Tell you what, this is just a fantastic night!!
We went a couple of years ago and absolutely loved it. We went on a Saturday night (and Tuesday twice) and we bought the Express pass for the Saturday. It doubles the price of the ticket but so worth it if you are going on a busy night. We got to see all the houses and the shows and the wait time for some of the houses was well over 90 minutes.
If you are only going for the one night I would recommend the pass to see everything. If you are going back for another night, especially a quieter one, then you shold be ok.
The park is totally different at night, and especially with loads of mad monsters running around. We dodged the men with chainsaws quite a few times but they still got us. We ended up running and squealing into Earthquake just to get away from them and then made out like we meant to go on the ride!
The houses are brilliant and the year we went they had some of my favourite films - Nightmare on Elm Street, The Thing, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I've never been so deliciously scared in my life!! They also had my phobia (clowns) ewww! Jacks Circus Show still sends shivers down my spine
I wish we were going back for it this year...
The 'Scare Zones' were the best part of it for me. Really imaginative & great fun without being too terrifying!!!!
If we go again this year I think we may go for two midweek evenings using 'Stay & Scream' & not bother with the Express pass.
(Only day we could go) From memory I'm sure they didn't release tickets until about 6-8 weeks before the first date & unlike WDW Universal haven't brought the dates forward so expect the first night to be the last weekend in Sept.If you can get a date for midweek choose this,express passes will also be cheaper but for weekends last year EP were the same price as the Ticket! Be prepared,get in before park closing,you get "released " from the holding area before the Official opening so you can get a 2 House head start,this is vital as you will struggle to get them all in.These nights are jammed full & it's not unusual to see queues in excess of 2 hours
We went for the first time last year and absolutely loved it, even though my poor heart could only withstand four out of the eight 'Haunted Houses'
The HHN website is usually updated gradually from about May, with details of the theme for this years event, followed be details of the actual houses and prices. We went on a Wednesday (22/10), a 'quieter' night, and as we had already purchased day tickets we upgraded to 'Stay & Scream' for that evening only & also added Express passes, about £70 for the both, per person. We were the allowed out of the holding area about 3/4 hour ahead of general opening & got into 2 houses with no wait at all. Within about an hour of general opening the queues were enough that we were having to use our Express passes.
OrlandoMagic....unfortunately your onsite 'front of line' privelidges do not extend to HHN as this is a seperately ticketed event. We were staying at the HRH at the time and could only use fotl up until abot 5pm??
We're all desperate to go again. It was undoubtedly the single best event we've ever been to in Florida
Simon you can just upgrade on the day if you wish,we have also managed to upgrade a couple of days before by showing our flex pass but this would depend on Customer services allowing it -but no harm in asking.The busy nights are not dicounted as much as they used to be,I checked the difference for us last year & I seem to remember it being less than $10 (this was the weekend) whereas you can get some good deals if you can make it mid-week.
The only thing you do risk is them selling out the event but I wouldn't expect this until later in Oct.
HTH SD
