This year’s Dark Harbor features “six blood-curdling, reimagined mazes; five weeks of terror; four new secret bars; two electrifying stages; and only one way out.”
The Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor once again sails into Long Beach on September 27, “drenched in legend and oozing with a sordid past. Regarded as one of the most haunted places on Earth, the Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor is a thrill-seekers’ delight, blurring the lines of history and hysteria.” For the 2018 season, the event will disorient fans with an entirely new park footprint along with new maze designs, interactive alternate paths, and live entertainment.
“This coming season, attendees are invited to descend into Dark Harbor’s new, omni-immersive and hyper-enhanced mazes for its darkest season yet,” stated Charity Hill, Executive Producer of Dark Harbor. “
With a myriad of voluntary experiences, alternate paths, secret bars, and hidden passages, we’re proud to deliver a choose-your-own-adventure mega haunt.”
Newly Intensified Returning Mazes
Dark Harbor’s newly reimagined and intensified mazes include “B340,” “Lullaby,” “Circus,” “Deadrise,” “Intrepid,” and “Feast.” Guests don a detective’s hat and retrace the steps of “Samuel the Savage” to solve the gruesome murders in Room “B340,” or they can re-live childhood nightmares playing hide-and-seek with Scary Mary and her sinister teddy bear in “Lullaby.” Visitors are challenged with escaping the Ringmaster’s Big Top before becoming a specimen in the “Circus” oddities museum
, or they can find themselves in boot camp with Half Hatch Henry
for a reimagined storyline of the fan-favorite maze, “Deadrise,” to
experience Captain’s rigorous training. For the truly brave, there’s the John Brown Shipyard, where guests try to hide from the lurking creatures in the Scottish Highlands aboard Iron Master’s express train to hell in “Intrepid.” Alternatively, visitors can clock-in for a shift aboard the infamous Grey Ghost and attempt to avoid Chef’s
chopping block while working up an appetite for flesh in the newly reimagined maze, “Feast.”
Find Your Way to Four Secret Bars
Among new experiences this year, guests can explore the murky depths of Dark Harbor to uncover secret bars—The SideBar, Door 13, The Line Up, and The Broken Compass—to experience a different kind of spirits. Another option is to venture into the frigid depths of Ice Cave to experience a unique, 9-degree Ice Bar offering equally chilly vodka samples.
Other creepy immersive experiences include hundreds of devious entities, hidden havens, devilish treats, intense concoctions, Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch “Sinister Swings,” the “Panic 4D Experience,” and death-defying aerial and fire stunts.
New to the Dark Harbor creative crew is Jon Cooke, who comes on board as Production Designer. Jon brings with him more than a decade of experience designing some of Southern California’s most celebrated theme parks and haunted attractions.
Named one of the top 10 most haunted places on Earth by
Time magazine, The Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor offers authentically frightening experiences.
Location, Dates, and Tickets
The Queen Mary is located at 1126 Queens Highway in Long Beach.
Dark Harbor is open on select nights from September 27 through November 2.
General admission tickets start at $29 online and extend to the Ultimate Scream experience for $229 online. This special admission takes 20 guests per night on a private tour in which they learn the stories and background that runs deep within The Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor and the history that inspired these stories.
For more information or to purchase tickets online, visit
www.queenmary.com/dark-harbor
