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Can anyone confirm early entry is at Islands of Adventure instead of Studios this year? Early Entry has been at Studios during HHN ever since I started going in 2018.
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- May 24, 2018
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USF opens at 8am this week for sure but ee is at IOA and is at 8am. If you want to know a certain date you can look in the app.
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I checked the website and the app and both are showing Early Entry is at Islands until the end of October. I thought they always did it at Studios during HHN to give non-HHN goers more time at Studios. Is the website/app incorrect? I just thought it was strange they would change that this year.
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It also shows studios opens at the same time as early entry. So it’s probably right. No one here can tell you for sure if the app/website is wrong. I would say it’s right but it also said studios closed at 6pm on HHN nights and was fixed around June/July.
Somewhat of a technicality, but USF actually opens to everyone at 8AM, while IOA opens at 9AM but has the early park admission available at 8AM. So anyone can go into Studios at 8AM, while only a select few can go into IOA at 8AM, thus making it the park with available early entry.
Just watched Mammoth Club and Molly said New York stay and scream reached capacity? I have never heard of that before can anyone confirm? Also can someone notify when cutoff happen(s)??? I dont go until near end of event but always do New York for low capacity Finns to get our night started right lol
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I can confirm, as I had a horrible experience with ops/security this past weekend. I won't get into the details on here.
They are now enforcing capacity limits due to 'fire code' (understandable - as the past few years S&S has grown in popularity). However, they aren't making any sort of announcements nor are they warning people about this until they actually close it off unfortunately. My party was split up because of the lack of announcements from TMs on this being enforced this year. It led to a pretty unfortunate start to my HHN night on Saturday.
Part of my group had to stay inside the NY zone as security already sweeped the area of the park, and the others were forced to Today Cafe. I understand why they limited capacity, but a heads up would have been nice.
The TMs responsible for S&S entry/ticketing were wonderful... security & management not so much.
Wow that is wild….thanks for the intel….what is a time we should be checked into NY by you think? Guess we will have better judgement of this as the season goes but that is crazy!
I'm going to assume capacity will only be a factor these first two weeks, as S&S becomes less and less crowded (yet still busy) throughout the season. Having your 3 major IPs in the same S&S isn't ideal lol
