DO NOT VISIT HALLOWEENTOWN•ST HELENS, OREGON 

Yes super disappointing 😭😭😭 it’s only worth it if you’re going during opening weekend. It should be live specially during Halloween day 😩

Love your moniker!

We visited in 2021 🙂 but we only did a morning visit since we were going to Napanoch. But that sounds like fun & we definitely need to go back 🙌🏻

@@TwinTravel03 trying to take a trip down there I'll be way easier for me to go the distance from the Bronx to sleepy hollow is a 23-minute drive depending traffic

@@stephanieramirez9151 that’s super close 👌🏼 we’re from LA 🙃 so who knows when we’ll be back 🥲

@@TwinTravel03 damn you're far did you do a video for sleepy hollow

Yes it was disappointing 😭😭😭

This is my home. That yellow building at 4 minutes is the Klondike restaurant. Ghost hunters tv show did a episode there

​​@@beardedbox80 Our home too. We actually live 5 blocks from the Klondike & ate dinner one night when the ghosts were particularly busy (cold drafts & weird, non food odors). After that, we stuck to the Dockside.

Yes save your money 🙏🏻 unless you’re going opening weekend

We went on a Sunday ☹️ thank you 😊

😂😂😂❤️❤️❤️ love this!!! Yes!! We stayed for the whole ceremony lol I know it was disappointing but at least we got the chance to experience it for ourselves ✨ we did twilight filming locations so that was great 🐺 ❤️🧛‍♂️

@@TwinTravel03 well I'm glad you got to do the twilight houses and enjoyed that! And thanks for attending our flash wedding 🥰🤣

@petshopchick132 thank you for letting us be a part of it ❤️✨☺️🙌🏻

Congratulations, posthumously. As a local, I agree with everything you said.

We had no idea 😂😂😂 everyone kept telling us after the fact lol but we were trying to save money & that hotel was close to the stuff 🥲 but it was an adventure for sure lol

I didn't even know they changed the name till I saw this video (I'm bed bound so I don't get out). Remember it used to be the Village Inn? That was truly the most run down, out dated motel till Motel 6 took it over. Now it's only marginally run down. I do remember returning from PDX one night when it was the former & seeing a bevy of ppl with cameras standing in the parking lot. A man was on the upper balcony waving to the small crowd. It was Andrew McCarthy & they were filming Things I Never Told You. I was horrified he was staying there. At least with Twilight they brought in trailers for the cast.

Thank you 😊 that’s great!! This weekend is the pumpkin lighting & parade so it will be worth it. Some ppl are saying it’s better this year. I’m using the iPhone 14 😳 lol

I make the 14 hr drive once a year to visit family in Cali. I don't envy you.

Haven't been to that in years. Loved it. We also used to have a pirate festival & a Renaissance Faire.

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Make the most of it 🙌🏻🎃 I think it’s good because everything is spacious

@@TwinTravel03 ok cool, thanks for responding

Hello ladies, I'm writing back to you with my own Halloweentown review! I went September 30th and for the most part had a BLAST! I was with good company and I enjoyed the sights! HOWEVER, one of the attractions I paid for was not handicapped accessible so that was a bummer and near the end of the haunted house I literally had to get out of the wheelchair and push it through the narrow doorway before climbing back in. Still, I had fun.

@@zacharyjames9602 awwww that’s awesome!! I’m glad you had a great experience 🎃✨ ugh sorry about the wheelchair 😭😭 but overall how were the vendors and was there a parade?

@@TwinTravel03 vendors were cool, didn't buy anything and didn't go day of parade.

What?!!! Wow 😮 that’s sad actually. I hope people do their research and not spend so much money 😭 that is a rip off! That makes me mad actually 😡 ours was free too but even the parking fee is ridiculous! What’s more ridiculous is the admission 🤯

WTF? When did this gouging begin? I'm a local & I'm appalled the city council sanctioned this. Why do you have to pay admission at all? Do they fence off the town square? Meet-and-greets were $15 & that gave you access to all cast members, although Kimberly J Brown was the only one who came the first few times. I did hear about the shuttle but not the cost. I'm so angry in fact that I'm thinking of writing our council members. We're trying to promote St Helens & good family fun. Surely we don't need the money so badly that we get a reputation as "Rip Off Town".

Yes 🥲 we were so disappointed ☹️ but at least it wasn’t expensive for us to visit & we’re also twilight fans so that also helped lol

Yes 😭😭 I wonder how many people out of state they receive each year & feel the disappointment

@@TwinTravel03 Exactly! I'm from Australia and planning to do a US trip to all the spooky places. So coming all the way for that would of been major disappointing 😂

@sarahmeed5227 oh nooooo 😱🫣 don’t that to yourself lol you might as well reroute to Salem & Sleepy Hollow

Go the first weekend in October for the parade and pumpkin lighting 🎃

Yes we only did a day stay since we were also visiting Portland. But now we know to go for the pumpkin lighting and parade 🫤 we thought it was an every weekend thing specially during Halloween day

Omg how cool!!! That’s a great memory ✨ we really wanted to go because of the movie and feel all the nostalgia lol but now we know lol

@@TwinTravel03 it’s too bad you missed the big festivities. Hope you got to explore more of the PNW. 😘

Yes 👻 this was last year

I hardly saw any trick or treaters on Halloween day but they do have a lot of activities for the kids in Halloweentown between 11am-3pm

@@TwinTravel03 thank you 🙏

By trick or treating, do you nean at the festival or in the neighborhoods? Beware of trick or treating in the surrounding neighborhoods because of low lighting & accessibility. They are old neighborhoods so sidewalks are uneven & in some cases lighting is non-existent. Otherwise we are a very safe town.

They should make it into a huge yearly event. They have one haunted house but for little kids 🙁

Since the place is iconic for the movies it should be a big event like you said. That would attract mire tourist.

We went in 2022 and you would think it would get better and it didn’t ☹️

That makes total sense 😭 and I feel for the residents because it’s out of their control with the amount of visitors each year 🥲 the city should try and prepare for it every year since it’s just once a year. But I get it 😭😭 thank you for sharing

@@TwinTravel03 I wish they did fund it properly! It could really be something cool! Especially with the twilight connection as well! Maybe one day!!🤞🫶🏼

@@kaylafinch4206 yes!! That would bring in so much revenue to the city 😭😭

I've been a St Helens resident for 30 yrs. When the movie was made it was very low key; no huge throngs of production ppl or tourists about (I used to live in southern California & I've seen movie productions) and it was business as usual in the town square. The only difference were the props strewn about. We, and Disney, did not realize how popular the movie(s) would be so it took well over a decade before St Helens capitalized on it. At the start it was just a normal street fair to buy food & trinkets. As the movie franchise expanded, so did the festival. We recreated the large pumpkin then added more decorations until we amassed quite a collection including the real taxi from the original film. The festival really took off when we were able to get the original cast, minus the late great Debbie Reynolds, to visit. That was the year the numbers soared & the town was ill equipped to handle it. Every year we learn from the year before & we do try to improve it, but unfortunately we are limited to space & resources. Only a B n' B & a few restaurants close to the festivities. Everything else is out by the highway including 2 motels (the one in this vlog used to be the Village Inn then a Motel 6, as evident by the decor).The best time to visit is when the cast is present otherwise it's just an average small town street fair with a wonderful Halloween theme. It's more of an afternoon out kinda thing. We have a haunted tour (the old Klondike Hotel & Restaurant is notorious for cold drafts, whispers & apparitions) & a tour of the Twilight movie locations. I was given a private tour of Bella's house just after filming wrapped; not much to see but the outside of the house. We have the mighty Columbia River & some wonderful hiking trails but not much else. I would like to see us get our pirate festival, with real pirate ship, & Renaissance Faire back in town. The latter was great with joisting, cooked turkey legs & mead, wenches & cod pieces (look it up) and lots of pseudo drunken comraderie. Now that's a festival. I live 5 blocks from Halloween Town square & have never experienced a problem. None of the locals I've talked to have a problem either so I think the complaints are coming from the ppl who live around the square & I could certainly see this as irritating because it's so compact down there. Also the highway probably gets congested. For the locals it's usually the same old vendors so we generally stay home and save our energy for the real event, trick-or-treating and eating all that candy. I hope this helps you plan your next trip. Sincerely, we are proud of our little town & we do love having visitors but please do not expect Disneyland as we have no room for the rides. Lol😮

@kaylafinch4206 Hi Kayla! You said you were born here & your name seems vaguely familiar. My daughter was a 2012 grad of SHHS. I'm wondering if you went to school with her.

Yes this is true. Hope your experience is better than ours 🫶🏼

Thank you 🤍@@TwinTravel03

They should 😭😭

In our defense, we can't. Our town is too small to accommodate all the Salem activities or the crowds. Plus, we're Halloweentown, duh!

It’s crazy how when we went there was no merch at all. The ones we took we got them on Etsy. A lot of ppl have been mentioning that about the OYO 🥴😳😳 we didn’t even know lol when we went there was other tourist but we didn’t see anything sketchy but never again!! Yea for us it was a two hour flight but we won’t be returning anytime soon 😭😭😭

Haven't been downtown in years but prior to covid we had mostly resale shops with some specialty home goods stores of reasonable price thrown in. We had a great hommade pizza parlor & Umpqua ice cream shoppe. We also had a Twilight store once with nothing but Twilight souvenirs (got me a t-shirt). Fritz & Sassy was my favorite store - so eclectic with all kinds of home goods, new & old. Very Bohemian chic. The theater is my fav. Not only was it used in the movie but they offered kids season matinee tickets: ten new movies for $8 & the parents got in for free. We went every season, spring & fall, & got to be real good friends with all the employees (if you're reading this, we miss you). The Klondike restaurant can be great or good depending on who owned it when you visited. We went to the Dockside because we knew the family & the food was consistently good. The owner/chef would visit the tables & if interested give you a cooking tutorial on your dish. My fav was the carbonara, yummy! Sorry but the rent on their building went sky high & they were forced out, then covid hit so they aren't around anymore. Our current fav is Plymouth Pub. The food is fab from burgers to Rib eye dinners. And the fish is better than at the coast (read the reviews). If you drive a mile towards the highway, try Miyako's Japanese restaurant. The food is outrageously good, reasonably priced & kid friendly. We also have a new wave of food carts that came in, some serving Greek food. I'm hungry now.

Go alone :) it’s safe.

How old are you? My daughter is gonna be 30 & she could show you around. She's lived here her whole life & best part is she knows all the best places to eat.