hey you if you're here you're probably considering going to halloween horror nights at universal
studios great choice let's talk about everything tickets express passes rip tours and unmasking the
horror tours my name is stacey and i make travel videos obviously videos about theme parks because
we're obsessed with universal studios so if that interests you be sure to subscribe and hit that
notification bell because i'm creating an entire series i've got a lot more videos coming about hhn
if you haven't watched my hhn beginner guide i would really suggest you watch that video
first and that'll help give you a good intro about what hhn is what you're going to get
for the price of your ticket and some of my pro tips for when you visit this video here is going
to talk more about tickets express passes rip tours and unmasking the horror tours so let's
get into it okay first let's talk about what kind of ticket you're going to want they do sell both
single night tickets and multi-night passes but it kind of depends how many nights you're going to be
going during the season and then what nights of the week you're going to be going a lot of times
jeff and i are going at the very end of the season and we want to knock in about four or five nights
of halloween horror nights so we get the frequent fear pass because that includes the nights
at the end of the season that we're wanting to go to and it gives us enough number of nights that we
were not having to pay separately if you already bought single night tickets and you've decided you
want to go multi-nights and the multi-night pass would actually save you some money
definitely get with universal studios customer service i've never had a problem with them
helping me convert single night tickets over to a multi-night pass okay so let's break down
the different multi-night passes that you can get the first pass is called rush of fear pass
guests are able to visit every night of halloween horror nights the first three weeks of the event
then you have the pass that we typically get which is the frequent fear pass guests are able to visit
every sunday wednesday and thursday night plus the first two days which would be friday and
saturday and the last friday of the event so this is where the event calendar really comes in handy
i'm going to put it on the screen now but i'm also going to put a link to it in the description below
but using this hhn event calendar will help you kind of determine okay what nights do we want
to go and where in the season are we going to be visiting so the frequent fear plus pass is just
like the frequent fear pass that i just described but you also get to add in all the friday nights
that weren't included on the frequent fear pass then you have the big man pajama the ultimate
frequent fear pass these are more pricey but you get into the event every single night during the
hhn season florida residents do get special pricing on tickets to the park so definitely
check the website and make sure you're toggled at the top where it asks if you're a florida resident
or not so definitely check out the event calendar figure out what nights of the week you're going to
be going during your trip and when your trip falls during the hhn season and that will help you kind
of better understand which pass would be best for you if you find this video helpful and are able
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thank you so much for your support and let's get back to the video okay you got your tickets for
hhn now let's talk about express passes first and foremost express passes that you have for
rides during the daytime do not work during these special events like hhn so if you have
a ride pass that maybe you got included with your on campus hotel or maybe you bought it separately
if it's for the daytime you can't use it at night you can't use it to get into the houses and you
can't use it on the rides during this event i know it's really sad makes me sad the hhn express
pass allows the holder to bypass a large chunk of these long lines into the haunted houses it
doesn't mean that you get bumped to the absolute front of the line but it does cut down a lot of
the wait time i would say by half or maybe 75 when lines could be upwards of two to three hour waits
this can dramatically reduce wait times ensuring entrance to most houses pretty quickly express
passes are purchased on top of your ticket or your pass to hhn and they allow you one entry into the
attraction once per night you can definitely go through the houses more than once but if you use
your express pass for that night for that house you can't use the express pass for that night
for that house in the same night does that make sense express passes for hhn did allow us not
only to get into the house once but also onto the rides that are open once so check that out if you
want to maximize your time getting into all these houses do you want to be escorted to the front
door of each house without waiting in any line at all then i think you want to buy one of the vip or
rip tour packages this is different than the hhn express pass because while the express pass does
greatly reduce the length of lines it doesn't turn a haunted house line into a walk-on attraction
the rip or vip walking tours does you have a tour guide that takes you around the park
you also get a meal at the la bomba cafe and then they give you free non-alcoholic drinks but if
you want alcoholic drinks you do have your own bar so again you don't have to wait in lines for that
but they do cost extra we did this last year and we're going to do it again this year because
really felt like we were part of this really cool special group and i think one thing that makes the
price absolutely worth it with me not only did we get to go through every single house in one night
we got done with every single house within a few hours i really loved how our tour guide gave us a
little bit more of an in-depth story line before we went into each house and i think that helps
you appreciate the story before you go in so if you only have one night at hhn think about doing
the rip tour they do have private rip tours that maybe just you and your group of friends can do
they are a lot more pricey it's gonna cost you and subject to availability so i'm gonna put a link
for that in the description below one thing i did talk about in my beginner video for hhn was maybe
trying and unmasking the horror tour now you can do this whether maybe you're kind of scared to go
through the haunted houses like i was or if you're just really interested in seeing all the intricate
details of these haunted houses with the lights on you can do either a three or six house tour and a
lot of times they do take you through at least one or two of the big houses that year again your tour
guide does give you a lot of kind of behind the scenes information about these houses but i felt
one it helped me not be so scared for going to the event later that night because again we're
not horror movie people we're not haunted house people and yet this is one of our most favorite
events to go to but it helped take the edge off when it was time to go through the houses full
force at nighttime but there again you also get to see a lot of the intricate details that you're
probably going to miss going through the haunted house at night time because the lights are off and
people are scaring you and you're not really paying attention to all these little details theme
park tickets and hhn tickets are not included with the unmasking the horror tour but they're also not
required to take this tour so maybe you just want to take the tour on its own you don't want to go
to the park that day you don't want to go to hhn that day that's okay you can just do the unmasking
the horror tour and you can do it all by itself with the unmasking the horror tour and the rip
tour daytime park tickets and hhn event tickets are not included with the price of that ticket
they still need to be purchased on top of taking the tour let me know if you have any questions
about tickets express passes rip tours unmasking the horror tours i've got some other videos in
the series that i want you to watch again the beginner video is going to be over here and then
i'm going to have a pro tips video as soon as i get that posted you're going to find it right here