Things to do in Wales over October half term 2024

During Halloween season, our Zip World locations in Wales transform into wretched realms, featuring spine-tingling adventures – this includes eerie woodlands full of clowns and historical mines crawling with monsters! Come and scare yourselves silly with one of our many Zip World Halloween experiences across North and South Wales.

Ffear Fforest – Zip World Betws-y-Coed, North Wales
11th October - 3rd November 2024
7:30pm - 10:30pm

Our annual Halloween scare-fest is a firm favourite in North Wales, featuring hordes of terrifying clowns that will stop at nothing to scare you all evening. Set in a dark, secluded forest, our horrifying Halloween experience ramps up the fear factor - not only must you avoid being tormented by our pratfall of clowns, but you also take-on some of the most iconic Zip World adventures in the dead of night! As if they weren’t scary enough during the day, our adventures undergo a creepy night-time makeover for the spooky season, shrouded in darkness with nothing but eerie lights to show you the way. Not to mention the clowns are always waiting around every corner.

Take-on the Cursed Coaster, a toboggan-style rollercoaster ride where you reach speeds of up to 25mph as you dart down 700m worth of track through silent woodland – 3 times per person, no less! Unlimited access to The Nets are also included in the experience, where you will run, jump and hide along this vast bouncy netted adventure suspended in the woodland, whilst avoiding detection from our hideous clowns.

This Halloween experience also allows you to add optional extras, if you’re feeling brave enough of course, such as our 100ft freefall drop, Nightfall, or our giant 5-seater swing, Screamride. If high-adrenaline adventures aren’t quite your thing, you could always try your hand at Tree Horrors, an entirely new experience to the Ffear Fforest 2024 roster. This challenging high ropes course is tucked away in the trees and will see you tackling 6 treetop zip lines and various other obstacles, which will no doubt throw you off balance – if the clowns grabbing at your ankles don’t first.

Just an hour’s drive from Chester and 2 hours from Manchester, Ffear Fforest offers an evening of frights and jumps for everyone, from brave families with children over the age of 9, or friends that want the ultimate shared experience! Night Passes will get you into the event, as well as unlimited access to The Nets and 2 rides on Cursed Coaster. Night Passes start from £28pp with the added extras starting at £16.

This event is specially curated to be a genuinely scary experience, so we recommend children above the age of 9 years only attend Ffear Fforest, but this is at a parent or guardian’s discretion. All regular adventure restrictions apply.

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Monsters of the Mine – Zip World Tower, Aberdare, South Wales
18th October – 3rd November 2024
7:00pm – 10:30pm

Brace yourself for the return of the monsters as they rise from the underworld beneath the mine this Halloween. Join us at our Zip World Tower site in Aberdare to experience a night of frights and screams. Located on top of an old coal mine, our tormented monsters will rise to terrorise you all night!

Located less than an hour's drive from Cardiff and a 1.5 hour drive from Bristol, expect to be chased by monsters from your nightmares, while also conquering leg-shaking adventures by night. This Halloween experience offers something for the whole family this October half term. Our tailored Night Passes allow you to select the level of adrenaline and fear you want from your evening, for example, the Phoenix Night Pass allows you take on the ultimate adrenaline rush of soaring along the skies under the moonlight. The Phoenix zip line will have your heart racing as you descend into the darkness on our 620m line with the monsters waiting at the end…

Other Monsters of the Mine Night Passes include our Terror Coaster adventure, which will have you weaving and rushing along the tracks in a mining-style cart, or if you have a head for heights, strap in to Cursed Climber, an adventure course set high above the ground. Scale the heights of the Cursed Climber as you look down on the monsters lurking below! With package passes featuring different combinations of adventures available, there’s bound to be something for everyone.

If you are not a fan of rides, we have our Spectator Night Pass, where you can simply watch the Halloween carnage unfold. Book your tickets for a frightful October half term from £22pp and gain access to this ultimate monster-themed scare-fest in South Wales over the spooky season.

This event is made to be a frightful experience, so we recommend children above the age of 9 years, but this is at the parents or guardians’ discretion.

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Zip World Llechwedd

As the nights grow darker and the days get colder this October, Zip World offers adventures for any weather! Don’t let the October weather rain on your half term plans, come visit us just outside of Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales for some underground adventures!

Our Zip World Llechwedd site is based just outside Blaenau Ffestiniog and is only a 1.5 hour car journey from Chester and 2 hours from Liverpool. The site is an ultimate all-weather adventure destination where we literally have you covered for those rainy October half term days. Grab a helmet and head underground to one of our many adventures. Set in a disused Victorian mine, Zip World Llechwedd is the world’s only subterranean playground of its kind.

Bounce Below is a vast bouncy net system where you can run, jump and explore plenty of net chambers, bridges and tunnels, and will no doubt tire out the kids. Our Underground Golf offers some friendly, family competition as you tackle 18 holes of mining-themed adventure golf. You may be looking for something more challenging for the older ones in the family, if so, Caverns would be an ideal adrenaline rush. Caverns offers an underground high ropes course set in a cave, with multiple obstacles and zip lines to take on! If adrenaline is not your thing, then why not try the Deep Mine Tour, where you turn back the sands of time and learn everything there is to know about the site’s rich history as one of the world’s largest slate mines, exploring the old chambers and tunnels?

Book our underground adventures by clicking HERE

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