Halloween at Blenheim Palace

Halloween at Blenheim brings all the spooky sparkle: daytime fun for little ones plus an after-dark illuminated trail for bigger kids and brave grown-ups. It’s easy, it’s outdoors, and it’s the kind of memory-maker that turns a “what shall we do?” week into a “remember when…” one.

Halloween at Blenheim

So half term has crept up on us without me even realising this year. Time for panic mode and desperate scrolling on what to do locally with little ones. Thank heavens I have Blenheim Palace on our doorstep.

A firm favourite with my family and it has to be said most of Oxfordshire, Winston Churchill’s birthplace always offers a plethora of events and spectacles all year round. Totally family friendly, it is the perfect place to spend a whole day with the kids. And this week it’s even better with everything they have going on for Halloween.

Last Saturday we arrived for the opening of the spooky children’s activities, all set out by their famous maze and adventure playground. There is a Halloween Big Top Circus, spooky creature ‘meet and greets’ and potion making, amongst other delights.

But best of all, Blenheim has created a spectacular outdoor illuminated Halloween trail. Running until 2nd November, it is full of immersive scares, huge light projections, eerie surprises, and frightening performances.

As the youngest of my crew is just a little bit too young to stay out after dark, we didn’t walk down the haunted road to its full effect.

We feasted our eyes however on some of these sites; Egyptian flamethrowers, a medieval dungeon, cursed Egyptian tomb, sarcophagus, skeletons staggering from mausoleums, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, giant skeleton sculptures, flying bodies surrounded in UFO style lit circles amongst the trees, an executioner, a mummy lurking inside a tomb, a mystic with a crystal ball, a monstrous plant creature, two Headless Horsemen and more Coffins than you could shake a stick at.

And for the grown-ups, halfway through there is a bar to stop at for a quick beverage, together with an open fire to toast marshmallows over for the kids. As after all it is bonfire night soon too. Many with little ones had the same idea as us, as the trail was getting busy even at 5 o’clock, before dark.

Halloween at Blenheim is not to be missed.

Adult tickets from £18.00. Child tickets (ages 3-16 years) from £12.50
Family tickets (2 adults & 2 children) from £57.00. Parking: £10.00.
For full pricing, ticket information and bookings visit
https://www.blenheimpalace.com/whats-on/events/halloween-at-
Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire. OX20 1UL

Image credit – Blenheim Palace and Leila Stocker