We'll be there next Thursday and Friday. In the past they opened up a couple of houses early on each side of the park, for those who visited during the day and were staying for HHN. Are they still doing that, or are all houses open when they let us out of the pens?
We plan to stay at Finnegan's the first night and head straight to Stranger Things, but that 60 minute wait right from the start concerns me a bit. That's time we could be using to knock out a couple of houses early. Would we be better off starting with a different house on that side of the park, like Poltergeist? We plan to get the 5 houses on that side of the park done on Thursday and the remaining 5 toward the back of the park on Friday. No express pass, so we want to make sure we make good use of the first couple of hours, hit the houses, and then chill and soak up the atmosphere the rest of the night. Any tips would be much appreciated.