Halloween in Orlando....A reference for next year!! (Clermont, Williamsburg: houses, neighborhood)

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Hey everyone.....I just got back from trick or treating with my girlfriend and her son.....Well The plan was to go to Festival Bay mall on I-Drive because my girlfriend heard there was going to be alot of candy, and things going on from 6pm-8pm. Then we were going to go check out Celebration, but that was scrathced so i decided instead that we should see what Williamsburg was going to be like....


Well I left my house near I-Drive and went over to Pick them up in Clermont where they live.......So i got there and then we drove back down to Festival Bay......It was about 6pm when we got there and things seemed pretty dead...Well some places there had candy and there was more of an amount of stores that didnt have candy then i thought there would be.....but we finished after about an hour of walking the whole mall.....So the lesson here is don't go to Festival Bay next year on Halloween......


Well then we headed over to get something to eat for about 30 minutes and after that we headed to Williamsburg ....Well we got to Williamsburg and none of the houses even looked like they knew it was Halloween (hardly any decorations and lights weren't on) ....so we just decided to go back to Clermont where they lived .....The lesson there was ....don't go to Williamsburg again on Halloween....



So we got back to Clermont and there were kids walking around the neighborhood (it was about 8:45pm)......There were lots of people walking to doors for candy still when we got there...so we went around and got what we could before the night died down......Lesson here is that The area of Clermont we were in (where my girlfriend lives) is a good place to go for Halloween ....my girlfriends mother said tons of kids came to thier door while we were gone....



Also Last year we went to Florida mall and there where tons of people there to..and lots of Candy....So if you want good trick or treating in any of the areas ive mentioned then try Clermont and the Florida Mall.....


Anyone else have stories of where to go next year or where not to go based on this year's experience of Halloween?

[cmj_fla]

Thanks for the info. You would have added Celebration to your list of places not to go if you did go. We went last year and it was packed and the residents were very stingy with candy because of it.

This year we stayed close to home and my neighborhood was amazing! We had almost a trash bag full of candy for my 3 kids because everyone would give our kids hand fulls of candy at a time because there was not that many kids out. It was a great night - one of the best Halloweens yet.

[AJ67]

Willimasburg is full of Retires I know i take care of alot of them in the hospital....
We Decided to go trick or Treating with our friends we went to a Very Nice Neighbor hood In haine city ( not in the Ghetto part) every house was decorated and EVERY house was giving candy, and some gave out drinks for the kids...We did'nt hit every house because some of the Decorations where to scarry for our 5 yr old .. but he came home with just the right amount of candy

[Moo Du Kwan]

Oh, the irony!

My friend emailed me just last night and said that Celebration was ROCKIN'!
They even had a police force to (TRY and) quell the traffic going in there!

Also, Hunter's Creek is just as good, if not better for Halloween!
"Hunter's Creep Nights" runs practically throughout the whole month of October. Haunted houses, spooky hayrides with stories and the Hunter's Creek neighborhood of Orista Bay actually looks as if the residents have a house/yard decorating contest! The whole neighborhood is something out of a combination of Tales From the Crypt, The Adams Family and The Munsters!
Complete with spooky music, strobe lights and wicked cool costumes!

*sigh*

Can't WAIT to move back!