New Bedford Guide Your Guide to New Bedford and South Coast, MA
Halloween is one America’s favorite holidays. Whether a kid or an adult with a big kid inside, it is a celebration that families look forward to every year. What’s not to like? Dressing up as our favorite super hero or villian, cartoon character, or…ahem, disliked politician. Role playing is not only acceptable, it’s encouraged.
We run around the neighborhood playing tricks on one another, trying to find opportune moments to scare family and friends, and get to devour our favorites candies, chocolates and treats with relative abandon. Days leading up to the holiday are just as exciting as the days leading up to Christmas Morning. There’s excitement in the air!
Our yards and homes get decorated – some just with simple cardboard cutouts in the window, others with elaborate setups that cost thousands of dollars, including graveyards, actors and smoke machines. Everyone enjoys a good fright – the trick part of the “trick or treat.” This is the reason there are so many haunted houses, trails, hayrides and even ships.
However, the only thing scarier than these spooky sites is the money spent celebrating the holiday. When you look at the receipt after buying all the costumes, candy and decorations, paying the entrance fees to haunted sites, you are nearly frightened to death. It’s worse than the boogeyman under the bed, the man with a machete hiding outside your bedroom window in a hockey mask, or a clown chasing you down the street with an ax.
With that in mind, we put together a guide that will cover all budgets. This will allow you to choose one or more places, perhaps all of them without costing you an arm and a leg (chop, chop!) You won’t have to fill the gas tank and drive 50 miles, you won’t have to take out a small bank loan to pay admission, and you won’t have to have sign a contract with Mephistopheles to make it all happen.
We’ve done all the work for you so that you and your family can stay focused on what’s important: entertaining the family, having a blast, and creating memories. I’ve included a “scare factor” rating (1-10) so you can, well, factor in who is going, their age, health condition, etc. So, don’t be scared homie….read on!
