Halloween meets the sea during SeaWorld Orlando’s Halloween Spooktacular, the ultimate family-friendly event featuring an ocean of Halloween fun where children can trick-or-treat, dance with whimsical sea creatures, catch silly and spooky shows and create sea-themed arts and crafts.
SeaWorldรขโฌโขs Halloween Spooktacular takes place every weekend in October: 1-2, 8-9, 15-16, 22-23, and 28-30, 2011.
This daytime event is included with regular theme park admission and runs from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m., leaving the littlest of trick-or-treaters wide-eyed for the fun-filled activities.
What’s even better– SeaWorld Orlando has a great offer this fall, just in time for its Halloween Spooktacular. With each full-paid adult ticket, kids ages 3 through 9 are half-price through Oct. 31, 2011.
This limited-time offer is available for advance and online purchase only, and is not available at the front gate. For all of the รขโฌลspooktacularรขโฌย savings, visit SeaWorldOrlando.com.
2011 SeaWorld Spooktacular Highlights Include:
New! Penelopeรขโฌโขs Party Zone
New this year, a lively underwater environment immerses children in the wonders of the sea through kid-friendly music, games, and colorful characters. Located at SeaWorldรขโฌโขs Bayside area, this zone comes to life when guests dance and play along to the spooky sound waves broadcast by a live DJ. With countless bubbles floating overhead and colorful pumpkin fish gliding beside you, this Halloween party is sure to provide non-stop fun for all ages.
New! Apple Decorating Post
Kids and parents alike can have a รขโฌลsplashรขโฌย creating their own sweet treats at this new decorating station. Tasty apples can be dipped รขโฌโ for a nominal fee รขโฌโ with the decadently-flavored sauce of choice: white chocolate, fudge, or caramel, and then topped with sprinkles to finish them off.
Sesame Streetรขโฌโขs Countdown to Halloween Show
Donรขโฌโขt miss Count Van Count on a quest to find his friends, Elmo, Zoe and Telly in this live musical stage show. Along the way, The Count meets dancing skeletons who will have everyone in SeaPort Theatre shaking, rattling and rolling.
Trick-or-Treating Under the Sea
Offering more than 1 million pieces of trick-or-treat goodies, costumed youngsters can search for hidden รขโฌลseaรขโฌย treasures using their Spooktacular maps at more than a dozen different locations. Each station features an assortment of sweet treats, including a variety of candies and healthy-choice options.
Spooky Sand Art Station
Another new element this year, children (and adults too) can make a multi-colored sand souvenir at this interactive arts and craft area where sea-themed glass bottles — in the shape of dolphins, turtles, starfish and more — are filled with an array of vibrantly-colored sands.
Strolling Entertainment
Penelope Pumpkin fish, Shamu, Dolly Dolphin, Shivers the Polar Bear, Pete and Penny Penguin, a mermaid, and a walking-talking spider-crab are among the many fanciful sea creatures that will join the colorful, playful schools of pumpkin fish welcoming trick-or-treaters as they stroll through the park. Photo opportunities with these รขโฌลspook-tasticรขโฌย characters create lasting memories!
More SeaWorld Halloween Fun:
Count Von Countรขโฌโขs Spooktacular Breakfast รขโฌลBooffetรขโฌย One of Sesame Streetรขโฌโขs favorite residents, The Count, gets into the Halloween spirit with his friends from Sesame Street at Count Von Countรขโฌโขs Spooktacular Breakfast. Little ones will sing, groove and mingle side-by-side with Sesame Street characters, while listening to Halloween-themed music and enjoying a special breakfast รขโฌลbooffet.รขโฌย Following the breakfast, kids can get their photos taken with the characters for memories that will last forever. Reservations can be made online, at the Information Counter or by calling 1-888-800-5447.
SeaWorldรขโฌโขs Holiday Family Sleepovers (6 p.m. รขโฌโ 9 a.m. on Oct. 21, 22, 28 and 29)
Families can snuggle into a spooky slumber surrounded by exotic fish, rays, and sea dragons inside the floor-to-ceiling aquariums at Manta. Cost is $78 per person or $103 (includes next-day park admission). A pizza dinner and breakfast are included. Program is for children in grades K-5 and their families. Sleepover reservations can be made by calling 1-800-406-2244.
My family attended last year’s SeaWorld Halloween Spooktacular, you can check out our experience here.
