In today's video we are going to give you our top 5 tips for Halloween Horror Nights
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learn the hard way of what you should and shouldn't do when you visit Halloween Horror
Nights so what we're going to do in today’s video is we are going to give you our top
five tips to help you make the most of your nights at hhn. Our first tip is to purchase
tickets early. Single day tickets express passes and VIP tours went on sale on June
17th and although single night tickets shouldn't vary and price as you get closer to the event
the same thing cannot be said for Express passes and VIP tours just like the regular
day Express passes as more people purchase these tickets the prices do tend to increase
the RIP tours for example they start out at 199 per person per night but there are any
several nights that are well over $300 and the tickets haven't even been on sale for
a month and there are already some nights that are already showing no availability at
all we know that there are several people that are holding out for multi-day tickets
like the frequent fear passes that Universal has sold in the past so in case you weren’t
aware the frequent fear pass is essentially like the annual pass for the parks that get
you in on multiple nights where you don’t have to buy individual tickets it can save
you money sometimes there's just different levels of them some of them will have blockout
dates and some of them get you in every night If you go ahead and purchase the single night
tickets and then Universal later releases some type of multi-night ticket you can take
the money that you paid for those single night tickets and transfer it to the multi-day passes
this way you can go ahead and purchase a single day tickets so you don't miss out on any of
the deals or specials or run the risk of universal selling out of tickets the nights that you're
wanting to visit our second tip is to buy a Coke freestyle cup you know how much we
love the freestyle cup but they just make a lot of sense at Halloween Horror Nights
think about this if you have a ticket for HHN and you also have a daytime ticket you
can get to the park as early as like 8 oclock those days hhn run all the way until like
1 to 2 in the morning that is like 18 hours of refills like you could fill up your pool
with coca cola if you wanted. You can get refills every 10 minutes for 10 dollars. 18
hours of refills, 10 dollars that's a great deal so like we say all the time here we always
think that the freestyle cups are a fantastic idea but they are a huge Money Saver during
HHN. Our third tip is to stay late at night. The event starts at 6:30 in the evening and
runs until 1 or 2 at night and a lot of people just don't make it too close they probably
they probably been in the park since noon or earlier and by the time 11 or 12 at night
runs around they’re just done so if you can tough it out and stay up a little bit
later you really will see some of those wait time start to drop You know how your parents
always told you nothing good happens after midnight well that’s just not true we have
had plenty of good things happen after midnight one of them is that the wait times drastically
decrease at halloween horror nights the last time that we were there so HHN 29 on our last
night we had use our Express on Ghostbusters the wait time was like over 3 hours at one
point that night and so we just had assumed that was our last time going through that
house but then we stayed really late we were about to leave the park all the wait time
was all the way down to a 45 minute wait so we went ahead and hopped in line and that's
just what happens some of these houses that are crazy busy especially towards the front
of the park the crowds start dying out. And you can get a lot more done in just one night
our next tip is to wear comfy shoes we've had some really long days at Halloween Horror
Nights and our feet hurt afterwards we’ve had days where we walked over 40,000 steps
getting to the parks in the morning and going all day and then heading to Halloween Horror
Nights and staying until close one of the things that makes Halloween Horror Nights
even harder than riding rides during the day is that you don't really get a break when
you ride rides to get to sit down on the attraction itself but druring Halloween Horror Night
to have to walk through the houses themselves yeah the only real break you might get is
when you sit down to eat there are two shows that typically happen you can get a little
break there but it is just all walking or standing and that is a recipe for some ouchies
what we would really suggest doing is heading back to your hotel room before the event starts
so that you can go ahead and get comfortable maybe you want to change your socks and shoes
maybe you want to change your entire outfit but the most important part is making sure
that you're as comfortable as possible before hhn even begins so we are terrible at heading
our own advice sometimes we've done that a couple times where we head back to the room
and change our socks and shoes and it has made a world of difference with that being
said if your feet are starting to hurt a little bit or even if they're not and you just know
your Tendencies go ahead and go change shoes it does make a big difference we are very
guilty just pushing through it and then on day 3 we’re just not okay our last and probably
best tip is to take advantage of stay and scream say and scream is basically a holding
area that let you get into the event a little bit faster than if you enter through the main
gate so if you're not familiar with the way that it works is that there are two areas
where you can or you can wait for Halloween Horror Nights to start the first one is next
to Finnegan's on the Central Plaza side and the other one is at Duff Brewery inside of
Springfield so there actually is like a third area and it’s in front of the Hello Kitty
area if im not mistaken and it’s basically just overflow for stay and scream when you
get there and you'll see an area that’s roped off with people that are waiting for
at the event to begin. There will be someone sitting there under like a stanchion that
you walked through basically and they’ll have a scanner like when you're coming through
the front of the park and it is to check your ticket for HHN The benefit to using stay in
and scream is that you get to get into the event a little bit earlier and knock out some
of the houses before the crowds really start to build so the event starts at 6:30 but Universal
usually drops the Rope for stay and scream at around 6 if not even earlier so even though
they do typically open the front gate a little bit earlier than 6:30 that still gives you
around a half hour to get one or two houses done before the crowds really start to build
we have had people who are coming through general admission and we have gotten two houses
done before they even got to us so it is definitely a way if you have limited time at Halloween
Horror Nights say you're only going for one night it's definitely something that would
recommend because it is going to save you so much time to get into stay and scream you
do have to have a way to get into the parks in the first place so either a single day
ticket a multi-day ticket or even an annual pass you’re also going to need a ticket
to HHN of course because you got to be able to get in to halloween horror nights in years
past Universal has sold an upgrade that allows you to go in to stay and scream and it's called
scream early we're not sure if they're going to be offering this upgrade this year or not
I actually called Universal and spoke with a team member and what they said is that it's
not currently available but that there are many Halloween Horror Nights products that
have yet to be released we are looking at you frequent fear pass
but in years past this add-on has been about $25 per day another thing to note is that
if you're not in one of the stay and scream areas by the time that Universal Studios closes
to daytime guess and the team members start ushering people out you will have to leave
the park and you will have to re-enter through the main gait yeah and it's not just like
you're not going to get ushered out and walk around and just be sitting there in and be
like this is going to cost me tens of seconds no you’re going to be standing by the buses
were they dropped Hotel guests off the line has already started forming at that point
so what we really suggest doing is around 3 in the afternoon go ahead and head back
to your hotel room change clothes get comfortable and then you can make your way back over to
the park maybe grab a snack and definitely fill up your freestyle cup and make sure that
you're in your stay and scream area by 4:30 at the latest also neither of the stay and
scream areas are particularly shade you know how if you get three feet from a light source
and there is not shade, that’s what she’s talking about. It’s like laying in a tanning
bed. There are a lot of people at say and scream I mean you kind of get packed in there
a little bit and the Sun is beating down on you it can get absolutely miserable when you're
waiting for the event to begin so we highly suggest maybe bringing an umbrella for some
shade or like one of those cooling towels or maybe even like the neck fans that you
see some people have but you definitely want to be prepared for how miserable stay and
scream. Alright guys that’s it for today’s video we hope that these tips are useful to
you if you do use them we promise you, you will have a better trip leave us a comment
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