You must not have gone with all those posters that say they won't without express. I tried it and swore never again. Don"t tell me I'm not doing it right, I understand the game plan. I fall firmly in the express camp and it gets worse each year.I've literally never had Express and I've never not enjoyed my time at the event.
You do you but I have attended enough to know what my threshold of pain is. Last night of 25 me an a very hard core attendee had express so we did all nine then tried to hit the last CoC show. While waiting for the show to begin I just couldn't stand any longer and had to go sit at Mel's. My back wouldn't let me stay standing. I don't have a bad back but I am 63 and cannot stand that long. The guy I was with made it but he is superman and 2 months younger than me.
There’s no wrong way to do it, I totally get why you do it your way. I certainly enjoyed it my way and express would have made very little difference. On a typical night I show up early hang out at either Finnegans or Duff for S&S then run through multiple houses with no wait at all. Then I go watch B&T. After that go through some scare zones maybe something else. Makes for a very nice relaxing night, and I enjoy spreading it out over nearly two months.
I personally get to the gate about an hour early, hit the most popular houses first when the have no line, then run around the SZs and originals until there are only a couple I have to wait in a decent sized line for
I forget, what does that entail again?
seriously, if you are quick and are at the front of the gate (no idea how stay and scream works tbh), you can hit those big IP houses at the VERY beginning of the day with no lines and then probably hit them at the VERY end of the night as well
EXACTLY, two or three is what I did last year and I did all houses every night and got a really good idea of each house and SZ so I could make an event review. It was so much fun I think I'm going to go something closer to 5 or 6 nights this year
What do you mean when you say "impact" impact on sales? attendance?
How does stay and scream work? is it better than Gateing it in the annual pass line?
They open S&S early. You could do one or two houses before the gate even opens.
Highly recommend it. My buds and i did it the last three years (our first time, three years ago, was purely accidental as we had dinner at Finnegans). We do Express and this allows us to do 2 or 3 houses without using Express. And then do those houses again later in the night with Express.
