Macraven ok'ed me (thanks!) to post this as a separate thread...
Hi everyone. I booked an HHN Private VIP RIP Tour for Saturday, 9/30. I have some extra spaces available so please join us!
Here are some benefits as listed on Universal's HHN website:
- Exclusive VIP entrance to Universal Studios Florida™ for the Halloween Horror Nights™ event (valid Halloween Horror Nights™ event admission required)
- Commemorative R.I.P. Tour credential with lanyard
- Customizable Itinerary
- Access to the exclusive Pre-Tour Reception in Café La Bamba including light appetizers, desserts, and cash bar available upon check-in (Must be 21+ to consume alcoholic beverages with valid photo ID)
- Priority UNLIMITED VIP entry to all haunted houses as well as regular park attractions while on tour with the R.I.P. Tour Guide
- Reserved seating at Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure
- Universal Express™ ride access to participating regular theme park attractions, with the R.I.P. Tour credential, following the tour (park hours permitting)
- Complimentary offerings also included with your tour:
- Standard Valet Parking (1 vehicle, subject to availability)
- My Universal Photos™ 3-Day photo package**
That's what Universal has to say but here's what my experience was last year. Last year was my first HHN and we did a VIP tour with some folks we met here on the boards. It was amazing! If you've been to HHN before, you know how crowded and crazy it can be. With a VIP tour, you walk right past all of that, straight to the front of the line! There are several ways of dealing with the crowds during HHN.
- Express passes which give you a shorter line and that's it.
- Public RIP tour - Lasts about 4 hrs. You get front of the line access to each house ONCE.
- Private RIP Tour - Lasts the whole night (6:30pm-2am). Front of the line access to each house plus repeats as much as you want.
See that crowd waiting to get into one house? We walked right past them. That's why the photo is blurry. Basically, with a private RIP Tour, we get a private tour guide for 7+ hours that will take us around the park and walk us to the very front of the line all night! We also like to take a break to ride a few of the rides too. Ever wanted to walk right onto Escape from Gringotts? The tour guide will even hang onto our bags for us too. No lockers needed. hehe.
Now for the important part, COST:
The per person cost of the tour will be dependent on how many people I can get to fill up the tour. To be clear, I am making zero profit on this tour. I'm merely taking the cost of the tour and dividing by the number of people that end up going. The absolute max is 12 people. I'm expecting it to be, per person, about what you'd pay for a public RIP tour. If we have a full group, it will actually be a little less than what you'd pay for a Public RIP Tour.
Here's what I can do to help out:
There's one free Valet Parking with the tour. We're staying on-site at the Portofino so won't be needing it. I should be able to assign it to you. That would save one party $20-30 in parking that night. We are annual passholders so we can buy discounted HHN tickets for our guests (the entry tickets are separate from the Tour). That should save you $10-15 each on those. There's also a 3-day photo pass with the RIP tour. We have an annual photo package already so someone can have that. Basically it gets you ALL the park photos (photographers roaming around) plus all ride photos too. That's normally $90-100. If I can reassign that to someone else, they can have that too. All this can be negotiated/worked out.
Btw, if you're going Oct 6, macraven might still have some spots that night.
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