Celebrate Halloween: Spookiest places to visit in Europe

Friday, October 28, 2022

Hi All! Say hell-o to a witchy Halloween celebration for this year! The pirates, vampires, goblins, ghosts, witches, monsters, Batman, Sherlock – these are just some of the many avatars for you to enjoy 2022 Halloween Day Party.

Travel And Tour World picks some of the best Halloween Party destinations to visit for this year.

Amsterdam

If you want to see some obscene or adult Halloween, then you must travel to Amsterdam, the capital city of Netherlands.  Amsterdam has something for everyone on Halloween. The city hosts some of the most creative costume parties as well as themed events in cafes, restaurants, bistros, clubs, and even museums. The visitors can also participate in ghost tours, music concerts, or all-night marathons of scary movies. If you can, stop at the legendary Monster Ball, or the Amsterdam Halloween Festival. You can see the street parties or else enjoy some landmarks:

• Visit a Halloween museum: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not
• Visit the Amsterdam Dungeon
• Take a moonlit walk down Prinsengracht
• Create a potion at The Jacob Hooy apothecary
• Go to cafe full of cats

Ireland

We all know Ireland is the country of Halloween. With such a cultural influence, Halloween today in Ireland is celebrated very much the same as in the States. The adults and children dress up as witches, ghosts, and participate in colourful street parades. Halloween can trace back its origins to Celtic (pagan) celebrations, such as Samhain. So, it’s no surprise that there the Irish celebrate Halloween in great style.

The traditions are often including fortune-telling, bonfires, eating fruitcakes, and, of course, dressing up. Ireland’s Derry City hosts the biggest Halloween festival in Europe, the Banks of Foyle Halloween Carnival. Here you can enjoy haunted houses, ghost tours parades, horror-story telling and much more. You can also check out the more relaxed Spirits of Meath festival in Meath, which features pumpkin carving contests.

What to see here?

• Watching Halloween party at Colin Glen Forest Park
• Nore Valley Farm Park in County Kilkenny is a great day out for all animal lovers. Come Halloween, they offer a fantastic programme of events for families with children aged 0 and up.
• Experiencing Halloween at Lullymore Heritage & Discovery Park, Co. Kildare for lots of fun and a spooky time.
• Tayto Park in County Meath is a most-loved family attractions in the east of Ireland. If you’re visiting this Halloween, you won’t want to miss the fantastic Tayto Park After Dark and Tayto Park Tricky Trail happening over the Halloween break.

Scotland

Scotland also has Celtic roots like Ireland and also had many traditions related to Samhain. Even after the advent of Christianity, many of these customs remained. These include “guising,” where children go from door to door carrying lanterns made out of turnips in costumes for sweets or coins, as well as apple dunking, where you must retrieve an apple from a bucket of water using only your mouth. Halloween is such an integral part of Scottish culture that it has become the subject of many poems, most famously ‘Halloween’ by Robert Burns. According to him, Halloween is “thought to be a night when witches, devils, and other mischief-making beings are all abroad on their baneful midnight errands”. If you plan to visit Scotland this Halloween, make sure to check out Edinburgh’s Royal Mile with its creepy vaults, underground passages, and unsolved mysteries.

See the traditional Halloween

• Neep lanterns
• Apple dookin’
• Treacle scones
• Nut burning
• Guising
• Kale pulling

 London, England

London offers some of the hair-raising Halloween events for every visitors. While England is full of spooky castles and haunted locations, London is the best place to be to celebrate Halloween. As we all know London offers ghost tours throughout the year, during this time the demand to book ghost tour peaks high. With its many dark dungeons, medieval buildings, and ghostly attractions, London puts on tons of festivities across the city for the occasion. One of the most popular are the London Dungeons, which are full of frights, and the Jack the Ripper Walk following the Victorian serial killer’s old haunts across East London. There are also numerous parties and events that take place, such as the horse-drawn rides in Richmond Park, the Camden Halloween Carnival, and much much more.

Haunted Attractions

• Step into the menacing world of the Dark Arts as the Harry Potter film studios
• London Dungeon during its haunted house themed Halloween takeover.
• Hear tales of torture and imprisonment and explore the Bloody Tower
• Descend into the horrifyingly haunted London Bridge Experience and London Tombs, taking on the theatrical maze filled with the city’s most notorious characters such as Jack the Ripper and William Wallace.
• Enter the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussauds London and learn of the city’s most gruesome and chilling crimes throughout history.
• Tiptoe your way through the dark corridors and courtyards of Hampton Court Palace’s – watch out for eerie portraits that come to life and the chilling presence the deceased.
• Step into one of England’s oldest and most notorious prisons Clink Prison Museum if you dare and see its gruesome torture devices.
• Go on a mind-derailing journey through fear at the scary Fright Nights at Thorpe Park. 1-31 Oct
• Discover the unnerving history of 19th-century surgery at the Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret.
• Head to London’s Leadenhall Market at Halloween
• Covent Garden invites you to pick a prize pumpkin from their Halloween Pumpkin Market
• Belgravia at Halloween with a free pumpkin trail, ghost tours and spooky food tour

Transylvania, Romania

From Dracula’s Castle to mid-clad castles in the country, Transylvania has much more to offer in Halloween. If you’re looking for a truly spooky Halloween you can join the hordes of tourists who flock to Transylvania to celebrate Halloween in the shadow of Bran Castle (the real Dracula’s Castle). Besides this, the beautiful region of Romania also offers various other spooky castles, and numerous events in the capital, Bucharest. Romanians also celebrate the “Day of the Dead” on 1 November, and the Feast of St. Andrew on 30 November which has many customs similar to the traditional All Hallow’s Eve. It’s essential to pack your costume Halloween ready for Europe’s biggest All Hallows’ Eve celebration, where the scary soirée at Hotel Transylvania kicks off with a blood-pumping gathering with 1,000 fearless, fun-seekers from around the globe.

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