what time is your 3 house tour?
Do you have time to head back to room to take a break before HHN? As hotel guests you could use that entrance and still beat the gate crowd.
EP will be very beneficial. Wednesday is usually a bit slower but, you are getting into prime time for HHN in general.
Are you staying in one of the onsite resorts? If so, again, recommend you use the hotel guest special entry Vs the long stand by line. I’ve seen people at the gate well before 4 pm. Assume they wanted to see the opening skit.
appears are visiting on a Friday & late in the season. weekends are always busier, not as bad as most Saturdays.
Read the reviews that will be posted here as to strategies of which houses to visit first and develop your own plan of attack. During the night, be prepared to pivot by keeping an eye on the house wait times on the app.
If you stick it out to the end of the night, should be able to knock off many of the houses and all the scare zones by virtue of just walking from one house to another.
my crystal ball take for the busiest houses with the longest stand by wait-times: ST, Last of Us, the Universal Monsters one, Chucky & the ’dueling dragon’ one.