The Mortuary Haunted Mansion — Attraction in New Orleans

If Temu made a haunted house, you'd get this. When I bought my tickets online, you pick a time frame and are given a 30min window to enter the house, which they say on the website is to prevent the kind of hours long wait from years past, but that's bull. Time slots and efforts to keep wait times low are LIES LIES LIES! My tickets were for 6:45, so we arrived at 6:30 - WHICH IS WHEN THEY OPEN - and the lineup was already estimated to be 1.5 hours. There was no process to put ticket-holders in order of their ticket times, so everyone was confused, but there was almost no staff presence down the queue to answer questions, except to sell upgrades to VIP. All VIP priority ticket holders enter first, so the more VIPs arrived and the more upgrades they sold, the longer the wait got, too! We made a dinner reservation based on our ticket time, so we paid the extra $20/ea to skip the line, but the experience in the haunted house felt so cheap for what we paid. This place is all hype. 12x person groups is also way too big for their design, because we were in the middle-back of our group and missed every possible scare. Every time we passed an actor or an installation, they were mid-reset to scare the people at the back of the group. Kind of a scam and not really scary if you're over...

So I'll start by saying, I am a chicken and don't like spooky things. I do but I don't. Anyway, the team working here is great. Famine and Uncle Sammy wandering about outside are outstanding. Inside they're all so great at their roles it's downright realistic. They still respect when and when not to scare people too. I had a guy grab me and then let go when my husband tapped his arm and said let go (I'm sure my husband didn't care for my sudden death grip on his arm). My husband doesn't scare at these things so he made a great lead guy for our group. Which was hilarious when he actually tapped War on the shoulder and asked if he was real because the guy didn't move for a minute and then scared us all, even my husband jumped. I even walked right into somebody in black I couldn't see and told them oh sorry and tried to catch them so they didn't fall, which was great when he turned around and had a chainsaw like thing, I obviously was not sorry any longer. The staff is all great as far as scares and making sure people have a good time. They also made sure to have nothing scary on stairs and people posted at tops and bottoms with lights to keep you safe from tumbling down stairs. Would 5000% recommend to any haunted house lover and even haunted...

So let me start out with the positive. The actors are good, you can tell they're really in to what they do. With that out of the way let's dive in to the bad. Firstly you pay over $30 a head for general admission to wait in line over an hour to go through an attraction that takes about 20 min to go through. Secondly the scares are actually pretty predictable, and you're made to wear a mask you cant breathe in. It's kind of hard to get scared when you can easily guess where they are coming from and they cant physically mess with you at all. I get not everyone wants the physical option but there should still be the option at least. Thirdly the security makes no attempt to control the teenager's. There were a few times that one of the actors would come out in the line to scare while you wait, and a bunch of the more high pitched teenagers acted not just scared but completely hysterical, moshing into everyone around them until strangers had to yell at them. So in closing I would say it would be worth it to go through if it was either free or like $5 and were allowed to go through in groups of 5 instead of the 10-15 they push through. Dont waste you're money and find an attraction that will an hour to...