Official 2018 HHN-28 Thread

[crostorfer]

It's all been very confusing.

We just checked in at the VIP Center and they also seemed to be confused by this half-RIP. I suggest calling it "the 5 house tour" that seems to be the one phrase that makes sense to them.

When checking in, it's loud and crammed in that area. 3 people are asking you questions.

What's your last name?
How do you spell that again?
Could it be under a different name?
Where are you from? And when we say, he says he knows exactly where it is then proceeds to tell us where it is except that he's wrong.
"I need to take all of your passes, I'll be back"
"have you been to HHN?"
"Are you sure you didn't give another name"
"ready to get scared?"

And on and on and on. Rapid fire.

Finally, the guy comes back with our passes, he went to talk to some, what looked like, supervisors and said "okay, you are seeing the tent houses tonight. That's the tour we have."

We wanted the other, but oh well.

Queued up now to get I to the park then will meet at La Bamba later......

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Yeah, I don't know if I like the sound of that.

 

[cschaaf]

Confusion still reigns.

Walked to La Bamba. Went to check in, got asked to spell my name several times. Then couldn't find me anywhere. Ended up searching for my first name and found it.

I heard another family doing the 5 sound stage houses, so I have no idea what's going on.

I guess my advice now is to buy the tour fist thing in the morning (which we did) at the VIP Center at USO (which we did not. We bought at IOA Guest Services).

ETA: Finished our 5 houses. Did trick r treat, Seeds, Dead Exposure, Sinema., and ST by 8:00

The family that I heard was doing the stages didn't. They were on the same tour with us.

The pass does get you EP on the rides. There was no free food or drinks on the tour.

ETA2: we stopped at Lombard's for a quick break. There was a bar with some drinks and snacks, but nothing was free. They couldn't get the credit card reader working, so it ended up being cash only.

Overall, we loved the tour. We got a lot done, with less walking than normal, and pretty quickly. I don't see any way those 5 houses could be done in an hour. The guide said it's ~2 hour average. We did it in 90 minutes. He said he had a group last night that took 3 hours.

 

[macraven]

This 5 house rip tour is new this year
Kinks have not totally been worked out yet is my guess

If it is a good seller, I can see it being repeated next hhn season

It can only be purchased on the day you book and pay for it

To get 5 houses done in 90 minutes is a time saver !

Limited lines for you

 

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For context, is that more or less than usual?

Certainly for a Wednesday it was busier than a lot of people had seen for a while. A TM friend mentioned she was there in an email and she had never seen a Wednesday line like it.

This was Thursday 11th around same time....after initial rush according to Bioreconstruct




Picture from Bioreconstruct

 

[Robo56]

I was there about 8 pm on Wednesday the 10th. People were still pouring across the bridge. Thank goodness for the hotel entrance.

It was pretty humid, lines were long and it was a bit more rowdy then the other nights I went.

They were selling a lot of Express passes. So express lines on some houses were long.

So the plan of non busy Wednesday nights have gone out the window.

 

[cschaaf]

We did Stay and Srceam on Wednesday the 10th and the crowds weren't bad at all early.

People in the S&S who had done that the previous Sunday were shocked at how differet the crowd was.

We did Poltergeist first - through the queue and out of the house in 12 minutes.

Then did Scary Tales in 10 min. Went to the MIB houses and did Sinema and DE both in 18 minutes. It was exactly 8:00.

We're very slow walkers, we both have developed foot is use in the last few years, and our feet hurt by that time otherwise, we would have done the kid zone houses next.

Instead, we grabbed something to eat and hung out in a few scare zones for about an hour, then left.

 

[crostorfer]

Tonight is sold out!!!!!

 

[mamapenguin]

I am not surprised. The park was crowded when we got there at noon. (Our party was 10/10, so not there tonight) Gringott's took 30 min. for express at 4:00pm today. We were meeting family for dinner and headed to Islands after. Toothsome was super packed and slow. Islands was crowded, but when we left at 8:15 there was a steady stream of people headed in, and more cars than I've ever seen coming into that parking lot. Cars were blocking the intersection turning to get in. I wonder if Express sold out? I don't know if we would have enjoyed Wednesday without it.

 

[macraven]

Wednesday the 10th was not a bad night for me

It had crowds in the front of the park for Stranger Things when I went by it at 7 pm

I started with scary tales and less than ten minutes wait
Then did poltergeist and short wait

I did not stay late that night but thought there were less crowds at the sections in the park I was at

Thursday night was okay for when I was there
I did a late start due to the rain
I waited it out before I left my hotel room for hhn

Did a partial night so no idea what type of crowds were there after I left at 10:30

 

[frank808]

So the 5 house half RIP tour is available every night now? If so, we get into MCO next friday afternoon and head on over to VIP area at Universal Studios and buy the tour. We were going to do EP but would rather do this and make it an early night as we have the Uncover the Horror tour the next morning on Saturday. Thanks

 

[RAPstar]

HHN tonight is sold out