Have you started planning your half term days out yet? With October half term 2023 being for many the week of Halloween it’s the perfect opportunity to have some spooky fun at your favourite theme park.
Alton Towers and CBeebies Land – Halloween at Theme Parks 2023
Scarefest
This year Alton Towers are putting on their Scarefest event on 7th, 8th & 13th – 31st October 2023 when the Resort becomes home to Halloween. It will be open until late so you can enjoy your favourite rides in the dark!
Join Franklyn, Skelvin, Patch, Phil and Gretyl in their colourful Halloween playland in the Freaky Fun Zone! With four shows full of fun and silliness, Patch’s Halloween Party is bigger and better than ever. Young families can also take part in the CBeebies Monster Ball, dance along with our dancing flashmob of ancestors plus ride over 20 attractions at dusk!
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Families can brave our spook-tacular Halloween shows and enjoy the gardens at night like never before; daring souls can face our hair-raising rides in the dark, plus a truly terrifying new outdoor scare maze. Expect spines to be tingled.
- 7th, 8th & 13th – 31st October
- Day Passes from £39 per person
- For the brave, add the Alton Towers Dungeon & Darkest Depths onto your escape – scary fun for those aged 10+
See more at: https://www.altontowers.com
LEGOLAND – Halloween at Theme Parks 2023
Brick or Treat
Treat your little monsters to a spook-tacular short break at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort this October half term!
You’re invited to Lord Vampyre’s spooky haunted house, help him celebrate the arrival of Brick or Treat in the LEGOLAND® neighbourhood this October.
Be greeted by joke-telling LEGO® gargoyles and talking statues before taking your seat in the magnificent banquet hall which will swing into life, turning the room upside down and transforming right before your very eyes.
There’s plenty for the family to sink their teeth into during our Brick or Treat event. Join us from 28th September 2023 for the ultimate Halloween party with themed activities, fang-tastic rides, plus live shows and attractions!
There’s also the return of the Brick or Treat Trail which is back, bigger than ever. Monster Rocker needs your help to find the missing items on his shopping list for Lord Vampyre’s Halloween party. Once little monsters have tracked the party pieces down around the Resort, they can head to the Creepy Crypt, where Monster Rocker’s Butler is on hand to give out treat filled goody bags. Plus there’s the chance to join Lord Vampyre and his monster friends at the topsy-turvy new Haunted House Monster Party ride, and all of the Resort’s awesome rides, shows and attractions to enjoy.
With so many monster surprises to discover, families can book a Spook-tacular Sleepover at the LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel or the LEGOLAND Castle Hotel. Sleep in a LEGO themed room and enjoy exclusive early access into the theme park the very next day. Or families can stay nearby at a LEGOLAND Partner Hotel.
Visit www.legolandholidays.co.uk for more information.
Tickets from £39 throughout Lord Vampyre’s Brick or Treat when booked online in advance. Under-threes go free. Book at:www.legoland.co.uk/tickets
Chessington World Of Adventures
Spooktacular Howl’o’ween Fun – Halloween at Theme Parks 2023
Hair-raising, spooktacular fun for all the family!
They’ve got exciting treats and plenty of tricks up their sleeve. More information coming soon…
- 7th – 8th, 14th – 30th October 2023
- Book online and save up to 38%
- Suitable for all the family
As the sun goes down, the eerie, the spooky and the creepy come out to play this Halloween. With hair-raising fun for all the family, untangle the web of lies with the launch of our brand new attraction, Spyders, plus the return of award-winning Creepy Caves Unearthed – Chessington’s scariest attraction yet.
https://www.chessington.com/explore/events/halloween/
Drayton Manor – Halloween at Theme Parks 2023
More Treat Than Trick
Join them in 2023 for spook-tacular fun. With plenty of fang-tastic activities, eerie entertainment and over 100 rides & attractions, you can enjoy a great family day out this October Half Term.
Experience the whole park during the daytime, with pumpkins and hay bales a plenty, as you enjoy all your favourite rides and attractions at our Pumpkin Smash Bash! Visit the Castle of Spooks – included in your ticket price – at any time during your visit for a trick or treat experience, with spooky characters and activities along the way.
Or visit us for Night at the Manor… if you dare. As part of this ultimate scare experience, creep around the Castle of Screams – in the dark – and try to make your way out alive! You’ll also get to ride the Haunted Express, and Hunt for Zebidiah in our night time walk, as well as party like a Viking with our resident DJ and enjoy your favourite Vikings rides after dark.
Visit us this Halloween for frightful fun for everyone!
See website for full details:
https://www.draytonmanor.co.uk/
Gullivers Kingdom – Halloween at Theme Parks 2023
14th October – 3rd November 2023Â at Gulliver’s Kingdom!💀💃
Join our festival-style Halloween that’s bursting with colour, costumes and music. Fright Fiesta is nine days of fabulous family activities, frights and theme park fun. Come together and celebrate the spookiest season of the year at Gulliver’s.
Showcase your fancy dress costume in our spine-tingling street parade or delve deep into the theme park and discover our spooktacular rides. Experience a Gulliver’s Halloween event that’s all about families, joy and celebration. Save money on the freaky festivities by booking your theme park tickets at least two days in advance.
https://www.gulliverskingdomresort.co.uk/fright-fiesta
Paultons Park and Peppa Pig World Halloween 2023
Happy Halloween
What’s on?
- Peppa Pig World‘s spooky Halloween makeover.
- Tornado Springs – Halloween decorations from the way out west.
- The Legend of Paultons Manor show – An all singing and dancing extravaganza. (selected dates)
- Ghoulish fun – meet Pickles the Pumpkin and the rest of the spirit squad characters!
- Rides in the dark! Late night openings until 7:30pm on Tuesday 24th, Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th October 2023!
When are the festivities?
- The Halloween Spooktacular occurs between Thursday 12th and Monday 30th of October 2023 (inclusive).
- Late night openings until 7:30pm on Tuesday 24th, Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th October 2023!
- Our exciting Halloween shows run between 21st – 30th October inclusive.
Where is the Halloween event?
The event takes place at Paultons Park on the edge of the New Forest National Park in Hampshire.
For more information visit: https://paultonspark.co.uk/attractions/13141/happy-halloween-at-paultons-park
Lightwater Valley Halloween 2023
Halloween Happenings this October Half-term (all included in your admission ticket)
Join us for our Hocus Pocus Half-term Halloween Party, filled with awesome activities to keep your little monsters eerily entertained in-between rides.
Trick or Treat Door
Knock loudly…will it be a trick or a treat? Which ghastly ghouls or wicked witches will you meet behind our Trick or Treat Door?
Spooky Magic Show
Suitable for the whole family – our spooky magic show is full of surprises and delights to keep you and your little ghouls laughing all day.
Halloween Character Meet & Greet
Throughout the day meet and greet our weird and wonderful witches, vampires and creepy characters…and don’t forget to grab a photo and share with us on social media!
Monster Mash UV Disco
Join our fang-tastic Monster Mash UV Disco in the Show Barn. There will be prizes for the best movers and shakers, so get your glow sticks at the ready and UV face-paint on as you bop along to some ghastly tunes.
Wicked Witch Trail
Join the Boo Crew and go on a wicked witch hunt around the park. Find all 13 witches lurking in the shadows of the park and be in with the chance to win 2023 park tickets.
Freaky Fancy Dress Competition
Don’t forget to come dressed in your spookiest Halloween costumes and enter our Freaky Fancy Dress Competition. Take to the stage in this scary spectacle to impress the judges…with lots of prizes to be won.
https://lightwatervalley.co.uk/events/view/hocus-pocus-half-term
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Ian & Emma Phillips live in Bolton with their three children, two boys aged 8 and 6 and their little girl who is now 4. Emma also writes over at Fuelled by Latte.
Ooh – I really need to get to Chessington. I still can’t believe we’ve never been! My daughter’s easily spooked, so some of these Halloween activities might be too much for her – but I know my son would love them!
How cute are those monsters at Gullivers Kingdom?! I know Sam would LOVE to spend Halloween with Peppa though 🙂
Thanks for this! It’s amazing how much Halloween has changed over the years in the UK, when I first moved here 20 years ago there weren’t any events, and now look!
Halloween is becoming such a big event now isn’t it? We’ve never been to a special event like this but they sound like lots of fun.