Top 10 UK Halloween Attractions

Something spooky this way comes…. with the explosion of fright fests and a season of ghostly and ghoulish events popping up across the country to celebrate all things Halloween.

The UK Halloween events industry has grown exponentially over the past few years, following in the footsteps of the US and emerging as a vibrant and dynamic sector that captivates audiences of all ages. Here at Relative Luxury, we’re big fans of Halloween, and we’ve put together a list of our favourite Halloween Events across the country.

About Halloween in the UK

Thanks to the country’s rich history of folklore and tradition, as well as many historic landmarks wanting to capitalise on the typically slower winter tourism trade, Halloween has evolved from a niche celebration to a mainstream cultural phenomenon.

Today, it encompasses a diverse array of events, from haunted house experiences and ghost tours to themed parties and festivals. This industry not only celebrates the eerie and mysterious but also boosts the economy by attracting tourists, creating jobs, and inspiring creative innovations. As the autumn nights draw in, the UK transforms into a hub of spooky spectacles, enticing thrill-seekers and families alike to partake in the enchantment and excitement that spooky season has to offer.

Celebrated annually on 31st October, Halloween is a holiday shrouded in mystery and intrigue, with roots that trace back over two thousand years. With ancient pagan origins marking the end of the harvest season and the onset of winter, many religions believe the boundary between the living and the dead is blurred on this night, allowing spirits to roam the earth.

Statistics for the Spine-Tingling Season

According to research conducted by Censuswide for Finder in October 2024, the UK’s spending on Halloween is expected to rise to a staggering £776 million this year alone, almost doubling the amount that households spent back in 2019. A quarter of the UK adults surveyed said that the spooky scares and seasonal eats make this holiday their favourite.

As a millennial brought up with a joy for everything ookie-spooky, including a personal love of the seasonal classic, Hocus Pocus – I can absolutely support the statistics that show we are the generation likely to spend the most on Halloween activities – with 80% of those surveyed planning to spend something to celebrate the scary event!

Statistics from ticketing platform Skiddle show just how valuable this has become over the last decade, with recent estimates suggesting the UK Halloween events industry is worth approximately £400 million annually. This valuation includes spending on themed events, attractions, costumes, decorations, and related activities.

Top Halloween Events in the UK

So, you want to know where is best to seek out ghosts and scares in the UK? Take a look below at our definitive top ten of the best halloween experiences, attractions and events. There’s really something for everyone, from family-friendly frights to all-out scream parks. These are some of our personal favourites, and the ones that leave us with hearts racing!

1. Tulley’s Shocktoberfest

Website: Tulleys Shocktober Fest – Europe’s Largest Scream Park
Location: 📌 Tulley’s Farm, Crawley
Scare Rating: 🎃🎃🎃🎃
Thrill Rating: 🙊🙊🙊

Establishing itself as Europe’s Largest Scream Park – Tulley’s Shocktoberfest has been running in some form since 1993 – celebrating thirty years of fear. With plenty of award winning scare mazes and freakish entertainment to enjoy – it’s a must visit for any horror enthusiast. Tulley’s is the UK’s scream-park juggernaut: seeking screams from over 80,000 visitors each year. Featuring a huge street theatre cast, live music, and a stack of mazes with lavish sets. It’s busy, but the festival vibe is unmatched as well as their Horrorwood Hayride experience.

2. Psychopath (Lintz Hall Farm)

Website: Psycho Path – The North East’s Biggest Scare Attraction
Location: 📌 Lintz Hall Farm, Newcastle upon Tyne
Scare Rating: 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
Thrill Rating:🙊🙊🙊🙊

This event has become one of the most highly recommended and award-winning haunts in the north – with a massive, festival-style haunt campus with multiple zones and high-octane energy. With long-standing mazes likes cutthroat island, unique experiences such as the thunderdome and isolation and innovations over the last couple of years with the return of vandalized, Psychopath ramps up the scares every night, living up to its name as the UK’s fearground.

3. Scarefest at Alton Towers Resort

Website: Scarefest: Halloween Event | Alton Towers
Location: 📌 Alton Towers Resort, Stoke on Trent
Scare Rating: 🎃🎃🎃
Thrill Rating: 🙊🙊🙊🙊🙊

Best known for its full family appeal, Scarefest at Alton Towers continues to attract large crowds to the resort, now claiming the top event period for longer stays at the Staffordshire based theme park. What a mix of thrills, chills and characters, there’s something for everyone here. Merlin’s magic making team deliver phenomenal set and lighting design across the park, and with some attractions taking place in the ruins of the towers themselves, this is one not to be missed. Plus there’s the opportunity to ride some of the country’s top rollercoasters in the dark thanks to later opening hours.

4. York Maze Hallowscream

Website: York Maze Hallowscream
Location: 📌 York, North Yorkshire
Scare Rating: 🎃🎃🎃🎃
Thrill Rating: 🙊🙊🙊

York Maze is hailed by visitors as a fantastic overall event. The reviews speak for themselves, and thanks to five distinctly themes mazes, impeccable make-up design and costuming and quality roaming actors, it’s gaining traction among the larger players in the sector. York Maze plays on the lore that the event takes place on the farm where a terrible tragedy occurred back in 1873, and the restless souls who died on that night return each Halloween to torment those who dare to visit.

5. ScareCity Experience

Website: Scare City Experience
Location: 📌 Camelot Theme Park, Chorley
Scare Rating: 🎃🎃🎃🎃
Thrill Rating: 🙊🙊🙊

Celebrated as a fully immersive scare experience, Scare City has the added spook factor, taking place in the abandoned camelot theme park estate. Inviting you to step into terror like no other, the experience is a continuous walk through uniquely themed scare zones, rather than mazes – taking you on a spine-tingling journey through your fears. A special mention here for their covid experience, curating a drive-through scream park – and now life is back to normal, they continue to innovate with their halloweeen event offering. This year alone sees over ten individually themed zones, as well as a much-needed halfway pit-stop for food and drink.

6. Scare Kingdom Scream Park

Website: Scare Kingdom
Location: 📌 Scare Kingdom, Blackburn
Scare Rating: 🎃🎃🎃🎃
Thrill Rating: 🙊🙊🙊

Scare Kingdom really bring the fear factor with their attraction, having grown from humble beginnings and now being renowned for high thrill and phenomenal storytelling. This year, the event in lancashire features seven scare mazes, including a brand-new experience to take on alone. The event is one of the more affordable entries on this list – providing high scares and value for money.

7. Xtreme Scream Park

Website: Xtreme Scream Park
Location: 📌 Twinlakes Park, Melton Mowbray
Scare Rating: 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
Thrill Rating: 🙊🙊🙊🙊

Multi-award winning scream park, the event at Twinlakes Park continues to appeal to repeat visitors thanks to their unique selection of maze attractions, as well as fantastic set pieces and a loyal team of scare actors. Many of the mazes have a longstanding history and with new additions each year – the appeal of this particular haunt continues to grow. Blutlust won last year’s ScareCon Award for the best new attraction, and it’s one of the UK’s sexiest scream zones, thanks to excellent costuming and acting that transports you directly to the clubs of Berlin via Melton Mowbray.

8. Thorpe Park: Fright Nights

Website: Thorpe Park | Fright Nights Halloween Event
Location: 📌 Chertsey, Surrey
Scare Rating: 🎃🎃🎃🎃
Thrill Rating: 🙊🙊🙊🙊

Thorpe Park’s Fright Nights event is one of the UK’s biggest and most well known events of the season, which means one thing – massive crowds! Don’t let that put you off though. This event still finds its way onto our top ten for big-budget mazes and world-class coasters in the dark and over twenty years of excitement. Just be prepared to make a trip if you’re wanting to make sure you have time to do everything that the event has to offer, this isn’t possible in one day. Now hailed as the home of fear – it will be interesting to see how this event develops as we get closer to the opening of Universal Resort UK in Bedford – a brand synonymous with Halloween Horror Nights.

9. Farmaggedon (Ormskirk, Lancashire)

Website: Farmaggedon
Location: 📌 Ormskirk, Lancashire
Scare Rating:🎃🎃🎃
Thrill Rating: 🙊🙊

Voted as one of the best haunts in the world this year – the event is on the rise, while sitting in a strong position among local visitors. While it doesn’t necessarily offer anything truly unique, this is snapping at the heels of some of the big players thanks to consistently good acting and spooky set design. Offering a variety of entry packages – this is also a great event to start your journey from theme park style halloween events to true horror scares without breaking the bank.

10. Fear at Avon Valley

Website: FEAR Scream Park
Location: 📌 Avon Valley Theme Park, Bristol
Scare Rating: 🎃🎃🎃🎃
Thrill Rating: 🙊🙊🙊🙊

One of the top attractions for all round experience, FEAR at Avon Valley has the creativity factor as well as some instagram worthy live shows, lighting, fires, scares and lazers. It’s often at the top of the lost for hardcore horror fans, starting off the season with a bang. While not being the biggest scare site, this one absolutely packs a punch – with unique mazes, roaming theatre and something scary for just about everyone who wants their pulse to race.

Are you ready to face your fears at one of the UK’s biggest or best scare attractions this autumn? Let us know your favourites in the comments below, and keep an eye out for more from us as we review this year’s events across the country. Stay up to date with our latest posts on social media and get inspired with more from the blog.

Please Note: This post is not sponsored by any of the attractions listed, and is the opinion of Relative Luxury only. Some photos have been provided by the press/media teams at each of the attractions, and should not be used without permission. These are listed below.