A little more back story on the passes.
HHN is a separate ticketed event so you need a ticket for the night or nights you are going to attend.
Your Unlimited Express pass for the parks which is included in your stay at PBH, RPR and HRH is different then HHN Express and does not work at HHN.
In addition to your HHN event ticket they have Express pass tickets for HHN. This is at an extra cost and when purchased will allow you to use the Express lanes for the houses which are shorter.
The Express pass can and will sell out at times on the weekends. The regular lines are very long on busy nights and the Express Pass is worth it’s weight in gold.
You might have read in some posts that people are waiting to see if the combined ticket and Express pass passes will be available this year. There were different levels of those passes they covered either a select number of days during the event or the entire event.
You can purchase these special passes with or without Express included also.
Rush of Fear Pass for example $ 139.99 or Rush of a Fear with Express 329.00. These are not exact numbers just trying to give you a ballpark idea.
For example the Rush of Fear Pass with Express covers your ticket and Express pass for the first couple of weeks of HHN. Universal lists the dates covered for each of these special passes. So for one cost your admission ticket was covered and Express for the nights listed under the dates for the Rush of Fear Pass.
There were 2 other passes Frequent Fear and I think the other was Ultimate Fear. Those passes went up in price as they covered more days.
The Ultimate Fear Pass with Express was the most expensive and included admission to HHN plus Express during the entire event and did not have blackout days.
These passes are very cost effective for folks who live local and are going to attend the event numerous times and those who are on longer vacations to Universal and want to attend HHN multiple days while there.
We will see what Universal has for passes this year.
Hope this helps.