Holiwood Nights 2025

Alright, so the ticketing process basically looks like a lottery? Whats to stop the entire world from just registering with a ton of email addresses? Will this be another very difficult year to secure tickets?

https://holidayworld.com/events/holiwood-nights/

Reminds me of trying to get tickets to San Diego Comic Con

It's just too early for me to even think about committing to an event that's six months out, especially since these events require you to put a name to the ticket at purchase.

I am totally ready to go like I was the last two years, but couldn’t get tickets. It seems they are doing something different? Are they preventing people who went last year from going this year so others can go? I hope so.

Someone was on the Facebook page bragging about going the last few years and can’t wait for this year, I just wanna tell them to sit out so someone else can go. I wouldn’t, of course… but I really do want to go. It’s a great event.

I am trying, I’ve never been. Last time I was at Holiday World was for Fall Affair, that was canceled shortly before, but still had a great time. Would love to make it for HWN next year.

TheMillenniumRider:

Whats to stop the entire world from just registering with a ton of email addresses?

Is there some type of resale market for niche coaster riding events?

Everything is scalped nowadays, but I think forced names at registration and sales limits keep this one from having the same fate.

Is it possible that the event is just popular? Scalping seems a little farfetched, but maybe you've seen something other than the tickets selling out quickly that says otherwise.

Yeah, I don't even think it was possible to get one. They were all distributed within seconds.

bigboy:

Is it possible that the event is just popular? Scalping seems a little farfetched

Well, one guy has an 11:00:08 timestamped email that they were all gone already. So 100% grabbed in under 8 seconds I would imagine they were using bots or something else to formfill. People can't possibly fill that form and submit in under 8 seconds. Can they?

I hit go in under 8 seconds and they were gone. 4 years in a row now, but glad I got to go all those years (since 1995). They know how popular it is, maybe they will have 2 HWN weekends at some point. I can't complain about the park, they're doing their best and have always treated coaster nerds like gold. To their credit, they have limited the event.

While I did get a code and this is my 7th year in a row of going, I still gotta say, this is worse than the lottery. First, they were only giving out codes good for 2 tickets. Not awful, but not an ideal number. 2nd, they encouraged people to try for the free codes by offering 3 pairs of free tickets. How many of the HWN codes were given to people who have/had no intention of spending $150 -$300 on tix. 3rd, what is being done with the tix that were allocated to those codes or ones given to people who just decide not to buy tix but got codes? Are they having a second chance sale? They won't respond to that question. 4th, I was informed that even if a family member got the code and used their name, that can't, easily give the code to the family members who actually are attending.

If they wanted to allow more orders to be placed, they should have just put the tickets on sale with a limit of 2 per order. If they wanted to give away 3 pairs of tix, they could have had a separate contest.

That’s what I wondered, I saw people who said they don’t even plan on using theirs because their entire group didn’t secure them, so now none of them plan to go.

The lottery would have at least felt more fair, this was a game of who was fastest. Just let everyone enter and randomly select. If they truly want to make it fair eliminate duplicate entries, or at least greatly reduce them by tying this to a residential address in some form, but I get there is no real benefit to the park doing this. As long as they sell tickets they aren’t too concerned.

Wish Paula was still around to talk to us and give some insight.

zoug68:

I was informed that even if a family member got the code and used their name, that can't, easily give the code to the family members who actually are attending.

This would be incorrect. They could give the code to someone else, you don't register the names till you purchase the tickets through Holiday World. The name on the code site didn't matter. Only the email mattered. They literally said that in the announcement. For instance, Mr. Asdf got a code :).
Insert from the announcement.

This is the message I got back from Holiday world...

" Thank you for getting back with me. Codes for HoliWood Nights are not transferable. In addition, the Club Member who was issued the code must be the person who checks in at Guest Relations at the time of the event."

Our long national nightmare is finally over.

Thanks Trump!

I am betting he would sign an executive order to make this transferable. Just have to pony up some $$$ to get his attention.

Nah, just tell him that Biden signed the order to make it non-transferrable and you'll have a new executive order making it transferable within minutes.