Our family absolutely loves Light Walks at Christmastime and have done a bunch of events at Kew Gardens previously, so when I saw Halloween at Kew Gardens, I was pumped to see if the light walk feel could be translated to the Halloween concept. I didn’t want to spoil exactly what it was, so I just booked up tickets and parking, and then waited for the date to come around!
Halloween at Kew Gardens is a long, about an hour and half, walk around the gardens itself. The entrance from where we had our reserved parking took us by a few food trucks before the start of the trail. This trail was sort of like a light walk, however, there were a bunch of actors dotted about. We went at the medium scary timeslot, being just dark, and explained to Robin that these were actors, so that she wasn’t spooked easily.
Within the first few moments of Halloween at Kew Gardens, we ran into our first actor, who was a witch welcoming us in, playing around with their potion within their cauldron. The costume and decorations during this walk were fantastic and with so many different characters, it was fantastic. Some of the areas had what seemed like possible actors; things set up to look like scarecrows or skeletons, leaving us watching and waiting, in hopes of some movement. There were lots of different areas of the walk to enjoy and explore.
One of my favorites was the big tunnel of spider webs. This felt really modern, with nothing hanging down, and I enjoyed that they had their own tunnel to go through. There was a cemetery as well, with a graveyard keeper, who encouraged us to continue on as the souls were keeping alive. There was one… fungus-eye-creature that jumped out from behind a bush, getting close to each of the children, before collapsing against the floor and the jumping back up to hide again. That was really a sight and our photos don’t do it justice.
Another person was dressed up as a strange, white hooded character, just in the middle of the pathway. There were a strange moving scarecrow, a creepy women telling us that we could get trapped there, a skeleton… at the midpoint, where you could visit a small gift shop or grab a drink, there was an entire fire breather act that ended in a very silly way. Halloween at Kew Gardens just hit all of the boxes for us, from amazing photography moments to fun actors, to a well-paved walk so it wasn’t muddy at all. The walk itself was the perfect length and for us it ended back at the food trucks, though there is a little photo area that everyone enjoyed getting a photo at – even Kai, who found lots of moments to take spooky photos on his phone. I am truly hoping more places do spooky walks like this, so that we can attend them all.
You can check out our other Days Out to see what else we’ve been up too!
The vibes and all these lights wow…This is soooo much fun…I love Halloween, my favorite holiday ever…The halloween at the kew gardens is so much fun.
Kew Gardens looks amazing! They really did a great job with the theme. I love the colors.
Looks like Halloween walk at the Kew Gardens sounds like an awesome idea. Thanks for introducing this wonderful place to me.
I’ve done the Christmas light walk at Kew but never the Halloween one. Something to book mark for next year I think x
I love Kew Gardens so much. I have never been to one of their events before but I always see them advertised and they look amazing. I would love to do this!
I keep seeing this advertised but we have booked for one at Blenheim Palace this year, we can’t wait!
I love Kew Gardens, always happy to visit BUT this was Halloween 2024 was really dreadful 🙁
Cheap and tacky, it wouldnt have looked out of place inf the 1970s. No animatronics to make the spiders etc a little scary; it all looked like a primary school class had been put to work.
Really?! I always found the animatronic spooky walks to feel tacky and a bit cheap – they had actually actors, who really felt good int he spaces they were in.