HALLOWEEN. This Thursday, October 31, 2024, the monsters are out! Where to party in Paris, Rennes, Nantes, Bordeaux and many other cities? From shows to escape games to haunted castles, here are our original outing ideas.
[Mis à jour le 28 octobre 2024 à 15h45] Halloween is celebrated this Thursday, October 31, 2024 and you still don’t know what your evening will look like? If Halloween is the time for little ones to go and ask their neighbors for candy, adults also take this opportunity to dress up and party. For families, many places in France host Halloween events, notably amusement parks which go all out, like Parc Astérix with “Peur sur le Parc” or Nigloland with “Nigloween”.
Theaters, nightclubs and other clubs are not left out since the evening of October 31 is generally a good excuse to organize fancy dress and festive evenings among adults. Whether you are in Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Nantes, Rennes, Marseille, Bordeaux or Nice, find all our last minute outing ideas below.
Where to celebrate Halloween in France in 2024?
Museums or castles open for the occasion, escape games or other immersive experiences… There are enough places and events organized for Halloween in the big cities of France that you won’t be content with a simple horror film, a pumpkin or a box of candy! Yes, but how to sort through all these proposals? We did it for you in our slideshow below, then further down, in our selections by city:
Where to celebrate Halloween in Paris in 2024?
We have unearthed for you the outings organized in the capital to experience the most morbid celebration of the year as it should be:
- THE Paris Zoological Park organizes a Chill day this Thursday, October 31, 2024 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with an exceptional crossing of the Great Rock to meet fantastic creatures, candies to collect, feedings, special activities around pumpkins and cobwebs, thrilling tales. .. To top it off, anyone coming in disguise will benefit from a 20% reduction on their entry, valid at the ticket office only. For families.
- Secret tours of the City of Lights with Cultivation offer a special Halloween route : with Paris dark sideembark on a journey through time to the heart of an unknown and mysterious Paris.
- The Dark Dreams based in Montreuil offers a haunted show lasting one hour, The Cursed Red Innwhich will take you on an extraordinary adventure with real actors, special effects, immersive and interactive settings, between immersive theater and escape game. From 12 years old.
- The park Disneyland Paris de Marne-la-Vallée is “the place to be” to meet Disney Villains like the sea witch Ursula, Maleficent, Captain Hook, Jafar and many others. Specially for Halloween, attractions The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror And Phantom Manorhave lots of surprises in store for families.
- For a very select clubbing evening, The Archa very select night club nestled in the 16th arrondissement, is organizing an immersive evening “The Devil’s Circus” from 11:45 p.m. to 6 a.m. with a staging worthy of the name as usual. From 18 years old, by reservation.
- THE Thoiry ZooSafari offers his Wow Safari on October 31, 2024, to see more than 150 pumpkins distributed to animals during activities. All the more reason, the event of Wild Lights starts then!
Where to celebrate Halloween in Lyon in 2024?
- Cinema fan? THE Cinema and Miniature Museum nestled in Old Lyon, which houses sets and objects used in the filming of major international films, offers a new temporary space entirely dedicated to the universe of Beetlejuice and has recently welcomed Darth Vader’s original helmet from “The Empire Against -Attack” and a new sculpture in its collection from the film “Freddy 4: The Dream Master”.
- Chefsquare in the 6th arrondissement of Lyon, offers special Halloween cooking classes dedicated to children aged 6 to 12, October 31. On the program: chocolate spider muffins, decorated Halloween shortbread and ghost marshmallows.
- THE Heat Lyona hall located in Confluence, offers a return to the 80s, 90s, & 2000s to celebrate Halloween with The Cringe Boom. On the program: dj-sets, quizzes, workshops & more…
Where to celebrate Halloween in Bordeaux in 2024?
- SENSASan innovative and unusual concept in Bordeaux, offers for 2 hours to take on challenges, each more surprising than the last. Come discover the strength of your 5 senses in a team of 4 to 15 people and face your fears…
- For children from 6 to 10 years old as well as adults, Bordeaux Visite organizes The Halloween Questwith a family departure from Place Pey Berland for a duration of 1h30. Recognition of magical odors, sense of observation, deciphering magic formulas and making potions, come take the tests to find out if you can become a wizard! By reservation.
- For thrill-seekers, Bordeaux has its Closed Escape Game At 53 Avenue du Dr Schinazi. Totally immersive, whose settings take up the codes of horror films, It is played with 2 to 6 players, locked in a room (choice: Darkness, Voodoo, The Nun, Amy, The Cannibal). The goal is to solve the puzzles to get out in less than 60 minutes. An escape game where players are never really alone…
Where to celebrate Halloween in Nantes in 2024?
- At Castle of the Dukes of Brittanycome at nightfall to discover the spirits of the castle who wake up, for a 2-hour visit… In this visit, children come to discover thrilling stories.
- An escape game not recommended for under 16s is organized by theJohn Doe team. Lasting 60 minutes, it offers the choice between escaping the Blue Castle prison, defusing the bomb in the Black Rock mine or identifying the trafficker and discreetly escaping from the Magnifico casino.
- For the little ones, the ice rink and swimming pool at the Petit Port in Nantes offers entertainment from 2:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. A costume is required for the ice rink, an orange and black swimsuit for the pool!
Where to celebrate Halloween in Rennes in 2024?
- At Thabor parka 1h30 narrated botanical walk on the theme of witches’ plants is offered by Julie, an herbalist trained at the Breton school of herbalism. Meet at the entrance to Parc du Thabor, Place Saint-Melaine. Reservation required.
- L’Enigmaparc south of Rennes offers its favorite event “6 Funnies“, 6 challenges for young and old: origami challenge, witches’ alphabet book, box of cockroaches, photomomb…
- THE Arvor cinema located at 11 rue de Chatillon in the city center offers a special Halloween program from 2 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on October 31, 2024, with films for young and old (Shrek, Mon petit Halloween, Grave and Battle Royale).
Where to celebrate Halloween in Marseille in 2024?
- The Walking Bass Festival – Devil’s Call – The Exorcist Edition offers three nights of intense thrills with incredible animations and immersive scenographies in 3 different locations: October 31 at Parc Chanot, November 1 at Espace Julien and November 2 at Dock des Suds.
- From 9 years old and for any minor under 15 years old accompanied by an adult, come and test The Cursed Red Inn of The Dark Dreams : a horror escape game lasting one hour, in groups of 2 to 12 players.
- An hour from Marseille by car, head to Spirou Park who celebrates Halloween! Occasionally, Spirou and all his friends transform into mummies, zombies, vampires and monsters and the park becomes a world where giant spiders, skeletons and pumpkins invade the park…
Where to celebrate Halloween in Toulouse in 2024?
- This Thursday, October 31, 2024 from 6:30 p.m., by reservation, Shards of history invites you to discover the pink city under the sign of Crimes and Punishments.
- You have all heard about the incredible spectacle of the Scorpio Woman and the Giant Minotaur wandering the streets of Toulouse in recent days! Not on Halloween but from the next day, November 1, 2024, it will be possible to board the Great Minotaur of the Machine Hall for a Journey on the Trail of the Giants, the opportunity to closely observe the superb details of its sculpture evoking mythology. Children under 12 must be accompanied.
- Barely 30 minutes from Toulouse by car, the zoo African Safari transforms into a magical place, decorated with pumpkins, spider webs and giant skeletons.
Where to celebrate Halloween in Nice in 2024?
- At Rialto cinemalovers of the 7th Art and horror will be delighted with the marathon of “72 hours of Horror” from October 30 to November 1, 2024 with four sessions from fantasy to horror. On the menu: My Little Halloween, Carrie, Les Noces Funèbres, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
- About twenty minutes by car from Nice, direction The Village of Fools which offers a “horror district” for Halloween.
- THE Nice National Sports Museum offers children a “Darkness Journey” from 2:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. A dive into the mysteries of the museum that come to life, before venturing towards the stadium, transformed into a haunted area for the occasion…