching the 100 minute by the middle of the night. So it would depend upon what time you get there.

We stayed on site and so we had the onsite line up and we were about the 4th people through the gates at 6 PM when they opened. We went straight to 25 years, did American Werewolf, then Freddy vs Jason and then Body Collectors. The wait was 5-15 minutes for each house. By 7 PM we were getting a drink having done 4 houses. From 7 PM on the minimum wait for any house was 30 minutes with the popular ones now at 60 minutes by 8 PM the most popular (Insidious, Walking Dead, Jack Presents and The Purge were all over 100 minutes. Get there early!!!! 5 PM....We got there at 5:30 PM and the line for the regular guest at the main gate looked to be about 100 people or more deep, it stretched out of the gates about 20 feet from the Universal Globe. You will have to go through metal detectors which only a certain amount of people will clear before they open the gates around 6 PM. If you get stuck waiting to get through those you may as well have a drink at NBC and wait an hour until the first surge gets through. Officially HHN begins at 6:30 unofficially they let guest in as early at 6 PM. When you see the fireworks, the gates have been opened.

Do see Bill and Ted's and The carnage Returns, both shows are excellent.

Get a map and check out where the houses EXIT so you don't have to do a lot of backtracking.

There are the pop up bars everywhere but the pop up HHN food tents aren't everywhere, we walked around the whole park and found biggest concentration of the food tents were in the NY area, and then one over between London and Men in Black, and one over by ET area (that one had cheesesteaks.)

I did not wear the 3D glasses in Asylum in Wonderland, just putting them on as I first entered a room and then took them off, buy the end of the house I did not wear them at all. They just made all of the lights blurry and psychedelic looking.