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| Halloween Travel Thrills
Halloween Travel Thrills
spooky parties, places & tours
by Shelley Waugh



Knott’s Berry Scary Farm’s Halloween Haunt Asylum

Enjoy the ghostly delights

October 29, Traverse City, MI
Billed as “the largest Halloween event in Northern Michigan,” the Halloween Carnival and Monster’s Ball will be held in the city’s historic Old Town district.

The daylight portion of the carnival starts with a morning Monster Pancake Throwdown – a contest among local chefs for the title of Best Pancake in Traverse City. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., there will be family activities including a pneumatic “virtual hearse ride,” and a pumpkin pie-eating contest.

After dark, the streets will be taken over by the Monster’s Ball, with local food, wines and microbrews, live bands, DJs, a costume contest, and an all-night Silent Disco dance party. The dancers are issued wireless headphones through which music is broadcast via an FM transmitter. It’s the perfect eerie effect for a Halloween street party, since everyone appears to be moving to no discernible music at all creating the street dance for zombies.

Tickets may be purchased online.
Top 10 haunted parks - spooky rides & ghoulish destinations

Halloween Horror Nights, Universal Studios Singapore
The scream-inducing spectacle that is Halloween Horror Nights – seasonally at Universal Studios in both Orlando and Hollywood for years – is opening this year in Singapore. Universal Studios Singapore is prepping the fake blood capsules now, because soon crazed clowns – our worst nightmare – and mutated zombies will take to the themed streets. The debut features six scare zones and borrows terrifying ideas from the vets over in the States; Universal Orlando has been scaring visitors for 20 years now. Dates: October 21-23 & 27-30

Scarefest, Alton Towers Resort – Staffordshire, England
The most visited theme park in the United Kingdom turns eerie for its annual Scarefest, a combination of devilish attractions that make for a bloodcurdling – mind you, wonderfully so – holiday retreat. The Boiler House draws visitors underground to meet psychopathic serial killers while the Zombies! Scare Zone recreates a post-apocalyptic earth, sans humans. For less frightening attractions avoid the aforementioned and Terror of the Towers, and instead head straight for Franklin’s Freaky Farm or Patch’s Trick-or-Treat Party. Dates: Oct 15-31

Screams Halloween Theme Park– Waxahachie, Texas, US
Those utterly traumatizing clowns are back, this time just outside of Dallas-Fort Worth. Five major attractions draw Texans to Screams Halloween Theme Park on Friday and Saturday nights each October. Topping the list is the Castle of Darkness, a residential house of worry for nervous tour-goers. Next up is Unkel Koy’s Klown Maze, where hounding clowns chase visitors through a winding haze of pure terror. Add the Arcane Asylum, Pirates of Peril Point and the Ghoulish Graveyard, and you’ve got yourself one frightening destination. Dates: Sept 30-Oct 30

Terenzi Horror Nights, Europa Park – Rust, Germany
Winner of the much coveted Screamie Award for Best International Attraction in 2010, Horror Nights at Germany’s popular Europa Park offers devilish treats and gory characters for visitors 16 and older. The cornfield labyrinth and five haunted houses are maddening mazes for visitors to lose themselves in. Top that off with the Night Coaster, Vampire’s Club and wonderful live performances, and it’s easy to see why Horror Nights wedged out its creepy competition. Dates: Sept 23-Nov 6

Howl-O-Scream, Busch Gardens – Williamsburg, Virginia, US
Howl-O-Scream lures visitors into “the creepiest show on earth,” Grin and Scare It – a version of a circus gone extremely wrong. The park’s other scare zones: Widow Makers, Stitchin’ Time, Scavengers and Unleashed, where werewolves apparently roam. As it does year-round, Busch Gardens features country-themed areas, and incorporates appropriate attractions: the Catacombs in France, Dead Line (based on the Pompeii Metro) in Italy and Bitten in Germany. Dates: Sept 23-Oct 30

Halloween Haunt, Canada’s Wonderland – Toronto, Canada
Canadians have it horribly good just outside of Toronto, where Halloween Haunt sets up shop for one month annually to fool and ghoul visitors. New this year is the Terror of London, where folks are transported back to Jack the Ripper’s murderous reign in not-so-merry England. Other showstoppers comprise Clowns at Midnight, The Asylum and Mother Noose (a play on Mother Gooze). Those who make it out of the mazes alive can follow them up with live shows like zombie-ridden Beyond the Grave and thrill rides, including the Bat and Time Warp. Dates: Sept 30-Oct 31

Halloween, PortAventura – Salou, Spain
A whopping 12,000 pumpkins are on display this year at PortAventura’s Halloween-themed spectacle. The world-renowned park pulls out all the haunted stops it can with eight live shows, including La Muerte Viva (Living Death) and Templo del Fuego (Temple of Fire), plus a nightly parade, featuring scary celebrities like members of the Addams Family and Beetlejuice. Dates: Sept 24-Nov 20

Knott’s Berry Farm’s Halloween Haunt – Buena Park, CA, US
Though it may not have the high-tech awesomeness that nearby Universal Studios Hollywood does, Knott’s Scary Farm carries its own via nostalgia thanks to 13 heart-racing, themed mazes and seven live shows. Like out of a horror movie, the park combines the worst of the worst – a Ghost Town (ghosts), Necropolis (vampires) and Carnevil (clowns) – over 160 acres of haunted terrain. Nearly 40 years young, the park taps into niche fears that’ll creep any visitor out. For starters: The Doll Factory. Dates: Sept 23-Oct 31

Hersheypark in the Dark, Hersheypark, Pennsylvania, US
The sweetest place on earth gets downright spooky every October, when Hersheypark drapes itself in fall colours and scary trick-or-treat-themed witchery. More than 50 rides open under new guises: the Balloon Flight becomes the Balloon Fright and the SooperDooperLooper roller coaster becomes the SooperBOOperLooper, scaring visitors beyond the norm. Dates: Oct 14-30

courtesy: www.cheapflights.ca
Haunted Holidays In Wales offer ghostly delights 
In Wales paranormal phenomena abound – not just at Hallowe’en (Calan Gaeaf), but year ‘round. Bizarre and eerie events are par for the course at countless locations around Wales. Savor the supernatural: visit a haunted castle, holiday at a haunted inn or imbibe the psychic atmosphere as well as a pint or two at a haunted pub - if you dare!

Castell Coch
In the capital of Cardiff, the legendary medieval buried treasure of fairytale-like Castell Coch is reportedly guarded by two men-turned-eagles in a subterranean tunnel; several attempts to extricate the booty were apparently foiled when the eagles took flight – even an exorcism and silver bullets proved useless against the ferocity of these stalwart sentinels. Strange noises, mysterious figures, spooky tours and tales are part of the fun exploring the deepest, darkest, loneliest parts of the Cardiff Castle. There are special tours to the Summer Smoking Room at the top of the Clock Tower, reputed to be the most haunted room in the Castle.

As recently as the 1990’s, Boots –the Chemist’s Shop - in Queen Street - was the scene of an alleged otherworldly encounter … an air conditioning engineer happened upon a wraithlike Victorian lady on a secluded staircase on the shop’s top floor. 

Creepy Cardiff Ghost Walking Tour
Throughout the year, the one-hour tour begins outside the National Museum of Wales, Cathays Park Cardiff. Wending your way through the beautiful white stone buildings, you'll hear stories of hauntings, dragons and reincarnation. History, mystery, myth and legend are woven into a tangled tale - you decide which is which.

Caerphilly
Nearby Caerphilly hosts several ghosts. The Green Lady, Princess Alice, is said to jump from turret to turret at the castle in a never-ending quest for her lost lover, Tew Teg, from whom she was forever separated in the 14th century when her cuckolded husband banished her to France. llancaiach Fawr Manor may be inhabited by no fewer than eight former residents – soldiers, children and a maid - who freely roam the house and gardens. Sightings include a cradle that rocks on its own.
 
Skirrid Mountain Inn
At the 875-year-old Skirrid Inn near Abergavenny, shadowy helmeted figures have been spotted skulking across the windows and a lady customer, who was taken ill, was found to have rope burns to her neck: The pub’s stairwell was used as a makeshift gallows during the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, where a mass execution of 182 traitorous soldiers took place.

Conwy Castle
The ruins of ancient castle glower over Conwy. Accommodations at the nearby Castle Hotel are – well – super…natural - a great place to start off on a ghostly candlelit tour. The hotel sits on the site of a Cistercian Abbey and has its own resident specter.

Bodelwyddan Castle
Are the bones interred within the walls of the castle (near St Asaph) the cause of the paranormal activity there? Guests at one of the most haunted buildings in Wales have reported many ghostly happenings: Aside from the usual: unexplained voices, sounds and light, and shadowy figures drifting down corridors and through walls – including a mysterious lady in a flowing dress in the Sculpture Gallery, visitors have had their hair pulled. The fearless can reserve a room.
 
George Borrow Hotel
The brave of heart are welcome at the hotel in Ponterwyd, Ceredigion. Built in the 18th century, the hotel was renamed after intrepid traveler George Borrow who featured it in his 1854 book “Wild Wales.” Former 20th century landlady, Miss Withers, regularly rearranges the furniture and china and uses the keys…going so far as to lock the current landlord’s dog in a room!
 
Visit www.visitwales.com/ghosts to check other ghostly delights
Nightmare Weddings

SpookyWorld / Nightmare, LITCHFIELD, New Hampshire, US
If you are Halloween addicts who adore vampire lore and are searching for a fun alternative wedding ceremony and reception location saying “Til death do you part” takes on a different look at New England’s most terrifying Scream Park.

The venue has onsite catering, unlimited entertainment options, an event planning team and offers customizable options including costumed catering staff, monstrous mixologists and hearse transportation for the bride and groom.

SpookyWorld / Nightmare New England also handles engagement parties, rehearsal dinners and bachelor/bachelorette parties.


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