The tour was excellent, a lot of rain before but during the tour weather was fine hot and muggy. Last year was my first time to HHN and we did stay and scream twice and did all the houses one night and most of them again the second night, with not much wait. That was also the second week of HHN.
However doing the private tour is much preferred. I cannot recommend MacRaven enough and the group I was on the tour with, we had a great time! No waiting to get into the houses is just part of it.