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This was our 1st time experiencing Jason's Woods. We didn't even know anything about this place until we happened to see a billboard on our way somewhere. Okay. Details about this place. 1. I'm a hard person to scare. Let's get that out of the way. I watch horror movies like Rom - Coms. 😄😄😄 This place got me to lean back a couple of times but no screams. They only got that because they caught me off guard. 2. It is very dark in parts of this place and lighting of any kind like flashlights or camera phone flashes is strictly prohibited. This is kind of messed up because there are areas where I almost twisted my ankle because I couldn't see where I was stepping. Running inside the attractions is prohibited. As a natural Flight or Fight response is to run when frightened or to defend oneself. In this place the actors can touch you but you can't touch them. This adds to the terror experience for the people who are easily scared. 3. I loved the makeup of the actors. Many of them have great talent and I was amused. I have always been a huge fan of Freddy Krueger of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and Jason Voorhees of the Friday the 13th franchise. These characters were there. The actors did an absolutely spectacular job! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Freddy even creeped me out when he kneeled in front of me with the eye contact and looming glare. I said aloud, "Okay then Freddy. I see you," and I chuckled to myself because it was awesome! I immediately took out my phone to text my sister to let her know that her, my brother-in-law, and nephew were missing some super fantastic fun!! ☺️☺️☺️ 4. The Carnival of Fear would scare the holy bananas out of my friends who are terrified of clowns. I loved it!! 🥰🥰🥰 all of the details, the artwork, the creepy looking clowns, the maze you had to go through, and the setup of the rooms. Just all of it was a winner for me. I'm sitting here smiling while writing this review. I think I made friends with the psycho clown at the end. 😄😄😄 She asked me, "Wanna be my friend?" I said, "Heck yeah!" She laughed and said, "But I'm kinda crazy though." I said, "Me too" and we laughed. 😂😂😂 5. The playground was tight!! I loved how the actors stood completely still to make it hard for you to tell if they're real or not. When you least expect it they make subtle movements to play mind games with you to make you think, "Did that thing just move? Nah, I'm tripping." 😄😄😄 It's like being in your own Live Psychological Thriller. 6. No flash photography or videos. It is restricted. However, I really wish that they would reconsider this and here's why. For those people that are experiencing this for the 1st time or 50th time and bringing friends to have their 1st experience, if people are allowed to take videos of themselves reacting to the entertainment, it would increase customers frequency based on the fact that the customer will share it on their social media. Word of mouth is still the best advertisement and if people can show they've had a great experience then the work is being done for Jason's Woods. 7. I can now say that I've been to both Jason's Woods and Field of Screams. I'll do them both again, however, between the two of them I personally enjoyed Jason's Woods more. 8. I'm in awe and in love with the Zombie Slayer. When it's time, I'll be coming for that. 😄😄😄 9. The DJ was rocking! OMG! That old saying, "Dance like nobody's watching," it happened that night because the DJ was that good. 10. All in all, I highly recommend Jason's Woods. 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Stars.
Queen AmplenessQueen Ampleness
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Myself and my two daughters 👩👧👧decided we would revisit Jason’s woods Saturday October 9th 2021. I came to Jason’s Woods many years ago and it was pretty good. We purchased our tickets 🎟online because website mentioned cash only for in person ticket purchase. We purchased 3 VIP grand slam tickets which was for all 5 attractions. They did have two more things there I believe and one of them was escape room which you have to purchase separately but we didn’t do those. So we purchased VIP because it was only $10 more ($50) from the regular 5 attraction tickets which were $40. Well no brainer for us since it was a Saturday night we would be going . When you buy online you would think it would be easier for the process to get in , right? WRONG!! Same thing as purchasing in person. UGH!! So we arrived at location which driving down those dark unlit roads didn’t even have signs to tell you this way to Jason’s woods or that way …. But we found it thank goodness because I wouldn’t wanna be stranded on those roads in the dark… I’m sure the cows would keep us safe lol. Anyway. Parking is free which they had people directing us where to park. We parked and started walking towards entrance which time as we approached was 7:40pm🕢 (their opening time was 7pm that night). Holy Cow Was it packed!👀…..there was three lines filled with so many people .omg! I said to my daughters,”this can’t be where we wait because we already purchased our tickets”… well I asked a lady at entrance standing there with walklie talkie and she said yes , you have to wait in one of these lines to get your tickets … lol I said ok.. I couldn’t believe they didn’t have a separate line for online purchased tickets . So we waited maybe a total of twenty minutes…. They scanned our mobile tickets to give us card tickets that had five attractions on it to be marked as we do one . Finally, we get to start. We started off with hayride first since that’s always a popular pick with everything. Man was lines long … we waited in line for 30 min but VIP line was just as packed as standard line and we didn’t go any faster than their line. So what they did to get people on tractor is they put half VIP people and half standard people on a tractor 🤨. Whatever! After we sat we heard the rules from this skeleton (one which no Photography with flash can be used) then we were off. NOTE: Mask isn’t required or asked by anyone but if you feel uncomfortable being so close to someone especially in lines or tractor which they pack you in , wear a mask…we did and some others too….I’ll sum it up to it was neat the hayride with the actors trying their best to scare people but this ride wasn’t as good as years ago as I remember. All other attractions fell little short of the scare but they tried …. The backgrounds and props used were cool though…that’s about it … Covid kinda messed things up with the lack of actors and entertainment outside of attractions to keep people entertained during waiting… a solid 3 star I rate… Happy Halloween folks..
LISA THOMPSONLISA THOMPSON
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Unfortunately it makes me so sad to say, that what once was the most outstanding Halloween attraction on the east coast, is now the worst one over ever visited. I used to go to Jason's woods every single year through the early 2000s and without a doubt it was the BEST EXPERIENCE EVER!!! My husband and I attended last night and I was so sad about the entire event. There were a literal handful of actors as if the rest went on strike, the actors all had cheesy cheap spirit Halloween masks on and regular clothes, zero scare tactics, lazy actors. The very few actors that came out were not in costume and character as it always was at Jason's woods. They spoke to people in normal voices and gave zero effort. You seen every single thing coming and didn't even jump once. We also had a clown actor scream at us bc we kept being told to go a certain way through the haunted house and it put us in circles. Actor slammed a swinging gate door shut onto my husband's back and hurt him quite a bit. The Hayride wait was the longest part of the whole night. Everything else went by so fast bc there were nearly no actors to engage while walking the trail, the Hayride, or the haunted houses. Kudos to the girl in the Lazer smoke room who hid on the floor and jumped out. She really was the single actor who had any potential and idea what Jason's woods was once about. I feel we spent our money and an hour and a half drive just to be let down. I could not have in a million years ever expected to be disappointed at Jason's woods but it the sad truth. At the end you used to get to see the old funeral buggy and meet and actor from a scary movie but that too was gone. I hyped it up to my husband so much only to end up apologizing to him all night that he wasted his money. Bob Hershey once had the most imagined Wonderful haunted attraction that you would only expect to get even better over time but it dwindled down to an epic fail. I surely hope this finds its way to him and his daughter in law reading this and getting back to their roots and fixing what is now a sad place. I'm so sorry to write this but see something say something goes a long way.
HelenHelen
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Hate leaving bad reviews but if you are trying to choose between places to go, pay more and go anywhere else. I picked the 3 event pass and the scariest part was the bathrooms. One event was closed, the other event wasn’t spaced out between groups going through so every time we rounded a corner the actors were still interacting with the people in front of us and not ready yet. The hay ride was sadly the worst part. Slightly over a 2 hour wait in line, get on the wagon only to be talked down to by a woman yelling the rules to us. She was yelling for everyone to sit down, then made us all get up and move to fit 2 more people on the wagon. A guy across from us said something about the long wait in line, to which the woman smile and said “guess you should pay for the fast pass then or come sooner.”(we arrived at opening time). 😒It was not an informative statement by any means, she was just being rude. The woman finished her speech, spun around smiling(almost like she was waiting for us to clap or cheer) and was obvious that everyone was talking to each other about how rude she was and just looking at her with shocked expressions. All the way to the first stop everyone around us was talking about her behavior so we were not the only people that had issue with it. The props on the ride were very well done(good job builders!). However there was only 1-2 actors per stop, they seemed extremely under staffed. 3 of the stops I never saw the actors, but heard running feet around the back of the wagon. To be honest the actors for the most part gave very little effort, not sure if they restricted them, it was too cold or they were just tired. I fell asleep on this ride 😂, seriously I missed the Jason part at the end. Never again ☹️ Ps the fries were great, best part of the night for me.❤️
Nikki LeaNikki Lea
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Honestly, I expected way more out of these attractions. I came here years ago and felt like I enjoyed it more. The Carnival and Apocalypse was ok. We did the Hayride and expected way more out of it with all the hype we heard from the new Wrecking Machine. The actors were the reason it wasn't good, not the new feature of the hayride. That actually gave some excitement. To be honest, the biggest issue with the hayride is that at each stop we already expected someone to scare us and could see them standing there lol. Like, "hi I see you, guess you're about to scare us, huh?" The videos I guess tried to play as a distraction, but no one watched the video, we were playing Where's Waldo 🤣 The only clever one was Texas Chainsaw which popped out the door where the video was playing. Too much lighting at the stops because everyone spotted the creatures out and took forever for them to actually come scare us (maybe because they were waiting for the video to end) Jasons Woods walk was such a let down. They had so much opportunity to scare and didn't. Felt more like a workout and walk in the trail. Really think they need more actors and utilize the areas where there could have been an opportunity for scare. I remember walking through a bus and it was foggy and I was like there might be someone popping out from the seats and nope. It definitely wasn't worth my hour and a half drive. I'd say it's more of a kids and teen place to go for a scare.
User from DEUser from DE
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absolutely love this place first time going but will come back well worth the trip and money
Virgie WallerVirgie Waller
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