It’s half-term and Halloween next week so here’s some spooky ideas of where to take the kids. Grown-ups had better watch for those ghouls too!
Treats and tricks are in store at Ribby Hall Village in Lancashire. The new Halloween Pumpkin Trail is a fun family trail within the villages Woodland Trail.
On Saturday October 31, adults (over 13s) can take part in the Terror Trail through the woods, uncovering the secrets of the original Ribby Hall Village with surprises around every corner. There’s also a Halloween fancy dress and activities.
Three-night weekend break for a family of six sharing a three-bedroom self-catering cottage during October costs from £539.
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The Haunted Castle at Warwick Castle sees family-friendly fun during the day and a different experience after dark.
With six new attractions for Halloween week from October 24-November 1, including the first ever horseback fire jousting seen at the Castle and two truly terrifying live-actor events, there’s nowhere more fabulously fiendish than The Haunted Castle.
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Haven holiday parks have lots of fun Halloween activities through half term including fancy dress, pumpkin carving and a special Halloween show!
For example, three nights self catering at Primrose Valley Holiday Park nr Filey, Yorks, starts from £174, based on a family of six sharing Deluxe plus accommodation on Oct 30 and includes kids’ clubs and entertainment.
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If you’re looking for Halloween fun without the scares, then ‘Brick or Treat’ at LEGOLAND Discovery Centre is the place – there’s even free entry for kids (under 11) in costume on October 31.
Guests who take part in the Halloween Hunt will get the chance to win some scarily good prizes including a LEGOLAND Discovery Centre family annual pass (for 4 people) worth over £120.
You can also make a pumpkin from LEGO and help theme the spooky ghost train chugging its way past the haunted castles.
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Brave the Burghley House Spooky Tours in Stamford, Lincs. Torch lit tours unearth the secret history of England’s greatest Elizabethan house, offering a chance to journey into creepy cellars, forbidding outbuildings and centuries old cloisters. Until October 31.
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Dreamland Margate will mutate into a world of nightmares when it transforms into Screamland, the region’s largest scare festival, until October 31.
Discover spiders, lizards and bugs in the Monstrous Menagerie and try to find your way out of the mysterious mirror maze without encountering the prowling ghosts.
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Journey back in time this half term and discover Nottingham’s horrible history at the Galleries of Justice until November 1. Visitors can come face-to-face with creepy characters including Hangman, the local surgeon and the infamous Body Snatchers in this new and exciting actor-led tour.
Explore original prison cells, caves, dungeons and Victorian courtrooms as you wander through what was once Nottingham’s most notorious County Gaol.
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York Dungeon has launched a brand new spine-chilling show, Body Snatchers, running until November 1.
The body snatcher himself, John Hodgson, is roaming the Dungeon looking for his next corpse. The new hair-raising show will see one of the most intimidating, ghoulish, characters ever introduced.
Body Snatchers aren’t new to the town of York and first arrived in the 1800s. They’d dig up freshly buried to sell to medical schools in Edinburgh.
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There’s some spectacularly spooky adventures in Kent for October half-term!
The Garden of England will become a spider’s web of spine-tingling activities from October 24 to November 1 at various venues including Dover, Leeds and Hever Castles.
They include family outings for tiny terrors to fully immersive horror experiences for grown-ups.
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See the sinister side of London as guests follow the blood-soaked footsteps of murderers Jack the Ripper and Sweeney Todd down gas-lit alleyways on a ghost walking tour of London.
Arrive at each scary spot by motor coach as the guide dishes out the gory details of the infamous killers on the provided headsets. Expect goosebumps as you approach Drury Lane, the most haunted theatre in the city, and Fleet Street, but it’s the stories of Jack the Ripper in the East End that will have guests trembling with fear.
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