How I would love for this event to be open to 21+ HHN goers, I realize what a controversy this would cause so I am not going to go there, however, I wouldn’t mind if someone came up with a way to dumb down the amount of immature 20 and younger people that make it through the gates. Had a horrible experience this previous HHN but thankfully it did not ruin the trip, only just for a few minutes.

HHN DEFINITELY NEEDS to expand and by that I mean, TRUE HHN FANS are gettting a little restless with being confined just to one park! The lines are getting longer every year and its about that time that we infuse IOA!

KUDOS to THE PERSON WHO WROTE THIS LETTER!!!

I also think the added expense for labor would get prohibitive fron Universal’s prospective

Also unlike the Studos IOA has limited options for House locations

The goal of this letter was create suggestions that might be actually done.

Add a Halloween version of Horror Make-Up Show as an additional attraction. [additional attractions would really help the high volume nights! I remember way more rides being open during HHN a decade ago, why did that go away?]

Each house needs a projected video to help ease the wait and keep the theming going. If it’s good enough for virtually every ride, it should be used for waits that are regularly over an hour. [seriously! especially for the niche-themed ones… two of us in the group knew nothing about “Silent Hill” and relied on the video for a little prep.]

I will add an additional suggestion as well… along the lines of pumpkin beer and alcohol-infused apples, why not theme the shots for each House? my friends and I bought several drinks each throughout the night and wanted more variety – if each House had a different shot for sale, not only could you rake in more money on alcohol but you could probably sell more stuff in general – “I drank around the Studio at HHN” stuff, maybe an advance-purchase card that lets you get a shot at each House (and if you don’t make it to all of them, Universal still got the money), and you’d have people more interested in trying them because they’re different at each location.

Also, in addition to Horror & Make-Up, I’d love to see a Halloween Beetlejuice show with the classic monsters rather than the latest goth freakshow magic act Universal dug up.

I have read that parks who do a separately priced ticket option for their Halloween events sometimes put out a lack of decor on purpose so daytime guests do not get a “freebie” look at the event (though I doubt it would hurt the nighttime business THAT much.) This brings me to something I forgot to mention earlier, that goes along with the whole atmosphere, the scarezones! The zones used to be so awesome, but it seems each year they get less and less 🙁 Zones can make such a huge impact.

I could spend all night going through the zones and just watching everything that is going on (when they have good zones that is.)

I definitely agree with what you wrote. The whole daytime thing is a bit of an interesting debate though. Several of our subscribers have mentioned that they won’t go to Universal Studios Florida during October because of the (limited) decorations that are already left out.

This one specifically is something I really feel strongly about:

Add more decorations around the park for Halloween, so daytime guests and early-arriving Halloween Horror Night guests feel more immersed. For example, there could be roaming, costumed ghouls for picture opportunities and more Halloween theming on the storefronts, etc. This idea could also help prevent some guests with young children, who just want a small dose of Halloween fright, from going to HHN and ultimately being really disappointed when their kids want to leave after 30 minutes (leading to the question, “Why did I just pay $80 for this?”).

This is something we talk about often. We used to make special trips every year from Ohio to attend HHN, but have skipped the last 3 years. We feel like the park used to be a lot more immersive and really used create an atmosphere for guests. Over the years that special atmosphere has seemed to dwindle away and is honestly a big reason we don’t attend yearly now.

Walking around the park is a big part of your experience at HHN. When there is no immersive atmosphere/decor present it just feels like you’re walking around a very crowded park… It takes a lot to compete with the houses that HHN offer each year, that is for sure, but I have been to some parks that even though their houses were “just ok” they had the park decorated so greatly, and really created an atmosphere, that I still felt like it was a great event because of that. Hopefully this is something that will improve with future years. I miss going to HHN and feeling like no matter where you were there was something Halloweenish going on. Also, more decor throughout the park during the day will be likely to entice day time visitors who were not originally going to attend HHN to attend.

I hope they bring back the nightly themed show too. That was always something I looked forward to so much.