Are you open Halloween night this year?

[bhays]

It's a Monday night, probably be slow, but we are gonna give it a shot.

[Rachel]

Saturday will be our last night. Hopefully Sunday and Monday we can spend some time actually seeing other haunts.

[lurker]

Saturday will be our last night. Hopefully Sunday and Monday we can spend some time actually seeing other haunts.

...that will make us feel better about ours.

[xxxdirk]

Last

Last year, Sunday the 31st we did about 300. Not overally busy, but just right. Super busy nights are fun for the money you make and the night seems to fly by and you get to scare the crap out of a lot of people, but there is also a lot of stress and sometimes the actors feel like a fast food worker:
"RARHHHHHHH!, you want fries with that? Ok, next, RARAHHHHH! ok, move on I have another group right behind you! Oh great!, the're doing the locomotion line, come on people and we're walking and we're walking and RARAHHHHHHH!!

Quiteer nights are more fun cause you can really mess with people

[bhays]

46 viewers and only 9 votes...wow, what a bunch of lurkers :wink:

[Spookyfinder]

We're open tomorrow night through October 31st, the next 5 nights, and then we're closing up for the season. We've got the month of October to get everything disassembled, organized and stored away til nest year. That's when I collapse for a day or two! :lol:

Kel

[Chris]

We will be open.

I suspect it will be fairly busy.

[slash]

We tried it 2 years ago. Never again. We didn't get enough people to make it worth staying open.

[Ironman]

Traditionally a very slow night, but everything is set up and we have a very eager staff, so why not? Knowing that it will probably be a short night, chances are we will order in pizzas for our crew for a little after hours relaxation and enjoyment. The REAL cast party will take place when the last wall panel is taken down and packed away.

[Spookyfinder]

We are open on Halloween. Because of our proximity to Detroit where there is a 7:00 pm curfew in effect on both the 30th and Halloween a lot of people come to our haunt for something to do on those nights. Halloween has been our best night of the season both years so far. We anticipate that being the case this year as well.

Howie "Slobber" Erlich
Deadly Intentions Haunted House
www.deadlyintentionshaunt.com

[Jim Warfield]

I can see the Monday-thing making it a painfully slow night.
For the last three Oct.31st's we have been open for normal tours til 9 pm then had "Ghost Seekers night . People would spend possibly all night in the wine cellar with video cameras and other ghost hunting equiptment.
Last year of the six people paying us to do this and the other dozen saying they would be here and pay that night, only one person showed up, then some of the paying no-shows asked for a refund.
Few were ever dissappointed because of a lack of strange happenings down there, though.
As busy and as tired as I get this month, just the thought of then staying up all night to babysit this event drags me down.
Like it or not, Halloween night is a special and different night or at least always has been here.
Maybe it has just more to do with the physical rotation of this planet and the creation of "Time" as we measure and feel it?
Oct. 31st is THE day of the entire year that has the largest difference between clock-measured time and solar measured time, it is a whole 16 minutes difference that one day . Books charting time in building sundials tells all about this.
Maybe seeing ghosts is just a time-warp sort of thing?
Two nights before or after the full moon each month is also a potentially active time (at least in this house)
I didn't come to this house with much of a thought or belief in ghosts but after numerous customers coming through here kept giving me the credit for making a special effect in the northeast corner of the wine cellar and they all described her the same each time, then I began to wonder?
Happy Halloween! It might just be MORE than you allowed yourself to realise.

[SpFXChic]

We're always open on Halloween. Once we tried to stay open on Nov. 1, since it fell on a Saturday, but we won't do that again. Staying open on 11/01 just wasn't worth it. Usually we do about 1000 on Halloween. Only a little over 800 last year, but that's because we had a blizzard, and we ended up closing early for the safety of the customers and our actors.

It always-without-a-doubt snows here on Halloween... :cry:

[Spookyfinder]

The weather forecast is looking really good for the remaining nights here so we're hoping to have huge crowds! We're really hoping to break even this year so we can start planning for a profitable year next year. With this being only our 2nd year and with all the improvements we made this year, we'll be doing really well if we break even! Of course, if we do larger numbers than we're anticipating and we make a profit this year, that'll be icing on the cake :!:

Kel

[Jim Warfield]

Hey there Raycliff, you must be doing "something" right if you aren't breaking even , yet you can still find a way to have cake, even if you can't afford the icing! hahahah!

[HauntedWebby]

We'll be open on Monday. All our other Monday's haven't too bad, so why not.

On Nov 1st we have a goth wedding :roll: Then the haunted house is closed, but we are booked till Dec 17th for ghost tours.