Throughput
This is a real problem! If you run a good show in a well populated area eventually you will be buried in people on certain nights. You have just a few choices:
1) Sell out the show (Bad choice, people travel a long way and get very mad if they cannot get in. Plus they would still have to wait, some of them all night until their turn)
2) Long Lines (You had better be using a golden chainsaw if you make them wait 3 hours. Sometimes you have huge lines even IF you move the show fast. The only difference is in a 3 hour wait hundreds or thousands left disappointed because they couldn't get in)
3) Move the show faster ( It not always fun to be packed in with everyone in the world, but look at the options)
No real good answers. The only thing to do really is be open MORE days, that way the people who want the place to themselves can come on a Tuesday. And on those mega-busy nights try to get them through as best you can. People who drive in rush hour traffic or shop the day before Christmas are in for a similar situation at a popular Haunt the weekend before Halloween.
Its not greedy owners trying to screw guests out of a good experience - It is the fate of all good Haunts in good locations. Eventually too many people will come.
As far as making money goes - It costs a lot more money to entertain a lot of people, bigger sets = more rent, more actors = more payroll, more effects = more cost.
And a big haunt needs those crowds to survive. Kens show has huge rent - Dreamreapers needs major crowds now to pay the bills. If they slow the amount of people going through their show because a few people on message boards complained that there were too many people in the Haunt, it might just take away the profit that will let them continue to operate.
And lets not forget that Haunt owners put their lives and other jobs on hold to create these events. They need to make some money at the end of the day, especially those who quit jobs and go full time to bring you these shows.
What I am saying is this - Good Haunts WANT to do the best show that they can, and will deal with big crowds as BEST they can.
Its not greed but just reality that creates a crowded haunted house.
IMO
Thanks!
Ben Armstrong
NETHERWORLD
This is a real problem! If you run a good show in a well populated area eventually you will be buried in people on certain nights. You have just a few choices:
1) Sell out the show (Bad choice, people travel a long way and get very mad if they cannot get in. Plus they would still have to wait, some of them all night until their turn)
2) Long Lines (You had better be using a golden chainsaw if you make them wait 3 hours. Sometimes you have huge lines even IF you move the show fast. The only difference is in a 3 hour wait hundreds or thousands left disappointed because they couldn't get in)
3) Move the show faster ( It not always fun to be packed in with everyone in the world, but look at the options)
No real good answers. The only thing to do really is be open MORE days, that way the people who want the place to themselves can come on a Tuesday. And on those mega-busy nights try to get them through as best you can. People who drive in rush hour traffic or shop the day before Christmas are in for a similar situation at a popular Haunt the weekend before Halloween.
Its not greedy owners trying to screw guests out of a good experience - It is the fate of all good Haunts in good locations. Eventually too many people will come.
As far as making money goes - It costs a lot more money to entertain a lot of people, bigger sets = more rent, more actors = more payroll, more effects = more cost.
And a big haunt needs those crowds to survive. Kens show has huge rent - Dreamreapers needs major crowds now to pay the bills. If they slow the amount of people going through their show because a few people on message boards complained that there were too many people in the Haunt, it might just take away the profit that will let them continue to operate.
And lets not forget that Haunt owners put their lives and other jobs on hold to create these events. They need to make some money at the end of the day, especially those who quit jobs and go full time to bring you these shows.
What I am saying is this - Good Haunts WANT to do the best show that they can, and will deal with big crowds as BEST they can.
Its not greed but just reality that creates a crowded haunted house.
IMO
Thanks!
Ben Armstrong
NETHERWORLD
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