LogFAQs > #911296581

Alright so Halloween Horror Nights had a whopping ten houses with different themes, and in Universal's desire to make buttloads of money they will sell UNLIMITED tickets to visit these houses at exorbitant fees. Even though HHN lasts for almost two months the business never really ebbs because Orlando is the most popular tourism destination in the country so on any given night that's several hundred thousand people moving throughout a finite area and the organization of the traffic is practically nonexistent.

In fact there's more organization INSIDE the houses than outside actually moderating the lines- which is a shame for two reasons: one, the staff directing the traffic flow inside the houses aren't in character or costume at all which breaks the immersion, and the few staff outside can't control the numerous nasty guests that often successfully cut in line. They also forget to collect tickets they hand you to discourage line cutters (whoops).

Furthermore since HHN has to entertain sooo many guests, unlike any other house we've been to they make no attempt to stagger the flow of people inside, and in fact they seemed to be designed to have a constant flow of people moving through them, and therein lies the issue. How could anything ever be scary when you hear it happen right before it happens to you? Actually there was one monstrous situation when the guests in front of us got all the jumpscares and my party got nothing but to bear witness to all of it, made all the more monstrous by those very same guests being obnoxious in the line to get to the house, and by stopping traffic multiple times.

Because of all the line cutters and the volume in general we only got to experience 7 of the ten themed houses, and though I feel like we chose well the overall night was soured as the only way to do them all would've been to buy the express pass for an additional fee when the tickets were already too expensive to begin with! As it is we would probably never come back, at least certainly not under the same circumstances.

You can take all that with two grains of salt because we apparently went at the absolute worst possible time (weekend night, mid-October oooops), but our experience was super mediocre.
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