We are making a trip to Orlando in October for fall break. I have older boys (20 and 16). We were thinking about checking out Halloween Horror Nights. Has anyone been? Any comments/suggestions?

Specific question... Can you make it through all 10 haunted houses? Would you want to? Is the fast pass worth it?

I LOVE HHN. I wanted to go ever since high school when they started doing The Walking Dead, then they did more IPs.I was on my final year at A&M when I finally went to HHN 27 in 2017, mostly because I am a SAW fan and they had the house that year. I don't miss a year since then.

This year's has been BUSY. Terrifier has reached capacity multiple times, and many people at the preview night didn't get to do all 10 houses. If you want to do all 10 houses, you NEED express. I never go without it. I also do Unmasking the Horror tour 6 house and love it.

This year's is just strong overall, lots of great IPs and originals. Universal is considered the best event as well, they won the golden ticket for like 20 years in a row. There's a documentary about haunts called The Art of the Scare that I watched on Netflix a couple years ago and all the industry people say Universal is the event because of how much money they spend per house. Orlando also gets a bigger budget than Hollywood and tends to be the better park every year.

It can be very crowded, and they don't space out people well enough at the houses, so you may miss scares, etc, but I still love the event. The sets are nuts, like walking into the movies. I will be there in 3 weeks and for the first time I am also going to Hollywood the day after Halloween.

Wife and I did HHN 3 years ago, and it was awesome. We did the Saturday before Halloween expecting it to be packed, and we're hoping to get to 4-5 houses. We spent the day at the park which meant we got to wait in line for a house while they were setting the park up for the night. We were able to hit 5 houses within the first hour and a half then we slowed down ( walked around the park, ate dinner, did the nightmare show). My wife was 2 months pregnant at the time, so we called it a night at 10:30 having hit 8 of the houses, and pretty much doing everything we wanted to do. This was all with a base ticket, and only the advantage of getting to queue for the first house while they set up. I am extremely jealous of you, and hope you report back how awesome the terrifier house is

Oh I forgot that one add on too. Stay and Scream lets you in at like 3 pm to Universal and stay in the holding areas but I think this year they actually let you into the queues of some of the bigger ones like Terrifier. During Stay and Scream you can get a good 2 or 3 houses in the back area of the park.

I can't speak to exactly what we bought beyond a day ticket to universal and a ticket to horror nights, but we were in line for the stranger things house while they were setting up. Once everything opened we were entering that house within 5 mins. We were able to hit 2 more nearby within the next 20 mins

We went to the Fiesta Texas HH nights this weekend. First time there ever (which is strange since we go to SA all the time). We've been to Universal several times but not for HH nights. I gotta say Fiesta Texas was awesome. I don't know what Universal does different but I've heard it's pretty similar. The haunted houses were incredible. The cast members dressed up walking around were pretty scary but knew when to let up when little kids were around. Hazy smoke everywhere. Kinda hard to see but I guess that's the idea. We didn't need fast passes either. Every line was 10-30 minutes. I wouldn't go to Universal without fast passes. We tried it once (by mistake) and it was just horrible. Once you've done FPs, you can't go back.

That's cool to hear, and will probably check it out as I live about an hour and a half from fiesta Texas. Universal's "houses" are whole studios lining the theme park they start prepping in late July/early August. There simply isn't anything else like it out there, and if you look on the interwebs everything will tell you universal is #1

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That's cool to hear, and will probably check it out as I live about an hour and a half from fiesta Texas. Universal's "houses" are whole studios lining the theme park they start prepping in late July/early August. There simply isn't anything else like it out there, and if you look on the interwebs everything will tell you universal is #1

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It's #1 and it's price is about 3-5x what we paid. We may do it one year though.

I just came back from Orlando, did HHN on Sunday. Had stay and scream as well as express pass, got through the houses by 9:40 pm. Definitely a much stronger year than last and stay and scream is much better now as they give you a wristband so you can just roam around the park rather than have 3 holding areas like in the past. Some really good houses this year, I was not expecting to like FNAF as much as I did, it's not scary but it's just very fun to see all those animatronics. Fallout was trash tho, easily one of the worst houses I've ever been on.