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| - Finally attended Halloween Haunt after not being able to the last couple of years. I've gone to this Wonderland attraction a couple of times in my young life and to those who are new to this Halloween spectacle expect the same Wonderland (rides being operational, food services open) but at night with spooky Halloween themed decor and additional haunted mazes throughout the park. There are also many Halloween Haunt actors that roam around the park with the soul purpose of scaring unsuspecting attendants. With that said, some of the rides and sections in Wonderland are closed due to the focus on Halloween Haunt like the 4D movie ride, White Water Canyon and the Splash Park.
Now my star rating may be pretty low but there is a reason for that. Don't get me wrong, Wonderland has gotten better production wise to give you a more authentic scare with better make-up on monsters and better overall mazes.
Where Halloween haunt falls short in my opinion is the overall experience when going through mazes when the people lined up go in HUGE groups. This is a disadvantage because if you are not in the front of the herd, all the scares happening to people in front of you, you would already see coming. So by the time it's your turn to get scared, you would already expect it coming, or the scare could be meant for someone behind you and you will just get an actor looking at you waiting for someone who wasn't paying attention.
That would be my main gripe with the attraction since I came in order to feel scared, if anything I just felt slightly startled as I had gone through mazes. Which is why my party and I have gone on rides in between mazes which made my experience entirely as a whole wonderful.
A couple of tips regarding the park and attraction.
-I'd recommend going to Halloween Haunt earlier in the month or at least not the weekend closest to Halloween, reason for this is I've made that mistake in the past and realized that there were long line-ups for rides and mazes, the only way me and my friends could get a good amount done was to cut in line (sorry!). But if anything I would say if you have a little more money, get a Freak Lane Pass (only for mazes not rides). I would say its worth it if you have the money
-I highly recommend purchasing your ticket's online, for us it was $14 cheaper (well they had a $7 processing fee so really you save $7 ~I'm rolling my eyes~) and you can skip the line to buy a ticket and go straight through the metal detectors to enter the park. You can also buy a parking pass for $20 online rather than $22 at the gate.
-There are these necklaces that are about $6 called "No Boo Necklaces". These are green glow in the dark necklaces that allow monsters throughout the park (not the mazes) to not scare the user. I've seen many people where them, including children, could be a great asset for some family fun
In the end, Halloween Haunt was alright, personally for me, I'm going back mostly to ride rides at night and go to mazes here and there. But if you are looking to be really scared, I'd say go to Screamers at the CNE (not sponsored to say this loool)
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