We're finally home from a great WDW and HHN trip and thought I would quickly share thoughts from my private VIP HHN tour.
After planning my wife and my first ever trip to HHN we decided to book the Private VIP tour since we wanted to see and do everything in one night. My wife is NOT a scare person and was reluctant at first but finally agreed to doing this. Unfortuantly the morning of the tour she decided that she was going to opt out of joining me so I forged on alone. I arrived at CityWalk via Uber just before 4PM and made my way over to Big Fire American Fare for my 4PM reservation. I was promptly seated and enjoyed the bison burger which was properly cooked and well seasoned, I would certainly return to this restaurant on a future trip.
Around 5:15 I made my way over to the front of Universal Studio and joined the queue heading in for the Private and Group RIP tours. They promptly opened the doors at 5:30 and the check in process began. My guide, Kristi Kaye, greeted me and provided me my lanyard and once we got the go ahead we headed into the park. As I was the first person to be allowed in I grabbed a quick photo of the empty street leading in.
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We made our way into the VIP Tour restaurant which had a nice selection of sliders, finger foods and desserts. Having just come from dinner I skipped the food options and headed to the back to pick up an adult beverage from the bar. With purchased drink in hand and a water provided by Kristi we started talking about what I wanted to get done. Being a party of one we discussed a plan of action and got started. Being a complete HHN virgin Krisiti quickly began with a historical overview of the event and the houses this year and from previous years. As there are much better break downs of the individual house I'll just say that I throughly enjoyed all of them. The scare factor came down to timing as we walked through the houses but I was throughly satisfied with my experience. At the end of the day we ended up doing all houses once, 4 of the houses a second time, MIB, Mummy, Rockit and Gringott's twice. We made three pit stops over the night to replenish waters and grab another beverage or two. After walking back through the scare zones it was approaching midnight and figured I had done and seen enough to call it a night. After saying farewell to Kristi I made my way back to the Uber drop off area for my return ride to WDW.
Stand out moments were a brief interaction with Jack and getting to go onto the main floor of MIB.
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I can't speak highly enough of Kristi and will be reaching out to US to provide excellent feedback with my experiences that evening.