All around the park today, they are playing almost everything I have on my Halloween playlist. Not the usual hamlet music. I could understand the music change later in the day but I prefer the regular music.
Halloween Harvest 2020
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Having gone in September, I think you can really feel the bottlenecks with the current hamlets open. Hopefully for Christmas they can have the entire park open even if not everything is staffed.
Where do guests enter the park? Is it through the usual England entrance? Just trying to figure out uber and whatnot.
It definitely won’t be the entire park for Christmas sadly maybe for the 2021 season. We shall see
I would anticipate the park returning to the Taste of Busch Gardens footprint for the Christmas event, but likely adding Sesame Street to the lineup. To the original point about bottlenecks, I do think this current event is worse on this front, but I will say that I never found it too bad walking around during the 3-7 yesterday because it felt like people were fairly evenly distributed across the different areas of the park as the night wore on. That said, the walk through Italy between Oktoberfest and Festa is a bit too tight for my liking, but still better than Wolf Haven during Coasters and Craft Brews.
I don't know if fully stocked is how I'd describe it, but they had lots of varieties of donuts and tray sweets.
Not all of the cases are being used and most of the prepackaged candy is missing.
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Expect basically the same area as September. With the addition of the Festhaus and the area around it. Everything else will largely be the same.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. I definitely wouldn't be so pessimistic about the whole park being open in 2021. From what I'm told if the cap was even a little bit higher they would open the entire loop.
Yeah, especially with them hiring more area hosts/ride ops it would seem that they would be able to staff the whole park. All they really need is a slight increase in the amount of people allowed in
I haven’t been in a few weeks, but tonight was the first time I had seen the ride photo counters manned. How long has that been going on? I wonder if it means they have determined that they can afford to bring in more staff.
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It's just a business decision, they just don't make enough money to staff the entire park. That would change with a higher capacity.
Thanks for the update ! So glad to see them back to normal ! Hope you had a great time at the park !
For those who have been on the weekends so far. How early would you guys suggest getting to the park to line up for the Friday 5pm-9pm time slot? We thought possibly heading over around 4:15ish to see how bad the car line is.
Also are they rotating the parking lots for different times slots or is it a free for all with this event and they are parking everyone together?
Also are they rotating the parking lots for different times slots or is it a free for all with this event and they are parking everyone together?
We have been trying to get there 30-45 minutes early. We have parked in the England lot every time. I think they are clearing it, before letting people through the toll booths.