It might nonetheless really feel like summer time for the subsequent month, however San Antonio is brimming with methods to get into the spooky season spirit.
Each evening at 7 p.m., the prepare at Six Flags Fiesta Texas rolls in behind a cloud of smoke, unleashing creepy clowns, haunting ghosts and different creatures that lurk amongst parkgoers in scare zones.
It’s all part of Six Flags Fiesta Texas’ annual Fright Fest, an occasion that transforms your entire theme park right into a Halloween celebration.
“We start planning as quickly because the earlier Fright Fest is over so it’s actually a 12 months within the making,” stated Jeffery Siebert, regional common supervisor for all of the Six Flags parks in Texas. “We at all times take our visitor suggestions and analysis and need to make the subsequent 12 months the most important and finest that we’ve ever achieved. … [This year is] the most important, largest Fright Fest that we’ve ever achieved in our parks historical past.”
Fright Fest has a number of Halloween-themed performances, six scare zones and 6 haunted mazes, 4 of that are new. Among the mazes are based mostly on horror films akin to “Noticed,” “Nosferatu,” and “The Conjuring.”
“In the event you’re a fan of horror films, actually Fright Fest is changing into one cease searching for all of the love and fervour that we have now for scaring folks and Halloween particularly,” Siebert stated.
The park’s Fright Fest actions, together with the performances, haunted mazes and scare zones are advisable for parkgoers 13 and up.
Throughout the daytime, “it’s all enjoyable, no concern” at Six Flags, with its family-friendly Methods and Treats occasion. Kids can get their fill of sweet from the park’s Trick-or-Deal with Path and take part in a kid-friendly celebration earlier than the sunsets.
Parkgoers also can take pleasure in pretzels, bratwursts and different German cuisines on the Six Flags Fiesta Texas’ Oktoberfest, operating via Oct. 26.
Make sure you examine the park’s calendar for working hours.
Six Flags Fiesta Texas When: Weekends from Sept. 6 – Nov. 2Where: 17000 IH-10 West, San Antonio, TX 78257Price: Admission to the park and haunted sights will be bought collectively for $69 or haunted sights will be added to park admission for $30.
However Fright Fest isn’t the one place to get the heebie-jeebies in San Antonio. Whether or not you’re seeking to shriek from haunted homes or wanting a extra family-friendly vibe, right here’s an inventory of locations to get you within the Halloween spirit.
SeaWorld San Antonio
Thrills and chills are lurking round each nook at SeaWorld San Antonio’s Howl-O-Scream occasion.
Beginning at 7 p.m. till shut, expertise six haunted homes, eight terror-tories and “sinister exhibits.” Entry to Howl-O-Scream actions is included in park admission, however parkgoers can get front-of-the-line entry by buying “evil upgrades.”
Within the SINdustry terror-tory, catch acrobatic performances or go to the carnival-themed Nightmare Halfway terror-tory to see creepy clowns.
The occasion may also characteristic themed bars and haunted meals. The Pretzel Kitchen might be serving up Creepy Mummy Canines and Shadow Twist Pretzels.
SeaWorld’s Howl-O-Scream is meant for mature audiences. Dad and mom can drop their youngsters off at SeaWorld’s Spook-Camp-ular for academic actions, video games and snacks for $49.
Verify the park’s calendar for working hours.
SeaWorld San AntonioWhen: Thursdays via Sundays, Sept. 12 – Nov. 1Where: 10500 SeaWorld Dr., San Antonio, TX 78251Price: Included with park admission with upgrades out there for buy
thirteenth Flooring Haunted Home
San Antonio’s thirteenth Flooring Haunted Home touts itself because the “final Halloween occasion.”
This 12 months it is going to characteristic two haunted home sights — The Legend of the Donkey Woman and The Bloodshed.
Attendees also can put their intention to the check at The Final Spinehelm: Zombie Capturing Vary attraction.
“A easy city with markets and a grand lodge that has been infested with the zombie virus infecting all of the townsfolk,” the thirteenth Flooring web site says. “From the cooks of the cafe to the lodge’s bellhops’ it’s your mission to cease the contaminated townsfolk from escaping to the remainder of San Antonio, be cautious although, some targets within the room usually are not essentially the most pleasant.”
thirteenth Flooring Haunted Home additionally has two secret bars throughout the haunted home hallways: Copper Tavern and UV Obscura.
thirteenth Flooring Haunted HouseWhen: Choose nights Sept. 13 – Nov. 9Where: 1203 E Commerce St., San Antonio, TX 78205Price: $19.99-$34.99
San Antonio Zoo
The San Antonio Zoo will put up family-friendly Halloween décor for its Zoo Boo occasion.
Throughout the occasion’s length, Saturdays on the zoo “might be stuffed with leisure” from a DJ and different actions on its Nice Garden.
Free Trick-or-Treating might be held every day from Sept. 20 via Oct. 30 from 4-5 p.m. Prolonged hours and particular Halloween actions will happen Oct. 31.
New sights to this 12 months’s occasion embrace the Booterfly Tree, the place attendees can go to a “magical tree stuffed with big glowing butterflies” and the Día de los Muertos Plaza to see “larger-than-life sugar cranium themed zoo animals.”
In the event you’re into creepy crawly issues, you may “come face-to-face with an assortment of real-life spiders and gothic butterflies” on the John & Greli Much less Spider Rainforest, one other new attraction at this 12 months’s Zoo Boo.
San Antonio ZooWhen: Choose days Sept. 20 – Oct. 31Where: 3903 N. St. Mary’s St. San Antonio, TX 78212Price: Grownup admission begins at $29.99; youngsters at $23.79
San Pedro Playhouse
The San Pedro Playhouse is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of “The Rocky Horror Image Present” with two screenings on Halloween evening.
The screening will embrace a dressing up contest, themed foyer decorations, a full bar and meals vehicles “to maintain the power excessive all evening lengthy,” the occasion web site guarantees.
The primary screening is at 7 p.m. and the second is at 10 p.m. Attendees can improve their expertise with VIP tickets that include perks: precedence entry, a greater view of the present, one drink ticket, a prop bag and a forged meet-and-greet expertise.
San Pedro PlayhouseWhen: Oct. 31Where: 800 W. Ashby Place, San Antonio, TX 78212Price: Tickets are $55; VIP tickets are $75
