The Chronicle

FEAR NOT, PARK SHOULD BE A REAL SCREAM

- SAMANTHA SCOTT

AUSTRALIA’s only dedicated scream park will debut on the Gold Coast from Thursday for a limited time.

Fearaphobi­a Scream Park – at the abandoned NightQuart­er site next to Westfield Helensvale – will have seven terror-filled and bloodcurdl­ing scare experience­s including The Haunted Hotel and two escape rooms.

Fearaphobi­a creator Bronson Little said Fearaphobi­a had been running since 2014 but “unfortunat­ely the last two years were lost to Covid”.

He said this year the family decided to bring the scream park to their own backyard on the Gold Coast.

“The reason we never operated in Queensland to start with was because you have all the big theme parks like Movie World – we went to Sydney because there was a market for it there,” he said. “But when the opportunit­y came up to use this site in Helensvale we jumped at it.”

It will run nightly from 6pm from October 21 to Halloween night.

 ?? ?? Fearaphobi­a Scream Park is coming to the Gold Coast on Thursday. Picture: Nigel Hallett
Fearaphobi­a Scream Park is coming to the Gold Coast on Thursday. Picture: Nigel Hallett

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