Halloween is business as usual in some Costa towns

HALLOWEEN activities will go ahead as planned tomorrow ( Saturday) evening in Denia and some other Costa towns – before the midnight curfew.

In Denia organisers assure that the events will be over in time for everyone to get home by midnight.

Parents have expressed concerns about the indoor nature of the ghoulish goingson, but the council's youth and festival departments say stringent health and safety measures will be in place.

The Marina Alta capital’s Halloween horrors have become more sophisticated this year, despite the pandemic – instead of just the usual tunnel of terror through the castle walls with supernatural characters leaping out in front of visitors, they include an escape room and a haunted castle guided tour.

In the former, participants have 30 minutes to solve the clues that enable them to find their way out of the maze set up in the youth club building on Ronda Muralles, tonight ( Friday) and tomorrow, from 17.00 to 23.00. Adults and teens aged 14plus, or children aged 10 to 14 accompanied by an adult, can take part in groups of no more than four to six, face masks are compulsory and each section of the escape room has handsanitiser dispensers which must be used before entering. All props and fixtures are disinfected between groups. In the haunted castle tour, characters in costume from different periods in the fortress’s history will talk about their life and times.

Gandia has also opted to go ahead with its annual flower fair in El Prado square, but stalls will mostly be outside instead of within the market building as is usually the case.

Open from 08.00 to 21.00 today and tomorrow, the fair allows residents and visitors to buy flowers for dressing their loved ones’ graves, in line with tradition, on All Saints’ Day ( November 1).

More on Halloween in the What’s On section.