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The annual Hong Kong Halloween Carnival Month is set to kick off on October 1st, transforming the fashion capital into a city of Halloween revelry. Attractions including Hong Kong Disneyland, Madame Tussauds Hong Kong, and Ocean Park Hong Kong are all rolling out spooky Halloween activities,with this year’s highlight being the debut in Hong Kong of the terrifying haunted house “FRIGHT DOME: Peak of Fear,” imported for the first time from Las Vegas, USA, and stationed at Peak Galleria.Major shopping malls will also be decked out with Halloween-themed decorations, while restaurants and bars across the city are offering special Halloween food and drink promotions. The entire city is immersed in a thick atmosphere of Halloween festivities, turning into one giant playground ready to celebrate with visitors.
Lan Kwai Fong Halloween Street Party. (Photo provided / Hong Kong Tourism Board)
Victoria Victoria, Director of the Hong Kong Tourism Board’s Taiwan Office, said: “Hong Kong’s Halloween celebrations are among the most popular in Asia, with an increasing number of young Taiwanese specifically planning trips to Hong Kong in October to experience the Halloween vibe. Especially duringOctober 30th and 31st, spots like Lan Kwai Fong and the Avenue of Stars are filled with young people dressed as all kinds of ghosts and monsters, celebrating in groups along the streets — the festive atmosphere is unbeatable!”
Brand-new “Disney Paint the Night” nighttime parade runs daily “Disney Halloween Time” fills the park with mysterious spooky figures
Disney Paint the Night nighttime parade. (Photo provided / Hong Kong Tourism Board)
Starting October 1st, Hong Kong Disneyland launches the brand-new “Disney Paint the Night” nighttime parade, featuring seven all-new floats adorned with over 740,000 individual LED lights that create mysterious and romantic light displays while bringing classic Disney stories to life. This year, the mysterious ambiance of “Disney Halloween Time” extends beyond Adventureland to other themed areas of the park, including “Amazon Adventure” at the Frontierland Theatre, plus the return of fan favorites such as “Frightfully Fun Parade,” “Grim Grinning Ghosts: Carnival of Carnivale,” “Phantom Manor,” and “The Carnival of Carnivale.” Disney characters are ready to throw a unique costume party as night falls, with spooky figures lurking throughout the park, creating an entirely different atmosphere.“Disney Halloween Time” runs from October 2nd and every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday throughout October. Daytime admission grants access through the evening, and the park also offers special nighttime tickets priced at HK$340 each. For more information, please visit the Hong Kong Disneyland official website.
Ocean Park’s “Boo-Oops! All-Day Festival” creates the most formidable lineup of ghostly attractions in its history
Ocean Park Boo-Oops All-Day Festival. (Photo provided / Hong Kong Tourism Board)
This year, Ocean Park Hong Kong takes “Boo-Oops Ghost Realm Grand Cinema” as its theme, presenting a powerful lineup of “seven haunted houses and nine experiences,” allowing one ticket to take you through the day and into the night. This year also introduces the ultimate R-rated haunted house 【H14】, taking the scare factor to new depths and challenging visitors’ sensory limits and inner fears. Each group’s experience is tailor-made — participants must fill out personal information before entering the haunted house, and the Boo-Oops team adjusts the journey and scare elements based on their profiles and reactions during the experience.
Also featured is Asia’s first “Doraemon”-themed Boo-Oops party, letting visitors embark on a magical adventure with gadgets like the Time Machine and Anywhere Door. This year, Ocean Park has innovatively designed “Day-to-Night Haunted House Transformations,” where two haunted houses offer family-friendly surprises during the day but transform into highly intense scare zones after 5 PM.Ocean Park’s “Boo-Oops All-Day Festival” is open to the public on 16 selected dates throughout October. For more information, please visit the Hong Kong Ocean Park official website.
Las Vegas’ most terrifying haunted house FRIGHT DOME lands in Hong Kong’s Peak Galleria
US FRIGHT DOME comes to Hong Kong. (Photo provided / Hong Kong Tourism Board)