Awkward night for us tonight. We just never got into a good flow and had some bad luck. I feel rather fortunate that we can go multiple nights and I would never judge a house based on one walk through.
My wife was real excited for AHS so she just had to do that first. I'm just not sure when the best time to hit that first house by the gates is. Stay and scream for it does sound like the best bet. I recall last year for the 25th anniversary house, one night we drove up for the night and we hit that right at General opening. The posted wait time was not bad, but it took a lot longer as it seemed a steady flow of VIP tours kept coming...
This year, we got into the park at 6:33, the posted wait was already 95 minutes. My wife had to start there and with express it did take a minimum of 45 minutes and probably closer to 55 minutes.
Seems like a great house, but the folks in front of us kept running backwards at every scare smacking into me and all...they finally got a bit away from us, but this one kid who didn't speak English just wouldn't proceed through the house, he kept getting in the middle of my family and I couldn't explain to him to either go ahead or behind, but not mixed in between us....too strange.
Had dinner, then went to Krampus...they scanned our express, line didn't seem too bad, but then it seemed the line line was just stopped. After about 20 minutes (could tell they were not letting anyone in) a big group on the media tour showed up..after another 10 minutes they told them they were leaving...so we bailed.
Just a bad start...next house, got behind some backward running folks again who grabbed me and my wife...had a couple good houses after that, but left kind of early...just on odd off night for us. Hopefully we find a better grove tomorrow!
And again, we are fortunate that we can go a few times for I do not know what I would think of this event if tonight were my only experience of it
