Hersheypark Happy?
Parking Fee: $6.
Pack of 20 ride tickets: $14.
Dinner for two from "Decades": $19.50.
The look on your son's face after he gets five miniature-sized Hershey candies on his first Trick-or-Treat experience: priceless.
In just a few short years, "Halloween In Hershey" has turned from a sign of the Hershey chocolate company's holiday generosity into a managed, minimally expensed, and generally stingy experience. In prior years, there were 8-10 stations throughout the park where kids could go and receive regular-sized bars/packages of Hershey candies. This year, they relegated the candy giving to a cordoned path where each child (including my 3-year-old) had their hand stamped and was allowed to receive one miniature-sized candy ("one per customer, please" is an exact quote) from each of five stations.
I hope the penny-pinching executives responsible for "right-sizing" this experience are happy; I doubt we'll be visiting "Halloween In Hershey" in future years.