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| - This was my first haunted house experience back in 2014. Since that time, we've visited a handful of other local haunts to compare it against, so I've developed a fairly good idea of how well this place compares.
Given the business 13th Floor does, combined with its heavy promotion, it definitely offers a pretty good production value. Sets and actors are both very well done. I really like the cool additions, such as the tilted room, spinning room, and swamp area. Like most haunted houses, being in the front of a group is where you end up having the most fun due to that unsettling feeling of impending doom you feel going around every corner. When you're in the back, you're simply just watching the people in front of you jump and scream.
I guess that I imagined that during the off-season, the owners would spend time completely reworking the entire building to give everyone a new experience the following year. After returning both in 2015 and 2016, it seems that they do make some changes to keep things fresh, but the general formula pretty much stays the same.
I like that they have a food stand, which offers some good old-fashioned carnival junk food (funnel cakes and curly fries), but this is only available if it's closer to Halloween.
Overall, I do feel that it's worth checking out. But it seems like if you've been once, there's no need to revisit. With the space these people have, as well as the business they rake in, I feel they have the potential to create something much, much more exciting than what they're currently doing.
Recommended for first-timers only.
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