Dana H.
Yelp
It has been years since we went to Fear Farm. We stopped going because they would make you crawl on the ground through certain mazes and sprayed water guns in your face. We thought we would try them again since it had been years and it was the only place open on 9/28/25. We wanted to take our family who was visiting AZ. They were excited to go.
When we were buying the tickets online, we saw they were price gauging for everything on their website (charge extra for parking, for time slots, etc.). I almost backed out of going just because of all the extra fees. They also tell you to fill out waivers, which we did online, but never got a confirmation email. When we arrived, we were told we would need to do them again. So, we all had to do them on our phones. The five of us completed them, but they never asked to see them! What was the point of that?
The parking was very unorganized. I am not sure if they were not prepared or if it's always like this. There were long wait times just to park for general admission, VIP and additional mazes. Once we were in line, they do a bag check. Nothing was mentioned about doing a bag check online. We waited 15 minutes to go in the main gate. They were only let groups in every 15 minutes. I don't understand this. We had time slots, but with all the waiting we didn't make the time slots anyway.
The biggest frustration was waiting in line for 45 minutes for first maze without being told there was a problem (Descent into Darkness). We asked questions and were told it would be a few more minutes. Apparently, they needed to fix some things from the previous day of rain. The managers were not allowing them to open. Why not tell the crowd this! We finally left and went to another maze. Instead of using tickets, they scanned your phone to enter each haunted house. This was not convenient.
The first maze we ended up going to was The Blood Shed. It was so lame. It was the longest and most boring maze of my life. We couldn't wait for it to end. It wasn't scary. There were no props to look at. There were few people even trying to scare you! The second maze we went to was The Rise of the Kraken. It was better than Blood Shed, but still lame. There were a few props and some people trying to scare you, but it wasn't scary. Then, we went to The Decent into Darkness, which was finally open. We had to wait in line again. Luckily, it was best one we went through. Given the order we went, it was good since we went from lame to the best. If we had started with best to lame, we would have been even more disappointed. Unfortunately, the day we went the Carnage 3D was closed (we paid for 4 mazes and only got to see 3 mazes or repeat a maze). We didn't realize it was closed when we went and thought we could go through the mazes unlimited times. You only get to go to 4 mazes. Once you are done with the four scans, you are done. You must pay extra for Field of Fear Maze and Deadshot Alley. We asked if we could go in one of the other mazes, since the Carnage 3D was closed, but they said no. We can only go through the ones we paid for.
The porta potty lines were long because there wasn't many of them inside. The porta pottys were pitch black inside. I had to use my iWatch to see anything. That's ridiculous! Who thought this was a good idea to pee in the dark? Maybe they fixed it since then, but that should not be allowed. Lastly, if you buy anything (food, water, shirts, etc.,), they will charge you extra if you use a credit card. I feel as a business, you should either include it in the price of the item or pay the cost of the credit card use. We will not return to Fear Farm based on previous years and this last experience. We had much higher hopes and don't feel it was worth the price or hassle! I would not recommend Fear Farm.