Macraven ok'ed me (thanks!) to post this as a separate thread...some of this information is from a posting I made last year when I organized a tour.
Hi everyone. I booked an HHN Private VIP RIP Tour for Saturday, 9/29. I have some extra spaces available so please join us!
Here are some benefits as listed on Universal's HHN website:
- Front-of-the-line entry to haunted houses (once per house, subject to itinerary and event operating hours)
- V.I.P. entrance to Universal Studios Florida™ for the event
- Commemorative R.I.P. Tour credential with lanyard
- Complimentary standard valet parking
- Pre-tour reception in Cafe La Bamba™
- Access to exclusive cash bar locations (must be 21+ with valid photo ID to consume alcoholic beverages)
- Reserved seating at select show(s)
- Universal Express Unlimited™ ride access to skip the regular lines following the tour (event hours permitting, excludes houses)
- Priority UNLIMITED V.I.P. entry to haunted houses as well as select regular park attractions while on tour with the R.I.P. Tour Guide
- My Universal Photos™ 3-Day photo package
That's what Universal has to say but here's what my experience has been the last two years. 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 (6pm-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:
It's not allowed to sell anything on this board so to be clear, I am making zero profit on this tour. I'd take the cost of the tour and divide by the number of people that end up going. We're pretty close to a full group. To get an idea of the cost, go to the HHN Extra Chills page and check the price of a Public RIP Tour. The cost of joining us on a Private VIP Tour would be about the same.
Here's what I can do to help out:
There's one free Valet Parking with the tour. We're staying on-site at either Royal Pacific or 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.
Please let me know if you are interested and we can talk!