Ocean Park has not announced Halloween Fest 2026 yet – the park typically reveals its theme, dates, and tickets in late summer, and this guide will be updated when it does. In the meantime, here is everything to know about Hong Kong’s signature Halloween event: how it works, what tickets cost, and how it became the event widely billed as Asia’s biggest Halloween celebration.
What Is Ocean Park’s Halloween Fest?
Every autumn, Ocean Park transforms into a park-wide Halloween festival running from early September through early November. The 2025 edition – “Unbox the Cursed Collection,” a blind-box theme riffing on the collectible-toy craze with the tagline “Everything Taken Demands a Soul!” – ran September 6 through November 2.
The event has a structure worth understanding before you plan a trip. The seasonal overlay runs the full two months, but the haunted houses only operate on select “day-and-night” event dates – 13 of them in 2025, running from October 10 through the November 2 finale, when the park operates from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. The houses also aren’t included in general admission: they take both an event date and a separate haunted-house ticket. Plan around those two facts and the rest falls into place.
The Haunted Houses
Six haunted houses has been the recent standard – both 2024 and 2025 ran six. The 2025 lineup shows the range the event covers:
- The Hatred Box – abandoned blind-box toys out for revenge; guests drew a blind box inside the house
- The Unsolved Terrors – built around Hong Kong’s infamous “solved” crime cases
- H25: Rising Fear – a mad-scientist laboratory
- The Ritual Mansion – a cult ritual with a tarot-style card draw
- The Cannibal Woods – an expedition through cannibal-tribe territory
- The Soul Graveyard – a Mexican Day of the Dead theme featuring the Weeping Woman
Shows and Entertainment
The houses are half the event; the shows are the other half. Ten performances ran across the park in 2025, headlined by the debut of Gangnam’s Devils – a K-pop-styled “devilish boy group” called NAMJA6 – alongside the returning Diva Paper Doll Reviving Night, the Day of the Dead Skelebration Fiesta parade, and the Gala of Lights: Halloween Spooktacular. Daytime programming stays family-friendly, including Everyone Trick-or-Treat with the park’s Panda Friends – part of what makes the day-and-night format work for mixed groups.
Tickets: How the Pricing Works
Using 2025 as the reference (2026 rates arrive with the announcement):
- Trio Combo Tickets – the core haunted-house product: two bundles of three houses each (The Dark Spirits Trio and The Lost Souls Trio), HK$238 per combo on off-peak weekends and HK$280 on peak dates, each house accessible once per combo
- Single haunted house entry – HK$130
- General admission – HK$457 adult / HK$229 child under the park’s Autumn Special Promotion (standard gate pricing ran HK$538 / HK$269)
- Halloween Ocean FasTrack – the paid line-skip add-on, in Standard (seven priority accesses) and Pro (all-access) tiers
- Ocean Park members took 10% off Trio Combos, and annual members got an exclusive HK$100 early-access day on the first event date
From Halloween Bash to Halloween Fest: 25 Years of Hong Kong Halloween
Ocean Park didn’t just adopt theme-park Halloween – it pioneered it in this part of the world. The event debuted in October 2001 as the Halloween Bash, billed as the first Halloween event at any theme park in Southeast Asia, with an investment reported above $15 million. That first season ran just two weekends with four haunted attractions and three flagship mascots – the Pumpkin King, the Witty Witch, and Count Dracula – and drew more than 150,000 visitors. Ocean Park executive Paul Pei has recounted coining the event’s Cantonese name, “哈囉喂” (Ha Lo Wai).
The Bash grew fast. Designers and directors from the Western haunt industry – including Todd Hougland, Alan Ostrander of AEO Studios, and haunted attraction director Joel Talacko – shaped the event as it expanded from four houses to seven in 2007, eight in 2008, and nine in 2009, with the performer corps growing from around 80 to hundreds per night, eventually recruiting roughly 100 performers a night from the Philippines. In its biggest historical years the Bash drew attendance reported around half a million guests – figures from the mid-2000s through the 2010s that the park hasn’t updated with recent Halloween-specific numbers.
In 2013 the event rebranded to Halloween Fest and became an all-day-and-night festival: roughly ten attraction experiences with dual day and night concepts, a dozen stage shows, and some 700 performers. It is consistently described as the largest Halloween event in Asia, and Hong Kong’s standing as the Halloween capital of Asia is a reputation the event helped build – mainland Chinese parks added Halloween to their calendars in its wake. The 2024 edition, “Horrors of the Hidden City,” turned a Kowloon Walled City concept into six haunted houses; 2025’s blind-box theme showed the event still mines whatever Hong Kong is currently obsessed with.
For the full origin story – the designers, the growth years, and how the event changed Asian theme-park seasons – see our companion history at Seasonal Entertainment Source.
Halloween Fest 2026 details are expected from Ocean Park in late summer – check back here once the park makes it official.
