Official 2022 HHN 31 - Horror is Universal

[macraven]

WHAT is hell week too while we’re at it?

School fall break time and many hit the parks
Yes, it does bring in the crowds

 

[Neverbeast]

Oh lol! It sounded like it could be a cool special part of HHN that would bring more crowds for a theme

 

[schumigirl]

Oh lol! It sounded like it could be a cool special part of HHN that would bring more crowds for a theme

No such luck!!

We did Hell week once......and once only. Never again.

 

[tony67]

Just wondered if anyone had thoughts on whether it is worth doing RIP tour and Unmasking the Horror and which one would you do first

I like to do at least one night before doing the unmasking tours just so you can experience the unexpected - although last year I felt the unmasking tours added lot to the experience.
Also, If you can find a private RIP tour to join that is much better.

 

[imprint]

I have been going to hhn and have done the day house tour since the third year it began

It has always been a highlight for me!

I’m already booked for the 6 house tour…

We've already booked too! We first did the 3-house tour, and since then we upped to the 6-house tour since we liked it so much. Not quite ready to step up to do both the 3-house and 6-house... yet!

 

[MinnieMSue]

So I booked the 10am 6 house tour and today got my email and it said to check in at 8:30 for it. I think they may have changed my tour time because why would we have to check in at 8:30 for a 10 am tour? I looked at my email confirmation that shows my order number for the tour and the 2 HHN we purchased and there is no tour time listed. Just the date. I was not planning to get up that early after going to HHN. I think we will have food in our room to eat on the walk from the hotel to the tour because it is gonna be a roll out of bed and straight to the tour situation. Ugh. I wonder what time the tour is with checkin at 8:30

 

[soniam]

So I booked the 10am 6 house tour and today got my email and it said to check in at 8:30 for it. I think they may have changed my tour time because why would we have to check in at 8:30 for a 10 am tour? I looked at my email confirmation that shows my order number for the tour and the 2 HHN we purchased and there is no tour time listed. Just the date. I was not planning to get up that early after going to HHN. I think we will have food in our room to eat on the walk from the hotel to the tour because it is gonna be a roll out of bed and straight to the tour situation. Ugh. I wonder what time the tour is with checkin at 8:30

I think that tour checkin times for the 3 house were 15-30 minutes before start time. 8:30 sounds wrong for a 10am tour. I did a 10am 3 house tour, and I didn't need to get there that early.

 

[imprint]

So I booked the 10am 6 house tour and today got my email and it said to check in at 8:30 for it. I think they may have changed my tour time because why would we have to check in at 8:30 for a 10 am tour? I looked at my email confirmation that shows my order number for the tour and the 2 HHN we purchased and there is no tour time listed. Just the date. I was not planning to get up that early after going to HHN. I think we will have food in our room to eat on the walk from the hotel to the tour because it is gonna be a roll out of bed and straight to the tour situation. Ugh. I wonder what time the tour is with checkin at 8:30

When I booked our UtH tour, I only received one email (I booked 10:00 too), and it only has the date, not the time. Did you happen to book any other tours? I checked my USO app wallet for last year's UtH tickets (this year's tickets are not on it yet), and the fine print says to check in 15 minutes prior to tour time (it also does not show the time). You might want to call and ask about it. The emails and such really should show the time in addition to the date, no doubt.

 

[macraven]

So I booked the 10am 6 house tour and today got my email and it said to check in at 8:30 for it. I think they may have changed my tour time because why would we have to check in at 8:30 for a 10 am tour? I looked at my email confirmation that shows my order number for the tour and the 2 HHN we purchased and there is no tour time listed. Just the date. I was not planning to get up that early after going to HHN. I think we will have food in our room to eat on the walk from the hotel to the tour because it is gonna be a roll out of bed and straight to the tour situation. Ugh. I wonder what time the tour is with checkin at 8:30

I just looked at my confirmation for the 6 house day tour

When I booked our UtH tour, I only received one email (I booked 10:00 too), and it only has the date, not the time. Did you happen to book any other tours? I checked my USO app wallet for last year's UtH tickets (this year's tickets are not on it yet), and the fine print says to check in 15 minutes prior to tour time (it also does not show the time). You might want to call and ask about it. The emails and such really should show the time in addition to the date, no doubt.

Same for me as imprint just posted
I just looked at my confirmation email for my 6 house tour

 

[scottishgirl1]

I called Universal yesterday as I received two emails for the RIP tour but just one for the Unmasking the Horror 3 house tour and like others it shows date only and no time. i was advised that i wouldnt get another email until nearer the time and I asked her to double check I had selected the correct time of 10am, she also mentioned that check in would be just before 10.

 

[MinnieMSue]

So I called universal and for some reason they changed us to 8:30 am tour. He changed it to the 10am tour as there was still availability. Doing HHN night before the tour. Tour only next day then HHN the next night. We also fly in early the day of the first HHN and plan to snooze by the pool that morning since we prob will not get a room early. Was thinking we would be true zombies during the tour lol. We prob will be anyway lol.

 

[Skywalker3]

Still figuring out our possible HHN plans this year, and we'll be there during fall break/columbus day/hell week, so planning accordingly for crowds. Our first HHN was last year at the same time, so baptism by fire I guess. It was BUSY! but fun. We only did Stay/scream, which helped us get through like 4 houses in about 1- 1.5 hours, but then it was packed! next house was over 1 hr wait, (posted 90) and we never got to Beetlejuice. I really think we might consider express this go round. We did manage 8 houses, and really could've done the last 2 if we'd stayed until 2AM. (we left around 1 AM, son had already gone back to room, and my daughter was the one who was too tired!!! what!)
Hubby is not at all interested in HHN at night,so may just be my son and me, but he did say he might be interested in a one of the daytime house tours, so will start looking into that , see what we can manage.

 

[macraven]

Skywalker3
I feel the day house tours are worth it
The guide gives details about the houses with the lights on, and gives background history and how it relates to the theme

Much of what you do see during the night tour, is not recognizable when you go thru the houses at night

 

[imprint]

So I called universal and for some reason they changed us to 8:30 am tour. He changed it to the 10am tour as there was still availability. Doing HHN night before the tour. Tour only next day then HHN the next night. We also fly in early the day of the first HHN and plan to snooze by the pool that morning since we prob will not get a room early. Was thinking we would be true zombies during the tour lol. We prob will be anyway lol.

Really weird...Last night I said I only got the confirmation email with no time at all. This afternoon I got another email. There's a sentence in the email that says,"Your Unmasking the Horror™ check-in time is at and will last up to 5 hours, with a short break mid-way through." I bolded the intersting part. There is a time missing between "at" and "and". Then further down in the email, it says "Tour Check-in Time: 8:30 am" and I definitely chose the 10:00 tour like you did. There's contact information at the bottom of the email, and I'll call tomorrow. I'm glad you brought this up and already called so the rest of us know to look out for the same.

 

[imprint]

Still figuring out our possible HHN plans this year, and we'll be there during fall break/columbus day/hell week, so planning accordingly for crowds. Our first HHN was last year at the same time, so baptism by fire I guess. It was BUSY! but fun. We only did Stay/scream, which helped us get through like 4 houses in about 1- 1.5 hours, but then it was packed! next house was over 1 hr wait, (posted 90) and we never got to Beetlejuice. I really think we might consider express this go round. We did manage 8 houses, and really could've done the last 2 if we'd stayed until 2AM. (we left around 1 AM, son had already gone back to room, and my daughter was the one who was too tired!!! what!)
Hubby is not at all interested in HHN at night,so may just be my son and me, but he did say he might be interested in a one of the daytime house tours, so will start looking into that , see what we can manage.

Skywalker3
I feel the day house tours are worth it
The guide gives details about the houses with the lights on, and gives background history and how it relates to the theme

Much of what you do see during the night tour, is not recognizable when you go thru the houses at night

Skywalker3, I agree with macraven. I don't want you to think I'm trying to up-sell you or anything, because the costs really do add up. We really enjoy the lights-on daytime tour too. We've always had great tour guides and as macraven said they give you lots of details about theme, cast, crew, construction, easter eggs, and they'll tell you which rooms you can take pics in which we obviously can't do at night. Express Pass is a life saver if you are like us and want to go through all (or most) houses each night. Yet again, expensive, but for us is worth its weight in gold (we are spoiled and can't handle long waits and fewer steps is a great thing too). We like to go three nights with express and do a daytime tour in the middle of three days. If I had to cut either express or the daytime tour, I'd sadly cut the tour and make sure we hit all the houses as much as we could stand on our three nights (we use the phrase "until we have bloody stumps for legs" lol). If you have any questions to help make your decisions, please ask and there's also great info in the previous years' threads (you might not want to rely on the years that had less than 10 houses though).

 

[macraven]

Please share with us, imprint after you get current info from UO about the day tour start time

 

[mamamelody2]

We were all set to go to our first HHN last October and my daughter got sick. We had to cancel.
Looking at perhaps doing UOR Labor Day week. It's the last week on our AP. Would love to do HHN!
I really hope it works out for us this year!

Also, does anyone remember when the multi-day tickets became available for purchase last year?

 

[imprint]

We were all set to go to our first HHN last October and my daughter got sick. We had to cancel.
Looking at perhaps doing UOR Labor Day week. It's the last week on our AP. Would love to do HHN!
I really hope it works out for us this year!

Also, does anyone remember when the multi-day tickets became available for purchase last year?

I searched my emails from last year. I didn't have an email that said when they were released, but I purchased ours on August 5, 2021. Unfortunately, I don't remember if that was an immediate purchase or if I waited some time. Hopefully, someone else knows for sure.

 

[wmoon]

We have just booked the 3 house unmasking the horror tour for the Wednesday morning in the middle of our trip.

We are doing Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday nights at HHN for our very first trip.

Such great info and suggestions on this thread. So excited.

 

[macraven]

In recent past years, early June is when I booked my tours
No idea how it will be for this year

Bookings have started based on peeps sharing their info

All I plan on this year is to do the day tours for the houses

Was surprised that the house tours came out this early for the day house tours
I just assumed I would be booking the day tour