Grantsylvania

Grant's Farm runs a couple of special events each year, one at Halloween & one at Christmas. These are free to attend but the car parking was increased to cover the costs of putting on the special events. We thought that we would go to the Halloween event where Grant's Farm is transformed into 'Grantsylvania'. The venue has extended opening hours until 9:00pm with 'Grantsyvania' being open from 6:00pm onwards. The tram rides all take place in the dark with a 'eerie' voiceover as you travel through the park. There were displays including ghosts & ghouls as the tram was moving & just to scare people the voice over would direct you to look one way whilst Grant's Farm staff members dressed in black (so you couldn't seem them) would run along the other side of the trams screaming & hitting the vehicles.

When we got off the tram we were welcomed to 'Grantsylavia' by a spooky skelenton. We also had our photo taken with Dracula & a couple of witches. The park was kept in darkness with decorative lights all over the place providing low-level lighting. The Bauernhof had a free 'moster' themed disco where Beth & Cheryl had a boogie to 'The Monster Mash'! Since we arrived at Grant's Farm fairly early it wasn't really dark enough to experiance the tram ride properly, so we thought that we would take another ride now that it was really dark. This made it alot more 'scary' as you really couldn't see anything other than the displays & as you traveled through the park it got really dark as you moved away from Gravois Road (the main road running parallel to the first part of the tram ride). Just to spice things up, the displays were different than on our previous tram ride & the 'scary guys' were screaming & hitting the tram at different times!