I was so excited to gift this tour to my fiancé! It seemed to have exactly what we were looking for we are into the spooky stuff and both of us work with animals. So it seems like the perfect trip!
However I wish that the stops were in a different order to help prioritize or make the day run smoother. The first stop is the spooky stop. During the day the place opens at 11 am and it is recommend to do the tour, they do state that it would give you less time to do the other activities. Since we are into spooky stuff we decided to do the tour. The downside the tours during the day are only about the local history of the area and some details about the families that lived in the area. It is also a two hour long tour. It does not go into any haunted or scary stories; we even asked if our tour guide could go into the haunted stories of the house and our guide told us we would need to come back for one of the haunted tours. They only offer the haunted tours Friday and Saturday nights. Thus if the stops were switched around and this was the last stop of the trip and the couple did it on a Friday or Saturday it would be the perfect time to do the haunted tours. We did do the self guided tour and stopped at the Coney Island Drive Inn for a milkshake and stopped at the courthouse as well that was recommended both were neat.
For the second stop we choose the the for the adventures option; we thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to venture and saw the unique sites that had to offer and we’re able to get some fantastic photos.
Stops 3 and 4 were where we ran into some problems. And where I wish there was some sort of ability to determine if a couple has been to before or not. Which I know would be hard since it is supposed to be a surprise trip. Stop 3 is a wildlife park that we had just went to January while in the area for a festival. They do also recommend 2 places to eat while over there which we had eating at one of them already while we were there for the festival. My fiancé and I did not want to drive that way for the other food spot so we decided to just open the last stop card. Now the last stop is where the festival that we visited in January took place. So we had already visited the two places they recommended checking out and had been in some but not all of the shops they recommended. With it already being later in the day due to the late start with the long tour we took at stop one, we just decided to drive home. So we only did 2 out of 4 of the stops due to the fact we have already done two.
Also if I were to have someone else do it I would recommend doing it in the opposite order; that way your furthest stop would be first, those places open earlier than the spooky spot anyway. You could do a haunted tour for your last stop and be closer to your house at the end of your adventure then the opposite way.
Overall, I would highly recommend this to someone if they had not done any of the stops on this. I would be interested in getting another one to see how we like that trip as well. I love the idea for this and I think it is a very affordable way to do one of these blind trips. I could change anything. I just wish that there was some way to see if someone has done something on any of stops before.