Halloween Horror Nights is a once a year event, so it goes without saying that the volume of people is going to increase. I was there over Halloween Weekend and attended HHN on Saturday, October 30th. Taking into consideration the vast amount of patrons (especially Halloween weekend), I made arrangements to be booked on a VIP Tour at $120.00 per person IN ADDITION to the admission price to the park. Pricy? Yes, absolutely. Worth the money? Yes, absolutely. We had front of the line access to the 7 haunted houses, great seats for the Bill & Ted show and got to ride some of the ride all with our own official guide - Joe Peck - excellent! Without this VIP Tour our experience too would have been miserable - there was over a hour wait for each house in the regular line, and those who paid the extra $35 or so per ticket for the Express Line passes were also waiting at least 30-45 minutes to get in. What do you expect on 10/30 a Saturday night, Halloween weekend?

If you want smaller lines and less waiting go early in the month.

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I ensured that I had a good experience by doing my homework. This event is very well put together and if you love Halloween like I do - you would really enjoy it. Just do your homework and you'll be fine!

Let me start off by saying I am an extreme halloween buff. I seek out the scariest places to be on Halloween and that has been HHN's at Universal. This has become a yearly trip for my family and myself. We began attending this event two years ago with HHN's 12. Which in my opinion has been and was the best ever. They seemed to have had a little more thought and attention focused towards their patrons. But after standing in line watching them play their DVD of HHN 12 at this years event, it occured to everyone that maybe they made HHN12 the best it could be because they knew they were going to make this video. A video that has been sold within their theme parks and aired on the Travel Channel, to attract patrons to their specially themed event. Well, in my opinion I think it worked this year. I understand HHN's was held in two parks to expand the experience and terror but all we experienced were horrendous crowds. We attended the event on 10/23 a Saturday evening, and were forced to purchase more tickets for the following evening 10/24 because we had only made it through three haunted houses the previous night. All in all this had not been the best HHN experience we have had. In fact it HHN's has seemed to have gone downhill a little every year. Yes, Universal is a great master at constructing extremely complex and interesting houses to look at which are filled with mindful gore and yes, even smell. However, they seem to have lost focus on giving their patrons a good scream and scare. Universal has seemingly increased the size of their event to pack in as many individuals that are willing to pay the money. It is really unenjoyable to be hearded through haunted houses as quickly as possible. With this type of management scareactors are unable to provide an intense experience. I would also like to mention that with putting the event into two parks, it seemed to have lost its hauntingly eerie sense of doom. Paved paths with less than asthetic surroundings to look at and scareactor less areas, really doesn't get your blood pumping. Especially when you pass through their less than scary scare zones and signs pointing you in directions of haunted houses including their wait times (wait that might get your blood pumping). The wait times were ridiculous, and almost not worth it after getting inside and being hearded through with maybe one or two true good scares. All in all this years experience was not exceptional. I can only hope that Universal realizes the mistakes they have made this year, hear our opinions and deliver us another truly horrifying experience like HHN 12, in the following years to come.

My co-workers and I with our families were going to have an office halloween party at CityWalk on the Friday before Halloween. Our plan was to eat at Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville and then catch a movie at the Cineplex. Seeing that it was Halloween weekend, and we were having a Halloween party, we all showed up in costumes, payed our parking of $8 per vehicle, and started making our way to CityWalk.
Before getting to CityWalk a security guard stopped us and said no costumes were allowed on the grounds and they kicked us out and did not refund our parking fees.
After doing our research later, the only place they have a "no costumes" announcement is on the actual Horror Nights website. We didn't look at that website because we weren't going to Horror Nights, only to dinner and a movie at CityWalk.
We ended up changing our plans at the last minute and going to Downtown Disney for dinner and a movie and they were more than accomodating with free parking and the security guards offering to take our pictures in our costumes for us.
We have sworn an oath never to set foot in Universal Studios again.

Went to universal this september. What a waste of money. The whole park is one big commercial circus with just a few average rides on it. The staff is extremly rude and the lines are short at first site, but once you line up outside one of the attractions, you'll discover that the line inside the buildings is many times longer than you can see. This park charges the same prices as Disney but not even half the fun. If you're planning to go to Orlando and have money to spent, you better go to Disney!