Thrilling Frights
Brave enough to ride our head-spinning, hair-raising coasters in total darkness? Bold enough to tiptoe through our Dungeon in the dark? Mad enough for our horrifying, terrifying mazes? Two have already won awards – and a third brand new outdoor maze beckons – can you escape?
- 9th - 11th October, 16th October - 1st November 2020
- Passes from £38 per person
- Add our terrifying scare mazes or Alton Towers Dungeon onto your escape
Our terrifying scare mazes...

NEW! Freak Show: Toxic Junkyard
After being hunted and chased away, the last of the Freak Show psycho clowns have gone into hiding, plotting in secret their next “BIG SHOW”. What for years appeared to be an old junkyard actually hides the secret that turns “townies” into evil carnies... Dare you volunteer to help stop their evil plan? Careful not to be captured though, or YOU will become the main attraction of the next show.

Darkest Depths
Enjoy some extra-spooky swashbuckling aboard ‘The Mutiny’, a notoriously spine-chilling ghost ship. Avoid the hazardous calls of the treacherous Sirens, dodge the swords of terrifyingly ghoulish pirate mutineers and come face to face with the Kraken!

The Attic: Terror of the Towers
Around here, people talk of the Governess – how she’s haunted by the death of her young charges, how she wants revenge, and how she’ll take it by seizing the spirits of the living in retribution. They say her ghost haunts The Attic...

Altonville Mine Tours
The ‘Skin Snatchers’, we call them. Outcasts, their whole family. Rumours are they lived in that old mine. It’s deep and dark and the damp inside gives you the proper shivers. Just recently some fool reopened it – for tours! Be careful: they say those Skin Snatchers have a secret too horrifying for words...

The Alton Towers Dungeon
As Scarefest descends on the Towers, enter The Alton Towers Dungeon for a little less laughing… and a lot more SCREAMING! Enter The Alton Towers Dungeon this Halloween, as we celebrate the most hideously horrible time of year.

Rides in the dark
Dare you take on our world-class thrill rides in the dark? Will you hurtle towards a six-storey high Wicker Man effigy as it spectacularly bursts into flames?
- Are you brave enough to take on our world-class thrill rides in the dark?
- Fly through the night sky on Galactica; or dive into Oblivion in the pitch black!
- Master the theme park at night, on over 40 rides and attractions.
Please be advised:
The Theme Park is required to be clear of all visitors by 10pm in line with Government instruction. Our attraction queue lines will begin to close from 8.30pm. This time may change depending on demand for individual rides. Latest information will be posted on the Alton Towers App and digital signage around the Park.

Garden Lights Walk: Whispering Souls
This Scarefest come to Alton Towers Resort and enjoy the Gardens as never before and witness them come to life in a whole new spooktacular…LIGHT!
With luscious stretching lawns, vibrant beds and conservatory areas, Alton Towers Resort Gardens are well worth a visit in the daylight but wait till darkness falls and get ready to take the most otherworldly stroll of your life, but beware! A mysterious energy runs through the Gardens’ water; around here people say it brings lost souls back from the dead for all Hallows’ Eve… hear that whisper? Who knows you might have phant…astical company on the way!
Free attraction – This is not a live scare maze
The gardens have steep and rocky areas, please keep to the paths at all times. Some areas are unsuitable for pushchairs, wheelchairs and those with reduced mobility.
Know Before You Go

Face masks
All guests must wear a suitable facemask throughout their time in the scare mazes. All maze actors will wear themed face coverings.

Social distancing
Adequate spacing will be given between individual households at the beginning of each scare maze. All guests need to maintain a safe distance whilst travelling throughout the attraction.

Spooks & Frights
New techniques and guests’ interactions will be in place in all scare mazes to keep guests and actors safe throughout the experience.

Touching
Touching of actors, other guests and any props is strictly forbidden throughout the scare mazes. Our actors will not touch you, please respect their safety.

Shows
Social distancing for live shows and entertainment for both guests and performers.

Hand Sanitiser
Guests will be asked to sanitise their hands before entering the scare mazes. Hand sanitiser is available for guests to use in all Scarefest entertainment areas as it is throughout Resort.

Enhanced Cleaning
Enhanced cleaning will take place throughout the day in all the mazes as it is throughout Resort.

Pre-book tickets
Pre-book online to guarantee entry.

Temperature Checks
Guest participation in temperature check prior to entry

If you have symptoms, do not travel
Should you start displaying any of the symptoms associated with COVID-19 – a high temperature, a new persistent cough, a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste - please refrain from visiting.…

Queue Times
In line with Government instruction and to clear the Theme Park by 10pm, attraction queue lines will begin to close from 8.30pm. Timings may change. Latest information will be posted on the App.

Halloween Family Spooktacular
Looking for a more family friendly spooktacular visit? Tiptoe into Alton Towers Resort for all sorts of creepy scares, shocks and thrills. Families can brave our spook-tacular Halloween shows and enjoy the gardens at night like never before