Is one night at Halloween Horror Nights enough time to experience everything
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interested in go ahead and hit that subscribe button hey guys welcome back one of the questions
that we could ask most frequently around here has got to be is one night at hhn enough time
to experience everything halloween horror nights is a very large event with a lot of
things to do there’s a lot of pent up demand for hhn30 but we'll get into that another
time what we figured we doing today's video is talk about whether or not we think it’s
possible and also give you some tips and tricks to help you optimize and make the most out
of your situation No Matter What scenario you find yourself in the best way that you
can guarantee you get to experience everything at hhn in one night is to purchase an RIP
tour an RIP tour is a VIP experience that comes with benefits like priority entry into
each house once per night a VIP entrance into Universal Studios a pre-tour reception at
Cafe La Bomba that’s where you get the nom noms reserved seating for select shows as
well as an unlimited express pass for participating rides and attractions but not houses after
the tour ends you can also purchase a private VIP tour for up to 10 guests as well if you
just get online and book an RIP tour you are going to be put with other people like you
can book it for your party your party will be together if you book it for four people
they’re not going to split you up but you’re not gonna be with just your group You're going
to be put with other groups if you're looking at something a little more private they do
like she said offer those tours but you can’t even find the price online you actually have
to call Universal to get a quote I don’t know about you all but for us you may be in
a different boat like a yacht but if we have to call or even ask for the price we probably
don’t need to be purchasing it so we will not be taking a private RIP tour this year
unless we have a friend that hits the lottery or something we're probably out on that we
are considering taking a normal RIP tour if we can swing that but the ones those are out
with the RIP tour you do have a tour guide at that guides you around the park according
to your itinerary and you basically just get to walk into all of the houses yeah you don’t
really have a say on that itinerary it’s sort of set up because there’s a lot of
different RIP groups going around but there are 3 Lines essentially at Halloween Horror
Nights you're going to have to stand by line the express line and then no line and no line
is where the tour is at like we said we’ve never taken one but you see them down there
and it’s like a person with a lightsaber can't say lightsaber that’s a disney property
it’s a person with a glow stick and they’ve got a group following them around they’re
in scrubs most of the time the really cool thing is that they do tell you backstory about
the houses or scarezones whatever you're about to go into they know everything about it seems
like something that is specifically for people who only have one night in the park if you
can wing it and afford it I think this is the perfect thing and it is specifically made
for people that don’t have a lot of time the RIP tour starts at $229.99 per person
and there are several nights that are already well over $300 on top of this that doesn't
include access to the event so you do have to purchase single night ticket on top of
that meaning that the cheapest you could purchase an RIP is $300 per person and that’s not
even including tax yeah so that’s why we were talking about being able to wing it you
are paying for convenience you don’t have to make any plans you don’t have to do anything
the night is right in front of you but it comes at a hefty price point if you want to
make the most out of your night at hhn but you don't want to spend a fortune on an RIP
tour the next option is to purchase an express pass but something to keep in mind is at the
Halloween Horror Nights Express passes are not unlimited yeah they don't of we get the
question sometimes why can't you just purchase the unlimited express pass for halloween horror
nights they don't offer it Hollywood does offer it which is where some of the confusion
comes in but Orlando does not offer an unlimited express pass for HHN so what that means is
that you can only use that Express Pass once for each house so keeping that in mind you
need to be strategic about when you use your Express Passes if you utilize stay and scream
which you should and you get through and there's a house that doesn't really have a long wait
time there's no point in burning your Express Pass when you could just go through the standard
line and then later in the night you can actually use your express pass when there's actually
a long line there's no reason to use a like one time 50% discount coupon that you got
at Long John Silver's we haven’t eaten there in years like when you have a $4 order wait
till you have that $50 order to really get them but seriously the last time we were there
for an event which was HHN 29 we sort of did some planning we did some studying and we
were actually able to use our express pass to do every house twice and we did that two
nights in a row they were long nights and our feet were hurting but we didn't have as
many days last year at the last event like we were wanting so we got the most of it we
would also probably suggest going to the stay and scream area with the busiest houses which
in the past has usually been over by Finnegan’s but this year with Beetlejuice being in the
back of the park it might be a better idea to start in Springfield it’s just going
to take some time to figure out right the event hasn’t started and we don’t know
where the crowds are gonna flock I think that’s how I wanna say it Beetlejuice is probably
going to be one of the most popular houses but there’s just a lot of really good houses
in the line up that are speculated whatever so people be pulled different ways I'm just
not sure what area is going to be the busiest also as far as the strategy of going to the
busiest houses first that's debatable too we’ve had success doing that We've also
had success knocking out as many houses that have a low wait times as possible first we
just don’t have a strong opinion there it seems like when we get the busier houses first
we got more done we got the most done that night but that could just be biased regardless
we do suggest that you save those Express passes until later in the event when the crowds
really start to set in yeah so 8-10 8-11 right in there is when the event is in full swing
there's people everywhere and the lines are like they're getting longer as the night goes
on so what like to do is in that window that's when we want to burn up our express passes
we don’t use it in the beginning because the wait times are shorter and then we burn
them all and then we try to get in line for some of the houses we want to do a second
time later the night and we just wait in the normal standby line for those at that point
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we talk about some ways that you can do that like we said in our top five tips for hhn
video later in the night crowds start dwindling 11:30-12 you’re really going to see some
of those line wait time start decreasing right now there is not any scarezones or anything
speculated that’s supposed to have zombies in it but we promise you you will see some
zombies you’ll see people just dragging at like 11 because they’ve been there since
like 8 in the morning and you’ll see a scareactor and when you get closer to him and they’ve
got like Disney Vaca 2021 and and on the back it’s like Papa bear or something like that
and you just see them leaving the park that is very common because people don’t want
to be there anymore now we’re not guaranteeing that you’re going to get to experience Everything
in one night with Express passes we don’t guarantee anything okay we guarantee that
we will get a twisted tader at some point during the event and that our feet will hurt
but other than that we’re not going to guarantee anything it’s possible that you get everything
done in one night but this year’s event is supposed to have at least 2 shows as well
as 10 haunted houses so that’s a lot to get through but you should be able to do at
least all of the houses once barring some unforeseen circumstances I’ll go as far
as saying I think it’s probable that you can do everything in one night with express
pass like we said we did all the houses twice and even saw a show two nights in a row at
HHN 29 so we don’t think it’ll be a problem but you just never know how the houses will
line up you could get in a line that’s 90 minutes and then an hour after you get out
of it it's 20 minutes where you could have saved so much time there are so many things
you could hit cast change there’s a lot of variables there but what you are going
to have to do to make sure you get all that done is you’re going to have to be there
from can till can’t and what we mean by that is you can get in line for stay and scream
so you need to be there for stay and scream and you can't stay past a certain time because
they’ll kick you out so can until can’t open to close it’s going to be a long night
but it will be worth it you don’t want to miss anything the express passes start at
$89.99 per person but depending on what night you're visiting they can get up to $170 I
actually checked the website earlier today and the cheapest that I saw Express passes
was $99 per person and just like with the RIP tour this does not include admission into
the advent so if you're wanting to get the most out of your trip but you're not going
to purchase Express passes or an RIP tour there's still some ways that you can have
an awesome time our biggest tip is to take advantage of stay and scream so you've heard
us mention it a few times and just in case you aren't aware stay and Scream is essentially
early Park admission for Halloween Horror Nights it is simply a way to get you into
the parks or into the event before the general crowd starts making their way in if you are
visiting HHN for one night and you don't have Express passes or an RIP tour you absolutely
need to take advantage of stay and scream can till can’t yeah and the way that you
do that is that you have to have entrance in to the park so you either have to have
a daily ticket or an annual pass in the past they have sold scream early tickets I think
they were about $25 yeah they’re generally a $25 add on where you don't have to have
admission into the parks themselves and those are not currently on sale but we do expect
them to go on sale before the event begins the game plan is to try to get as many of
the popular houses done as you can before the lines get too long like we said earlier
we're not really sure what houses people are going to be the most excited about this year
so we would suggest prioritizing the houses that you want to see most then when what's
the main gates are open and the lines really start to build up you should try to go to
some of the houses with the lower wait times then yeah you can bounce around just try to
maximize your time spent in the parks by hitting up some of the houses that you have it done
that the wait times are low in at that moment but what we really suggest doing we like to
do homework so if you’re not going opening weekend you can download the app if you have
the Universal it’s the same one and you can see wait times for the houses as they
start popping up we like to kind of look at it and see what wait times are throughout
the night for certain houses say there’s a house that’s not really high on your priority
list but you see that from like 6-10 it’s a 60 minute it averages being a 60 minute
wait but then at 10:30 or 11 it goes down to a 30 minute just wait just because you
haven’t done it yet, wait do that for a bunch of them because there does tend to be
sort of a pattern with the wait times and the houses it’s like crowds move a certain
way throughout the event and you can save a lot of time just understanding where you
need to be at what time you need to be there we have actually never been to the event together
without express passes because we are so fance just straight bouje no seriously it’s just
because we don’t typically have a lot of time at the event so we just want to make
sure we get everything done but we wanted to do some research for you all so we reached
out to friend of the channel Matt at theme park bar he actually has his own YouTube channel
where he makes theme park drinks he makes drinks from all the theme parks Universal
Disney Sea World if that’s your kind of thing you need to check it out he even makes
drinks from Halloween Horror Nights yeah we’ll put a like up here and we’ll also put one
down in the description so you can check him out but he’s been going every year since
2009 so he is a veteran and he said at hhn 29 he was able to do all 10 houses in one
night without having express he even said in 2017 he was able to do all the houses and
a show so it is possible our biggest hesitancy I guess is that the event is growing in popularity
every year it's kind of a double-edged sword because we're getting more houses we're getting
better props we’re getting all kinds of Great things with the popularity but is also
making it harder to do everything in one of the crowds are coming in with that popularity
so what’s our final verdict on whether or not you can do everything in one night without
express or without doing an RIP tour we think it's going to be very difficult for not going
to say impossible we’re just going to say improbable if you have a different experience
from previous years or this year as the event kicks off and you get to go and you don't
have Express and you get to do all these things come back and let us know because we want
to share that with other people but our final verdict is just going to be improbable all
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