Big event days out
This is the season to be Spooooooky!!! OOOOOooooooooo!
Bedfordshire offers a huge number of fangtastic spooky treats for all the family to enjoy. Take a look at the following scary places to see where your fear factor will be tested!
There are scary haunting places to be explored from week long activites to frightening evening entertainment ... why don't you find out which tests your spook factor, if you dare....
Mwah ha ha ha haaaaa!!!
Halloween Family Fun
18th October - Sunday 2nd November
Mead Open Farm
Billington
Nr Leighton Buzzard
LU7 9JH
Tel: 01525 852954
Website: www.meadopenfarm.co.uk
There's so much to do at Mead Open Farm over the Halloween period you'll be wondering what to do first. With witches trail and haunted castles, phantom rides, and field of terror, carve your own pumpkin, pet the rabbits, feed the goats and milk the cows. Take part in the daily fancy dress competition at 5pm from Monday 27th October.
Adults £5.95 Child £6.95 and under 2's go free
Halloween at Thurleigh Farm Centre
Thurleigh, Bedfordshire
25th October - 2nd November
Tel: 01234 771597
Website: www.thurleighfarmcentre.co.uk
There are many fun and spooky activities during half term and on Halloween.
This year the scary tractor ride will go through the Wicked Woods.
There will also be a Field of Screams and our Ghost Train ride will also be back.
All the usual activities such as quads, bungee trampolines, animal feeding, bunny cuddling etc. will be available and inclusive in the entry price. There will also be the chance to carve a pumpkin in a Deadly Dungeon setting for cost of buying a pumpkin.
The Scary just got Scarier: Thurleigh will be hosting Fright Nights on Wednesday 29th, Thursday 30th, Friday 31st and Saturday 1st November.
On these days they will be open as normal from 9:30am but will stay open later until 8:00pm. Join them for the day or come as it gets dark. On these late days Thurleigh would like to encourage visits from working families and families with perhaps older children brave enough to take the scary tractor ride, ghost train or field of screams in the DARK!
Each of the four Fright Nights will have a short Firework Finale (please note this is not a full firework display).
There will be a Halloween Party on Friday October 28th and will include a Fancy Dress competition and finish with a short Firework Finale, but feel free to dress up any time you visit, even let the kids dress up too. Pumpkin Carving in the Deadly Dungeon Setting; Apple Bobbing; Spooky Tractor Rides; Gruesome Lucky Dip; Mask Making; Badge Making; (some of these at additional cost).
See the scary world from the tractor and trailer rides.
VISIT THEM IF YOU DARE !!!! HA HA HA HAAAAAAA!!!!
Entry prices for Halloween are £7.00 for children 4 and over, £5.75 for children 3 and under and £5.00 for adults. Each pumpkin carved will cost £1.50-3.50 depending on size.
Halloween Week
Saturday 25th October - Sunday 2nd November
Wild Britain, Renhold
Tel: 01234 772770
Website: www.wild-britain.co.uk/
A whole week of Ghoulish fun! Carve pumpkins, meet the most obscure mini-beasts, join the graveyard spiders and solve the black cat trail.
Halloween Haunting at Leighton Buzzard Railway
Sunday 26th October
Leighton Buzzard Railway, Leighton Buzzard
Tel: 01525 373888
Website: http://www.buzzrail.co.uk/
Dress in your spookiest clothes for the annual haunting on board specially decorated steam trains with free seasonal gifts for all fare-paying children. look out for Count Dracula waiting on the platform!
Train departures every 50 minutes from 10.40am to 2.50pm.
Have a scream for Halloween
Sun 26 Oct 11am - 4pm
Stockwood Discovery Centre
London Road, Luton LU1 4LX
Tel: 01582 548600
Website: www.luton.gov.uk/museums
Explore the museum on a Halloween hunt: make scary masks to wear or a mini scarecrow for your Halloween decorations. Listen to ghost stories and take part in traditional Halloween games for the whole family. Bring your own home grown pumpkin to enter the pumpkin competition and come in costume to join the spooky parade at 3pm. Free. Drop-in. Craft activity £1 per child.
Halloween Night Jump Party at BodyFlight
Friday 31st October
Bodyflight, Clapham MK41 6AE
Tel: 0845 200 2960
Website: www.bodyflight.co.uk
On Friday the 31st of October Bodyflight will be running night jumps on our new attraction: Bodyflight Vertigo. Climb to the top of the Bodyflight tower and see the lights of Bedford glittering in the valley below, before leaping into the dark and falling to the ground in a genuine leap of faith.
Bodyflight Vertigo is our newest attraction: A 120ft fan descender jump from the roof of the Bodyflight Tower which allows you to experience the rush of leaping from the top of a building, with the safety of a controlled descent to the ground.
Jumps on Vertigo are normally £30 each, but on this special night they are offering unlimited jumps all evening with the ‘Vertigo Halloween Pass' for just £40.
They will also be giving out tunnel time prizes for the best Fancy dress costume.
Jumps will start at 6pm and carry on until late. A Bar will also be open in the evening
To buy your jump pass please call 0845 200 2960 or you can buy online at http://www.bodyflight.co.uk/
Halloween at Glenn Miller Museum
Friday 31st October, 6.30pm - 1am
Glen Miller Museum, Clapham
Tel: 01923 282725
Website: www.twinwoodevents.com
Hourly ghost walks of old aircraft buildings (suitable for families). There will be a special witching hour Walk at midnight (adults only). There are also many attractions for children plus displays of the paranormal, clairvoyants and mediums. A food bar will also be available.
Entry is by pre-booked ticket only. Family tour Adult £5 Child £3 Family tour (max 4 children) £15 Adult tour £10
Down with Dracula
Friday 31st October
Luton Library Theatre, Luton
Tel: 01582 547474
Website: www.luton.gov.uk/librarytheatre
Two children holiday in Transylvania meet Dracula, his girlfriend Matilda the Witch, his version of Frankenstein's Monster and a Mummy he has brought from Egypt. A show that's funny, inventive and very exciting show for children. Suitable for 6 - 11 year olds.
Tickets £4 Adults and £4.50 for children
Things that go Bump
Friday 31st October - Saturday 1st November
5pm - 7pm
The Lodge RSPB Nature Reserve, Sandy
Tel: 01767 680541
Website www.rspb.org.uk
Dare to take a woodland walk to discover the myths and legends of Halloween. Make sure you don't forget your torch.
Adults £3 (RSPB members £2), children £2 (RSPB Wildlife Explorers £1)