This year Halloween falls in the middle of the Norfolk Half Term, if you are unsure of the dates, don’t forget to check out School Holiday Dates East Anglia
October half term in Norfolk is from Saturday 25th October until Sunday 2nd November 2025.
There are some fantastic Norfolk Halloween events taking place, for all members of the family, or you might want to check out Pumpkin Patches Norfolk
Norfolk Halloween Events To Visit
Assembly House of Horrors IX Pink Halloween Afternoon Tea
Location : Theatre St, Norwich NR2 1RQ
Available from 18th – 31st October 2025
Something wickedly pink this way comes…
It’s back! For the ninth year running, the famous Halloween Afternoon Tea returns to put a little trick and a lot of treats into October.
After a super successful spring filled with pink pastels, they’ve decided to give a rosy hue to Halloween with just enough magic to make things deliciously spooky.
Expect cupcakes topped with grinning chocolate skulls, ghostly pink velvet cake, cheeky little mummies, watchful eyes and even a white chocolate toad or two hopping onto your plate.
Perfect for grown-up ghouls and little monsters alike, it’s the sweetest way to celebrate the season.
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Bewilderwood Halloween
Location : Horning Rd, Hoveton, Norwich NR12 8JW
Dates : 4th-5th, 11th-12th, 18th-19th, 25th October – 2nd November 2025
Opening Times : 11am-6pm, last entry 3.30pm.
Step into the woods this October for a frightfully fun family Halloween adventure.
With even more included than before, it’s a little different to previous years and offers great value for the whole family – and the best bit? Everything is included in your Day Ticket!
We love Bewilderwood, read what we thought of Twig or Treat
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Britannia Pier Halloween Family Party
Location : Long Johns Lounge Bar, Britannia Pier, Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth NR30 2EH
Go and join them for a family friendly Halloween Party at Britannia Pier on 30th October 2025.
Bring the whole family down to Long Johns Bar, Britannia Pier for a spooktacular evening of fun, games, and Halloween magic!
✨ What’s on:
🎧 DJ Emmo spinning party tunes for kids and grown-ups.
🎲 Kids’ Party Games to keep the little monsters entertained.
🏆 Prizes to be Won throughout the evening.
🧙 Dress Up Competition – come in your creepiest, funniest, or most creative costumes!
A safe, fun, and family-friendly way to celebrate Halloween before the big kids take over later in the night.
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Bressingham Spooky Specials
Location : Low Rd, Diss IP22 2AA
Enjoy a Spooktacular evening at Bressingham Steam Museum, with a haunting theme.
There will be a ghostly train ride, Gallopers rides, seasonal treats, games and more.
The dates for this years Spooky Special are the 25th, 29th, 30th and 31st October 2025.
Come in your most spookiest dress!
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Halloween Trail – A Wherry Ghostly Trail
Location : The Poor’s, Staithe Rd, Stalham, Norwich NR12 9DA
It’s October! It’s spooky time!
Explore the museum and follow the mysterious lights to find out about the ghostly Wherry “Mayfly”. Along the way, complete the spooky tasks to reveal Mayfly’s long-lost secrets. Discover them all and a piece of wherry treasure could be yours!
Put it in your diary, if you dare……
Sunday 26th October to Sunday 2nd November 2025
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Broads Tours Creepy Cruises
Location : The Bridge, Wroxham, Norfolk, NR12 8RX
Family fun Halloween themed river trips aboard the Vintage Hauntsman.
October half term there’s a special treat (or trick) for river trip passengers.
The Vintage Broadsman will be transformed into the Vintage Hauntsman, a ghostly river trip boat for Halloween themed river trips.
Featuring spooky commentary with the ghostly tales of the Broads by the River Trip skippers and trick or treat activity packs for Children this trip will be one to enjoy for the whole family.
Trips last for 1.5 hours and run weekdays during October half term.
Join them … if you dare … mwhuahahaha
Sorry but dogs are not allowed on board the creepy cruise.
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Castle Quarter Skate and Scare
Location : 100 Castle Mdw, Norwich NR1 3DD
Get ready to roll into spooky season with our Skate & Scare event here at Castle Quarter!
On Thursday, 30th October, from 10:30am – 4pm, White Lion Square (outside Boots on the ground floor) will be transformed into a ghoulishly good roller-skating rink.
Complete with haunting Halloween music, eerie lighting, themed decorations and even our staff dressed in their spookiest costumes.
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Chantry Place Halloween Events
Location : 40-46 St Stephens St, Norwich NR1 3SH
Chantry place has a whole host of spooktacular events taking place during half term, including:
Hotel Chocolat Halloween Love Match – 25th October 2025
Pumpkin doughnut decorating in half term! – 27th – 31st October 2025
Lush Wizards and Witches Workshop – 27th October 2025
Lush Twilight Bathbomb Workshop – 29th October 2025
Lush SEN-sational workshop – 29th October 2025
Yo Sushi Halloween Sushi School – 31st October 2025
Chantry Place’s spook-tacular Halloween trail! – 25th – 31st October 2025
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Great Yarmouth and Hunstanton Sealife A-Scarium
GY Location : Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth NR30 3AH
Hunstanton Location : Seagate Rd, Hunstanton PE36 5BH
Explore the seas with this fin-tastically frightening activity trail, you get to see all of your favourite sea creatures with some ‘spooky’ additions.
Help our Sea Witch and Warlock look after their ocean home and fellow sea creatures by completing magical challenges throughout the aquarium.
Will you be brave enough to step up and help complete ‘spook-splash-tic’ challenges and fill in your activity sheet as you go?
Open from 18th October – 2nd November 2025
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE for Great Yarmouth and CLICK HERE for Hunstanton
Gressenhall Not-so-Creepy Crawlies: October Half Term activities
Location : Beetley Meadows, Beetley, Dereham NR20 4DR
From Saturday 25th October to Sunday 2nd November 2025.
Enjoy the last week of the open season at Gressenhall, including the last chance to see 2025 exhibition from Edible East, ‘Through the Microscope’ and special temporary exhibition, SWARM – an invertebrate automaton created by artist Alice Lee featuring some beautiful bugs, bees and butterflies.
Inspired by the artists-in-residence and the Environment Hub, we’ll think tiny, celebrate the small things with activities included with admission every day, and find some marvellous minibeasts hiding across the museum.
Feel free to visit wearing your spooky season costumes – they’d love to see them!
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Halloween at Thetford Forest
Location : Thetford Forest, High Lodge, Brandon IP27 0AF
Something eerie is stirring in the woods… and further details of Halloween at Thetford Forest have been revealed.
This October, Forestry England High Lodge in Thetford Forest in East Anglia, will be transformed into a glowing, ghostly wonderland as a brand-new illuminated Halloween trail takes over the forest.
Running from 23rd October to 1st November, the experience is packed with glowing pumpkins, haunted graveyards, creepy installations, and atmospheric light displays for brave explorers of all ages.
Each twist and turn on the trail will reveal new sights, surprises, and moments that will have you reaching for your camera (and maybe holding your breath).
Step into Halloween at Thetford Forest and experience just a few of the eerie sights awaiting you — from an abandoned pumpkin farm glowing with 50 lanterns, to a shadowy cemetery with 40 gravestones lit by Victorian-style lampposts and haunted by skeletons, to five giant spider webs crawling with dozens of glowing neon spiders — with many more surprises lurking along the way.
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Hippodrome Halloween Spooktacular
Location : St George’s Rd, Great Yarmouth NR30 2EU
Jack Jay & Johnny Mac return for another spooktacular adventure for all the family this October half-term.
You can always find a unique group of characters in the Halloween Spooktacular. Jack & Johnny just try not to lose their heads.
Every Halloween, The Hippodrome transforms once again but this time not everything is as it seems. The show joins Jack Jay and Johnny Mac on a spooky adventure.
Whether they are trying to save the Hippodrome’s international cast against evil, mysterious characters, or just getting up to no good, all families are encouraged to get their fancy dress costumes ready for their biggest Halloween party yet!
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Hirstys Halloween Hoot
Location : Great, Yarmouth Rd, Hemsby NR29 4NL
Spooky season on the farm
Pick your own pumpkin from our pumpkin patch, navigate the maze, play in the park and have great fun this half term.
The event is taking place on Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th October, plus Saturday 25th October – Sunday 2nd November 2025
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Holkham Halloween Garden
Location : Holkham Hall, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, NR23 1AB
Spooks, thrills, delights and chills have transformed the Walled Garden for Halloween – do you dare to join them?
Dress up in your strangest outfit and creep through the gardens – they’ve got oodles of spookiness (and a few sweet treats!) to surprise you:
Chilling Challenges – Grab a challenge sheet and keep your eyes peeled as you explore the spookified rooms and see how many questions you can answer! Learn about the magical plants grown in the garden and uncover the creatures that live there.
Spook Spotting – Look out for creepy ghosts floating across the lawns. Wooooooo!
Halloween Crafts – Get crafty and make a magic wand from all natural materials. Then write out a bewitching spell to cast with it! (craft materials included.)
Spooktacular Magic Show featuring Tess the Magical Cat – Tess the Magical Cat will enchant and amaze with mind-boggling tricks and spellbinding illusions in an enchanting performance that will leave you spellbound! Watch in awe as Tess brings the magic of Halloween to life before your eyes.
Pumpkin Carving – Wander up to the pumpkin patch and carve your very own scary pumpkin (£4 per pumpkin).
Dastardly Decorations – Enjoy the giant Pumpkin Patch, Ghostly Garden, Scarecrow Vineyard and Haunted Glasshouse as you creep through the garden.
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Holt Garden Centre Halloween Trail
Location : Holgate Hill, Kelling, Holt NR25 7ER
This is free to enter and everyone who takes part receives a free goody bag.
Why not take part in the ‘best dressed for Halloween’ competition when you visit.
They look forward to seeing you all.
From Saturday 25th to Friday 31st October 2025
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Joyland’s Spooky Snail Trail Halloween Nights
Location : Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth NR30 2DL
Get ready for spooky fun at Joyland’s Spooky Snail Trail Halloween Nights!
Join them on select nights in October from 6 PM – 8 PM for a fang-tastic evening of unlimited rides on The Super Snails, Tyrolean Tub Twist, The Spook Express, Jet Cars, and Neptune’s Kingdom!
Enjoy a Trick or Treat Trail, Spooky Props for Photo Ops, Face Painting, Characters around the park, Marquee stage show with disco, Car display in Anchor Gardens.
This event is perfect for younger children! Don’t miss out—grab your tickets now!
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
The Monster Club Halloween Show
Location : Theatre St, Norwich NR2 1RQ
Grab your little monsters and visit ‘The Monster Club’ HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR this October for the ULTIMATE Family Experience! 🎃
Creating brand new family traditions since 2020, The Monster Club is now in it’s 6th year and appearing for the FIRST TIME EVER in the gorgeous Assembly House, in the heart of Norwich City – combining the fun of circus with live music, comedy and dance to create the perfect half-term treat for little and big monsters from 2 to 102!
Watch as we bring you favourite Halloween Tunes to life with our unrivalled Live Band “The Dead Ringers”. Be spellbound by our fabulous Circus Stars and fall in love with our bewitching vocalists.
All brought together by Joe Ringer and Pip Randelle, the Devilish Duo behind Norwich’s favourite family shows such as “Kidz Pop Party” and “Xmas Pop Party.”
From Witch Doctor and K-Pop Demon Hunters to Thriller and Time Warp, we’ve got a whole host of Halloween favourites to keep you dancing and singing in your seats.
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Norwich Ghost Walks Halloween Specials
Location : Cotman Fields, Norwich NR1 4AA
Love HALLOWEEN? Join Norwich Ghost Walks and their Guild of Shadows for an evening of spine-chilling entertainment, featuring storytelling of some of the regions most HAUNTED stories.
The troop of Spooky Performers will bring stories from beyond the grave… to Life!
The event takes place in the Cow Tower park. Audience will be guided on a walk through the park pathways along the river to Cow Tower and beyond, with storypoints along the way.
2025 Halloween Special Shows run from 24th October to 1st November (inclusive).
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Pensthorpe Pumpkin Festival
Location : Pensthorpe Rd, Fakenham NR21 0LN
🎃 Pensthorpe Pumpkin Festival is back! 🎃
🧡 Daytime Festival
📅 25 Oct – 2 Nov | 🕚 11am – 4pm
Enjoy the All Access Pumpkin Patch, Maize Maze, Scarecrow Trail, Pumpkin Carving, Crafts, Flamingo Talks, and Marshmallow Toasting!
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Pensthorpe Pumpkin Festival After Hours
🌙 After Hours Event
📅 30 Oct only | 🕕 5:45pm – 9:30pm
Experience the Floodlit Pumpkin Patch & Maze, Fire Breathers, Food Vendors, Bar, Pumpkin Carving, and Toasting Marshmallows under the stars!
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Pettitts Animal Adventure Park
Location : Church Rd, Reedham, Norwich NR13 3UA
Pettitts Pumpkin Pickin’ event is BACK for 2025!
Enjoy FREE Halloween Pumpkin Pickin’ from 25th October – 2nd November at Norfolk’s Premier Family Park.
All paying children can pick a pumpkin from the Pumpkin Patch, take it to the carving area using the little wheelbarrows, and the carving team will help create and carve your spooky pumpkin!
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Roarr Dinosaur Adventure Dippys Halloween Days
Location : Lenwade, Norwich NR9 5JE
It might be half-term, but at ROARR!, the Weston-Smythe School of Dinosaurs and the Undead is in full session!
Dippy and friends will be joined by a quirky cast of professors, offering hands-on lessons and frightfully fun-filled sessions.
This event is taking place from Friday 25th October – Sunday 2nd November 2025
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Wroxham Barns Get Me Out Of Here
Location : Tunstead Rd, Hoveton, Norwich NR12 8QU
Embark on a wild jungle quest this October Half Term! From Ranger Rita’s Riddle Maze to daring Bushtucker Trials, complete exciting challenges, meet cheeky animals, and discover fun at every turn
Bring your children for a creepy day out. Experience bug handling, collect stars in the bushtucker trials and try and complete the maize maze if you dare!
Tickets are ALL INCLUSIVE, no hidden extras. A PAY ONCE, PLAY ALL DAY fabulous offer.
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Wymondham Scarycrow Trail
Location : various locations around Wymondham
Discover hidden scarecrows around Wymondham. Follow the trail map to find them all. Join them if you dare!
Taking place from 24th October to 2nd November 2025
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
Adult Halloween Events in Norfolk
Pleasurebeach Fairground Fright Nights
Location : S Beach Parade, Great Yarmouth NR30 3EH
Fairground Frights runs for six nights, from Saturday 25th to Friday 31st October, due to the nature of the event, it is not recommended anyone under the age of 10 years to attend Fairground Frights.
Its a brilliant event, with some fabulous scare actors that provide great entertainment, and who doesn’t love going on fairground rides in the dark!
You can read all about our visit to a previous Fairground Frights HERE
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE
PrimEVIL
Location : Roarr! Dinosaur Adventure NR9 5JW
Prepare for terror as PrimEvil returns for its Sweet 16 during October 2025 — and you’re invited… if you dare.
To mark 16 years of fear, they’re going bigger, darker, and more twisted than ever before. Expect one brand-new haunt, three horrifying reimaginings, and the return of the multi-award-winning scare experience.
Are you ready to face what’s coming?
For further details including dates/times/prices please CLICK HERE